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speckledbandit's "Beth's Top 100"

These are the top 100 books that I recommend in no particular order. That is until I read more … The following is a wide assortment of fiction, poetry, short stories, children’s literature, and a few non-fiction pieces. And don’t forget drama!

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1. Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
2. Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
3. Winesburg, Ohio (Oxford World's Classics)
by Sherwood Anderson
  
4. A Seperate Peace
by John Knowles
  
5. Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Evelyn Waugh
  
6. Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
7. Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba
by Federico Garcia Lorca
  
8. Fear of Flying
by Erica Jong
  
9. Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude (Contemporanea)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
10. Anne Frank: The Biography
by Melissa Muller
  
11. Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
12. Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
13. Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
14. Wuthering Heights (Courage Classics)
by Emily Bronte
  
15. Richard III (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
16. The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
  
17. Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (Modern Library)
by Truman Capote
  
18. Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
  
19. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Oscar Wilde
  
20. The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  
21. The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels (A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear)
by Arthur Conan Doyle
  
22. The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
  
23. Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
  
24. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Pernnial Moderns Classics)
by Harper Lee
  
25. The Flowers of Evil (Wesleyan Poetry)
by Charles Baudelaire
  
26. Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
by George Gordon Byron
  
27. Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats (Modern Library Classics)
by John Keats
  
28. 100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor (Texas Pan American Series)
by Pablo Neruda
  
29. A Streetcar Named Desire.
by Tennessee Williams
  
30. The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
by Christina Rossetti
  
31. The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
  
32. Number the Stars (Laurel Leaf Books)
by Lois Lowry
  
33. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
  
34. Beatrix Potter Complete Tales R/I
by Beatrix Potter
  
35.
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 Big Bear's Book
by Christina Bjork
  
36. Ozma of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
  
37. And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
  
38. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
  
39. Greater Than Angels
by Carol Matas
  
40. The SHORT STORIES OF F SCOTT FITZGERALD
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
41. Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit: A Son Remembers
by Sean Hepburn Ferrer
  
42. Teacher Man: A Memoir
by Frank McCourt
  
43. Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
  
44. The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
  
45. Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by J. M. Coetzee
  
46. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
by Edith Hamilton
  
47. Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
48. E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962
by E. E. Cummings
  
49. Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
by Thornton Wilder
  
50. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
  
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Created by speckledbandit on Feb 23, 2007.