I have been contemplating the year ahead. I will be 50 years old. I have been thinking about that number, 50. That is quite a bit of time to have been on this planet. I decided to create a few ‘List of 50______’ to share. Below is a list of 50 books that have impacted me. I would love to hear your thoughts and/ or suggestions for my next 50 years!

Enjoy!!!

1. Nancy Drew (all classic books)

2. The Da Vinci Code

3. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

4. How Fletcher Was Hatched

5. Secret Garden

6. Super Fudge

7. Harry Potter (all books)

8. Harry Dresden (all books)

9. Night

10. Pride and Prejudice

11. 100 Days of Epic

12. The Sky is the Limit

13. Tea Shop Mysteries (all books)

14. Dog called Kitty

15. Boxcar Mysteries (all books)

16. Encyclopedia Brown

17. Kite Runner

18. And Then There Were None

19. Misery

20. Wherever You Go There You Are

21. Fahrenheit 451

22. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

23. To Kill a Mockingbird

24. My Name is Asher Lev

25. Tell No One

26. Leaving Time

27. Mad Honey

28. My Sister’s Keeper

29. The Kill Artist (all books)

30. Along Came a Spider ( all books)

31. Postmortem (all books)

32. Tale of Two Cities

33. Catch 22

34. Howl

35. A Child Called It

36. Child 44

37. Handmaid’s Tale

38. Expecting Adam

39. Night Shadow

40. Discovery of Witches

41. Once and Future King

42. Pope Joan

43. Wizard of Oz

44. Eat Pray Love

45. Shadow of the Wind

46. Mayfair Witches

47. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

48. 1776

49. Anything written by Nora Roberts/ JD Robb

50. Shutter Island