Creative Writing: A Listicle

At the risk of changing my mind the next day (never mind the next year), here is the list of: 50 of My Favourite Books (so far)! Please note that although some of these are listed not because I enjoyed reading them at the time, but because after meditating on them, I found that they had more to offer than I previously thought (regarding changing my worldview, introducing me to a new concept/theme/thought, etc), and I constantly find myself referencing them in everyday conversation.  Also, most of these are children's books, which makes sense to me as, proportionally, my life has been 54% child, 27% teen, 18% adult.

Also, I thought it would be interesting to mention that after I grouped this list by century/decade, my Top Five Time periods were: 2000s, 1800s, 1950s, 1970s, 1960s.  Clearly, there's a reason that my favourite history to study is in the 1950s-1970s/80s in America, the 1800s in Britain, and I lived through the 2000s.

1) Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (1997-2007)
2) Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954-1955)
3) Watership Down by Richard Adams (1972)
4) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847)
5) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
6) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
7) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1873-1877)
8) Confessions by St. Augustine (397-400)
9) The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (1937)
10) Centuries of Meditations by Thomas Traherne (17th century; published 1908)

11) The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (1942)
12) A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (1999-2006)
13) On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
14) How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell (2003-2015)
15) The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis (1955)
16) Matilda by Roald Dahl (1988)
17) The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (1950)
18) Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (1600)
19) Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1603)
20) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2003)

21) Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (1938)
22) Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (1871)
23) Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
24) 1984 by George Orwell (1949)
25) 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher (2007)
26) From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg (1967)
27) Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (2003)
28) A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (1962)
29) Eragon by Christopher Paolini (2002)
30) On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche (1887)

31) Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (1974)
32) A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1963; published 1980)
33) A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1971)
34) Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix (2003-2010)
35) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
36) Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl (1972)
37) Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black (2003-2009)
38) The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (1977)
39) Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)
40) Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851)

41) Landry News by Andrew Clements (1999)
42) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1847)
43) Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (1959)
44) The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins (2008-2010)
45) My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett (1948)
46) The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine (2001)
47) The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke (2002)
48) A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1905)
49) The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)
50) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003)