When all tallied up – counting honorable mentions, books I forgot to add when I first made the lists, and series I counted as one book – there are at least 125 books here. All are good!
HM#1 The World Almanac & Book of Facts
HM#2 Rise up Singing by Peter Blood & Annie Patterson
100 Puff: A Novel by Bob Flaherty
99 The Grand Complication: A Novel by Allen Kurzweil
98 The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution by Alfred F. Young
97 Stalemate Icchokas Meras
96 King Lear by William Shakespeare
95 Vandals in the Stacks?: A Response to Nicholson Baker’s Assault on Libraries by Richard J. Cox
94 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
93 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
92 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
91 The Iowa Baseball Confederacy: A Novel by W.P. Kinsella
90 T. H. White:A Biography by Sylvia Townsend Warner
89 You Gotta Have Wa by Robert Whiting
88 Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback by George Plimpton
87 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
86 Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
85 Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk
84 Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
83 Tales of the City Series by Armistead Maupin
82 Snowshoeing Through Sewers: Adventures in New York City, New Jersey, and Philadelphia by Michael Aaron Rockland
81 Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World’s Most Revered and Reviled Bird by Andrew D. Blechman
80 How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built by Stewart Brand
79 The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
78 The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834 by Paul A. Gilje
77 Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
76 Amphigorey & Amphigorey Too by Edward Gorey
75 Silent Traveller in San Francisco by Chiang Yee
74 A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
73 Thumbs, Toes, and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human by Chip Walter
72 Dreamland by Kevin Baker
71 Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike by Angus K. Gillespie
70 My Life With the Saints by James Martin, SJ
69 Through a Window by Jane Goodall
68 Dead Certainties: (Unwarranted Speculations) by Simon Schama
67 Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
66 The Princess Bride: S Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman
65 Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the World’s Most Notorious Slum by Tyler Anbinder
64 Joshua: A Parable for Today by Joseph F. Girzone,
63 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
62 The Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
61 To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
60 Irish America: Coming Into Clover by Maureen Dezell
59 Time and Again by Jack Finney
58 A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
57 Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
56 The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
55 Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
54 The Portable Door by Tom Holt
53 The lost continent : travels in small-town America by Bill Bryson
52 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
51 In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
50.5 Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
50 The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
49 Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens
48 Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
47 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
46 Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David Garrow
45 The Appalachian Trail Reader by David Emblidge
44 1939: Lost World of Fair by David Gelernter
43 The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz
42 The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists by Taras Grescoe
41 Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass by Lewis Carroll
40 The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg by Richard Handler
39 Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney
38 Iron and Silk by Mark Salzman
37 The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
36 Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
35 The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
34 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
33 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
32 The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
31 The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
30 The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: The Pox Party & The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: The Kingdom of the Waves by M. T. Anderson
29 A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
28 Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
27 The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
26 Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood & Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
25 The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit by J.R.R, Tolkien
24 Ball Four by Jim Bouton
23 A Clearing In The Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century by Witold Rybczynski
22 The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Eliel
21 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
20 Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh
19 Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City by Jonathan Mahler
18 Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks
17 Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella
16 Watership Down by Richard Adams
15 We Can’t Eat Prestige: The Women Who Organized Harvard by John Hoerr
14 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
13 The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs
12 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
11 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
10 The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9 In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life by James Deetz
8 The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel by Jasper Fforde
7 Jazz by Toni Morrison
6 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
5 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
4 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
3 The Once and Future King by T.H. White
2 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
1 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
That is quite the list you have there, I love how you know your top 100+ books of all time! If you liked Stephanie Coontz’s The Way We Never Were, you should check out her new book, ‘A Strange Stirring- The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960’s’. Coontz continue to bust myths about the time we all thought was so great. It is a really good read, I am about half way through.
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Some great books here!
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