Another Countdown Show!

So the countdown of 100 Greatest rolls on!

This one might be a little bit harder for me........100 Favorite Books!

Now, I'm not talking about the best......the critics picks.....the bestsellers......these are my favorites! Books that I've loved at some point in my life.....so there may be a few children's books listed.....a few that don't make any sense.......and a few that are a given.

So here we go with:

Becky's 100 All-Time Favorite Books

100 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
99 Robert the Rose-Smelling Horse
98 Frog and Toad are Friends
97 Where or When
96 Native Son
95 Oh, the Places You'll Go
94 The Dirt
93 Little Children
92 Starring Sally J. Freeman as Herself
91 The Nanny Diaries
90 On the Run
89 Where the Heart Is
88 Not Me
87 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
86 1984
85 The Myth of You and Me
84 Family History
83 The Burning Bed
82 The Book of Ruth
81 Ramona and Her Father
80 The Weight of Water
79 Wilderness
78 The DaVinci Code
77 Flowers for Algernon
76 Bitter is the New Black
75 The Inhabited World
74 The Hundred Secret Senses
73 The Jungle
72 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
71 Confederacy of Silence
70 Where the Sidewalk Ends
69 The Beach
68 Ramona and Her Mother
67 Evening Class
66 Self-Made Man
65 Saving Fish from Drowning
64 Pryor Convictions
63 Dear Mr. Henshaw
62 Long Way Back
61 The Notebook
60 Tara Road
59 A Change in Altitude
58 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
57 Ramona Quimby Age 8
56 Black and White
55 The Good Earth
54 The Lady and the Unicorn
53 The Love You Make: A Biography of The Beatles
52 The Lilac Bus
51 Nickel and Dimed
50 Angry Housewives Eating Bon-Bons
49 Possum Living
48 Ethan Fromme
47 No Country for Old Men
46 Before You Know Kindness
45 Falling Angels
44 Striped Ice Cream
43 Parenting Across the Autism Spectrum
42 The Girl with the Pearl Earring
41 Into the Wild
40 Sea Glass
39 Rebecca
38 A Million Little Pieces
37 Another Country
36 She's Come Undone
35 The Last Time They Met
34 The Year of Magical Thinking
33 Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
32 The Age of Innocence
31 A Thousand Splendid Suns
30 The Pillars of the Earth
29 If Beale Street Could Talk
28 The Reader
27 And the Band Played On
26 A Painted House
25 The Red Tent
24 The Kite Runner
23 Wicked
22 The Road
21 Just Kids
20 White Oleander
19 Lunar Park
18 The Hours
17 The Hour I First Believed
16 Fortune's Rocks
15 Fall of Giants
14 Midwives
13 The Poisonwood Bible
12 Fight Club
11 I Know This Much Is True
10 Charlotte's Web
9 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
8 When the Legends Die
7 Middlesex
6 Slaughterhouse Five
5 Catcher in the Rye
4 World Without End
3 The Joy Luck Club
2 The Chosen
1 Like Water for Chocolate

~I love my favorite pick so much that I generally read it every year....usually around Christmastime.....as a stress reliever. Sometimes there's nothing more comforting than a book you can almost recite line by line......~

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