My 50 Notable Books...

Top 50 Notable Book List. No particular order, except by memory, I suck at ranking things and seriously, how could you? These are the memorable/notable books that I'd recommend as my top 50. I have rather diverse taste - so included in the list are genre fiction, plays, and graphic novels. I did not include poetry or non-fiction.

These are books that stick in my memory and in some way affected me deeply or influenced my writing and how I perceived things.

1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
2. Beloved by Toni Morrison
3. Possession by AS Byatt
4. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien.
5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
8. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
9. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
10. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
11. Dubliners by James Joyce
12. The Sparrow by Maria Doria Russell
13. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
14. Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
15. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
16. My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
17. Metamorphsis by Franz Kafka
18. Brave New World by Adolus Huxley.
19. The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman (this is a play)
20. Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
21. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
22. The Code of the Woosters, Right Ho, Jeeves, and The Imitable Jeeves by PD Wodehouse
23. Ulysess by James Joyce
24. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
25. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
26. The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Quinn
27. The Prince by Machevilli
28. 1984 by George Orwell
29. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
30. Watchman by Alan Moore (graphic novel)
31. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (graphic novel)
32. Lord of the Flies by William Fielding
33. Exodus by Leon Uris
34. The People of Forever are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu
35. Curtain by Agatha Christie
36. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
37. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
38. Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson
39. The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
40. The Hunger Game series by Suzanne Collins
41. Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
42. The Complete Works of Shakespeare
43. Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello,
44. The Scarlette Pimpernell by Baroness Orzy
45. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole
46. Marriage of Sticks by Jonathan Carroll
47. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
48. The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
49. The Chronicles of Lymond by Dorothy Dunnett
50. The Color Purple by Alice Walker