I love book lists. They offer me new and unexpected titles to look out for; books I might not otherwise read.
So when Amazon published a list of 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime, I couldn’t resist typing out the whole thing to keep in my bag; something I could refer to (and tick off) when browsing the bookshelves at my favourite haunts.
After the jump, you’ll find the complete list (in alphabetical order). If you prefer, simply download the A4 sized PDF printable.
I’ve also developed a printable for Personal sized Filofaxes (which I’m currently using). This is designed to be printed on both sides of A$ paper - download here.
Feel free to print, reblog and share! I love great literature and am slowly working my way through the list, finding some unexpectedly wonderful reads along the way. I hope you will enjoy it too.
Amazon’s List of 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
A bucket list of books to create a well read life from the Amazon book editors.
http://www.amazon.com/100books
1984by George Orwell - Meet Big Brother
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking – Explore the universe
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers – Memoir as metafiction
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah - A child soldier’s story
A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket – Wicked good fun
A Wrinkle in Time by Madelaine L'Engle – The 60’s kids classic
Alice Munro: Selected Stories by Alice Munroe – A short-form master
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol – Go down the rabbit hole
All The Presidents Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein – Unseated a president
Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt – An Irish-American memoir
Are you There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume – The angst of adolescence
Bel Canto by Ann Patchet – A literary page-turner
Beloved by Toni Morrison – The ghosts of slavery
Born To Run - A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall – Why and how we run
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat – A journey from Haiti
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller – Launched it’s own catchphrase
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl – Vintage Roald Dahl
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White – The timeless classic
Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese – Ambitious and humane
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown – Vulnerability breeds courage
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1 by Jeff Kinney – For reluctant readers
Dune by Frank Herbert – Classic science fiction
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - “It was a pleasure to burn”.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson – Gonzo journalism takes flight
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn – Marriage can be a real killer
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown – first published in 1947
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens – Dicken’s best novel
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond – Understanding societies
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling – Meet the wizard
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote – True crime at it’s best
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri – Award-winning short story debut
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison – A literary milestone
Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware – A brilliant graphic novel
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain – Don’t eat while you read this
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson – One of the best of 2013
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder – Childhood on the Prarie
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov – Nabokov’s triumph
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez – A Latin American masterpiece
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich – A saga set on the reservation
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl – A life-changing book
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris – Funny and poignant
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides – A beautifully-written novel
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie – Rushdie’s breakthrough
Moneyball by Michael Lewis – Lewis hits it out of the park
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham – A writer’s writer
On the Road by Jack Kerouac – The essence of the Beats
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen – A remarkable woman’s story
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi – A groundbreaking graphic novel
Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth – Roth at his finest
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen – The perennial favourite
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson – The birth of ecology
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut – The absurdist WWII novel
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin – How Lincoln led
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton - 19th century high-society
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon – Chabon’s Magnum Opus
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley – A classic modern autobiography
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak – The international sensation
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz – The trials of a “ghetto nerd”
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger – Meet Holden Caulfield
The Color of Water by James McBride – Exploring a mother’s past
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen – Great, but divisive
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson – A triumph of narrative non-fiction
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank – Moving and eloquent
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green – A soulful young adult novel
The Giver by Lois Lowry – Classic dystopia
The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman – Pullman’s fantasy classic
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – The rich are different…
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood – Feminist speculative fiction
The House At Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne – A boy, a bear, a honeypot
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins – Reality TV writ large
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot – Race, ethics and medicine
The Liars’ Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr – A darkly funny memoir
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan – Monsters, mythology and a boy
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – Unique and universal
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler – First rate Chandler noir
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright – The history of terrorism
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien – One ring to rule them all
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks – A deeply human account
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan – The origins of food
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster – An odd and original journey
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver – Missionaries in Africa
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro – The Enforcer
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe – The inner life of astronauts
The Road by Cormac McCarthy – This way to the Apocalypse
The Secret History by Donna Tartt – A modern classic
The Shining by Stephen King – Chilling and thrilling
The Stranger by Albert Camus – Existentialist fiction
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway – Meet the lost generation
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien – The best book on Vietnam
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle – Baby’s first book
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame – Mole, Toad, Rat and Badger
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami – From the modern Japanese master
The World According to Garp by John Irving – Beware the “undertoad”
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion – Life, Love, Death
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe – Tradition vs. change
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – A beloved family story
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand – An American inspiration
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann – Addictively entertaining
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein – The joys of imagination
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak – Let the wild rumpus start!
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