NPR 100 Top 100 Beach Reads
Submitted by ncaylin1 on Tue, 09/08/2009 - 06:51
- 1. The Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling
- 2. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- 3. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
- 4. Bridget Jones's Diary, by Helen Fielding
- 5. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- 6. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells
- 7. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
- 9. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg
- 10. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
- 11. The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
- 12. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
- 13. The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan
- 14. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- 15. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
- 16. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
- 17. Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett
- 18. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- 19. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
- 20. Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
- 21. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
- 22. The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
- 23. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith
- 24. The World According to Garp, by John Irving
- 25. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
- 26. The Prince of Tides, by Pat Conroy
- 27. Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel
- 28. The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
- 29. The Accidental Tourist, by Anne Tyler
- 30. Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
- 31. A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
- 32. East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
- 33. The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant
- 34. Beach Music, by Pat Conroy
- 35. One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 36. Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier
- 37. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
- 38. Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
- 39. The Thorn Birds, by Colleen McCullough
- 40. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon
- 41. Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett
- 42. Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
- 43. Interview with the Vampire, by Anne Rice
- 44. Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier
- 45. Empire Falls, by Richard Russo
- 46. Under the Tuscan Sun, by Frances Mayes
- 47. The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
- 48. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, by Tom Robbins
- 49. I Know This Much Is True, by Wally Lamb
- 50. Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie
- 51. Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
- 52. The Stand, by Stephen King
- 53. She's Come Undone, by Wally Lamb
- 54. Dune, by Frank Herbert
- 55. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- 56. Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 57. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
- 58. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
- 59. The Godfather, by Mario Puzo
- 60. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
- 61. Animal Dreams, by Barbara Kingsolver
- 62. Jaws, by Peter Benchley
- 63. Good in Bed, by Jennifer Weiner
- 64. Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner
- 65. Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson
- 66. The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
- 67. The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
- 68. Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut
- 69. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
- 70. The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
- 71. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
- 72. The Hunt for Red October, by Tom Clancy
- 73. Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns
- 74. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
- 74. Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe [tie:]
- 76. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
- 77. Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon
- 78. The Shell Seekers, by Rosamunde Pilcher
- 79. Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver
- 80. Eye of the Needle, by Ken Follett
- 81. Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck
- 81. The Pilot's Wife, by Anita Shreve [tie:]
- 83. All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
- 84. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
- 85. The Little Prince, by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- 86. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
- 87. One for the Money, by Janet Evanovich
- 88. Shogun, by James Clavell
- 89. Dracula, by Bram Stoker
- 90. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
- 91. Presumed Innocent, by Scott Turow
- 92. Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger
- 93. The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
- 94. Dead Until Dark, by Charlaine Harris
- 95. Summer Sisters, by Judy Blume
- 96. The Shining, by Stephen King
- 97. How Stella Got Her Groove Back, by Terry McMillan
- 98. Lamb, by Christopher Moore
- 99. Sick Puppy, by Carl Hiaasen
- 100. Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
