Whee!

1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
2. Daddy�s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou - I know, EVERYONE in the whole world has read this.  But I went to public school, so give me a break
4. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain- this book almost killed me.  I'm pretty sure that I read some sort of abridged version of it when I was 12.  But then I was assigned to read it the summer before my freshman year of college.  And even though the book has only 65 pages (or something like that), I didn't do it.  So we spent all of fall semester talking 'bout Huck.  And I still didn't read it.  Take that Michigan State!  You can't control my mind!!!!
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - Worst damn book I ever read.  We had to read it out loud in high school, but we couldn't swear so we'd say "gosh darn it, Lenny, you killed the kittens!".
7. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling - Leo and I went to a book store on the night of the last Potter release.  To this day, I can still here the stupid talking hat they had that said, in a really slow and dippy voice, something like "you can go to grippendorp" or something like that.  Anyway, you've never experienced terror until you go to a Barnes and Noble at 10 pm on a Friday and it's chock full of ten year olds in pointy black hats and fake glasses.
8. Forever by Judy Blume
9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson - read it as a kid.  Don't remember one thing about it (except the name).
10. Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
11. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
12. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - tried to read it on my own.  Gave up on page 23.
14. The Giver by Lois Lowry
15. It�s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
16. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
17. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
18. The Color Purple by Alice Walker - LOVED this book.
19. Sex by Madonna - This SHOULD be banned.
20. Earth�s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel - Again, anything by that clan of the cave bear woman can't be that good.
21. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
22. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L�Engle - Wasn't that the book that was made into the movie that Christopher Reeve starred in (and was filmed on Mackinaw Island)?
23. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
24. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
25. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
26. The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard - I know nothing about this but the title.  It should be banned.
27. The Witches by Roald Dahl
28. The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
29. Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
30. The Goats by Brock Cole
31. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane - I have read this book.  I can never hear about kaffir lime leaves without thinking about it.
32. Blubber by Judy Blume - this book rocked my 12 year old world.
33. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
34. Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
35. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
36. Final Exit by Derek Humphry
37. The Handmaid�s Tale by Margaret Atwood - LOVED the book, didn't so much love the movie
38. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
39. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison - Strangely enough, this is one of my favorite books of all time.  Strange because I don't think that anyone would pick this as one of my favorite books.
40. What�s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras - This was all I ever learned about puberty.
41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Once again, tried to read it for my own good and gave up.
42. Beloved by Toni Morrison
43. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
44. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
45. Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
46. Deenie by Judy Blume
47. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes - one of the few cases of a movie actually being better than the book.  Can't you still picture the motor cycle drive / acid trip scene?
48. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
49. The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
50. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
51. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein - I used to memorize these poems
52. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
53. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
54. Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
55. Cujo by Stephen King
56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl - this book, along with the Little Prince, cemented in me the beleief that all Europeans are very, very weird but in a likable way.
57. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
58. Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
59. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
60. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
61. What�s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
62. Are You There, God? It�s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume - Required reading for the 12 year old girl.  My mom didn't bake me a cake in celebration of menstruation, but maybe she just wasn't as cool as Margaret's.
63. Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
64. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
65. Fade by Robert Cormier
66. Guess What? by Mem Fox
67. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
68. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
69. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut - I listened to this as a book on tape while on an 8 hour drive. It was one of the few books that I picked for my self improvement projects that I actually finished.
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding - It struck an even truer chord with me after I spent a year nannying two boys...
71. Native Son by Richard Wright
72. Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women�s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
73. Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
74. Jack by A.M. Homes
75. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
76. Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
77. Carrie by Stephen King
78. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
79. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
80. Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
81. Family Secrets by Norma Klein
82. Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
83. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
85. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison - Once again, loved the book.  But not as much as the Bluest Eye.
86. Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
87. Private Parts by Howard Stern - I very much dislike Howard Stern.  You could put an obnoxious 12 year old on the air and the kid would come up with better stuff than Howard.
88. Where�s Waldo? by Martin Hanford - Huh?  The picture book where you have to find the guy in the beanie?  Who could POSSIBLY have a problem with that?
89. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
90. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
91. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
92. Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
93. Sex Education by Jenny Davis
94. The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
95. Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
96. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell - Sounds familiar...
97. View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
98. The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
99. The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
100. Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

I don't really get why some things are on there and others aren't.  Like the Odyssey, for example.  My mom read it to me when I was 8 or so and it scared the bejesus out of me.  Why James and the Giant Peach but not the Little Prince (L.P. is way more messed up than 'Peach)?  How on earth could anyone object to Where's Waldo?  I don't even think that book has words.  I understand why some of those books are "challenged", like the Daddy has a Roomate one.  But some of the others...I just don't get it.

I also think it's funny that, with the exception of maybe 5 books, all of the ones that I've read came from the public school library.  We were forced to read a lot of them.  Wish we had the internet then; I could have staged a protest or something.