I celebrated my 23rd birthday this past week. And I’m celebrating with you by sharing a list of my 23 favorite novels of all-time. In no particular order, because it was hard enough culling just 23. For some of these, you’ll find reviews on my own blog. Others, you won’t because I need to re-read them.
1. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
2. The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan
3. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
4. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
5. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
6. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbury
7. 1984 by George Orwell
8. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
10. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
11. Hyperion by Dan Simmons
12. Firebringer by David Clement Davies
13. The Passage by Justin Cronin
14. Plainsong by Kent Haruf
15. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
16. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
17. The Idiot by Fyodor Doestoevsky
18. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
19. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
20. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
21. The Little Prince by Antoine de St.-Exupery
22. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
23. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
