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:

1. 1984
2. A Brief History of Time
3. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
4. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
5. The Bad Beginning: Or, Orphans!
6. A Wrinkle in Time
7. Selected Stories, 1964-1994 (by Alice Munro)
8. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
9. All the President’s Men
10. Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
11. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
12. Bel Canto
13. Beloved
14. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
15. Breath, Eyes, Memory
16. Catch-22
17. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
18. Charlotte’s Web
19. Cutting for Stone
20. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
21. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1
22. Dune
23. Fahrenheit 451
24. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
25. Gone Girl
26. Goodnight Moon
27. Great Expectations
28. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
29. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
30. In Cold Blood
31. Interpreter of Maladies
32. Invisible Man
33. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
34. Kitchen Confidential
35. Life After Life
36. Little House on the Prairie
37. Lolita
38. Love in the Time of Cholera
39. Love Medicine
40. Man’s Search for Meaning
41. Me Talk Pretty One Day
42. Middlesex
43. Midnight’s Children
44. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
45. Of Human Bondage
46. One the Road
47. Out of Africa
48. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
49. Pornoy’s Complaint
50. Pride and Prejudice
51. Silent Spring
52. Slaughterhouse-Five
53. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
54. The Age of Innocence
55. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
56. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
57. The Book Thief
58. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
59. The Catcher in the Rye
60. The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
61. The Corrections
62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
63. The Diary of a Young Girl
64. The Fault in Our Stars
65. The Giver
66. The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials
67. The Great Gatsby
68. The Handmaid’s Tale
69. The House at Pooh Corner
70. The Hunger Games
71. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
72. The Liar’s Club
73. The Lightning Thief
74. The Little Prince
75. The Long Goodbye
76. The Looming Tower
77. The Lord of the Rings
78. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
79. The Omnivore’s Dilemma
80. The Phantom Tollbooth
81. The Poisonwood Bible
82. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
83. The Right Stuff
84. The Road
85. The Secret History
86. The Shining
87. The Stranger
88. The Sun Also Rises
89. The Things They Carried
90. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
91. The Wind in the Willows
92. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
93. The World According to Garp
94. The Year of Magical Thinking
95. Things Fall Apart
96. To Kill a Mockingbird
97. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
98. Valley of the Dolls
99. Where the Sidewalk Ends
100. Where the Wild Things Are