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These are the books that are currently at the top of TurboBookSnob's list. TurboBookSnob couldn't possibly declare one book her favorite; consequently, the list is in alphabetical order by author.

TITLE	AUTHOR
Little Women	Louisa May Alcott
London Fields	Martin Amis
Behind the Scenes at the Museum	Kate Atkinson
The Blind Assassin	Margaret Atwood
Cat's Eye	Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility	Jane Austen
The Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, Ghost Road)	Pat Barker
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte
Babel Tower	A.S. Byatt
Possession	A.S. Byatt
Still Life	A.S. Byatt
If on a winter's night a traveler	Italo Calvino
Ender's Game	Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead	Orson Scott Card
Oscar and Lucinda	Peter Carey
Alice in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll
Don Quixote	Cervantes
The Alchemist	Paulo Coelho
Disgrace	J.M. Coetzee
Moll Flanders	Daniel Defoe
Hard Times	Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens
Seven Gothic Tales	Isak Dineson
Geek Love	Katherine Dunn
Foucault's Pendulum	Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose	Umberto Eco
Middlemarch	George Eliot
The Gate of Angels	Penelope Fitzgerald
The Collector	John Fowles
The Magus	John Fowles
Alas, Babylon	Pat Frank
Sophie's World	Jostein Gaarder
Jude the Obscure	Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles	Thomas Hardy
Stranger in a Strange Land	Robert Heinlein
The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Bone People	Keri Hulme
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley
Brave New World Revisited	Aldous Huxley
A Prayer for Owen Meany	John Irving
The Remains of the Day	Kazuo Ishiguro
Heat and Dust	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	James Joyce
Finnegan's Wake	James Joyce
Far Pavillions	M.M. Kaye
Dharma Bums	Jack Kerouac
On the Road	Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Ken Kesey
The Poisonwood Bible	Barbara Kingsolver
The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Milan Kundera
She's Come Undone	Wally Lamb
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee
Babbitt	Sinclair Lewis
The Executioner's Song	Norman Mailer
Love in the Time of Cholera	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Life of Pi	Yann Martel
Atonement	Ian McEwan
A Fine Balance	Rohinton Mistry
A Spy in the House of Love	Anais Nin
Our Fathers	Andrew O'Hagan
Animal Farm	George Orwell
Dictionary of the Khazars	Milorad Pavic
The Shell Seekers	Rosamunde Pilcher
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance	Robert M. Pirsig
The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath
Galatea 2.2	Richard Powers
Plowing in the Dark	Richard Powers
The Prisoner's Dilemma	Richard Powers
Atlas Shrugged	Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead	Ayn Rand
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues	Tom Robbins
Shantaram	Gregory David Roberts
The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy
Midnight's Children	Salman Rushdie
The Sparrow	Mary Doria Russell
The Little Prince	Antoine du Saint-Exupery
Joy in the Morning	Betty Smith
I Capture the Castle	Dodie Smith
The First Circle	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In the Eye of the Sun	Ahdaf Soueif
The Map of Love	Ahdaf Soueif
Sophie's Choice	William Styron
Perfume	Patrick Suskind
The Hundred Secret Senses	Amy Tan
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Hunter S. Thompson
Restoration	Rose Tremain
Two Lives (includes Reading Turgenev and My House in Umbria)	William Trevor
The Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy (The Bridal Wreath, The Bride or the Mistress of Husaby, The Cross)	Sigrid Undset
Sacred Hunger	Barry Unsworth
Knowledge of Angels	Jill Paton Walsh
Fingersmith	Sarah Waters
Ethan Frome	Edith Wharton
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit	Jeanette Winterson
Look Homeward, Angel	Thomas Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities	Tom Wolfe
Orlando	Virginia Woolfe