During the year between my 50th and 51st birthdays I will be posting lists of various categories (most/least favorite, most/least important, places I'd like/not like to go, things I'd most like/least like to do, etc.). By October 15, 2011 I should have 50 lists. Stop by often to see how I'm doing.

Monday, March 21, 2011

50 Favorite Novels (In No Particular Order)

Devices and Desires by PD James

Brendan by Fredrick Buechner

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

The Deerslayer by James Fennimore Cooper

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

City of God by EL Doctorow

The Last Precinct by Patricia Cornwell

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by CS Lewis

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling

The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien

Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution by Patrick McGrath

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K LeGuin

The Farthest Shore by Ursula K LeGuin

The Pearl by John Steinbeck

Tehanu by Ursula K Leguin

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Death in Holy Orders by PD James

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Tinker, Taylor, Solider, Spy by John Le Carre

Smiley’s People by John Le Carre

The Horse and His Boy by CS Lewis

The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien

The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien

The Firm by John Grisham

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

The Maytrees, by Annie Dillard

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The Dead Hour by Denise Mena

Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott

The Telling by Ursula K LeGuin

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