I could rearrange this list from week to week. And there are many other books that I've read worthy of making this list. I doubt the top 3 will ever change -- though it is possible.
1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin / Harriett Beecher Stowe
2. Black Boy / Richard Wright
3. Brother’s Karamozov / Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. Corelli’s Mandolin / Louis De Berniers
5. Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck
6. The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank / Anne Frank
7. The Catcher in the Rye /
8. Les Miserables / Victor Hugo
9. 1984 / George Orwell
10. The Color Purple / Alice Walker
11. Notes from Underground / Fyodor Dostoevsky
12. The Good War / Studs Terkel
13. All Quiet on the Western Front / Erich Maria Remarque
14. Dracula / Bram Stoker
15. Uncle Tom’s Children / Richard Wright
16. Eight Men / Richard Wright
17. Cry, the Beloved Country / Alan Paton
18. Berlin
19. Anais Nin’s Diaries (all of them) / Anais Nin
20. The Good Earth / Pearl S. Buck
21. To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee
22. Boy / Roald Dahl
23. Native Son / Richard Wright
24. The Island on Bird Street /
25. Going Solo / Roald Dahl
26. The Screwtape Letters / C.S. Lewis
27. The Winter of our Discontent / John Steinbeck
28. East of Eden /
29. Memoirs of a Geisha / Arthur Golden
30. Tortilla Flats / John Steinbeck
31. Brave New World / Aldous Huxley
32. The Outsider / Richard Wright
33. The Long Dream / Richard Wright
34. Illusions / Richard Bach
35. Blue Beard / Kurt Vonnegut
36. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café / Fannie Flagg
37. Taras Bulba / Gogol
38. Cat’s Cradle / Kurt Vonnegut
39. Bird by Bird / Anne Lamott
40. Surprised by Joy / C.S. Lewis
41. Me Talk Pretty One Day / David Sedaris
42. Cold Sassy Tree / Olivia Burns
43. Reflections on the Psalms / C.S. Lewis
44. Naked / David Sedaris
45. Franny and Zooey / J.D. Salinger
46. Raise High the Roof Highbeam, Carpenters . . . / J.D. Salinger
47. The Glass Harp / Truman Capote
48. A Grief Observed / C.S. Lewis
49. Til We Have Faces / C.S. Lewis
50. Savage Holiday / Richard Wright
51. A Pen Warmed Up in Hell / Mark Twain
52. If I Forget Thee Jerusalem /
53. The Four Loves / C.S. Lewis
54. Breakfast at Tiffany’s / Truman Capote
55. Of Mice and Men / John Steinbeck
56. The Reader / Bernhard Schlink
57. Lawd Today! / Richard Wright
58. Over to You / Roald Dahl
59. Letters to Children / C.S. Lewis
60. My Uncle Oswald / Roald Dahl
61. Cannery Row / John Steinbeck
62. The Crucible / Arthur Miller
63. The World According to Garp / John Irving
64. Diary of a Madman & Other Stories / Nikolai Gogol
65. Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain
66. Crime and Punishment / Fyodor Dostoevsky
67. Don Quixote / Cervantes
68. Wuthering Heights /
69. Stones from the River / Ursula Hegi
70. The Tin Drum / Gunter Grass
71. House of the Dead / Fyodor Dostoevsky
72. Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury
73. Candide / Voltaire
74. Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe
75. The Odyssey / Homer
76. Crime and Punishment / Fyodor Dostoevsky
77. Lolita / Vladimir Nabakov
78. A Clockwork Orange / Anthony Burgess
79. A Prayer for Owen Meaney / John Irving
80. The Sorrows of Young Werther / Geothe
81. Mother Night / Kurt Vonnegut
82. Nine Stories / J.D. Salinger
83. The Slave / Isaac Bashevis-Singer
84. Like Water for Chocolate / Laura Esquivel
85. The Aeneid / Virgil
86. The Inferno / Dante
87. The Bell Jar / Sylvia Platt
88. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest / Ken Kesey
89. Midnight Cowboy / James Leo Herlihy
90. At Play in the Fields of the Lord / Peter Matthiessen
91. A Literate Passion Anais / Nin/Henry Miller
92. Angela’s Ashes / Frank McCourt
93. The Long Walk / Slavomir Rawicz
94. Tale of Two Cities / Charles Dickens
95. Johnathan Livingston Seagull / Richard Bach
96. The Underdogs / Mariano Azuela
97. The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
98. Things Fall Apart / Achebe
99. The Chocolate War / Robert Cormier
100. Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy
101. Exodus / Leon Uris (Oops, I just had to sneak one more in : )
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