I like big books, and I cannot lie

A month or so ago there was a thing on Facebook about your top 10 books.  A few of us approached our lists in different ways (top 10 to get someone hooked on reading, top 10 that influenced me as a reader, top 10 on my bookshelf right now, etc.)

Here they are: 

1. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
2. A Walk in the Woods - Billie Letts
3. Anastasia Krupnik - Lois Lowry
4. At Play in the Fields of the Lord - Peter Mattiessen
5. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
6. Binu & The Great Wall Su Tong
7. Dragonflight - Anne McCaffery
8. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
9. Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
10. House of Sand & Fog - Andre Dubus
11. John A-The Man Who Made Us - Richard Gwyn
12. Just Kids - Patti Smith
13. Language of Threads - Gail Tsukiyama
14. Left Hand of Darkness - Ursala le Guin
15. Look me in the eye - John Elder Robison
16. Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
17. Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch - Alice Hegan Rice
18. Plainsong - Kent Haruf
19. Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
20. Slant - Greg Bear
21. Snow Crash - Neil Stephenson
22. Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
23. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
24. Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry
25. The Beauty of Humanity Movement - Camilla Gibb
26. The Book of Ruth-  Jane Hamilton
27. The Casual Vacancy - JK Rowling
28. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
29. The Dark Lady - Mike Resnick
30. The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
31. The Kite Runner  - Khaled Hosseini
32. The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay
33. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
34. The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
35. The Road to Jerusalem - Jan Guillou
36. The Skystone - Jack Whyte
37. The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams
38. There are two errors in the the title of this book - Robert M. Martin
39. Weaveworld - Clive Barker
40. When We Were Very Young - A. A. Milne

And here's the non-fiction lover's list...
1. King Rat
2. Catch 22
3. Great Expectations...
4. Bridget Jones's Diary
5. The Bible (King James version)
6. The Da Vinci Code
7. Molvania: a land untouched by modern dentistry
8. wow, 10 huh, that's a lot. Do graphic novels count?: Asterix, Tintin, Get Fuzzy, Calvin & Hobbes, Opus, Doonsbury.
9. how about movies I liked that are based on books that I would probably like if I ever read them?: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, anything by Tom Clancy, again, tons of graphic novels
10. I really dislike fiction. My granny's book: Mystery of the Royal Ring - because my name is in it.