Century. A ton. One hundred. It doesn’t matter how you write it - it is a lot!
It’s fitting that on my hundredth blog that I am thinking about the books that have helped to shape me, broaden my understanding, stir me, excite my imagination and make me wobble with big belly laughs.
Some titles you will know and others I can’t even find a record of any more. I have a particular memory of a book Dad gave to me about a sailor buying dolls from around the world and Dad even nicknamed me Langpo after a Chinese doll in the story. The dolls had various characteristics such as rosy cheeks and corn blonde hair and wore their traditional dress. I wish I could remember the name let alone the author. Anyway, below are a hundred books that spring to mind for now. There are thousands more that could be here and others that didn’t strike that chord with me at all.
It has taken me longer than expected hunting some author’s names down and will end up being a Saturday blog. Here’s to the next blogging ton!
In no particular order:
1. Anne of Green Gables - L.M Montgomery
2. Dim and Dusty – Joan Dalgleish
3. The Urchin - unknown
4. Buchenwald Hell - unknown
5. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
6. The Bronze Horseman – Paulina Simons
7. The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo – Stein Larson
8. Kane and Abel – Jeffery Archer
9. Pippi Long Stocking – Astrid Lingrin
10. Then Again Maybe I won’t – Judy Blume
11.Cat in the Hat – Dr Seuss
12. Harry the Dirty Dog – Gene Zion
13. Breath – Tim Winton
14. Witches – Roald Dahl
15.The B.F.G – Roald Dahl
16. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
17. The Book Thief – Marcus Zusak
18. I am the Messenger – Marcus Zusak
19. Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
20. Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
21. A thousand Speldid Suns – Khalid Hosseini
22. The Kite Runner – Khalid Hosseini
23. Once – Morris Gleitzman
24. The Colour Purple – Alice Walker
25. The Davinci Code – Dan Brown
26. Z for Zachariah – Robert O’Brien
27. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
28. Penny Pollard’s Diary – Robin Klein and Ann James
29. Twilight – Stephanie Myer
30. Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austin
31. Jessica – Bryce Courney
32. ‘The Power of One – Bryce Courtney
33. April Fools – Bryce Courtney
34. Dolls of the sea - unknown
35. Possum Magic – Mem Fox
36. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
37. The Poky Little Puppy – Janette S. Lowrey
38. Grimm’s Fairytales – Brothers Grimm
39. The Rainbow Serpent – Dick Roughsey
40. Are You My Mother? – P.D Eastman
41. The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Cole
42. The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter
43. Freckle Juice – Judy Blume
44. Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret? – Judy Blume
45. James and The Giant Peach – Roald Dahl
46. Bridge to Terrabithia – Katherine Patterson
47. Charlotte’s Web – E.B White
48. A Fly Went By - Mike McClintock
49. Forever - Judy Blume
50. Meg and Mog – Jan Pienkowski
51.The Fugitive – John Grisham
52. How To Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
53. Celestine Prophecy – James Redfield
54. Titch – Pat Hutchins
55.Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
56. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
57. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S Lewis
58. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
59. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
60. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
61. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kasey
62. Guess How Much I Love You – Sam McBratney
63. Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
64. Love You Forever – Robert N Munsch
65. The Giving Tree – Shell Silverstein
66. Pollyanna – Eleanor H Porter
67. I Am the Cheese – Robert Comier
68. Tomorrow When the War Began – John Marsden
69. Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
70. Peter Pan – J.M Barrie
71. Ramona – Beverly Cleary
72. My Naughty Little Sister – Dorothy Edwards
73. Winnie the Pooh – A.A Milne
74. The Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
75. If I Had Duck Feet – Dr Seuss
76. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
77. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
78. The Outsiders – S.E Hinton
79. Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
80. Where the Heart is – Billie Lette
81. I Know this Much is True – Wally Lamb
82. The Deep End of the Ocean – Jacquelyn Mitchard’
83. The Go-Between – L.P Hartley
84. George’s Marvellous Medicine – Roald Dahl
85. The Silver Sword – Ian Serrallier
86. Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
87. The Tiger Who Came to Tea – Judith Kerr
88. Fungus the Bogeyman – Raymond Briggs
89. Treasure Island – R.L Stevenson
90. Little Women – Louisa Alcott
91. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
92. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
93. Hans Anderson’s Fairytales – Hans Christian Anderson
94. Heidi – Johanna Spyri
95. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
96. Mr Happy – Roger Hargreaves
97. Night – Elie Wiesel
98. Matilda – Roald Dahl
99. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
100. The Concise Oxford Dictionary
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