Part Two

Yesterday, I published a list of my fifty favorite novels of all time.  Minutes after posting, I started thinking... why did I stop at fifty?

So... you guessed it!  I came up with my next fifty favorite novels.  100 is just so much better than 50, right?

I don't have short-story collections on this list.  Hence, no works by Alice Munro or acclaimed collections by T.C. Boyle, Jhumpa Lahiri, etc.
 
Here it is - the second half of my 100 Favorite Novels of All Time.  Novels I would recommend to anyone, anywhere, at any time.  (Once again, in no order...)

- The Hunter, Richard Stark (1962)

- Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (2001)

- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (1884)

- The Privileges, Jonathan Dee (2010)

- Straight Man, Richard Russo (1997)

- Bridge of Sighs, Richard Russo (2007)

- Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton (1990)

- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie (2007)

- Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson (1919)

- A Lost Lady, Willa Cather (1923)

 - The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell (1932-5)


- Tigerlily's Orchids, Ruth Rendell (2010)

- A Light in August, William Faulkner (1932)

- Dracula, Bram Stoker (1897)

- The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck (1931)

- The Firm, John Grisham (1991)

- Emily, Alone, Stewart O'Nan (2011)

- The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud (2006)

- Anything For Billy, Larry McMurtry (1988)

- Lady Chatterley's Lover, D.H. Lawrence (1928)

- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (1960)

- And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie (1939)

- Light Years, James Salter (1975)

- Pick-Up, Charles Willeford (1955)

- Rabbit at Rest, John Updike (1990)

- The Human Stain, Philip Roth (2000)

- Nemesis, Philip Roth (2010)

- The Chemistry of Death, Simon Beckett (2006)

- Ripley's Game, Patricia Highsmith (1974)

- This Sweet Sickness, Patricia Highsmith (1960)

- Bel Canto, Ann Patchett (2001)

- Little Children, Tom Perrotta (2005)   

- The Stranger, Albert Camus (1942)

- The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly (2005)

- The Tortilla Curtain, T.C. Boyle (1995)

- When the Killing's Done, T.C. Boyle (2011)  

- The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger (2003)  

- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler (1982)

- Ulysses, James Joyce (1922)

- Back When We Were Grownups, Anne Tyler (2001)

A

- Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler (1940)

- The Relic, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (1995)

- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)

- Molokai'i, Alan Brennert (2003)

- A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh (1934)

- Freedom, Jonathan Franzen (2010)

- The End of the Affair, Graham Greene (1951)

- The Call of the Wild, Jack London (1900)

- Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson (1994)

- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2004) 



















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