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

by E. L. Konigsburg

16,371 members

279 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,759 members

373 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

46,047 members

769 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Love You Forever

by Robert Munsch

11,718 members

449 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Charlotte Brontë

59,330 members

924 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,150 members

773 reviews

3.9

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by Beowulf Poet

25,536 members

334 reviews

3.8

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

21,939 members

610 reviews

4

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Hey Nostradamus!

by Douglas Coupland

2,816 members

40 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by J. R. R. Tolkien

94,983 members

1,193 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,894 members

338 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

14,953 members

230 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Silver Chair

24,107 members

197 reviews

3.9

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

40,381 members

1,590 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

36,745 members

562 reviews

4

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Fellowship of the Ring

by J. R. R. Tolkien

55,033 members

489 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

42,613 members

1,149 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Terry Pratchett

11,316 members

166 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Terry Pratchett

9,530 members

121 reviews

4

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Albert Camus

35,669 members

509 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Terry Pratchett

11,601 members

151 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,843 members

433 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Richard Russo

8,793 members

184 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

36,356 members

744 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

81,123 members

1,371 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

21,131 members

282 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

28

Sense and Sensibility

38,349 members

529 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

Northanger Abbey

21,771 members

420 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

30

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,766 members

192 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Last Battle

23,458 members

194 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

32

9,225 members

179 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

33

by George Eliot

4,234 members

70 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

In a Sunburned Country

9,132 members

229 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

35

by Catherine Marshall

3,680 members

45 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

36

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,832 members

342 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

37

by Isaac Asimov

15,099 members

271 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

38

20,643 members

309 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

39

by Henrik Ibsen

5,416 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,306 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

41

by Robert Louis Stevenson

10,857 members

118 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

42

The Moon and Sixpence

by W. Somerset Maugham

3,422 members

62 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

43

by Terry Pratchett

34,942 members

794 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

by José Saramago

13,096 members

391 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

45

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

by Robert A. Heinlein

10,479 members

183 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

46

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

23,016 members

941 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

47

A Thousand Acres

6,187 members

137 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

48

The Graveyard Book

22,277 members

1,264 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

49

by Dorothy L. Sayers

5,477 members

150 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

50

The Subtle Knife

by Philip Pullman

24,995 members

355 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

16,456 members

478 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

52

by Douglas Coupland

4,936 members

64 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

53

On the Banks of Plum Creek

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

11,300 members

103 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

54

25,023 members

580 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

619 members

8 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

56

These Happy Golden Years

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

8,922 members

65 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

57

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

36,888 members

457 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

58

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

by J. K. Rowling

101,793 members

935 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

59

The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

by E. L. Konigsburg

1,357 members

35 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

60

by Robert Munsch

872 members

12 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

61

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling

97,017 members

1,572 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

62

Girl with a Pearl Earring

by Tracy Chevalier

17,318 members

321 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

63

by Anita Diamant

16,988 members

394 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

64

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,554 members

100 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

65

Ethan Frome and Other Short Stories

by Edith Wharton

459 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

66

by Wilkie Collins

1,247 members

32 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

67

The Human Factor

by Graham Greene

3,265 members

44 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

68

Our Man in Havana

by Graham Greene

5,382 members

140 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

69

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

13,002 members

202 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

70

Baltasar and Blimunda

by José Saramago

2,473 members

49 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

71

Testament of Youth

by Vera Brittain

2,160 members

53 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

72

Riders in the Chariot

by Patrick White

687 members

20 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

73

The Sea, the Sea

by Iris Murdoch

3,586 members

95 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

74

Busman's Honeymoon: A Love Story with Detective Interruptions

by Dorothy L. Sayers

3,955 members

94 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

75

by Elizabeth Kostova

21,493 members

759 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

76

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

17,950 members

370 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

562 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

78

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,559 members

108 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

79

by J. M. Coetzee

10,883 members

277 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

80

Life & Times of Michael K

by J. M. Coetzee

2,821 members

70 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

81

by Nadine Gordimer

1,819 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

82

The Conservationist

by Nadine Gordimer

801 members

23 reviews

3.2

Member: ahef1963

83

Tales of the South Pacific

by James A. Michener

1,855 members

33 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

84

Cry, the Beloved Country

9,429 members

183 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

85

Too Late the Phalarope

680 members

15 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

86

As For Me and My House

by Sinclair Ross

435 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

87

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

by Mordecai Richler

1,374 members

16 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

88

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

by Don Starkell

194 members

4 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

89

No Previous Experience: A Memoir of Love and Change

by Elspeth Cameron

45 members

1 review

3.2

Member: ahef1963

90

A Complicated Kindness

by Miriam Toews

2,284 members

66 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

91

A Boy of Good Breeding

by Miriam Toews

311 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

92

by Miriam Toews

427 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

93

The Book of Negroes

by Lawrence Hill

3,691 members

178 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

94

by Margaret Laurence

1,194 members

19 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

95

The Way the Crow Flies

by Ann-Marie MacDonald

2,256 members

63 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

96

by John Wyndham

4,779 members

122 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

97

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

by H. P. Lovecraft

2,914 members

27 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

98

Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind

by Donald C. Johanson

1,066 members

8 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

99

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

580 members

15 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

100

The Spotted Sphinx

134 members

1 review

3.9

Member: ahef1963

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