My 20 favorite books of all time

Posted without comment. By publication date.

1. The Man in the Iron Mask (1848-1850) - Alexandre Dumas

2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) - Mark Twain

3. The Red Badge of Courage (1895) - Stephen Crane

4. The Time Machine (1895) - H.G Wells

5. The View from the Cherry Tree (1975) - Willo Davis Roberts

6. The Westing Game (1978) - Ellen Raskin

7. Where Monsters Walk (1978) - Michael Avallone

8. Doctor Who and the Destiny of the Daleks (1979) - Terrance Dicks

9. Innocent Blood (1980) - P.D. James

10. Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child (1981) - Terrance Dicks

11. The Children of Men (1992) - P.D. James

12. Bloodhounds (1996) - Peter Lovesey

13. Brokeback Mountain (1997) - Annie Proulx

14. Upon a Dark Night (1997) - Peter Lovesey

15. The Rainaldi Quartet (2004) - Paul Adam

16. In the Woods (2007) - Tana French

17. City of Thieves (2008) - David Benioff

18. His Illegal Self (2008) - Peter Carey

19. A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us (2015) - Caleb Curtiss

20. Peachy (2024) - Angelina Patton

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