BCM’s Top 25


I started with a Top 10 list, then I expanded it to Top 15. Now it’s grown to a Top 25 All-Time Favorites. Some of my earlier picks didn’t make it to the Top 25, but I had to make room for all the great books I’ve read in recent years! Here they are in alphabetical order. All links go to my reviews except one (The Kite Runner). I read The Kite Runner before I started my blog, but I plan to re-read it to give it a proper review. Also, I apologize for the short review of All the Light We Cannot See. It’s such a great book, I need to re-read that too and beef up my review!

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Rabbit, Run by John Updike

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

There There by Tommy Orange

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Youngblood Hawke by Herman Wouk

Do you have a list of your best all-time reads? How many are on it? Leave a link in the comments and I’ll pop over and say hello!

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