Faves

As promised in yesterday's post...

My 50 Favorite Novels of All Time: 
(in no order) 

- The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2001) 

- Rosemary's Baby, Ira Levin (1967) 

- Christine Falls, Benjamin Black (2006) 

- Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett (1989)

- Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett (1979) 

- The Devotion of Suspect X, Keigo Higashino (2005) 

- Empire Falls, Richard Russo (2001)

- Any Human Heart, William Boyd (2002)

- The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner (1929) 

- The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith (1955) 

- A Dog's Ransom, Patricia Highsmith (1972) 

- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald 

- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (2005) 

- The Chill, Ross Macdonald (1963) 

- The Keeper of Lost Causes, Jussi Adler-Olsen (2007) 

- Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara (1934) 

- The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Oscar Hijuelos (1989) 

- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie (1926) 

- The Easter Parade, Richard Yates (1976) 

- Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates (1961) 

- A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan (2010) 

- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers (1940) 

- Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow (1975) 

- Mr. Bridge, Evan Connell (1959) 

- True Grit, Charles Portis (1968) 

- Everyman, Philip Roth (2006) 

- Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (1952) 

- Rabbit, Run. John Updike (1960) 

- Rabbit is Rich, John Updike (1981) 

- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (1939) 

- Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides (2002) 

- Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane (2003) 

- Little Tiny Teeth, Aaron Elkins (2007) 

- My Antonia, Willa Cather (1918) 

- The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, Brady Udall (2000) 

- Summer, Edith Wharton (1917) 

- The Ruins, Scott Smith (2006) 

- Crazy in Alabama, Mark Childress (1993) 

- Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy (1985) 

- Loilita, Vladimir Nabokov (1955) 

- Last Night at the Lobster, Stewart O'Nan (2007) 

- The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989) 

- 1984, George Orwell (1949) 

- Animal Farm, George Orwell (1945) 

- Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry (1985) 

- 13 Steps Down, Ruth Rendell (2004) 

- The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri (2003) 

- One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967) 

- The Post-Birthday World, Lionel Shriver (2007) 

- Sophie's Choice, William Styron (1979) 















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