This is Amazon’s list of 100 books to read in a lifetime. I love making lists of books I will never get the time to read so here is my version:
- 1984
- A Brief History of Time
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
The Bad Beginning: Or, Orphans!- A Wrinkle in Time
- Selected Stories, 1964-1994 (by Alice Munro)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass- All the President’s Men
- Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
- Bel Canto
- Beloved
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
- Breath, Eyes, Memory
- Catch-22
Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryCharlotte’s Web- Cutting for Stone
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1
- Dune
Fahrenheit 451Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American DreamGone GirlGoodnight MoonGreat Expectations- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone- In Cold Blood
- Interpreter of Maladies
- Invisible Man
- Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
- Kitchen Confidential
- Life After Life
Little House on the Prairie- Lolita
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- Love Medicine
- Man’s Search for Meaning
Me Talk Pretty One Day- Middlesex
- Midnight’s Children
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
- Of Human Bondage
One the Road- Out of Africa
- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
- Pornoy’s Complaint
Pride and Prejudice- Silent Spring
Slaughterhouse-Five- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- The Age of Innocence
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
- The Book Thief
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- The Catcher in the Rye
- The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
- The Corrections
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The Diary of a Young Girl- The Fault in Our Stars
The Giver- The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials
The Great Gatsby- The Handmaid’s Tale
- The House at Pooh Corner
The Hunger Games- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- The Liar’s Club
- The Lightning Thief
- The Little Prince
- The Long Goodbye
- The Looming Tower
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma
The Phantom Tollbooth- The Poisonwood Bible
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- The Right Stuff
- The Road
- The Secret History
- The Shining
- The Stranger
- The Sun Also Rises
The Things They CarriedThe Very Hungry Caterpillar- The Wind in the Willows
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- The World According to Garp
- The Year of Magical Thinking
Things Fall ApartTo Kill a Mockingbird- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
- Valley of the Dolls
Where the Sidewalk EndsWhere the Wild Things Are