A Hundred Out of a Thousand

 Short and simple:

I've read a thousand books since I started keeping track in late 2011. To celebrate I made a list of a hundred that I highly recommend. Organized roughly in the order I read them, blue is fiction, black is nonfiction. I'm happy to chat more about any of these if you'd like to!

1.      A Tale of Two Cities-- Charles Dickens

2.      Treasure Island-- Robert Louis Stevenson

3.      Oliver Twist-- Charles Dickens

4.      The Alchemyst-- Michael Scott

5.      Wuthering Heights-- Emily Bronte

6.      Hide and Seek With Angels-- Lisa Chaney

7.      American Emperor-- Stewart

8.      The Scarlet Letter-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

9.      Maphead-- Ken Jennings

10.   Ivanhoe-- Walter Scott

11.   War and Peace-- Leo Tolstoy

12.   My Fair Godmother-- Rallison

13.   The Uses of Enchantment-- Bruno Bettelheim

14.   The Great Brain-- John Fitzgerald

15.   Union 1812-- AJ Langguth

16.   American Eve-- Paula Uruburu

17.   James Madison-- Richard Brookhiser

18.   The Better Angels of Our Nature-- Steven Pinker

19.   Ender’s Game-- Orson Scott Card

20.   Roughing It-- Mark Twain

21.   Lad, a Dog-- Alfred Terhune

22.   The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks-- E Lockhart

23.   At Home-- Bill Bryson

24.   The Ballad of Tom Dooley-- Sharyn McCrumb

25.   The Fellowship of the Ring-- JRR Tolkien

26.   The Color of Magic-- Terry Pratchett

27.   American Tempest-- Harlow Giles Unger

28.   The Merchant of Death-- DJ MacHale

29.   The Violinist’s Thumb-- Sam Kean

30.   The Ghost Map-- Samuel Johnson

31.   The ABC Murders-- Agatha Christie

32.   Okay For Now-- Gary Schmidt

33.   The Color Purple-- Alice Walker

34.   Emma-- Jane Austen

35.   Verily, a New Hope-- Ian Doescher

36.   The Kite Runner-- Khaleed Hosseini

37.   The Clockwork Universe-- Edward Dolnick

38.   Crime and Punishment-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

39.   Living My Life-- Emma Goldman

40.   The Book Thief-- Marcus Zusak

41.   Neverwhere-- Neil Gaiman

42.   Around the World in 80 Days-- Jules Verne

43.   The Hobbit-- JRR Tolkien

44.   The Heart of the Matter-- Graham Greene

45.   Song of Spider-man-- Glen Berger

46.   The Shakespeare Wars-- Ron Rosenbaum

47.   Gone Girl-- Gillian Flynn

48.   Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie-- Jordan Sonnelblick

49.   Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?-- Mindy Kaling

50.   George Eliot in Love-- Brenda Maddox

51.   Four Seasons in Rome-- Anthony Doerr

52.   Alice in tumblr-Land-- Tim Manley

53.   This is a Book- Demetri Martin

54.   The Handmaid’s Tale-- Margaret Atwood

55.   Odd Thomas-- Dean Koontz

56.   Room-- Emma Donoghue

57.   Confessions of a Latter-day Virgin-- Nicole Hardy

58.   Fooling Houdini-- Alex Stone

59.   The Girl With All the Gifts-- MR Carey

60.   Born to Run-- Christopher McDougall

61.   Never Cry Wolf-- Farley Mowat

62.   The Princess Diarist-- Carrie Fisher

63.   The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe-- Elaine Showalter

64.   The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance-- Elna Baker

65.   Kissing in America-- Margo Rabb

66.   On the Map-- Simon Garfield

67.   Wishful Drinking-- Carrie Fisher

68.   The Ocean at the End of the Lane-- Neil Gaiman

69.   A Man Called Ove-- Fredric Backman

70.   A Train in Winter-- Caroline Moorehead

71.   Timekeepers-- Simon Garfield

72.   Junius and Albert’s Aventures in the Confederacy-- Peter Carlson

73.   What Alice Forgot-- Liane Moriarty

74.   The Caped Crusade-- Glen Weldon

75.   The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society-- Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Burrows

76.   I, Robot-- Isaac Asimov

77.   Clementine: The Life of Mrs Winston Churchill-- Sonia Purnell

78.   Anne of Green Gables-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

79.   Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine-- Gail Honeyman

80.   Strangers on a Train-- Patricia Highsmith

81.   The Girls of Murder City-- Douglas Perry

82.   Permanent Record-- Edward Snowden

83.   The Rest of Us Just Live Here-- Patrick Ness

84.   Planet Funny-- Ken Jennings

85.   Talking to Strangers-- Malcolm Gladwell

86.   Mao’s Last Dancer-- Li Cunxin

87.   The New One-- Mike Birbiglia

88.   The Mirage Factory-- Gary Krist

89.   The Fifth Season-- NK Jemisin

90.   Destiny of the Republic-- Candice Millard

91.   Station Eleven-- Emily St John Mandel

92.   American Heiress-- Jeffrey Toobin

93.   Listen to the Marriage-- John Jay Osborn

94.   Pandora’s Jar-- Natalie Haynes

95.   Life Among the Savages-- Shirley Jackson

96.   November Road-- Lou Berney

97.   Grant-- Ron Chernow

98.   The Queens of Animation-- Nathalia Holt

99.   Incendiary-- Michael Cannell

1       The Glass Hotel-- Emily St John Mandel