Tuesday, February 11, 2014

How many of Amazon's '100 Books to Read in a Lifetime' have YOU read?

I love a good recommended reading list, and the good folks at Amazon released a great one on Friday called “100 Books to Read in a Lifetime.” Compiled by Amazon Book Editors, the list is a “bucket list of books to create a well-read life.” For more information about the list, check it out at www.amazon.com. Without further ado, here’s the complete list, in alphabetical order by title.

AMAZON.COM’S “100 BOOKS TO READ IN A LIFETIME”

  1. 1984 by George Orwell*
  2. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking*
  3. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
  4. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll*
  5. Alice Munro: Selected Stories by Alice Munro
  6. All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
  7. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
  8. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
  9. Are You There, God? It's me, Margaret by Judy Blume
  10. A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning: The Short-Lived Edition by Lemony Snicket
  11. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
  12. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
  13. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  14. Born To Run - A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
  15. Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
  16. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller*
  17. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl*
  18. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White*
  19. Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
  20. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown
  21. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1 by Jeff Kinney
  22. Dune by Frank Herbert*
  23. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury*
  24. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson*
  25. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  26. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
  27. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  28. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond
  29. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling*
  30. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote*
  31. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
  32. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison*
  33. Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
  34. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
  35. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
  36. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  37. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  38. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  39. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
  40. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  41. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
  42. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  43. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
  44. Moneyball by Michael Lewis
  45. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
  46. On the Road by Jack Kerouac*
  47. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen*
  48. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
  49. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
  50. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen*
  51. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
  52. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut*
  53. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  54. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  55. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
  56. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
  57. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  58. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  59. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger*
  60. The Color of Water by James McBride
  61. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
  62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
  63. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
  64. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  65. The Giver by Lois Lowry
  66. The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
  67. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald*
  68. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  69. The House At Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne
  70. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  71. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  72. The Liars' Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr
  73. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
  74. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  75. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
  76. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
  77. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien*
  78. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
  79. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
  80. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
  81. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
  82. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
  83. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
  84. The Road by Cormac McCarthy*
  85. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  86. The Shining by Stephen King*
  87. The Stranger by Albert Camus
  88. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  89. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
  90. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
  91. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  92. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
  93. The World According to Garp by John
  94. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
  95. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  96. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee*
  97. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
  98. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
  99. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
  100. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

In the end, how many of these great books have you had the chance to read? Which did you like or dislike? Which is your personal favorite? Let us know in the comments section below.


(* Those that I’ve had a chance to read as of Feb. 11, 2014.)

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