I turned 60 this past birthday. This TTT is a celebration of books which have been published in my lifetime. I've read all of them, but I didn't necessarily read them in the year listed, obviously.
Books I’ve read and enjoyed over the course of
my lifetime;
published 1957-2017
A=Adult titles; C=Children’s or YA titles
1957
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A-On the Beach by
Nevil Shute
C-Little Bear by
Elise Holmelund, ill. By M. Sendak
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1993
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A- The
Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
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1962
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C- A Wrinkle
in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
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1997
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A-The God of
Small Things by Arundhati Roy
C- Harry
Potter and the Philospher’s Stoneby JK Rowling (first pub. in UK, series
complete 2007.)
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1967
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A-One Hundred
Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
C-The Outsiders by
S.E. Hinton
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2002
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C- Feed by
M.T. Anderson
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1972
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A-All Creatures
Great and Small by James Herriot
C-My Name is
Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
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2007
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A- The Brief
Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
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1977
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A-The Thorn
Birds by Colleen McCullough
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2012
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C- The Fault
in Our Stars by John Green
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1982
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A- The Color
Purple by Alice Walker
A-Schindler’s
List by Thomas Kenneally (tied)
C-Jamberry by Bruce
Degen
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2017
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C- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
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1987
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A-Beloved by
Toni Morrison (tied)
A-The Shell
Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher
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