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Allie's Favourite 150 Books

Description: In no particular order. All of them wonderful, all of them readable, all of them cherished.
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ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, cej1027

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1

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

by E. L. Konigsburg

15,749 members

273 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

35,637 members

364 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

44,313 members

737 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Love You Forever

by Robert Munsch

11,126 members

443 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Charlotte Brontë

57,406 members

902 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

52,650 members

753 reviews

3.9

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by Beowulf poet

24,714 members

326 reviews

3.8

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

21,017 members

597 reviews

4

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Hey Nostradamus!

by Douglas Coupland

2,775 members

39 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by J. R. R. Tolkien

91,765 members

1,166 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,504 members

333 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

14,331 members

223 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Silver Chair

23,164 members

185 reviews

3.9

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

38,837 members

1,559 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

35,905 members

553 reviews

4

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Fellowship of the Ring

by J. R. R. Tolkien

52,996 members

468 reviews

½ 4.4

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17

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

41,301 members

1,115 reviews

4.1

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18

by Terry Pratchett

11,028 members

164 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Terry Pratchett

9,282 members

118 reviews

4

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Albert Camus

34,648 members

489 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Terry Pratchett

11,378 members

148 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,235 members

425 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Richard Russo

8,678 members

180 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)

by Philip Pullman

35,401 members

728 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

Of Mice and Men (New Longman Literature)

by John Steinbeck

188 members

2 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Pride and Prejudice

78,341 members

1,347 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

20,149 members

262 reviews

4.1

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28

Sense and Sensibility

37,143 members

513 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

Northanger Abbey

21,043 members

408 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

30

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,396 members

190 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Last Battle

22,517 members

183 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

32

9,000 members

177 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

33

by George Eliot

4,123 members

71 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

In a Sunburned Country

8,947 members

227 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

35

by Catherine Marshall

3,564 members

44 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

36

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,191 members

330 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

37

by Isaac Asimov

14,621 members

260 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

38

20,101 members

304 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

39

by Henrik Ibsen

840 members

20 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

20,802 members

208 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

41

by Robert Louis Stevenson

10,460 members

117 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

42

The Moon and Sixpence

by W. Somerset Maugham

3,337 members

63 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

43

by Terry Pratchett

33,743 members

775 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

by José Saramago

12,751 members

377 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

45

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

by Robert A. Heinlein

10,230 members

181 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

46

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

22,303 members

925 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

47

A Thousand Acres

6,048 members

134 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

48

The Graveyard Book

21,618 members

1,244 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

49

by Dorothy L. Sayers

5,351 members

146 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

50

The Subtle Knife

by Philip Pullman

24,452 members

349 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

15,926 members

461 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

52

by Douglas Coupland

4,876 members

63 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

53

On the Banks of Plum Creek

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

11,189 members

98 reviews

4.1

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54

24,490 members

567 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

55

The Fionavar Tapestry 1. The Summer Tree 2. The Wandering Fire 3. The Darkest Road

by Guy Gavriel Kay

605 members

7 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

56

These Happy Golden Years

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

8,555 members

59 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

57

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

35,690 members

444 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

58

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

by J. K. Rowling

99,355 members

921 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

59

The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

by E. L. Konigsburg

1,326 members

35 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

60

by Robert Munsch

833 members

12 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

61

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling

94,257 members

1,555 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

62

Girl with a Pearl Earring

by Tracy Chevalier

17,043 members

316 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

63

by Anita Diamant

16,841 members

390 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

64

Sons And Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,346 members

95 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

65

Ethan Frome and Other Short Stories

by Edith Wharton

449 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

66

by Wilkie Collins

1,219 members

32 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

67

The Human Factor

by Graham Greene

3,188 members

43 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

68

Our Man in Havana

by Graham Greene

5,226 members

135 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

69

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

12,658 members

194 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

70

Baltasar and Blimunda

by José Saramago

2,394 members

49 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

71

Testament of Youth

by Vera Brittain

2,112 members

53 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

72

Riders in the Chariot

by Patrick White

667 members

19 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

73

The Sea, the Sea

by Iris Murdoch

3,493 members

93 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

74

Busman's Honeymoon: A Love Story with Detective Interruptions

by Dorothy L. Sayers

3,875 members

92 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

75

by Elizabeth Kostova

21,309 members

750 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

76

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

17,584 members

365 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

77

Tree and Leaf. Smith of Wootton Major. The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son

by J. R. R. Tolkien

539 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

78

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,455 members

108 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

79

by J. M. Coetzee

10,675 members

270 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

80

Life & Times of Michael K

by J. M. Coetzee

2,758 members

68 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

81

by Nadine Gordimer

1,766 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

82

The Conservationist

by Nadine Gordimer

778 members

23 reviews

3.2

Member: ahef1963

83

Tales of the South Pacific

by James A. Michener

1,801 members

32 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

84

Cry, the Beloved Country

9,200 members

175 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

85

Too Late the Phalarope

660 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

86

As For Me and My House

by Sinclair Ross

424 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

87

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

by Mordecai Richler

1,345 members

16 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

88

Paddle to the Amazon: The Ultimate 12,000 Mile Canoe Adventure

by Don Starkell

189 members

4 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

89

No Previous Experience: A Memoir of Love and Change

by Elspeth Cameron

44 members

1 review

3.2

Member: ahef1963

90

A Complicated Kindness

by Miriam Toews

2,240 members

65 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

91

A Boy of Good Breeding

by Miriam Toews

301 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

92

by Miriam Toews

411 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

93

The Book of Negroes

by Lawrence Hill

3,582 members

176 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

94

by Margaret Laurence

1,167 members

19 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

95

The Way the Crow Flies

by Ann-Marie MacDonald

2,221 members

60 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

96

by John Wyndham

4,583 members

116 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

97

The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre

by H. P. Lovecraft

2,858 members

27 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

98

Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind

by Donald C. Johanson

1,048 members

8 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

99

Cry of the Kalahari: Seven Years in Africa's Last Great Wilderness

562 members

15 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

100

The Spotted Sphinx

133 members

1 review

3.9

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