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I've been thinking and thinking and thinking about what to put here and finally i'm going to just... let her rip.
no preferential order given...
also prone here to list series rather than single books...
also as others have including a mix of short story and novel. didn't think of any nonfiction at least tonight, but I did include some juvenile literature that came to mind.
1. The Great Brain (entire series), John D. Fitzgerald (now i want to read it all again)
2. Anne of Green Gables (entire series, but the first novel is the fave), LM
Montgomery
3. Little House on the Prairie (entire series, but the first novel is still my favorite), Laura Ingalls Wilder
4. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
5. Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
6. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
7. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
8. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
9. DragonFlight (and all associated series), Anne McCaffrey
10.(short story) The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, Ernest Hemingway
11. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
12. Dracula, Bram Stoker
13. Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
14. Hawkmistress! plus every other book basically in the entire Darkover universe
15. Battle Circle!, (trilogized: Sos the Rope, Var the Stick, Neq the Sword, a compelling post armageddon setting) Piers Anthony
16. The Incarnations of Immortality series (favorite is the first, On a Pale Horse), also by Piers Anthony
17. Earth's Children series, favorite is the 2nd Valley of the Horses but the best known is probably the first, The Clan of the Cave Bear, by Jean M. Auel
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prompted by other users to be included because i loved these, too
Exodus, Leon Uris (and Trinity, plus, all his other books!)
The Belgariad, David Eddings
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