At some point, all these books on this list grabbed my attention. Hopefully one day I will have read them all.
1) A Gathering Storm – Rachel Hope
2) The Yellow Wall-Paper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
3) The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
4) The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud – Ben Sherwood
5) IQ84 Book Three – Haruki Murakami
6) Flesh and Bones Kathy Reichs
7) The Drop – Michael Connelly
8 ) The Litigators – John Grisham
9) Praetorian – Simon Scarrow
10) The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel – Anthony Horowitz
11) The Lion Wakes – Robert Low
12) The Queen’s Pawn – Christy English
13) Shadow’s Edge – Brent Weeks
14) The Scorpio Races – Maggie Stiefvater
15) Cleopatra – Stacy Schiff
16) The Gallows Curse – Karen Maitland
17) Dear John – Nicholas Sparks
18) Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
19) The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
20) Eldest – Christopher Paolini
21) The Secret – Rhonda Byrne
22) Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
23) Brisingr – Christopher Paolini
24) Inheritance – Christopher Paolini
25) A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
26) A Dance with Dragons – George R.R. Martin
27) The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards
28) The Prodigal Mage – Karen Miller
29) Catherine the Great: Portait of a Woman – Robert K. Massie
30) The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street – Charles Nicholl
31) Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London – Nigel Jones
32) Tudor Queens of England – David Loades
33) The King’s Speech – Mark Logue
34) Boy – Roald Dahl
35) Old Thomas – Dean Koontz
36) Before I Go to Sleep – S.J. Watson
37) Outlander – Diana Gabaldon
38) Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
39) The Vampire Lestat – Anne Rice
40) Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings – Alison Weir
41) One Day – David Nicholls
42) 666 Charing Cross Road – Paul Magrs
43) The Night Watch – Sarah Waters
44) The Silent Land – Graham Joyce
45) Gods Without Men – Haru Kunzru
46) Mistress of My Fate; The Confessions of Henrietta Lightfoot – Hallie Rubenhold
47) Royal Exile – Fiona McIntosh
48) The Queen’s Governess – Karen Harper
49) The Shakespeare Thefts: Stealing the World’s Most Famous Book – Eric Rasmussen
50) The Exorcist – William Peter Blatty
51) The Last Hundred Days – Patrick McGuinness
52) Genghis: Birth of an Empire – Conn Iggulden
53) The Way of Shadows – Brent Weeks
54) Half Blood Blues – Esi Edugyan
55) The Illuminator- Brenda Rickman Vantrease
56) The Traitor Queen – Trudi Canavan
57) Emman and the Vampire – Wayne Joesphson
58) Complete Stories and Poems – Edgar Allan Poe
59) Slaughterhouse-Five – Hurt Vonnegut
60) Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass – Lewis Carroll
61) The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
62) The Vilon of Auschwitz: A Novel – Maria Angels Anglada
63) The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty – Sebastian Barry
64) Florence and Giles – John Harding
65) The Scarlet Pimpernel – Emmuska Orczy
66) The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
67) Night – Elie Wiesel
68) The Stranger – Albert Camus
69) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
70) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
71) The Great Gatsby – F.Scott Fitzgerald
72) Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books – Paul Collins
73) The Crossroads – Niccolo Ammaniti
74) The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
75) The Plague – Albert Camus
76) A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
77) The Solitude of Prime Numbers – Paolo Giordano
78) Plague of the Dead – Z.A.Recht
79) The Weekend – Bernhard Schlink
80) The Origin of Species – Charles Darwin
81) The Voyage of the Beagle – Charles Darwin
82) Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
83) Cancer Ward – Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
84) Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
85) Desperation – Stephen King
86) Hearts in Atlantis – Stephen King
87) The Girl Who loved Tom Gordon – Stephen King
88) The Tailsman – Stephen King
89) Bag of Bones – Stephen King
90) Song of Susannah – Stepehen King
91) The Dark Tower – Stephen King
92) Misery – Stephen King
93) From Potter’s Field – Patricia Cornwell
94) The Body Farm – Patricia Cornwell
95) The Secret Friend – Patricia Cornwell
96) Never Say Die – Tess Gerritsen
97) Under the Knife – Tess Gerritsen
98) Gravity – Tess Gerritsen
99) The Greatest Knight – Elizabeth Chadwick
100) Hunting and Gathering – Anna Gavalda
101) The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear – Walter Moers
102) Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe – Fannie Flagg
103) Bonsai – Alejandro Zambra
104) Blackmoor – Edward Hogan
105) Faustine – Emma Tennant
106) Woman with Birthmark – Hakan Nesser
107) Arctic Chill – Arnaldur Indrioason
108) The London Train – Tessa Hadley
109) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
110) Hotel du Lac – Anita Brookner
111) The Consorts of Death – Gunnar Staalesen
112) The City & the City – China Mieville
113) Carte Blanche – Carlo Lucarelli
114) The Starnge Crime of John Boulnois – G.K. Chesterton
115) Bluebeard – Angela Fallada
116) Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism – Hans Fallada
117) Flypaper – Robert Musil
118) Secret Lives of Baba Segis Wives – Lola Shoneyin
119) A Dark Anatomy – Robin Blake
120) Great House – Nicole Krauss
121) The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them – Elif Batuman
122) Irretrievable – Theodor Fontane
123) The Quiet American – Graham Greene
124) Night Waking – Sarah Moss
125) Tea Lords – S.Hella Haasse
126) The Assault – Harry Mulisch
127) Foxes in the Night: And Other Stories – Cees Nooteboom
128) The Gormenghast Trilogy – Mervyn Peake
129) Gillespie and I – Jane Harris
130) The Possessions of Doctor Forrest – Richard T. Kelly
131) Lucinella – Lore Segal
132) Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
133) The Taint of Midas – Anne Zouroudi
134) Dead Sharp – Len Wanner
135) Noir: A Novel – Robert Coover
136) The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
137) Crime – Ferdinand von Schirach
138) The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
139) Citadel – Kate Mosse
140) The Wind Through the Keyhole – Stephen King
141) Red Mist – Patricia Cornwell
142) 11/22/63 – Stephen King
143) The Impossible Dead – Ian Rankin
144) Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman
145) Edge – Jeffery Deaver
146) Dead Man’s Grip – Peter James
147) Pigeon English – Stephen Kelman
148) Prince of Thorns – Mark Lawrence
149) The Sisters Brothers – Patrick deWitt
150) Heresy – S.J.Parris
151) Prophecy – S.J.Parris
152) The Half-Made World – Felix Gilman
153) All Good Children – Catherine Austen
154) The Library of Shadows – Mikkel Birkegaard
155) World War Z – Max Brooks
156) Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
157) Alone in Berlin – Hans Fallada
158) The Memory of Love – Aminatta Forna
159) The Tiger’s Wife – Tea Obreht
160) Afterwards – Rosamund Lupton
161) His Last Duchess – Gabrielle Kimm
162) Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solider – Ishmael Beah
163) The Road Home – Rose Tremain
164) Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China – Jung Chang
165) Girl Missing – Tess Gerritsen
166) Started Early,Took My Dog – Kate Atkinson
167) The Hypnotist: A Novel – Lars Kepler
168) The Rogue – Trudi Canavan
169) Never Look Away – Linwood Barclay
170) Now You See Me – S.J.Bolton
171) The Silent Girl – Tess Gerritsen
172) Torment – Lauren Kate
173) Fallen – Lauren Kate
174) The Unremarkable Heart – Karin Slaughter
175) Chamber Music – James Joyce
176) The Last Empress – Anchee Min
177) City of Thieves – David Benioff
178) Nefertiti – Michelle Moran
179) Double Cross – Malorie Blackman
180) All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
181) Just After Sunset – Stephen King
182) If on a Winter’s Night A Traveller – Italo Calvino
183) This Thing of Darkness – Harry Thompson
184) The Observations – Jane Harris
185) Half-truths and White Lies – Jane Davis
186) No 1. Chesterfield Square – Nick Jones
187) A Quiet Belief in Angels – R.J. Ellory
188) Perfume: The Story of a Murderer – Patrick Suskind
189) Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
190) A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
191) The Religion: A Novel – Tim Willockc
192) Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match – Wendy Moore
193) The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters
194) The Rose of Sebastopol – Katharine McMahon
195) Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time – Greg Mortenson
196) Push – Sapphire
197) The Book of Night Women – Marlon James
198) The Secret History – Donna Tartt
199) Traitors of the Tower – Alison Weir
200) The Holy Thief – William Ryan
201) Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese
202) A Gate at the Stairs – Lorrie Moore
203) the Post-Office Girl – Stefan Zweig
204) The Monk – Matthew Lewis
205) Her Fearful Symmetry – Audrey Niffenegger
206) Shiver – Maggie Stiefvater
207) Linger – Maggie Stiefvater
208) The Lollipop Shoes – Joanne Harris
209) The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite – Beatrice Colin
210) The Crimson Rooms – Katherine McMahon
211) The Giver – Lois Lowry
212) The People’s Queen – Vanora Bennett
213) The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun – J.R.R.Tolkien
214) Under a Blood Red Sky – Kate Furnivall
215) The Little House – Philippa Gregory
216) The Alchemist’s Daughter – Katherine McMahon
217) The Leopard – Jo Nesbo
218) The Devil’s Star – Jo Nesbo
219) Nemesis – Jo Nesbo
220) The Redbreast – Jo Nesbo
221) A Kingdom Besieged – Raymond E.Feist
222) Broken – Karin Slaughter
223) Beyond Reach – Karin Slaughter
224) Indelible – Karin Slaughter
225) Triptych – Karin Slaughter
226) Freedom – Jonathan Franzen
227) Trespass – Rose Tremain
228) The Redeemer – Jo Nesbo
229) Dark Blood – Stuart MacBride
230) A Dangerous Fortune – Ken Follett
231) A Place Called Freedom – Ken Follett
232) Lie Down with Lions – Ken Follett
233) Code to Zero – Ken Fellott
234) Hornet Flight – Ken Follett
235) The Midnight Palace – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
236) The Uncommon Reader – Alan Bennett
237) Pet Sematary – Stephen King
238) Wolves of the Calla – Stephen King
239) Wizard and Glass – Stephen King
240) Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
241) Villette – Charlotte Bronte
242) Summer – Edith Wharton
243) Lady Audley’s Secret – Mary Elizabeth Braddon
244) Possession: A Romance – A.S.Byatt
245) Drood – Dan Simmons
246) The Children’s Book – A.S.Byatt
247) A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
248) The Portait of a Lady – Henry James
249) Barchester Towers – Anthony Trollope
250) The Sign of Four – Arthur Coan Doyle
251) Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
252) Wives adn Daughters – Elizabeth Gaskell
253) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Bronte
254) The Way We Live Now – Anthony Trollope
255) Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
256) Heart of Darkness – Joesph Conrad
257) Middlemarch – George Eliot
258) Our Mutal Friend – Charles Dickens
259) New Grub Street – George R. Gissing
260) Vanity Fari – William Makepeace Thackeray
261) Shadows on the Rock – Willa Cather
262) Years of Wonders – Geraldine Brooks
263) Forever Amber – Kathleen Winsor
264) The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
265) The Drawing of the Dark – Tim Powers
266) The Last Light of the Sun – Guy Gavriel Kay
267) A Passage of India – E.M.Forster
268) American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
269) It – Stephen King
270) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adam
271) Moby-Dick – Herman Melvillle
272) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
273) Agnes Grey – Anne Bronte
274) No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy
275) Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
276) Cujo – Stephen King
277) Salem’s Lot – Stephen King
278) Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
279) The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
280) the Odyssey – Homer
281) Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
282) The Aviary Gate: A Novel – Kate Hickman
283) The Lacuna – Barbara Kingsolver
284) The Road – Cormac McCarthy
285) The Confession – John Grisham
286) The Daykeeper’s Grimoire – Christy Raedeke
287) The Postcard Killers – James Patterson
288) Stranger Here Below – Joyce Hinnefeld
289) The World Above the Sky – Kent Stetson
