Since I'm an English major, not a bird watcher, I need my own little life list. It's pathetically short. Here's mine so far:
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)
1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)
1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)
1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)
1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)
2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)
2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)
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