101 Books to Read Before You Die discussion

1. 1984 by George Orwell read September 2012, March 2015
2. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess read October 2013
3. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood read April 2017
4. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque read January 2019
5. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon read January 2015
6. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis -- 401 pages
7. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie read October 2012
8. An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears read June 2018
9. Atonement by Ian McEwan read July 2014
10. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath read September 2016
11. **Beloved by Toni Morrison read February 2016
12. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler read August 2014
13. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley read July 2015
14. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote read September 2013
15. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres read April 2019
16. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller read March 2016
17. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger -- read September 2014
18. Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee read June 2016
19. **The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse -- 254 pages
20. The Color Purple by Alice Walker read August 2016
21. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole -- 394 pages
22. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky read May 2016
23. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber read April 2015
24. The Crow Road by Iain Banks read October 2015
25. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon read July 2016
26. **The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey read February 2014
27. The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank read January 2014
28. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick read September 2015
--. Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien read July 2019
29. Dracula by Bram Stoker read October 2012
--. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje read October 2018
30. An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan -- 352 pages
31. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson read September 2017
32. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters read May 2017
33. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles -- 448 pages
34. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy read November 2016
35. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens read February 2015
--. The Great Fire by Shirley Jackson read April 2018
36. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald read August 2015
37. Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski -- read March 2020
38. Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland -- 244 pages
39. **The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams -- read January 2020
40. **The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle read March 2019
41. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski read November 2015
42. Huckleberry Finn (The Adventures of) by Mark Twain read with the Children's list, September 2016
43. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith read April 2016
44. If This Is A Man by Primo Levi -- 398 pages
45. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor read July 2017
46. In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin read December 2018
47. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte read October 2014
48. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy read Jan-Mar 2017
49. Life of Pi by Yann Martel -- 356 pages
50. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov read August 2018
51. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela read June 2017
52. Lord of the Flies by William Golding read September 2012
53. **The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien read summer 2014
54. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold read August 2017
55. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert read Jan-Mar 2017
56. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks read November-December 2017
57. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov read May 2018
58. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides read December 2014
59. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie read May 2015
60. The Monk by Matthew Lewis read November 2018
61. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco read June 2015
62. New York Trilogy by Paul Auster read September 2018
63. Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) by Philip Pullman -- 343 pages
64. The Odyssey by Homer -- 560 pages
65. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck read November 2013
66. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey read November 2012
67. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez read May 2014
68. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson read December 2019
69. The Outsider/The Stranger by Albert Camus read October 2019
70. Perfume by Patrick Suskind read December 2016
71. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver -- 546 pages
72. Possession by A.S. Byatt read March 2018
73. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving read March 2014
74. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen read Jan-Mar 2017
75. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg read September 2019
76.**Rabbit, Run by John Updike read February 2019
77. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell -- 608 pages
78. The Reader by Bernard Schlink -- 218 pages
79. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier read August 2013
80. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro read December 2013
81. The Secret History by Donna Tartt read April 2014
82. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins -- 360 pages
--. The Sell Out by Paul Beatty read June 2019
83. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse read November 2014
84. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut read October 2016
--. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey read August 2019
85. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson -- 460 pages
86. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder -- 403 pages
87. Stalingrad by Antony Beevor read May 2019
88. **A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth -- 1,474 pages
89. **Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe read January 2018
90. **A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor -- 321 pages
91. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee read July 2013
92. Touching the Void by Joe Simpson -- 218 pages
93. **Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh -- 448 pages
94. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kindera read July 2018
95. Waterland by Graham Swift -- 368 pages
96. What A Carve Up! (The Winshaw Legacy) by Jonathan Coe -- read April 2020
97. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver read November-December 2017
98. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami read June 2014
--. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel read February 2018
99. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins read October 2017
100. The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard read November 2019
101. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte read January 2016

This is not in order of "best" but merely alphabetical, to make it easier.

** Indicates books that have a sequel or are part of a series. They do not necessarily have to be read as part of their series, but can be done that way. We will discuss how to handle these books as a group as we get to each one of them. There is also a separate folder for threads if members want to go ahead and keep reading in a series.

--. Indicates books read which were not on the original 101 book list

******Read 79/101 with an additional 6*******