Ready or not...

I've got my list and I'm sticking to it!

How did I come up with this particular list of Top 100 Books, you ask? Well, I began with published lists of classic and contemporary books, genre and foreign novels. Then I cut out any titles I've already read, added several books by notable female authors that don't seem to make the other lists (hmmm...) and, of course, got some great advice both on and off the blog.

In an attempt to tear myself gently away for the world of Children's Literature, I selected novels that are marketed to both YA and Adult readers for the beginning of the list. (Is that cheating?)

I'll remove titles from the sidebar as we go, counting down through all 100 books. Yikes!

So take a minute and note the novels you want to read along with me. I've already requested my copy of The Book Thief; we'll be getting started any day now...

The plan...

For two years now, I've been immersed in the KidLit world--places like Pooh Corner and Middle Earth and Terabithia. Children's literature is the stuff I love to read, and it's what I spend all my free time writing.

But the time has come for me to round things out a bit. I haven't read much adult fiction since my undergrad days, and I want to see what I've been missing. The classics. The new stories so powerful they can't be missed. I'm thinking Steinbeck, Nabokov, O'Connor, Rushdie.

So I poked around a few websites and came up with a pretty solid list of the Top 100 Adult Novels. But I want some input! If you have an opinion, now's the time to chime in. And if you're game, read a few along with me!