Watership Down | Richard Adams |
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams |
Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
Tirra Lirra by the River | Jessica Anderson |
Feed | M T Anderson |
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
The Naughtiest Girl in the School | Enid Blyton |
The Song of an Innocent Bystander | Ian Bone |
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | John Boyne |
The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
Left, Right and Centre | Tim Ferguson |
The Great Gatsby | F Scott Fitzgerald |
The Sound of One Hand Clapping | Richard Flanagan |
My Brilliant Career | Miles Franklin |
Diary of a Wombat | Jackie French |
Sophie’s World | Jostein Gaarder |
Cheaper by the Dozen | Frank Gilbreth Jr/Ernestine Gilbreth Carey |
Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
Lillian’s Story/Dark Places | Kate Grenville |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon |
The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
The Girlfriends’ Guide to Pregnancy | Vicki Iovine |
To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
Picnic at Hanging Rock | Joan Lindsay |
The Collected Poems of Robert Lowell | Robert Lowell |
The Road | Cormac McCarthy |
On Chesil Beach | Ian McEwan |
Saturday | Ian McEwan |
Dark Victory | David Marr |
Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
Lovesong | Alex Miller |
Anne of Green Gables | L M Montgomery |
The Scarlet Pimpernel | Baroness Emmuska Orczy |
1984 | George Orwell |
Three Dollars | Elliott Perlman |
Pollyanna | Eleanor H Porter |
Rattletrap Car | Phyllis Root |
Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare |
Larry’s Party | Carol Shields |
The Stone Diaries | Carol Shields |
Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackery |
The Natural Way of Things | Charlotte Wood |
The Day of the Triffids | John Wyndham |
The Book Thief | Marcus Zusak |
Book Recommendations from Others
Like me, I am sure you’ll keep adding to this as memories return and you read other ‘best’ lists. Mine is over 130 books now and just keeps growing.
‘Of Mice and Men’ should be on my list too.’Dark Victory’ was an important book and ‘Life of Pi has some great passages, both could have been on my list of favs.. ‘Diary of a Wombat’ is a family favourite but I never read it until my late 30s – so am reluctant to include it as a favourite. ;O)
Thanks for posting this list at my blog, Shani.
Very similar list! And you have lots too that I haven’t read yet – you know the “I always meant to read that one and…” I think the top of my to do reading list will include Ian McEwan, Khaled Hosseini and Carol Shields. An i forgot to add Curious Incident to mine – only read it last year in preparation for Standard English and ;love love loved it! My Mr 6 has Asberger’s – an interesting take on the teen years? (Waiting in trepidation…)
Thanks for some inspiring new authors and memories of great ones too.