100 Must-Read Books in a Lifetime Goodreads

100 Must-Read Books in a Lifetime Goodreads

• 1. Goodreads 100 Books You Should Read in a Lifetime 1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 3. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 4. 1984 by George Orwell 5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling 6. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 8. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White 9. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 10. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 11. Fahrenheit 451: A Novel by Ray Bradbury 12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 13. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 14. Animal Farm by George Orwell 15. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 17. The Help by Kathryn Stockett 18. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 19. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 20. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 21. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 22. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 23. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 24. Night by Elie Wiesel 25. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 26. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 27. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle 28. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 29. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 30. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 31. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 32. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 33. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

• 2. 34. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 35. The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupery 36. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein 37. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 38. The Giver by Lois Lowry 39. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 40. Macbeth by William Shakespeare 41. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 42. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling 43. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 44. The Holy Bible: New King James Version by Thomas Nelson 45. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 46. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas pere 47. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green 48. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 49. East of Eden by John Steinbeck 50. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 51. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 52. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 53. The Stand by Stephen King 54. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll 55. Watership Down by Richard Adams 56. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 57. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card 58. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 59. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 60. Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel by Arthur Golden 61. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 62. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling 63. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 64. Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire Book 1) by George R.R. Martin 65. The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman 66. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl 67. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

• 3. 68. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett 69. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 70. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 71. Dracula by Bram Stoker 72. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling 73. Catching Fire (The Hunger Games Book 2) by Suzanne Collins 74. Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen 75. The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe 76. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 77. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon 78. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 79. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingslover 80. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 81. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 82. The Odyssey by Homer 83. Celebrating Silence: Excerpts From Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 84. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving 85. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 86. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 87. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough 88. The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls 89. Mockingjay (The Final Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins 90. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien 91. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 92. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese 93. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 94. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 95. Beloved by Toni Morrison 96. Helen Keller: The Story of My Life by Helen Keller 97. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster 98. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg 99. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 100. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky