My favourite books

The New York Times just listed its top 100 books for 2007 and it got me to thinking about how many of them I have or haven't read, and also what my favourite books are.

I am starting a list, please add your ideas because I am sure I haven't remembered all my favourites and I am always looking for new books to read.

1. The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit JRR Tolkein (ofcourse)
2. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen (still read it every now and then)
3. Possession AS Byatt
4. Midnights Children Salman Rushdie
5. The Moors Last Sigh Salman Rushdie
6. The Power and the Glory Graham Greene
7. The Quiet American Graham Greene
8. Sidarttha Herman Hesse
9. I Claudius Robert Graves
10. Life and Times of Michael K JM Coetzee
11. The Man who ate everything Jeffrey Steingarten (because food will never be the same again)
12. My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin
13. The Earthsea Trilogy Ursula Le Guin (read and loved many many times)
14. The Cornish Trilogy Robertson Davies
15. The Deptford Trilogy Robertson Davies (also much reread)
16. 100 Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marques
17. The Famished Road Ben Okri
18. Alias Grace Margaret Atwood (also Cat's Eye & Oryx and Crake)
19. A Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein
20. Catch 22 Joseph Heller
21. Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut
22. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
23. One Flew over a Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
24. 1984 George Orwell
25. Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
26. Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernieres
27. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
28. A Picture of Dorain Gray Oscar Wilde
29. Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
30. Anna Karanina Tostoy
31. The Dark is Rising Susan Cooper
32. Birdsong Sebastain Faulks
33. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
34. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
35. Perfume Patrick Suskind
36. Miss Garnet's Angel Sally Vickers
37. Illusions Richard Bach
38. Goodnight Mister Tom Michelle Magorian
39. Lord of the Flies William Golding
40. Die Swerfjare vanPoppie Nongana

Books that might make it and are excellent:

1. The Life of Pi Yann Martel
2. The Book Thief Markus Zusak

Great holiday reads and authors:

1. Anything by Minette Walters
2. Ian Rankin's Insptector Rebus series

Favourite childrens reading:

1. Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit (ofcourse) JRR Tolkein
2. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (whole series ofcourse) CS Lewis
3. Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling
4. Danny the Champion of the World (and anything else by) Roald Dahl
5. My Family and other animals (and anything else by) Gerald Durrel
6. White Fang Jack London
7. Call of the Wild Jack London
8. Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
9. The Faraway Tree Enid Blyton
10. Puck of Pooks Hill Rudyard Kipling
11. Rikki-tikki-tavi Rudyard Kipling