Amazon’s 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime

Posted on by Carol @ Bookaria

Myndi over at madbooklove.com tagged me for this “Amazon’s 100 Book to Read in a Lifetime” tag and I’m excited to participate.

This meme was created by Perfectly Tolerable. Go check out this blog!

RULES

  • Include the link to Amazon’s List
  • Tag the creator of the meme (Perfectly Tolerable)
  • Tag and thank the person that tagged you (Madbooklove)
  • Copy the list below and indicate which ones you’ve read
  • Tally up your total
  • Comment on the post you were tagged in and let them know how many you read
  • Tag 5 new people! (And comment on one of their posts to let them know you tagged them)
LIST

Amazon’s 100 Book to Read in a Lifetime

Title Author Read?
1984 George Orwell YES
A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah
The Bad Beginning Lemony Snicket YES
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L’Engle  YES
Selected Stories, 1968-1994 Alice Munro
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll  YES
All the President’s Men Bob Woodward
Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir Frank McCourt
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. Judy Blume  YES
Bel Canto Ann Patchett
Beloved Toni Morrison
Born to Run Christopher McDougall
Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
Charlotte’s Web E. B White
Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese
Daring Greatly Brené Brown
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney  YES
Dune Frank Herbert  YES
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson
Gone Girl Gillian Flynn  YES
Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brow
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond Ph.D.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone J.K. Rowling YES
In Cold Blood Truman Capote
Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth Chris Ware
Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain  YES
Life After Life Kate Atkinson
Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez  YES
Love Medicine Louise Erdrich
Man’s Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl
Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris  YES
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides  YES
Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Michael Lewis
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham
On the Road Jack Kerouac
Out of Africa Isak Dinesen
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi  YES
Portnoy’s Complaint Philip Roth
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen YES
Silent Spring Rachel Carson
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X
The Book Thief Markus Zusak  YES
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz  YES
The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
The Color of Water James McBride
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
The Devil in the White City Erik Larson
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank YES
The Fault in Our Stars John Green YES
The Giver Lois Lowry YES
The Golden Compass Philip Pullman
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald YES
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood  YES
The House at Pooh Corner A. Milne
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins YES
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot
The Liars’ Club Mary Karr
The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry  YES
The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Lawrence Wright
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien YES
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat Oliver Sacks
The Omnivore’s Dilemma Michael Pollan  YES
The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver  YES
The Power Broker Robert A. Caro
The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe
The Road Cormac McCarthy  YES
The Secret History Donna Tartt
The Shining Stephen King
The Stranger Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami
The World According to Garp John Irving
The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee YES
Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand
Valley of the Dolls Jacqueline Susann
Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak