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In celebration of my 100th epinion, I am granting myself the liberty to share with you my top 100 list of favorite books. . I have written full fledged epinions on many of them, so if you are interested, please feel free to explore. If you are not interested, feel free to ignore me as you see fit. To answer the question posed by this topic... Who cares? The last time I checked, Oprah wasn't any more literate or enlightened than anyone else. Nothing against her, mind you. Since when is it such an epiphany that reading books changes your life? Education has always been a way to open doors (and windows!) I have said before that books have saved my life in countless ways... If something catches your eye, read it. If you are curious about a topic, read about it. It doesn't matter if the book is on Oprah's list, the school reading list, or the list of banned books... Each book has an intrinsic value that can only be discovered upon opening it up and filling your mind. Books are the building blocks of an education. And an education is the single most valuable investment you can make in your future! Are the books on Oprah's list better than other books? Some are, and some are complete bunk. Will we agree on which are which? Not in a million years... So if you find that you like the kind of books that I like, welcome to Robinmichele's Reading Club. It's a wonderful place to be. This is not a comprehensive list of the books I like. I’m sure that I will forget quite a few noteworthy selections. But hey, it’s a start! 100 Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster 99 Passages by Connie Willis 98 Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel 97 Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger 96 Angels in America by Tony Kushner 95 Complete Stories by Flannery O’Conner 94 Our Town by Thornton Wilder 93 Native Son by Richard Wright 92 Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 91 Beloved by Toni Morrison 90 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 89 Princess Bride by William Golding 88 Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 87 When Rabbit Howls by Truddi Chase 86 Les Fleurs Du Mal by Charles Baudelaire 85 Promiscuities by Naomi Wolf 84 The Devil’s Dictionary (Dover Press) 83 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 82 Autobiography of Malcolm X 81 The Stranger by Albert Camus 80 The Prophet by Kahil Gibran 79 Ulysses by James Joyce (Most preferably read with a strong drink in hand) 78 The Awakening by Kate Chopin 77 Stellaluna by Janell Cannon 76 Hamlet by Billy the Bard, Oops I mean William Shakespeare... 75- 69 Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket 68 Everything I know, I learned on Acid by Coco Pekalis (This is a funny and just for fun book. I am in no way promoting the use of illicit drugs...) 67 Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 66 Pet Semetary by Stephen King 65 Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice 64 I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier 63 Speaking Truth to Power by Anita Hill 62 The Pigman by Robert Zindel 61 Bridge to Terebithia by Katherine Patterson 60 Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls 59 Catch 22 by Joseph Heller 58 The Blindfold by Siri Hustvedt 57 One Writers Beginnings by Eudora Welty 56 MLA Manual of Style (Just Kidding!) 56 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier 55 Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume 54 On Writing by Stephen King 53 Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt 52 Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris 51 Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane 50 Fairy Tales by Berlie Doherty 49 Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King (My very first S.K. book!) 48 Collected Short Stories by Ray Bradbury 47 Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood 46 Go Ask Alice by Anonymous 45 Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein 44 A Hero Ain’t Nothing but a Sandwich by Alice Childress 43 Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya 42 Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov 41 The Color Purple by Alice Walker 40 Anne Sexton: The Complete Poems 39 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 38 Happy to be Nappy by bell hooks 37 Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston 36 The Little Prince by Antoine Saint Exupery 35 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 34 Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood 33-29 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling 28 The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 27 The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros 26 The Dark Half by Stephen King 25 Impossible Vacation by Spaulding Gray 24 The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr 23 Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White (My father bought me a copy for Valentine’s Day when I was 8. A good memory...) 22 I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou 21 Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle 20 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 19 Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 18 The Shining by Stephen King 17Murder in the Dark by Margaret Atwood 16-9 The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis 8 Little Altars Everywhere by Rebecca Wells The Torah The Koran The Bible 4 The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht 3 Divine Secrets of the Yaya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells 2 Bee Season by Myla Goldberg Drum Roll, please... 1984 by George Orwell This classic burned itself into my brain like no other. Maybe it was the Big Brother is Watching You posters that my English teacher plastered all over the room. Maybe it was the way Winston betrayed Julia. Maybe it was the rats. This is a story about government, about fear, and about love... now what could be better than that? And that’s my take on that. Like it? Hate it? Could you care less? Yeah, I thought so.  |
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