To welcome you to this blog and to give a little insight into my reading preferences I have compiled my top 50 ‘books everyone must read’. I will continue to update the list whenever I read something new and amazing, or if I remember some forgotten gem I should have included. What are your favourite books?
1. Enders Game-Orson Scott Card
2. Towers of Midnight- Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson
3. His Dark Materials- Phillip Pullman
4. The Chronicles of Narnia- C.S. Lewis
5. Poirot Books- Agatha Christie
6. The Wind on Fire- William Nicholson
7. Alice in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll
8. I Am David- Anne Holm
9. The Help- Kathryn Stockett
10. The Solitaire Mystery- Jostein Gaarder
11. Little Women- Louisa May Alcott
12. Ludo and the Star Horse- Mary Stewart
13. The Time Traveller’s Wife- Audrey Niffenegger
14. Mister Pip- Lloyd Jones
15. Passenger- Billy Cowie
16. Letters from the Inside- John Marsden
17. A Different Life- Lois Keith
18. Noughts and Crosses- Malorie Blackman
19. Earth’s Children- Jean M. Auel
20. The Midwich Cuckoos- John Wyndham
21. Room- Emma Donoghue
22. North Child- Edith Pattou
23. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks- Rebecca Skloot
24. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time- Mark Haddon
25. You Don’t Know Me- David Klass
26. Riding Tycho- Jan Mark
27. Uglies- Scott Westerfeld
28. Addition- Toni Jordan
29. The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold
30. Little House on the Prairie- Laura Ingalls Wilder
31. Arabian Nights- Various authors
32. 1984- George Orwell
33. Perfume- Patrick Suskind
34. Mondays are Red- Nicola Morgan
35. The Diary of a Young Girl- Anne Frank
36. Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro
37. The Ice Cream Girls- Dorothy Koomson
38. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly- Jean-Dominique Bauby
39. The Girls- Lori Lansens
40. Plain Truth- Jodi Picoult
41. Millennium Trilogy- Stieg Larsson
42. A Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
43. Just So Stories- Rudyard Kipling
44. Homeward Bound- Diana Wynne Jones
45. The Kin- Peter Dickinson
46. The Hobbit- J.R.R. Tolkien
47. The Deepwood Chronicles- Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
48. The Song of the Lioness- Tamora Pierce
49. The Phantom Tollbooth- Norton Juster
50. Coram Boy- Jamila Gavin
Definitely agree with the Time Traveller's Wife, Room, The Lovely Bones and the Chronicles of Narnia.
ReplyDeleteIn no particular order, some of my favourites are:
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
City of Theives by David Benioff
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
Anything by Marian Keyes
Thanks, I haven't read any of those (unless by Anything you mean anything she's written, in which case I have), i'll have to check them out!
ReplyDeleteSorry; yes, I meant anything that she's written. She's my comfort reading author. :)
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