Last month I published my list of Amanda’s 26 Top Books of All Time and asked you to send me yours so that we can share and compare and start a discussion. Today we have the very interesting and eclectic lists of Michelle Moss and Amy Langenveld.
Don’t you agree, this is getting really interesting. Why not send me some more lists of your 26 Top Books of all time?
Michelle Moss’s Top 26 Books of all Time
a) Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
b) The Power of One – Bryce Courtney
c) The Sunne in Splendour – Sharon Penman
d) In Sunshine and in Shadows – Charlotte Bingham
e) Lucy Talk – Fiona Walker
f) Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
g) Song of the Sound – Adam Armstrong
h) City of Bones / The Poet – Michael Connelly
i) Four Fires – Bryce Courtney
j) Blackberry Wine – Joanne Harris
k) Here be Dragons – Sharon Penman
l) Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austin
m) Romeo & Juliet – Shakespeare
n) The Snow Falcon – Stuart Harrison
o) Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
p) Cane and Able – Jeffrey Archer
q) The Dead Zone – Stephen King
r) Breathing Space – Marita van der Vyver
s) Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
t) Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
u) Last Chance Saloon – Marianne Keys
v) Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
w) The Black Velvet Gown – Catherine Cookson
x) Evening Class – Maeve Binchy
y) The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
z) Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Amy Langenveld’s 26 Top Books of All time
a) The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
b) Abyssinian Chronicles – Moses Isegawa
c) Unless – Carol Shields
d) Lord of the Flies William Golding
e) Under the Tuscan Sun – Frances Mayes
f) Food and Loathing – Betsy Lerner
g) The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
h) A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
i) Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn – Mark Twain
j) The Aspern Papers – Henry James
k) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
l) The Great Gatsby– F. Scott Fitzgerald
m) A Widow for One Year – John Irving
n) The World According to Garp – John Irving
o) Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
p) El Lazarillo de Tormés – anonymous
q) Love in the Time of Cholera -Gabriel García Marquez
r) 100 Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Marquez
s) Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
t) Walden – Henry David Thoreau
u) Ficciones (Fiction) – Jorge Luis Borges
v) Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
w) La tésis de Nancy – Ramón J. Sender
x) Porterhouse Blue – Tom Sharpe
y) Follow Your Heart– Susanna Tamaro
z) Gift from the Sea – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Janita Thiele of Pulp Books’ 26 Top Books of All Time
Any Human Heart – William Boyd
Special Topics in Calamity Physics – Marisha Pessl
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
Behind the Scenes at the Museum – Kate Atkinson
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Possession – A S Byatt
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
Life of Pi – Yann Martell
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Rachel’s Holiday – Marian Keyes
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
The World according to Garp – John Irving
Never Let me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosinski
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John le Carre
This Book will save your life – A M Homes
Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norel – Susanna Clarke
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
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