Here’s top 100. I didn’t know any until I got past number 80:
1. **Happy Place** by Emily Henry
2. **Fourth Wing** by Rebecca Yarros
3. **Lessons in Chemistry** by Bonnie Garmus
4. **The Women** by Kristin Hannah
5. **The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store** by James McBride
6. **Remarkably Bright Creatures** by Shelby Van Pelt
7. **It Ends with Us** by Colleen Hoover
8. **Verity** by Colleen Hoover
9. **The Covenant of Water** by Abraham Verghese
10. **The Night Watchman** by Louise Erdrich
11. **Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow** by Gabrielle Zevin
12. **Demon Copperhead** by Barbara Kingsolver
13. **A Court of Thorns and Roses** by Sarah J. Maas
14. **People We Meet on Vacation** by Emily Henry
15. **Malibu Rising** by Taylor Jenkins Reid
16. **The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo** by Taylor Jenkins Reid
17. **Carrie Soto Is Back** by Taylor Jenkins Reid
18. **Project Hail Mary** by Andy Weir
19. **Book Lovers** by Emily Henry
20. **Ugly Love** by Colleen Hoover
21. **Atomic Habits** by James Clear
22. **Spare** by Prince Harry
23. **The Body Keeps the Score** by Bessel van der Kolk
24. **The Midnight Library** by Matt Haig
25. **The 5 Love Languages** by Gary Chapman
26. **Where the Crawdads Sing** by Delia Owens
27. **The Light We Carry** by Michelle Obama
28. **Greenlights** by Matthew McConaughey
29. **Braiding Sweetgrass** by Robin Wall Kimmerer
30. **How to Win Friends and Influence People** by Dale Carnegie
31. **Think Like a Monk** by Jay Shetty
32. **Can’t Hurt Me** by David Goggins
33. **Becoming** by Michelle Obama
34. **A Man Called Ove** by Fredrik Backman
35. **Anxious People** by Fredrik Backman
36. **The House in the Cerulean Sea** by TJ Klune
37. **Under the Whispering Door** by TJ Klune
38. **The Paris Library** by Janet Skeslien Charles
39. **The Alice Network** by Kate Quinn
40. **The Rose Code** by Kate Quinn
41. **The Diamond Eye** by Kate Quinn
42. **The Huntress** by Kate Quinn
43. **The Nightingale** by Kristin Hannah
44. **Firefly Lane** by Kristin Hannah
45. **Fly Away** by Kristin Hannah
46. **Winter Garden** by Kristin Hannah
47. **True Colors** by Kristin Hannah
48. **The Great Alone** by Kristin Hannah
49. **Before We Were Strangers** by Renée Carlino
50. **Every Summer After** by Carley Fortune
51. **Meet Me at the Lake** by Carley Fortune
52. **The Summer I Turned Pretty** by Jenny Han
53. **It’s Not Summer Without You** by Jenny Han
54. **We’ll Always Have Summer** by Jenny Han
55. **To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before** by Jenny Han
56. **P.S. I Still Love You** by Jenny Han
57. **Always and Forever, Lara Jean** by Jenny Han
58. **If He Had Been with Me** by Laura Nowlin
59. **We Were Liars** by E. Lockhart
60. **Family of Liars** by E. Lockhart
61. **One of Us Is Lying** by Karen M. McManus
62. **One of Us Is Next** by Karen M. McManus
63. **Two Can Keep a Secret** by Karen M. McManus
64. **You’ll Be the Death of Me** by Karen M. McManus
65. **Nothing More to Tell** by Karen M. McManus
66. **The Cousins** by Karen M. McManus
67. **Good Girl, Bad Blood** by Holly Jackson
68. **As Good as Dead** by Holly Jackson
69. **The Last House on Needless Street** by Catriona Ward
70. **The Haunting of Hill House** by Shirley Jackson
71. **Mexican Gothic** by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
72. **The Hacienda** by Isabel Cañas
73. **A House with Good Bones** by T. Kingfisher
74. **The Only Good Indians** by Stephen Graham Jones
75. **My Heart Is a Chainsaw** by Stephen Graham Jones
76. **Don’t Fear the Reaper** by Stephen Graham Jones
77. **The Final Girl Support Group** by Grady Hendrix
78. **How to Sell a Haunted House** by Grady Hendrix
79. **Horrorstör** by Grady Hendrix
80. **The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires** by Grady Hendrix
81. **The Exorcist** by William Peter Blatty
82. **Rosemary’s Baby** by Ira Levin
83. **Dracula** by Bram Stoker
84. **Frankenstein** by Mary Shelley
85. **The Shining** by Stephen King
86. **It** by Stephen King
87. **Pet Sematary** by Stephen King
88. **Carrie** by Stephen King
89. **Salem’s Lot** by Stephen King
90. **The Stand** by Stephen King
91. **Misery** by Stephen King
92. **11/22/63** by Stephen King
93. **Under the Dome** by Stephen King
94. **Billy Summers** by Stephen King
95. **Fairy Tale** by Stephen King
96. **Holly** by Stephen King
97. **Later** by Stephen King
98. **The Institute** by Stephen King
99. **The Outsider** by Stephen King
100. **If It Bleeds** by Stephen King
Glad I gave up on most fiction long ago. Such a waste of time.
RE: progress on the reading list
The excellent vigilante justice film series with Denzel Washington The Equalizer has him working on reading the rest of the books on the list his beloved wife was finishing before she was murdered. He helps down and out people get justice and find hope in their lives.
Girl (hopelessly sinking into prostitution by a violent Russian mobster pimp), asking Denzel about The Old Man and the Sea he is reading.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVcoE8mGOyw
Three movies I recommend. One synopsis line: “Aiding the exploited and oppressed by serving unflinching justice, he’ll need all of his skills to settle the score.”
Not even on the list, I enjoyed the “Murderbot Diaries” series.
You hadn’t heard of #30?
I'll wait for the More Cowbell special edition.