make a list of the 43 books I most love, and post it here, so that those who say they want to "read more books" can have 1 readers thoughtful ideas on where to start

1. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
3. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
4. Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
5. Descent of Man by T. C. Boyle
6. Dune by Frank Herbert
7. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
8. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
9. Island Songs by Alex Wheatle
10. Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood
11. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
12. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
13. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
14. Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
15. My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
16. On the Pulse of Morning by Maya Angelou
17. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
18. Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean
19. Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
20. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
21. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
22. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
23. The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
24. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
25. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
26. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
27. The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey
28. The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye
29. The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston
30. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
31. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
32. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
33. The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
34. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
35. The Kitchen Madonna by Rumer Godden
36. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
37. The Moonspinners by Mary Stewart
38. The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
39. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
40. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
41. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
42. The Time Quartet by Madeleine l’Engle
43. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings