Somehow, a year has passed since I last shared these lists, and since I referenced my Top 100 Novels in my Speaker for the Dead review, here is where my book lists stand today. (Also, remember that there are over 2,000 reviews here available to paid subscribers. Oh, and look: a link to subscribe!)
Poetry
Diary of an Old Soul (George MacDonald)
The Major Works (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
The Book of Hours (Rainer Maria Rilke)
The Collected Poetry of Thomas Merton (Thomas Merton)
Dreamtigers (Jorge Luis Borges)
The Lost Words (Robert MacFarlane & Jackie Morris)
Mornings Like This (Annie Dillard)
Hey World, Here I Am! (Jean Little)
The Poetry of Robert Frost (Robert Frost)
The Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden (W. H. Auden)
Nonfiction
For the Time Being (Annie Dillard)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Annie Dillard)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves (Lynne Truss)
Bird by Bird (Anne Lamott)
De Profundis (Oscar Wilde)
Miz Lil and the Chronicles of Grace (Walter Wangerin, Jr.)
The Writing Life (Annie Dillard)
Finishing the Hat (Stephen Sondheim)
Teaching a Stone to Talk (Annie Dillard)
Collection of Sand (Italo Calvino)
A Prayer Journal (Flannery O’Connor)
Medallion Status (John Hodgman)
Addiction and Grace (Gerald May)
Theatre of the Unimpressed (Jordan Tannahill)
Orthodoxy (G. K. Chesterton)
Assassination Vacation (Sarah Vowell)
Orality and Literacy (Walter J. Ong)
Strength in Weakness (Andrew Comiskey)
Living the Questions (Carolyn Arends)
Mere Christianity (C. S. Lewis)
The Academy Awards: The Complete Unofficial History (Jim Piazza, Gail Kinn)
Telling the Truth (Frederick Buechner)
The Opposite of Fate (Amy Tan)
The Everlasting Man (G. K. Chesterton)
Every Man’s Battle (Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker)
An American Childhood (Annie Dillard)
Pursuing Sexual Wholeness (Andrew Comiskey)
Imaginary Homelands (Salman Rushdie)
Vacationland (John Hodgman)
The Journey of Desire (John Eldredge)
Shakespeare Is Hard, But So Is Life (Fintan O’Toole)
Crisis in Masculinity (Leanne Payne)
The Road to San Giovanni (Italo Calvino)
Encounters with Chinese Writers (Annie Dillard)
Epic (John Eldredge)
Restoring the Christian Soul (Leanne Payne)
Blue Like Jazz (Donald Miller)
Wild at Heart (John Eldredge)
Woody Allen: Film by Film (Jason Solomons)
Cultural Literacy (E. D. Hirsch, Jr.)
Into the War (Italo Calvino)
Healing Presence (Leanne Payne)
The Sacredness of Questioning Everything (David Dark)
Woody Allen (Eric Lax)
So Many Steves (Steve Martin, Adam Gopnik)
Unfamiliar Fishes (Sarah Vowell)
Loving Homosexuals as Jesus Would (Chad W. Thompson)
Commonplace Book (E. M. Forster)
The Book of Margery Kempe (Margery Kempe)
The Wordy Shipmates (Sarah Vowell)
Short Stories
My Life and Hard Times (James Thurber)
Mr. Palomar (Italo Calvino)
Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
Swallowing the Golden Stone (Walter Wangerin, Jr.)
The Complete Cosmicomics (Italo Calvino)
The Gifts of the Child Christ (George MacDonald)
D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths (Ingri d’Aulaire, Edgar Parin d’Aulaire)
Italian Folktales (Italo Calvino)
92 Stories (James Thurber)
The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories (E. M. Forster)
Mixed or Unclassifiable Genre
Holy the Firm (Annie Dillard)
The Areas of My Expertise (John Hodgman)
That Is All (John Hodgman)
Rules for a Knight (Ethan Hawke)
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
Graphic Novels
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)
Watchmen (Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons)
The Complete Maus (Art Spiegelberg)
Stoker’s Dracula (Roy Thomas, Dick Giordano)
Indeh (Ethan Hawke, Greg Ruth)
V for Vendetta (Alan Moore, David Lloyd)
The Complete ClanDestine (Alan Davis)
Meadowlark (Ethan Hawke, Greg Ruth)
Fallen Angels (Mary Jo Duffy, Kerry Gammill)
The Dark Crystal: Creation Myths (Brian Froud)
Children’s Books
The Magic Goose (Daniel Manus Pinkwater)
The Wuggie Norple Story (Daniel Manus Pinkwater)
Go, Dog. Go! (P. D. Eastman)
Star Child (Claire A. Nivola)
Junie B. Jones is a Beauty Shop Guy (Barbara Park)
Rainy Morning (Daniel Manus Pinkwater)
Bad Bears and a Bunny (Daniel Manus Pinkwater)
The Berenstain Bears and The Spooky Old Tree (Stan & Jan Berenstain)
Author’s Day (Daniel Manus Pinkwater)
Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda (Margaret Atwood)
Novels
The Man Who Was Thursday (G. K. Chesterton)
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Till We Have Faces (C. S. Lewis)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller (Italo Calvino)
The Dark Is Rising (Susan Cooper)
White Noise (Don DeLillo)
The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
1984 (George Orwell)
The Fire-Dwellers (Margaret Laurence)
The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror (Daniel Manus Pinkwater)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Shades of Grey (Jasper Fforde)
The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death (Daniel Manus Pinkwater)
The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman)
Descent Into Hell (Charles Williams)
The Hours (Michael Cunningham)
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
The Great Divorce (C. S. Lewis)
Typee (Herman Melville)
The Longest Journey (E. M. Forster)
The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Not Wanted on the Voyage (Timothy Findlay)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (J. K. Rowling)
That Hideous Strength (C. S. Lewis)
A Room With a View (E. M. Forster)
Green Grass, Running Water (Thomas King)
Over Sea, Under Stone (Susan Cooper)
The Last Battle (C. S. Lewis)
Moon Tiger (Penelope Lively)
Slaves of Spiegel: A Magic Moscow Story (Daniel Manus Pinkwater)
The True Meaning of Smekday (Adam Rex)
The Screwtape Letters (C. S. Lewis)
The Constant Rabbit (Jasper Fforde)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
The End of the Affair (Graham Greene)
Where Angels Fear to Tread (E. M. Forster)
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
The Towers of Trebizond (Rose Macauley)
Speaker for the Dead (Orson Scott Card)
The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Salman Rushdie)
The Well of Lost Plots (Jasper Fforde)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J. K. Rowling)
Truth and Bright Water (Thomas King)
A Passage to India (E. M. Forster)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Julian Barnes)
The Year of the Flood (Margaret Atwood)
Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton)
Lizard Music (Daniel Manus Pinkwater)
The Silver Chair (C. S. Lewis)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (J. K. Rowling)
A Jest of God (Margaret Laurence)
Redwall (Brian Jacques)
The Place of the Lion (Charles Williams)
Manalive (G. K. Chesterton)
Nutshell (Ian McEwan)
The City & The City (China Mieville)
The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo)
Itsuka (Joy Kogawa)
Young Adult Novel (Daniel Manus Pinkwater)
Obasan (Joy Kogawa)
War in Heaven (Charles Williams)
The Worms of Kukumlima (Daniel Manus Pinkwater)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
Midnight’s Children (Salman Rushdie)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)
Perelandra (C. S. Lewis)
Early Riser (Jasper Fforde)
Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C. S. Lewis)
Pearls of Lutra (Brian Jacques)
Out of The Silent Planet (C. S. Lewis)
The Moor’s Last Sigh (Salman Rushdie)
Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
Life After God (Douglas Coupland)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
The Mysterious Benedict Society (Trenton Lee Stewart)
Sphere (Michael Crichton)
The Big Over Easy (Jasper Fforde)
The Enchantress of Florence (Salman Rushdie)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Iain Reid)
The Buried Giant (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)