Top 100 Books of all time: according to us!

**babynurse** · 01-31-2002, 03:38 PM

What is your favorite book of all time?
Here are a few of mine:

1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery
4. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
5. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
6. Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
7. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
8. Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
9. All of Nicholas Sparks books: The Notebook, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Rescue
10. White Oleander by Janet Fitch
11. Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding
Those are a few I can think of right now. Funny how almost every single one of these titles has been made into a movie!
Theresa

**pat123123** · 02-18-2002, 10:50 AM

My to listed book is The Bible.

Other favorites...not in any particular order...I didn't attempt to go through my memory much for kid's books....though I could I suppose, I did list a few off the top of my head....these are some of my favorites (just glancing around me at my bookshelves....) I know I've missed a bunch, but ah well!

1. Robinson Crusoe
2. Swiss Family Robinson
3. Little House on the Praire set
4. Heidi, Heidi Grows up, Heidi's Children
5. Encylopedia of Country Living
6. Living More with Less
7. Tightwad Gazette books by Amy D.
8. Bambi, Bambi's Children
9. Rilla of the LIghthouse
10. Freckle's
11. Singing Wheels (an old reader I have always loved)
12. The American Girls HandyBook, The American Boys Handibook
13. Reader's Digest Back to Basics
14. Robin Hood
15. The Farm Vegetarian Cookbook
16. Putting Food By
17. Stocking Up
18. Don Aslett's Clutter books (the first three, didn't care much for the fourth one, never read the office one)
19. Fair Stood the Wind for France
20. Mrs. Mike
21. Recipes for Art and Craft Materials
22. A mother's book of traditional Household Skills
23. Amish Cooking by Gramercy Books
24. Complete Guide to Home Canning Preserving and Freezing, USDA materials reprinted by Dover
25. Laurel Kitchen's Bread Book
26. My Audobon and Peterson's Field Guides
27. Southern Living annuals and Christmas annuals
28. Foxfire books (wish I had them all, lol, at least the library does now)
29. The Natural Formula book for home and yard
30. The New York Times Heritage Cookbook (huge, great book)
31. Rodale's Home Food Systems
32. The Wholesome Home Book
33. Rodales Illustrated Encylopedia of Herbs
34. Merck's Home Medical book...can't remember the exact title
35. New York Public Library Desk Reference
36. Current World Almanac (ok, relatively current year)
37. Farm Journal's Complete Home Baking BOok
38. Good Housekeeping's Illustrated cookbook
39. Christian Mother Goose Book
40. Thomas the Tank Complete Collection
41. Little Red Hen
42. The Biggest Bear (children's book from way back)
43. The American Frugal Housewife
44. More with Less Cookbook
45. CHildcraft Encylopedia Set
46. In Grandma's Attic series
47. Two from Galilee by Marjorie Holmes
48. Boy Scout Handbook (useful, lol)

**blueknitter** · 03-06-2002, 08:02 PM

Here are some of mine:

1. Dune by Frank Herbert
2. The White Plague also by Frank Herbert
3. Pride and Prejudice
4. Sense and Sensibility
5. Persuasion
6. Emma
7. Knitting Around by Elizabeth Zimmerman
8. Tightwad Gazette by Amy D
9. The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
10. All of the original Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
11. Anything by Agatha Christie
12. The Thieves' World Anthologies
13. Anything by Anne McCaffrey
14. Anything by Jayne Ann Krentz, under any of her numerous pseudonyms
15. Middlemarch by George Elliott
16. The Mitford books by Jan Karon
17. How to hide money from your husband, and other time honored ways to start a nest egg by Heidi Evans
18. The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
19. And Ladies of the Club... --can't remember the author
20. Anything by Jean Auel

**Lori Biever-Launder** · 03-31-2002, 02:55 AM

Oh boy, the librarian in me comes out!

The Bible
Laura Ingalls Wilder--the entire series
Grapes of Wrath
Anne McAffrey dragon series
Harry Potter series
The Complete Tightwad Gazette
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books
Square Meals by Jane and Michael Stern
The Joy of Cooking
anything by Mercedes Lackey
Jeanette Oke books
More with Less Cookbook--oops, I see someone else has that down already!

Geeze, I could go on and on!

**Shell** · 04-11-2002, 10:07 PM

I loved reading your lists. I really enjoy reading. My two fav's are:

Crime and Punishment and Grapes of Wrath

**CAGmomof2** · 04-26-2002, 04:11 PM

My Favorite is the Bible but it consiste of many books to Form the Bible !!
Gone with the Wind!!
Miserly Moms!!
Shop,Save, and Share
How To Save Everyday
Saving on a Shoestring
Anything by the Christian Author Emilie Barnes
A Survivors Guide to Homeschooling
Dr.Seuss
Scarllet
MotherGoose
I love and like more children's book because that is all have time to read for now!!

**NY Mama** · 05-14-2002, 09:23 PM

Ooh! I have lots that I love:

Gone With The Wind-my all time fav

The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher

Catcher in The Rye by JD Salinger

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

Winter Solstice by Rosamund Pilcher

Anything by Mave Binchey, but esp. Circle of Friends

The Thornbirds

North and South, Love and War and Heaven and Hell by John Jakes

The Dark Elf Triolgy by RA Salvatore

Colony by Anne Rivers Siddons

The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare- I know it's actually a play, but it was the subject of my senior thesis, and I just love it!

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Lord of the Flies by Golding

Why Priests Leave--I don't recall the author

Valley of the Dolls-I know it's trashy, but it was a great beach book! lol

Of Mice and Men- Hemingway

Congo-Michael Crichton

Jurassic Park-Michael Crichton

Timeline-Michael Crichton

Rising Sun-Michael Crichton

The Handmaid's Tale-by Margaret Atwood

Skipping Christmas-John Grisham

A Time to Kill-John Grisham, if you haven't read this one, put down whatever you're currently reading and go get it from the library, I promise you won't be sorry!

The Client-John Grisham

Nighttime Parenting by Willian Sears MD

The Discipline Book by William Sears MD

The Canterbury Tales-Chaucer

Wifey by Judy Blume, a little trashy but FUNNY!!

The First Wives Club-by Olivia Goldsmith,Too Funny!

Peachtree Road-Anne Rivers Siddons

Up Island-Anne Rivers Siddons

Outer Banks-Anne Rivers Siddons

Downtown-Anne Rivers Siddons

Whew!! I really am a geek! I guess that BA in English has to be good for something!

**kittykatstrong** · 12-16-2007, 02:22 AM

The Handmaid's Tale-by Margaret Atwood
Dr.Seuss
Tightwad Gazette by Amy D
Swiss Family Robinson
Anne of Green Gables

**Nada.Leona** · 12-16-2007, 09:40 AM

Definitely the following:

~ "The Complete Tightwad Gazette" by Amy Dycyczyn
~ "Beauty: A Retelling of the Tale of Beauty and the Beast" by Robin McKinley
~ "The Last Unicorn" by Peter S. Beagle
~ "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
~ "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
~ "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelly
~ "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

I guess I don't have too many all time favorites. I consider a book a favorite after I've read it about five times. And I usually read a book two or three times anyway, just to make sure I've gotten all the points in the story.

**Darlene** · 12-16-2007, 10:02 AM

I really enjoy many books I read but this series is one of my all time favs & It's driving me up the wall waiting for the next book. I never thought I'd enjoy reading Fantasy untill I read these books. What an adventure!
A Song of Fire & Ice series by George RR Martin