
- The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (see my review)
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
- The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
- The World According to Garp by John Irving
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
- Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
- The Princess Bride by William Goldman
- The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
- Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (see my review)
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
- Beach Music by Pat Conroy
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gariel Garcia Marquez
- Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
- Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- Empire Falls by Richard Russo
- Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
- I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- The Stand by Stephen King
- She's Come Undone by Wall Lamb
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Farcia Marquez
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
- Jaws by Peter Benchley
- Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
- Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
- The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
- The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
- Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
- Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
- Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
- The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
- All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
- Shogun by James Clavell
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
- Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
- Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
- The Shining by Stephen King
- How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan
- Lamb by Christopher Moore
- Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
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5 comments:
I'll have to go through & see what I have/haven't read. It's kind of a random assortment. Best summer read to me means something light & easy to pick up. But that's because I associate summer w/ vacation (even though I never really vacation in the summer anymore).
You have to read "The Pilot's Wife"!!!!
Ok, I went back and counted. I've read 24. not bad, not great either.
And seriously, I can't believe "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy is on there. That is quite possibly the WORST book I have ever read. I guess I just don't enjoy his style of writing or something...
You've read way more than I have! :)
There are some really great books on that list. I think everyone should read Water for Elephants. It's an amazing story, even if you don't like the circus.
Nicole - that's definitely on my "to read" list - thanks for the extra recommendation! (Maybe I'll bump it up to one of the next five books I'm going to read).
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