Top 50 Books Challenge

Awhile back, my dear friend Debi challenged me to come up with 50 books for her to read. (Here’s my list.) I agreed, with the stipulation that she also come up with 50 books for me. I thought I would share it as, well, it may be the best list ever. I’m so glad I have lots of birthday gift cards to Barnes & Noble, so I can get started. This is probably my only reading challenge this year, to read as many of these as I can, except for RIP and Once Upon a Time, of course. And to read some of the top 50 books from others who posted their lists; Amanda, Chris, Pat, Ana, etc, etc, etc…. Did you post one? Let me know and I’ll link it up.

I’m still waiting on a number 35, Debi, when you get the chance!!! The ones in italics I actually own, so I have a lot of acquiring to do!

What books would be on your list?

 

1. Daphne du Maurier’s Classics of the Macabre (my favorite book of short stories ever!)

2. By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters

3. Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block (another example of my cheating ways, as this is technically five short books)

4. The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley

5. Castle Waiting by Linda Medley

6. The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

7. Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams

8. The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring by John Bellairs (this is actually the third book in this series, but you really don’t have to read the others to “get” this one…all of them I’ve read are good, but this one is definitely my favorite)

9. The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury

10. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

11. Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

12. Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman

13. Two Weeks with the Queen by Morris Gleitzman

14. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

15. Horns and Wrinkles by Joseph Helgerson

16. Green Angel by Alice Hoffman

17. The Wisdom of the Radish by Lynda Hopkins

18. I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly

19. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

20. Sonny’s House of Spies by George Ella Lyons

21. The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci

22. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

23. Local by Brian Wood

24. Foiled by Jane Yolen

25. Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

26. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennet

27. The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

28. The Tale of One Bad Rat by Bryan Talbot

29. Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman

30. Enchanted Night by Steven Millhauser

31. The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan

32. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow

33. Wicked Girls by Stephanie Hemphill

34. Sweet Tooth by Jeff Lemire

35. TBD….

36. Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett

37. The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

38. Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon Hale

39. Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

40. Star Split by Kathryn Lasky

41. The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant

42. The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper

43. Sky Burial by Xinran

44. We Are On Our Own by Miriam Katin

45. Boris by Cynthia Rylant

46. I Was a Rat by Philip Pullman

47. House of Stone by Christina Lamb

48. Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver

49. Neil Young’s Greensdale by Joshua Dysart

50. The Nobody by Jeff Lemire