Hi all. I'm very sorry to tell you this but we had some problems with the voting process. Plz forgive me for having to start over. So far 49 people have voted and there are over 800 members. Plz vote even if you don't join us in our discussions. The book list is awesome so far.

1. Vote for your top twenty books
2. Books must be FICTION
3. You CAN NOT vote for a book you wrote
4. DO NOT E-MAIL your book picks to me,
plz post them under the topic "BOOK
LISTS." The Sub-Topic is "THE BOOK
ADDICTS TOP 100 FICTION BOOKS."
5. You CAN vote for a book in a series. PLZ LIST EACH BOOKS SEPARATELY as only one book can fit into a slot.
6. Voting will start September 29, 2009 and end on October 6th, 2009.


Mary

1. The Magus by John Fowles
2. The Legend of Nightfall by Mickey Zucker Reichert
3. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
4. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
5. No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre (If plays do not count, subsitute No Exit with Interview with A Vampire by Anne Rice)
6. Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
7. The Stranger by Camus
8. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
9. Foucault Pendulum by Umberto Eco
10. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
11. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
13. Dante's The Inferno
14. Druids by Morgan Lelwelyn
15. Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
16. The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
17. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
18. House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
19. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
20. Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. Persuasion by Jane Austen
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
5. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
6. Dune by Frank Herbert
7. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
8. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
9. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
10. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
11. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
12. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
13. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
14. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
15. Father and Son by Larry Brown
16. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott
17. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
18. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
19. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
20. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

1. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
2. Charleston - Alexandra Ripley
3. Scarlett - Alexandra Ripley
4. Memoirs of a Geisha
5. Beach Girls - Luanne Rice
6. Someone Like You - Sarah Dessen
7. The Truth About Forever - Sarah Dessen
8. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
9. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
10. Villette - Charlotte Bronte
11. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audry Niffenger
12. Kitty Foyle
13. The Sugar Queen - Sarah Addison Allen
14. The Shell Seekers - Rosamund Pilcher
15. Chocolat - Joanne Harris
16. Map of Love - Ahdaf Soueif
17. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
18. One Hundred Years of Solitude
19. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
20. Wicked - Gregory Maguire

Here is my new list of 20 in no particular order:

1. Memoirs of a Geisha - by Arthur Golden
2. The Poisonwood Bible - by Barbara Kingsolver
3. The Joy Luck Club - by Amy Tan
4. A Time to Kill - by John Grisham
5. Atlas Shrugged - by Ayn Rand
6. The Fountainhead - by Ayn Rand
7. The Horse Whisperer - by Nicholas Evans
8. Interview with the Vampire - by Anne Rice
9. Dracula - by Bram Stoker
10. The Secret Garden - by Frances Hodgson Burnett
11. The Woman in White - by Wilkie Collins
12. Gone With the Wind - by Margaret Mitchell
13. A Handmaid's Tale - by Margaret Atwood
14. Prince of Tides - by Pat Conroy
15. Outlander - by Diana Gabaldon
16. The Road - by Cormac McCarthy
17. The Watchers - by Dean Koontz
18. Shogun - by James Clavel
19. Lonesome Dove - by Larry McMurtry
10. Watership Down - by Richard Adams

Mary wrote: "Hi all. I'm very sorry to tell you this but we had some problems with the voting process..."

I'm confused now, looking at the following messages. Are we meant to list our top 10, or our top 20?

Sorry Dianne. Had to make some changes due to some problems that developed. Ten books was not quite enough so we decided to do twenty to make sure this was the last time we had to do this. The rules for doing this our listed on the first post of this thread.

mary

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
3. Atonement by Ian McEwan
4. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
5. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
6. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
7. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
8. The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
9. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
10.Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
11. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
12. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
13. Emma by Jane Austen
14. One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
15. Bridge To Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
16. Winnie The Pooh by A.A. Milnes
17. Dead until Dark by Charlaine Harris :)~
18. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
19. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
20. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahme Smith

Thank you Mary!!

Here is my list after careful thinking (some authors wrote more than one book that is on my favorite list), and organizing in a thought overe order... to discover that some books which were at the top had moved and vice-versa... One changes...+ one discovers new books all the time.

1)Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoi
2)Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
3)The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai
4)The Dangerous Liaisons, by Choderlos de Laclos
5)The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbéry
6)Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
7)Waiting for the Barbarians, by J. Coetzee
8)A Late Divorce, by A. B. Yehoshua
9)Saturday, by Ian McEwan
10)East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
11)To Kill A Mocking Bird, by Harper Lee
12)A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving
13)All Creatures Great and Small, by James Herriott
14)Dreams of my Russian Summers, by Andrei Makine
15)The People’s Act of Love, by James Meek
16)The Tenderness of Wolves, by Steff Peney
17)Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson
18)The Yacoubian Building, by Alaa Al Aswany
19)The Stranger, by Albert Camus
20)The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint Exupery

1. The Bronze Horseman - Paullina Simons
2. Memoirs Of a Giesha - Arthur Holden
3. The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
5. The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
6. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
7. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. Shadows Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
9. In the Company of a Courtesan - Sarah Dunant
10. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
11. Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
12. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larsson
13. Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
14. Nefertiti - Michelle Moran
15. The Birth Of Venus - Sarah Dunant
16. Red Leaves - Paullina Simons
17. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
18. My Sisters Keeper - Jodi Picoult
19. The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice

I think you are a good moderator Mary.

My top twenty, in no particular order

1. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
2. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
3. Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean M. Auel
4. Noble House, James Clavell
5. The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan
6. The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
7. Ahab's Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund
8. The Pull of The Moon, Elizabeth Berg
9. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
10. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
11. The Copper Beech, Maeve Binchy
12. A Thread of Grace, Mary Doria Russell
13. Roots, Alex Haley
14. Centennial, James Mitchener
15. Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
16. World Without End, Ken Follett
17. Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
18. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough
19. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
20. Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel

1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
2. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
3. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
4. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
5. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
7. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
8. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
9. 1984 by George Orwell
10. Animal Farm by George Orwell
11. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
12. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
13. Slaughterhouse by Kurt Vonnegut
14. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
15. All Quiet on the Western Front by Eric Maria Remarque
16. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
17. The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
18. Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres
19. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
20. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (does this count? Originally, it was not intended to be three separate books... if it still does not count, please substitute Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War by Helen Zenna Smith)

Not in any order:
1. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
2. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
4. The Kite Runner by Khled Hosseini
5. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
6. The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho
7. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
8. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
9. First Love by Ivan Turgenev
10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
11. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
12. Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
13. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
14. Summer by Edith Wharton
15. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
16. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
17. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
18. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
19. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
20. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

1. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCoullough
2. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
3. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
3. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
4. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5. The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
6. Bag of Bones by Stephen King
7. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
8. Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy
9. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
10. The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks
11. Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
12. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
13. The Stand by Stephen King
14.Letters of a Javanese Princess by Raden Adjeng Kartini
15. The World According to Garp by John Irving
16. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
17. Contact by Carl Sagan
18. Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
19. The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
20. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

No particular order.

Night, Elie Wiesel
A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
Kiss, Ted Dekker
Memoirs of a Geisher
Time Traveler's Wife
Water for Elephants, Sarah Gruen
The Red Tent, Anita Diamont
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Guardian, Nicholas Sparks
My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
Honeymoon, James Patterson
The Husband, Dean Koontz
Light on Snow, Anita Shreve
Heartbreaker, Karen Robards
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
P.S. I Love you Cecelia Ahern
Absolute Power, David Baldacci
Someone to Watch Over Me, Judith Mcnaught

Wow, this was tough! My "rough cut" was 38 books. It was physically painful to cut some of them! I'm not sure this is truly my definitive list, but here goes:

1. Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
2. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austin
3. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
5. Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
6. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
7. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
8. The Kite Runner by Khaled Housseini
9. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
10. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
11. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
12. Atonement by Ian McEwen
13. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
14. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
15. Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
16. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
17. Bonesetter's Daughter, The by Amy Tan
18. Anna Karinina by Tolstoy
19. Night by Elie Weisel
20. Shadow of the Wind by Carols Ruiz Zafon

Miss GP wrote: "Wow, this was tough! My "rough cut" was 38 books. It was physically painful to cut some of them! I'm not sure this is truly my definitive list, but here goes:

1. Handmaid's Tale by Margaret ..."

Hi Miss GP .. I can see a few people have listed The Handmaids Tale. I have it on my TBR and was curious about what people thought of it. Ive heard her other book the Blind Assassin is a "hard to get in to read" ???

1. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
2. Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
4.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
5.The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
6. The Plague by Albert Camus
7.Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
8. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
9.Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
10.Dune by Frank Herbert
11.The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
12.The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
13.To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
14.Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
15.Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
16. A Clockwork Orange by Antony Burgess
17. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
18. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
19. The Road - by Cormac McCarthy
20. 1984 by George Orwell

1. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
2. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
5. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
6. Persuasion - Jane Austen
7. The Girl with the Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
8. The Memoirs of Cleopatra - Margaret George
9. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery
10. Snow falling on Cedars - David Gutterson
11. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
12. Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien
13. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
14. Roverandom - JRR Tolkien
15. Chocolat - Joanne Harris
16. Go Ask Alice - Anon
17. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
18. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
19. The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
20. Tristan & Isolde - Joseph Bedier
and if the last one doesn't count then Sophie's World by Jostein gaarder

Just my opinion, but #20 on Tatiana's list is a beautiful work of classic fiction -- those should count, right?

1. Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
2. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
3. The Time Travelers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
4. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
5. White Oleander - Janet Fitch
6. Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
7. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
8. The Strain - Guillermo Del Toro
9. Let the right one in - John Ajvide Lindqvist
10. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn
11. A Certain Slant of Light - Laura Whitcomb
12. American Psycho - Bret Eason Ellis
13. The Dark - James Herbert
14. Breathers - S G Browne
15. Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian
16. Dead until Dark - Charlaine Harris
17. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
18. Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
19. The Host - Stephenie Meyer
20. Blue Bloods - Melissa de la Cruz

1 Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami
2 Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
3 Der Steppenwolf - Hesse
4 Brave New World - Huxley
5 A Clockwork Orange - Burgess
6 Master of Go - Kawabata
7 The Box-Man - Kobo, Abe
8 1984 - Orwell
9 After the Quake - Murakami
10 Demian - Hesse
11 Animal Farm - Orwell
12 The Godfather - Puzo
13 Chess Story - Stefan Zweig
14 A Song Of Ice And Fire - George R. R. Martin
15 The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
16 Dune - Herberts
17 Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
18 Foundation - Isaac Asimov
19 The Pillars of the Earth - Follett
20 White Fang - London

1. The Woman in White-Wilkie Collins
2. Emma-Jane Austen
3. Rebecca-Daphne du Maurier
4. The Black Tulip-Alexandre Dumas
5. Swallows and Amazons-Arthur Ransome
6. Gone with the Wind-Margaret Mitchell
7. Memoirs of a Geisha-Arthur Golden
8. Breaking Dawn-Stephanie Meyer
9. The Time Travellers Wife-Audrey Niffenberger
10.Interview with the Vampire-Anne Rice
11.The Great Gatsby-F.Scott.Fitzgerald
12.To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
13.The Painted Veil-W.S.Maughn
14.P.S I Love You-Celia Ahearne
15.Alice in Wonderland-Lewis Carroll
16.Brave New World-Aldous Huxley
17.Revolutionary Road-Richard Yates
18.Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood-
19.The Midwich Cuckoos-John Wyndha
20.The Forsyte Saga-John Galsworthy

My favourite fictions 20 in the last 2 years:

1."The Gargoyle" by Andrew Davidson
2." The Cellist of Sarajevo" by Steven Galloway
3." A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
4." Water for Elephant" by Sara Gruen
5." The Book of Negroes" also under the title " Someone Knows my Name" by Lawrence Hill
6." The Tiger's Paw" by Shauna Singh Baldwin
7." Midnight in the City of Good and Evil" by John Berendt
8." Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden
9 "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
10. " Small Death in Lisbon" by Robert Wilson
11. " Salimar the Clown" by Salman Rusdie
12. the "Sharp" series by Bernard Cornwell
13. " The Blind Man of Seville" by Robert wilson
14." The Book of Thief" by Markus Zusak
15." Shadow Song" by Lorina Stephens
15." The Draining Lake" by Arnaldur Indridason
16." The Art of racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein
17." Mobile 9" by Bill Haughland
18." Taking Stock" by CJ West
19." Marley and Me" by John Grogan
20. " Body of Lies" by David Ignatius

I'm really sorry to post this. I'm not trying to be difficult, I promise!

Just to be clear, are we not able to vote for any books that are part of a series or just not the whole series as one book? I've seen a few books listed above like The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Interview with a Vampire, Outlander, The Forsythe Saga and The Pillars of the Earth which technically aren't stand alone books. That's why I'm wondering if we can vote on one book of a series or none at all?

Again, I'm sorry to ask. Mary, you're a great mod and this is a great list. Keep up the fabulous work and thanks for doing all of this work for us :)

Hi apart from "The Forsyte Saga"which I read as a whole I meant
All other books just to be those parts and if it makes it easier
I'll only nominate book 1 of the Forsytes so that we don't get
Caught up in anything else!!
Is this ok with everyone(for future reference if I mean a series
I do say so!)
Happy Choosing To All,
DJ.

DJ - I didn't mean with my question to single you out and I hope you didn't take it that way! Just curious cause some of those are my favorites too :)

Jennifer wrote: "I'm really sorry to post this. I'm not trying to be difficult, I promise!

Just to be clear, are we not able to vote for any books that are part of a series or just not the whole series as one bo..."

Jennifer. On the first post of this thread I posted the rules again and I included NOT to pick books from a series. It's too confusing. I meant like the Harry Potter Books and The Twilight Series. Several people have listed "Outlander," and "Vampire." That's okay since I didn't add that part until later. Just don't list for example The Harry Potter Series, because I can't put all the books into one spot. Does this make sense?


Mary

Sarah wrote: "Just my opinion, but #20 on Tatiana's list is a beautiful work of classic fiction -- those should count, right? "

Hi Sarah. Classic fiction is fiction so YES IT COUNTS.

Mary

My fave fiction books are:

1. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
2. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
3. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
4. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
5. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
6. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
7. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
9. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
10. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
11. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
12. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
13. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
14. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
15. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
16. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
17. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
18. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
19. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
20. Beyond the Great Indoors by Ingvar Ambjornsen

Dianne wrote: "Mary wrote: "Hi all. I'm very sorry to tell you this but we had some problems with the voting process..."

I'm confused now, looking at the following messages. Are we meant to list our top 10, o..."

Hi Dianne. Top 20. Ten books wasn't often.

Mary

My 20! In no real order. = )
1. The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold
2. Persuasion- Jane Austen
3. The Hunger Games- Suzanne Collins
4. Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
5. Blankets- Craig Thompson
6. Can you keep a Secret- Sophie Kinsella
7. The Secret Garden- Frances Hodgson Burnett
8. The Five People you Meet in Heaven- Mitch Albom
9. The Red Tent- Anita Diamant
10. The Princess Bride- William Goldman
11. Flowers for Algernon- Daniel Keyes
12. The Secret Life of Bees- Sue Monk Kidd
13. To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
14. My Sisters Keeper- Jodi Picoult
15. The Giving Tree- Shel Silverstein
16. A Walk to Remember- Nicholas Sparks
17. The Sisterhood of the traveling pants- Ann Brashares
18. And Then There Were None- Agatha Christie
19. Pride & Prejudice- Jane Austen
20. The Historian- Elizabeth Kostova

Happy Reading = )

No don't worry I didn't take it personally,silly girl-but thank you
for caring.It was just I thought I should make myself clearer after
what happened to last list...
Catch up soon DJ x.

DJ wrote: "
No don't worry I didn't take it personally,silly girl-but thank you
for caring.It was just I thought I should make myself clearer after
what happened to last list...
Catch up soon DJ x."

Good. Just checking :)

Mary wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "I'm really sorry to post this. I'm not trying to be difficult, I promise!

Just to be clear, are we not able to vote for any books that are part of a series or just not the whole..."

Thanks Mary. Off to make my list :)

Ok Mary, I'm making my list. Questions series or sequels? I have both The Eight and The Pillars of Earth on my list, they both have sequels but each book could be a stand alone?
I hate to be difficult too, I agree about the series part as took off any books that I considered to be part of a series.

1. the lottery rose - irene hunt
2. up a road slowly - irene hunt
3. the haj - leon uris
4. the giver - lois lowry
5. the education of little tree - forrest carter
6. man's search for meaning - victor frankl
7. the hiding place - corrie ten boom
8. the little prince - antoine de st exupery
9. the screwtape letters - c s lewis
10. ellen foster - kaye gibbons
11. from sea to shining sea - james alexander thom
12. a thousand splendid suns - khaled hosseini
13. the black cauldron - lloyd alexander
14. the elfstones of shannara - terry brooks
15. tanequil - terry brooks
16. faith of the fallen - terry goodkind
17. the good earth - pearl s buck
18. a tree grows in brooklyn - betty smith
19. the fall of the house of usher - edgar allen poe
20. les miserables - victor hugo

Hi Marilyn. Series books are okay if you list each book separately. For example: Outlander by Diane Gabaldon is okay. Example of what's not okay: The Harry Potter Series. I have to be able to put each book into one spot on the spreadsheet. Does this help?

Mary

In random order:

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowlings
2. Shibumi by Trevanian (maybe the best spy story ever written)
3. Chiefs by Stuart Woods
4. From the Corner of his Eye by Dean Koontz
5. A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
6. Charm School by Nelson DeMille
7. The Green Mile by Stephen King
8. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
9. Twilight by Meyers
10. The Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy
11. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
12. Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy
13. Holes by Louis Sachar
13. If I'd Killed Him when I Met Him by Sharyn McCrumb
14. Naked In Death by J.D. Robb
15. After All These Years by Susan Isaacs
16. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
17. Absolute Power by David Baldacci
18. The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
19. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
20. As The Crow Flies by Jeffrey Archer

This was harder than I thought but here's my top 20 in no particular order:


1. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
2. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
3. What's Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges
4. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
5. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
6. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
7. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
8. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
9. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
10. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
11. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
12. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
13. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
14. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
15. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
16. These Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
17. The Time Travelers Wife by Auderey Niffenger
18. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by
Mary Ann Shaffer
19. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
20. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Mary

Hi. If anyone has the spare time to keep a spreadsheet of the books to compare to mine that would be great. It's hard to work full-time and keep up with everything. Thanks to everyone for understanding and voting one last time.

Mary

Mary, thanks that make sense.

In no particular order:

1.Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
2.The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
3.The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
4.Jacobs Leiter - Steffen Mensching
5.The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society - Mary Ann Schaffer
6.The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
7.Paradise Alley - Kevin Baker
8.The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
9.Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
10.Contest - Matthew Reilley
11.People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
12.Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
13.The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
14.Fatherland - Robert Harris
15.A Walk to Remember - Nicholas Sparks
16.Bridget Jone's Diary - Helen Fielding
17.The Sanctuary - Raymond Khoury
18.The Secret of Lost Things - Sheridan Hay
19.Firmin.Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife - Sam Savage
20.Lord of the Flies - William Golding

Kristy wrote: "1. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCoullough
2. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
3. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
3. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
4. To Kill A Mockingbird by Ha..."

Hi Kristy. We decided this time to vote for twenty books. Do you want to edit your post and list 10 more books. Thanks. Sorry this got so confusing.

Mary

Always guessed you're a Star!

These are my personal favorites in no particular order:
The Stand by Stephen King
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Neffenger
Hawaii by James Mitchner
Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
The Last Child by John Hart
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Schriver
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Exodus by Leon Uris
Alas Babylon by Pat Frank
The Eight by Katherine Neville
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddon
Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier
The Moscow Club by Joseph Finder
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Rosemarys Baby by Ira Levin
The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy
The Pillars of Earth by Ken Follet
The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo by Stieg Larrson

OK here's mine in no particular order:

1: Outlaw's Embrace by Francine Rivers
2: Keegan's Lady by Cahtherine Anderson
3: Comanche Heart by Catherine Anderson
4: She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
5: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genious by Dave Eggers
6: Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourne
7: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
8: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
9: The World According to Garp by John Ivring
10: Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
11: Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
12 The Prophet by Kahil Gibran
13: Like Water For Chocolate by Lora Esquivel
14: The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
15: Slaughter House 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
16: In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
17: The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
18: Girl With a Dragon Tatoo by Stieg Larrson
19: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
20: Good In Bed by Jennifer Weihner

(wow it was hard to come up with just 20)

The Forgotten Garden
The Thirteenth Tale
The Shape of Mercy A Novel
Prayers for Sale
From a Distance
Garden Spells
The Hunger Games
The Princess Bride
Pride and Prejudice
Twilight
Outlander
Three
Those Who Save Us
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Book Thief
The Road
The Help
The Lucky One
Into the Wilderness
The Poisonwood Bible

Here are mine, in no particular order:
1. Dante's Inferno, Dante Alighieri
2. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
3. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
4. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
5. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
6. The Witching Hour, Anne Rice
7. Dracula, Bram Stoker
8. The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson
9. The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
10. Mapping the Edge, Sarah Dunant
11. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, James McBride
12. The Ruby Ring, Diane Haeger
13. Pope Joan, Donna Woolfolk Cross
14. Loving Frank, Nancy Horan
15. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
16. The School of Essential Ingredients, Erica Bauermeister
17. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
18. Kissing in Manhattan, David Schickler
19. Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, Jeffrey Archer
20. The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant

1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
2. Northern Lights (Golden Compass) - Philip Pullman
3. Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
4. Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
5. Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
6. Liars and Saints - Maile Meloy
7. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
8. Flowers for Algernon
9. Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
10. Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne-Jones
11. Addition - Toni Jordan
12. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
13. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
14. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
15. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
16. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn and David Leviathan
17.Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
18. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
19. The Rivals - Richard Sheridan
20. Fantastic Mr Fox - Roald Dahl