On the newly coined “Fiction Faves Friday,” I’m sharing some of my top lists (at least that I can remember this morning.) As soon as I publish I’m sure 97 other obvious things will come to me, but alas.
I’d love to hear your faves and worsts! And care to debate any of mine?? Let’s do this. Comment below.
Top Faves of All Time
The Little Prince, Augustine St.-Exupéry
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brönte
Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargas Llosa
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
Favorite Series
The Ender Quintet and the Shadow Series, Orson Scott Card
The Kingkiller Chronicles, Patrick Rothfuss
Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling
The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
Pillars of the Earth and the Kingsbridge Series, Ken Follett
Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery
I’d Like to Re-read
The Diary of Anne Frank
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
I’m Embarrassed I’ve Never Read
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
1984, George Orwell
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Anything by Marcel Proust
Long but Definitely Worth It
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Books I Bawled at
Wuthering Heights, Anne Brönte
The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams
Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis
Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Septys
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer: A Novella, Fredrik Backman
Favorite Short Story Writers
Julio Cortázar
Jorge Luis Borges
Isabel Allende
Simon Rich
Recent Faves
Girl At War, Sara Nović
The Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman
Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity, David Whyte
Wind, Sand and Stars, Augustine St.-Exupéry
Author I Feel Perpetually Guilty for Not Liking
George Steinbeck
Worst Book in Recent History
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Worst Adaptations (Book to Movie)
The House of the Spirits (1993)
Wrinkle in Time (2018)