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[September 21, 2021]

I was able to get my list down to 52 books! Here they are…

The World According to Garp by John Irving

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss

Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd

The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Far Far Away by Tom McNeal

Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin

Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan MacMillan

The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Front Desk by Kelly Yang

Dear Genius by Ursula Nordstrom

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

I Must Resist by Bayard Rustin

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Meaning of Mariah Carey

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Remember Me by Christopher Pike

The Season of Passage by Christopher Pike

[May 23, 2021]

Under Construction!

After realizing I had 85 titles on this list (and this is after I dwindled it down from 103!), I decided I should spend some more time until I get it down to a more reasonable number. Maybe I’ll have a Top 20 ranking and then a long-list of 52 titles (one for every week of the year so I can do a re-reading challenge of them.) I already know I’m going to create categories within my list. For example, my favorite author is Agatha Christie and, the last time I checked, I had seven of her books on the list. Plus there are series that are either hard to choose individual titles or, as a whole, they’re great and they should just occupy one spot. This should be a fun exercise and I can’t wait to work on it this summer!