100 Books That Every Human Being Should Read In Their Lifetime
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Reading changes lives. Yet, in the last year, 4 out of 5 American families did not buy or read a single book. It’s quite sad. The visitors to Good Reads put together a list of the top 100 books to read in your lifetime, and even if you only put a small dent in the list, you’re bettering yourself and doing your part to keep books alive.
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee

2. Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen

3. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank

4. 1984
George Orwell

5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
J.K. Rowling

6. The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien

7. The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

8. Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White

9. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien

10. Little Women
Louisa May Alcott

11. Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury

12. Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë

13. Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell

14. Animal Farm
George Orwell

15. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger

16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain

17. The Help
Kathryn Stockett

18. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis

19. The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck

20. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins

21. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak

22. The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini

23. Lord of the Flies
William Golding

24. Night
Elie Wiesel

25. Hamlet
William Shakespeare

26. A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle

27. A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens

28. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams

29. A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens

30. Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck

31. Brave New World
Aldous Huxley

32. The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett

33. Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare

34. The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood

35. Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein

36. The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

37. Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery

38. The Giver
Lois Lowry

39. Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë

40. Macbeth
William Shakespeare

41. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain

42. The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas

43. Holy Bible: King James Version
Anonymous

44. Frankenstein
Mary Shelley

45. The Fault in Our Stars
John Green

46. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson

47. East of Eden
John Steinbeck

48. In Cold Blood
Truman Capote

49. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling

50. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith

51. The Color Purple
Alice Walker

52. Catch-22
Joseph Heller

53. The Stand
Stephen King

54. Watership Down
Richard Adams

55. Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card

56. Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll

57. Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy

58. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes #3)
Arthur Conan Doyle

59. Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden

60. Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier

61. The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway

62. The Princess Bride
William Goldman

63. Great Expectations
Charles Dickens

64. A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1)
George R.R. Martin

65. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter #3)
J.K. Rowling

66. Life of Pi
Yann Martel

67. The Pillars of the Earth (The Pillars of the Earth #1)
Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)

68. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket #1)
Roald Dahl

69. The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne

70. Les Misérables
Victor Hugo

71. The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia (Publication Order) #1-7)
C.S. Lewis

72. Dracula
Bram Stoker

73. Catching Fire (The Hunger Games #2)
Suzanne Collins

74. The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe

75. The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd (Goodreads Author)

76. Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen

77. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter #6)
J.K. Rowling

78. The Good Earth (House of Earth #1)
Pearl S. Buck

79. One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez

80. The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver

81. The Time Traveler’s Wife
Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author)

82. Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

83. A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving (Goodreads Author)

84. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author)

85. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie

86. The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough

87. The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls

88. The Things They Carried
Tim O’Brien

89. The Road
Cormac McCarthy

90. The Odyssey
Homer

91. Mockingjay (The Hunger Games #3)
Suzanne Collins

92. Beloved (Toni Morrison Trilogy #1)
Toni Morrison

93. The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

94. Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse

95. Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese

96. The Story of My Life
Helen Keller

97. Outlander (Outlander #1)
Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)

98. Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author)

99. The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster

100. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
E.L. Konigsburg

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