The Best Books I Have Ever Read

...in no particular order:

1. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
2. Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
3. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
5. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
6. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Wolfe
7. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
8. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
9. The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
10. Blindness by Jose Saramago
11. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
12. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
13. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
15. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
16. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
17. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
18. Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
19. Middlemarch by George Eliot
20. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
21. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
22. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
23. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
24. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
25. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
26. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
27. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
28. The Odyssey by Homer
29. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
30. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
31. Beloved by Toni Morrison
32. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
33. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
34. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
35. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
36. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
37. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
38. The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
39. Mythology by Edith Hamilton
40. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
41. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
42. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
43. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
44. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
45. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
46. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
47. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
48. I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots by Susan Straight