As of this post, I have now posted 103 things on this site.  Who knew I had so much to say?  To celebrate, here’s a completely random list of great books (and some comics).

I pulled these titles right off my shelves, looking for books I’ve almost worn out with re-reading.  This isn’t a list of the best books ever written (well, some of them are).  It’s just a list of the books that have most influenced me and/or made me happy.  That’s why there are so many children’s books on this list – they’ve influenced me the longest and probably the most.

So, here are 103 of my favorite things, right up there with rainbows on roses and whiskers on kittens.  Have fun with them!

1. The Horse and His Boy, by C.S. Lewis
2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling
3. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
5. Bet Me, by Jennifer Crusie
6. What Happens in London, by Julia Quinn
7. So Big, by Edna Ferber
8. A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
9. The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
10. Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
11. The Wheel on the School, by Meindert DeJong
12. Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
13. Masquerade, by Terry Pratchett
14. The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux
15. A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
16. World War Z, by Max Brooks
17. A Civil Campaign, by Lois McMaster Bujold
18. Unveiled, by Courtney Milan
19. The Duchess War, by Courtney Milan
20. Fast Women, by Jennifer Crusie
21. The Sum of All Kisses, by Julia Quinn
22. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, by Philip K. Dick
23. Except for Me and Thee, by Jessamyn West
24. Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
25. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
26. Ladder of Years, by Anne Tyler
27. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
28. A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson
29. Genie, by Russ Rymer
30. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
31. Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen
32. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
33. Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
34. Mama Makes Up Her Mind, by Bailey White
35. Bad Mother, by Ayelet Waldeman
36. Operating Instructions, by Anne Lamont
37. War for the Oaks, by Emma Bull
38. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
39. R is for Rocket, by Ray Bradbury
40. The Pied Piper, by Nevil Shute
41. Earthsea Trilogy, by Ursula K. LeGuin
42. The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle
43. Calico Palace, by Gwen Bristow
44. The Shining, by Stephen King
45. Practical Magic, by Alice Hoffman
46. One Child, by Torey Hayden
47. Beyond Heaving Bosoms, by Sarah Wendell
48. Circle Round, by Starhawk, Diane Baker, and Anne Hill
49. These is My Words, by Nancy E. Turner
50. The Once and Future King, by T.H. White
51. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
52. Passage, by Connie Willis
53. A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
54. Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson
55. The Golden Compass, by Phillip Pullman
56. The Princess Bride, by Willam Goldman
57. The Silicon Mage, by Barbara Hambly
58. Skirmish, Melisa E. Michaels
59. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
60. How to Train Your Dragon, by Cressida Cowell
61. Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White
62. The Borrowers, by Mary Norton
63. MaddAdam, by Margaret Atwood
64. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
65. Finding Nouf, by Zoe Farraris
66. Fast Women, by Jennifer Crusie
67. To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis
68. Riveted, by Meljean Brook
69. Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie
70. The Great Gilly Hopkins, by Katherine PAtersoa
71. Alif the Unseen, by G. Willow Wilson
72. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L’Engle
73. The House at World’s End, by Monica Dickens
74. Hitty:  Her First Hundred Years, by Rachel Field
75. Anastasia Krupnik, by Lois Lowry
76. The BFG, by Roald Dahl
77. Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren
78. A Town Like Alice, by Nevil shute
79. The Newsflesh Trilogy, by Mira Grant
80. Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
81. Warm Bodies, by
82. The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
83. Cosmos, by Carl Sagan
84. I Wish I Had a Red Dress, by Pearl Cleage
85. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury
86. Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett
87. The Sandman Series, by Neil Gaiman
88. Through a Scanner Darkly, by Philip K. Dick
89. Letters to Ms.
90. Elfquest, issues 1 – 20, by Wendy and richard PinR
91. Girl Genius, by Phil and Kaja Foglio
92. Kindred, by Octavia Butler
    
93. Warday, by Whitely Strieber and Jim Kunetka
94. Beauty, by Robin McKinely
95. On the Road with Charles Kuralt, by Charles Kuralt
96. The Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen joy Fowler
97. The Tiffany Aching Series, by Terry Pratchett
98. Smilla’s Sense of Snow, by Peter Hoeg
99. Polar Star, by Martin Cruz Smith
100. Mrs. Mike, by Benedict and Nancy Mars Freedman
101. The Bloodwing Voyages, by Diane Duane
102. Last Chance to See, by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
103. The Essential Bordertown, edited by Terri Windling and Delia Sherman

Happy 103!