100 Books You Must Read – #77 – The #1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

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100 Books You Must Read - #77 - The #1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
100 Books You Must Read – #77 – The #1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
I thought Emily Dickinson's poem was appropriate because it's spring now!

The 100 books (so far)
Picture
The Story of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter – 1902 (Eng) – 60
The little engine that could – Watty Piper – 1930 (US) – 59
Curious George – Margret and HA Rey – 1941 (United States) – 58
Good Night Moon – Margaret Wise Brown – 1947 (United States) – 57
The Cat in the Hat – Dr Seuss – 1957 (US) – 73
Green Eggs and Ham – Dr Seuss – 1960 (US) – 74
One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish – Dr. Seuss – 1960 (US) – 75

Children
The Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum – 1900 (US) – 37
A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett – 1904 (Eng) – 12
Anne Of Green Gables – Lucy Maud Montgomery – 1908 (Can) – 4
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett – 1911 (Eng) – 70
Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder – 1935 (United States) – 42
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – 1943 (Fra) – 67
Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren – 1945 (Sweden) – 28
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl – 1964 (Wales) – 29
The Ordinary Princess – MM Kaye – 1980 (Eng) – 13

Yes
13 small blue envelopes – Maureen Johnson – 2005 (US) – 1
The Invention of Hugo Cabret – Brian Selznick – 2007 (US) – 51
The Unsavory Story of Frankie Landau-Banks – E. Lockhart – 2008 (US) – 26
Paper Towns – John Green – 2008 (United States) – 21
The Fault in Our Stars – John Green – 2012 (United States) – 66

Classic
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen – 1811 (Eng) – 15
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen – 1813 (Fr) – 16
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen – 1814 (Fr) – 17
Emma – Jane Austen – 1816 (Fr) – 18
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen – 1818 (Eng) – 19
Persuasion – Jane Austen – 1818 (Fr) – 20
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë – 1847 (Fr) – 31
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë – 1847 (Fr) – 61
Towers of Barchester – Anthony Trollope – 1857 (Eng) – 71
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens – 1859 (Eng) – 6
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins – 1860 (Fr) – 47
The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins – 1868 (Fr) – 48
Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne – 1873 (Fra) – 8
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain – 1885 (US) – 22

Contemporary Classic
The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck – 1931 (United States) – 38
The Source – Ayn Rand – 1943 (United States) – 76
Animal Farm – George Orwell – 1945 (Fr) – 25
To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee – 1960 (United States) – 30

Adventure
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson – 1883 (Fr) – 43

Mystery
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle – 1891 (Eng) – 35
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett – 1929 (US) – 41
Fer-de-lance – Rex Stout – 1934 (US) – 24
And then there were none – Agatha Christie – 1939 (Eng) – 2
The Traveler's Return – Patricia Wentworth – 1945 (Eng) – 45
The Daughter of Time – Joséphine Tey – 1951 (Fr) – 62
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith – 1998 (Sco) – 77
The sweetness at the bottom of the pie – Alan Bradley – 2009 (Can) – 5

Romance
The Blue Castle – Lucy Maud Montgomery – 1926 (Can) – 44
The convenient marriage – Georgette Heyer – 1934 (Fr) – 10
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell – 1936 (United States) – 36
Rebecca – Daphné DuMaurier – 1938 (Fr) – 32
The toll – Georgette Heyer – 1954 (Fr) – 63
The ivy – Mary Stewart – 1961 (Eng) – 34

Science fiction
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams – 1979 (English) – 9
The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde – 2001 (Fr) – 33

Fantasy
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll – 1865 (Fr) – 49
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkein – 1937 (Fr) – 39
The Princess Bride – William Goldman – 1973 (United States) – 23

Comedy
Much obliged, Jeeves – PG Wodehouse – 1971 (Eng) – 27

Contemporary fiction
Cordelia Underwood – Van Reid – 1998 (United States) – 40
Ella Minnow Pea – Mark Dunn – 2001 (United States) – 11
Lydia Cassatt reading The Morning Paper – Harriet Chessman – 2001 (US) – 46
Sarah's Key – Tatiana de Rosnay – 2007 (Fra) – 7
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society – Shaffer/Barrows – 2008 (United States) – 3
The Frankie Pratt Album – Caroline Preston – 2011 (US) – 72

Autobiography
The Story of My Life – Helen Keller – 1903 (USA) – 56
The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank – 1947 (Holland) – 55
The Little Princes – Conor Grennan – 2011 (US) – 14

Poetry
Evangeline – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – 1847 (United States) – 52
The Song of Hiawatha – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – 1855 (United States) – 53
The Prophet – Khalil Gibran – 1923 (US) – 64
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats – TS Eliot – 1939 (US) – 54

Pieces
Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare – 1597 (Fr) – 68

Non-fiction
Aesop's Fables – Aesop – c. 300 BCE (Greece) – 50
Joy of cooking – Irma Rombauer – 1931 (United States) – 69
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking – 1988 (Eng) – 65

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