Sunday Salon: The Big 200 & My Fave 100

This is officially my 200th post on this blog. I started this blog late last summer as a way to keep track of my reading and cooking experiences. I’ve joined several online cooking groups as part of this blog and enjoy the challenge of trying my hand at new recipes. Some have been more successful than others. I also love discovering new books by reading other book blogs.

I especially love it when I get to combine my loves for cooking and reading by reading a book & cooking a dish inspired by it.  I have to make an effort to do this more often.

As a nod to all things “hundred”, here’s my 100 all-time favorite reads (in alpha order by title):

1. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
2. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
3. All Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald
4. All the Names by Jose Saramago
5. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
6. Animal Farm by George Orwell
7. Bird by Bird  by Anne Lamott
8. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
9. Blindness by Jose Saramago
10. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
11. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
12. Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond
13. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
14. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
15. Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber
16. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
17. Dance, Dance, Danceby Haruki Murakami
18. Day by Elie Wiesel
19. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
20. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
21. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
22. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
23. Emma by Jane Austen
24. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
25. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
26. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
27. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
28. Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie McDonald
29. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
30. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
31. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
32. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
33. Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
34. The Giver by Lois Lowry
35. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
36. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
37. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
38. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
40. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
41. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
42. The Hero’s Walk by Anita Rau Badami
43. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
44. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
45. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
46. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
47. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
48. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
49. The Life Before Her Eyes by Laura Kasischke
50. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
51. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
52. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
53. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
54. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
55. Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra
56. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
57. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
58. Middlemarch by George Eliot
59. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
60. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
61. The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
62. My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
63. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
64. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
65. Night by Elie Weisel
66. 1984 by George Orwell
67. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
68. Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell
69. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
70. The Omnivore’s Dilemna by Michael Pollan
71. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
72. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
73. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
74. Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
75. The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka
76. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
77. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
78. Snake Charmer by Sanjay Nigam
79. The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Towards Perfection by Michael Ruhlman
80. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
81. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
82. The Stand by Stephen King
83. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
84. Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
85. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
86. Tess of the D’ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
87. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
88. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
89. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
90. To Kill a Mockingbrid by Harper Lee
91. Transplanted Man by Sanjay Nigam
92. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
93. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
94. Watership Down by Richard Adams
95. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
96. Wicked by Gregory Maguire
97. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
98. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
99. Wonder When You’ll Miss Me by Amanda Davis
100. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle

Are any of these amongst your favorite reads?