I’m sure you, my friends and readers, have your own list of favourites.  Mine, which includes my all-time favourites, changes from time to time; I did this one sometime late 2008.  However, many of them still remain my favourites.

Mainly for personal reason, the Bible is tops to me.  I’ve excluded it, having numerous writers. Also, I find it difficult to categorize it.

Books Shelf Life

My List:  (categorized alphabetically)

1. Albom, Mitch (Tuesdays with Morrie)
2. Alcott, Louisa May (Little Women)
3. Austen, Jane (Pride and Prejudice)
4. Bernieres, Louis de (Captain Corelli’s Mandolin)
5. Bronté, Charlotte (Jane Eyre)
6. Bronté, Emily (Wuthering Heights)
7. Courtenay, Bryce (The Power of One)
8. Dickens, Charles (The Pilgrim’s Progress)
9. Fitzgerald, F. Scott (The Great Gatsby)
10. Golden, Arthur (Memoirs of a Geisha)
11. Heller, Joseph (Catch-22)
12. Hemingway, Ernest (The Sun Also Rises)
13. Hugo, Victor (Les Misérables)
14. Kingsolver, Barbara   (The Poisonwood Bible)
15. James, Henry (The Wings of the Dove)
16. Joyce, James (Ulysses)
17. Lee, Harper  (To Kill a Mockingbird)
18. Lewis, C.S. (The Chronicles of Narnia)
19. Martel, Yann (Life of Pi)
20. Mitchell, Margaret (Gone with the Wind)
21. Montgomery, L.M. (Anne of Green Gables)
22. Rand, Ayn (Atlas Shrugged)
23. Rand, Ayn   (We, The Living)
24. Roy, Arundhati  (The God of Small Things)
25. Rowling, J.K. (Harry Potter Books 1-7)
26. Seth, Vikram (A Suitable Boy)
27. Tolkien, JRR (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit)
28. Tolstoy, Leo (Anna Karenina)
29. Twain, Mark (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
30. Twain, Mark  (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
31. Woolf, Virginia (Mrs Dalloway)

Non-fictions and biographies are not covered.  I also enjoy reading the books of Geoffrey Archer and Agatha Christie.