Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Suzy Silvertrove's Top 100 Literary Favorites

My own personal favorite novels, series, children's books, short stories, and plays
* Top Ten

1. Across Five Aprils - Irene Hunt
2. The Aeneid - Virgil
3. Al Capone Does My Shirts - Gennifer Choldenko
4. Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day - Judith Viorst
5. As You Like It -William Shakespeare
6. Barnyard Song - Rhonda Gowler Greene
*7. Beauty - Robin McKinley
8. The Boleyn Inheritance - Philippa Gregory
9. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
10. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
*11. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom - Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
12. The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey - Susan Wojciechowski
13. Chronicles of Narnia (series)- C.S. Lewis
14. Come A Stranger - Cynthia Voigt
15. The Cow is Mooing Anyhow - Laura Geringer
16. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
17. The Crucible - Arthur Miller
18. Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
19. Daisy Miller - Henry James
20. A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
21. Dragon Scales and Willow Leaves- Terryl Givens
22. Dragon Slippers (series)- Jessica Day George
*23. Dragonriders of Pern (series) - Anne McCaffrey
24. Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct  - Mo Willems
25. The Egypt Game - Zilpha Keatley Snyder
*26. Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
27. Eragon (series) - Christopher Paolini
*28. Falling For Rapunzel - Leah Wilcox
29. Flightless Falcon - Mickey Zucker Reichert
30. Fox in Socks - Dr Seuss
31. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
32. The Giving Tree -Shel Silverstein
33. The Guardian of the Flame - T.L.Higley
34. Guess How Much I Love You - Sam McBratney
35. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
36. Hard Times - Charles Dickens
37. Harrison Bergeron - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
*38. Harry Potter (series) - J.K. Rowling
39. The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
40. The Hunchback of Notre Dame- Victor Hugo
41. The Iliad - Homer
42. Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
43. Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
44. The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
45. King Lear - William Shakespeare 
46. The Lady of the Lake -Sir Walter Scott
47. The Last of the Mohicans- James Fenimore Cooper
48. The Last of the Renshai (series) - Mickey Zucker Reichert
49. Leonardo the Terrible Monster - Mo Willems
50. A Long Way From Chicago - Richard Peck
51. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
52. Love You Forever- Robert Munsch
53. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
54. Madeline's Rescue - Ludwig Bemelmans
55. The Martian - Andy Weir
56. Math Curse - Jon Scieszka
57. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
58. The Monster at the End of This Book - Sesame Street
59. The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux
60. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
61. North of Beautiful - Justina Chen Headley
62. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Ambrose Bierce
63. Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens
64. Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave - Aphra Behn
65. The Other Boleyn Girl - Phillipa Gregory
66. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
67. Paradise Lost - John Milton
68. The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
69. The Rocking Horse Winner - D. H. Lawrence
70. A Rose for Emily - William Faulkner
71. Running Out of Time- Margaret Peterson Haddix
72. The Sabine Women - Leonid Andreyev
*73. Satan's Diary - Leonid Andreyev
74. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
75. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
76. The Seven Who Were Hanged - Leonid Andreyev
77. Sideways Stories from Wayside School - Louis Sachar
78. The Silent Storm - Sherry Garland
79. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Marie borroff
80. Song of the Lioness (series) - Tamora Pierce
81. Stone Soup - Ann McGovern
82. Strega Nona - Tomie de Paola
83. A Tale of Two Cities -Charles Dickens
*84. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
*85. There is a Bird on Your Head - Mo Willems
86. Threshold - Sara Douglass
87. Tops and Bottoms - Janet Stevens
88. Troubling A Star - Madeleine L'Engle
89. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
90. The Upstairs Room - Johanna Reiss
91. Wayside School is Falling Down - Louis Sachar
92. Where Have All The Nephites Gone - Pat Bagley
93. Where The Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein
94. Where the Wild Things Are- Maurice Sandek
95. Wicked - Gregory McGuire
96. Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell
*97. The Woman in the Wall - Patrice Kindl
98. Wonder - R.J. Palacio
99. Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
100. You Are Special - Max Lucado