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message 1: by Bill, Moderator (last edited Jul 13, 2023 10:38AM) (new)

Bill | 4248 comments Mod
I just read this list and will provide the link. Interesting list. How many have you read? Interesting challenge maybe to read them all.

https://www.rd.com/list/books-read-be...


message 2: by Bill, Moderator (last edited Jul 13, 2023 12:23PM) (new)

Bill | 4248 comments Mod
The list -

1. Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina

2. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird

3. Shel Silverstein – Where the Sidewalk Ends

4. Jacqueline Susan – The Valley of the Dolls

5. Stephen King – The Shining

6. Antoine de Saint Exupery – The Little Prince

7. JRR Tolkien – The Fellowship of the Ring

8. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale

9. Madeleine l’Engle - A Wrinkle in Time

10. Jane Austen – pride and Prejudice

11. Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men

12. Viktor E. Frankl – Man's Search for Meaning

13. Toni Morrison – Beloved

14. Truman Capote – In Cold Blood

15. Ishmael Beah – A Long Way Gone

16. Frank Herbert – Dune

17. Charles Dickens – Great Expectations

18. Brene Brown – Daring Greatly

19. George Orwell – 1984

20. Frank McCourt – Angela's Ashes

21. Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time

22. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451

23. Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

24. JK Rowling – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

25. Alice Munro – Selected Stories (1968 – 1994)

26. John Green – The Fault in our Stars

27. Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass

28. Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man

29. Judy Blume – Are you there God? It’s Me Margaret

30. 30. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – 100 Years of Solitude

31. Joseph Heller – Catch 22

32. Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis

33. EB White – Charlotte's Web

34. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse – Five

35. Abraham Verghese – Cutting for Stone

36. Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X

37. Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

38. Jumpa Lahiri – Interpreter of Maladies

39. Anne Frank – Diary of a Young Girl

40. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita

41. Louise Erdrich – Love Medicine

42. David Sedaris – Me Talk Pretty One Day

43. Jeffery Eugenides – Middlesex

44. Salman Rushdie – Midnight's Children

45. John Steinbeck – East of Eden

46. Michael Lewis – Moneyball

47. W. Somerset Maugham – Of Human Bondage

48. Jack Kerouac – On the Road

49. Isak Dinesen – Out of Africa

50. Agatha Christie – And then There were None

51. Philip Roth – Portnoy's Complaint

52. Rachel Carson – Silent Spring

53. Doris Kearns Goodwin – Team of Rivals

54. Yaa Gyasi – Homegoing

55. Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence

56. Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

57. Markus Zusak – The Book Thief

58. Rita Mae Brown – Rubyfruit Jungle

59. Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous of Life Oscar Wao

60. JD Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye

61. James McBride – The Color of Water

62. Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club

63. Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections

64. Eric Larson – The Devil in the White City

65. Lois Lowry – The Giver

66. Louise Erdrich – The Night Watchman

67. Philip Pullman – The Golden Compass

68. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby

69. Rebecca Skloot – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

70. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go

71. Mary Karr – The Liar’s Club

72. Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye

73. Lawrence Wright – The Looming Tower

74. Oliver Sacks – The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat

75. Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemna

76. Robert A. Caro – The Power Brokers

77. Tom Wolfe – The Right Stuff

78. James Baldwin – Go Tell it on the Mountain

79. Cormac McCarthy – The Road

80. Albert Camus – The Stranger

81. Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises

82. Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me

83. Tim O’Brien - The Things they Carried

84. Haruki Murakami – The Wind – Up Bird Chronicle

85. John Irving – The World According to Garp

86. Shakespeare – Hamlet

87. Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking

88. Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart

89. Laura Hillenbrand – Unbroken

90. Louisa May Alcott – Little Woman

91. Zadie Smith – White Teeth

92. Alice Walker – The Color Purple

93. Ian McEwen – Atonement

94. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights

95. CS Lewis – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

96. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah

97. Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes were Watching God

98. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World

99. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner

100. Jennifer Egan – A Visit from the Goon Squad


message 3: by Bill, Moderator (new)

Bill | 4248 comments Mod
I've read 24 and am thinking I might try to read the rest...


message 4: by Jennifer, Moderator (new)

Jennifer (jhaltenburger) | 1812 comments Mod
Some of these are just plain odd choices, but ok.... :). I've read 37. There are a few more here I'm interested in but some I can't imagine picking up.

1. Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina --**Read**

2. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird --**Read**

3. Shel Silverstein – Where the Sidewalk Ends

4. Jacqueline Susan – The Valley of the Dolls

5. Stephen King – The Shining

6. Antoine de Saint Exupery – The Little Prince --**Read**

7. JRR Tolkien – The Fellowship of the Ring

8. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale

9. Madeleine l’Engle - A Wrinkle in Time --**Read**

10. Jane Austen – pride and Prejudice --**Read**

11. Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men --**Read**

12. Viktor E. Frankl – Man's Search for Meaning

13. Toni Morrison – Beloved --**Read**

14. Truman Capote – In Cold Blood --**Read**

15. Ishmael Beah – A Long Way Gone

16. Frank Herbert – Dune --**Read**

17. Charles Dickens – Great Expectations

18. Brene Brown – Daring Greatly

19. George Orwell – 1984 --**Read**

20. Frank McCourt – Angela's Ashes

21. Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time

22. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451

23. Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

24. JK Rowling – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone --**Read**

25. Alice Munro – Selected Stories (1968 – 1994)

26. John Green – The Fault in our Stars --**Read**

27. Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass --**Read**

28. Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man

29. Judy Blume – Are you there God? It’s Me Margaret --**Read**

30. 30. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – 100 Years of Solitude --**Read**

31. Joseph Heller – Catch 22

32. Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis

33. EB White – Charlotte's Web --**Read**

34. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse – Five --**Read**

35. Abraham Verghese – Cutting for Stone

36. Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X

37. Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

38. Jumpa Lahiri – Interpreter of Maladies

39. Anne Frank – Diary of a Young Girl --**Read**

40. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita

41. Louise Erdrich – Love Medicine

42. David Sedaris – Me Talk Pretty One Day

43. Jeffery Eugenides – Middlesex

44. Salman Rushdie – Midnight's Children

45. John Steinbeck – East of Eden

46. Michael Lewis – Moneyball --**Read**

47. W. Somerset Maugham – Of Human Bondage --**Read**

48. Jack Kerouac – On the Road --**Read**

49. Isak Dinesen – Out of Africa --**Read**

50. Agatha Christie – And then There were None --**Read**

51. Philip Roth – Portnoy's Complaint

52. Rachel Carson – Silent Spring

53. Doris Kearns Goodwin – Team of Rivals --**Read**

54. Yaa Gyasi – Homegoing

55. Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence --**Read**

56. Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

57. Markus Zusak – The Book Thief

58. Rita Mae Brown – Rubyfruit Jungle

59. Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous of Life Oscar Wao

60. JD Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye --**Read**

61. James McBride – The Color of Water

62. Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club --**Read**

63. Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections

64. Eric Larson – The Devil in the White City

65. Lois Lowry – The Giver

66. Louise Erdrich – The Night Watchman

67. Philip Pullman – The Golden Compass

68. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby --**Read**

69. Rebecca Skloot – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

70. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go --**Read**

71. Mary Karr – The Liar’s Club

72. Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye

73. Lawrence Wright – The Looming Tower --**Read**

74. Oliver Sacks – The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat

75. Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemna

76. Robert A. Caro – The Power Brokers

77. Tom Wolfe – The Right Stuff

78. James Baldwin – Go Tell it on the Mountain

79. Cormac McCarthy – The Road

80. Albert Camus – The Stranger

81. Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises

82. Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me

83. Tim O’Brien - The Things they Carried

84. Haruki Murakami – The Wind – Up Bird Chronicle

85. John Irving – The World According to Garp --**Read**

86. Shakespeare – Hamlet

87. Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking --**Read**

88. Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart

89. Laura Hillenbrand – Unbroken --**Read**

90. Louisa May Alcott – Little Woman --**Read**

91. Zadie Smith – White Teeth

92. Alice Walker – The Color Purple --**Read**

93. Ian McEwen – Atonement --**Read**

94. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights

95. CS Lewis – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

96. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah

97. Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes were Watching God --**Read**

98. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World

99. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner

100. Jennifer Egan – A Visit from the Goon Squad


message 5: by Alondra, Moderator Schmoderator (last edited Jul 13, 2023 04:59PM) (new)

Alondra Miller | 4190 comments Mod
Read 31 (?); with most being read prior to Goodreads.

1. Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina

✅2. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird

✅3. Shel Silverstein – Where the Sidewalk Ends

4. Jacqueline Susan – The Valley of the Dolls

✅5. Stephen King – The Shining

✅6. Antoine de Saint Exupery – The Little Prince

✅7. JRR Tolkien – The Fellowship of the Ring

8. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale (Own/TBR)

✅9. Madeleine l’Engle - A Wrinkle in Time

✅10. Jane Austen – pride and Prejudice

11. Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men

12. Viktor E. Frankl – Man's Search for Meaning

❌13. Toni Morrison – Beloved .. DNF. I hated it, and just didn't "get it"

14. Truman Capote – In Cold Blood (Own/TBR)

15. Ishmael Beah – A Long Way Gone

16. Frank Herbert – Dune (TBR)

17. Charles Dickens – Great Expectations (Own/TBR)

18. Brene Brown – Daring Greatly

✅19. George Orwell – 1984

20. Frank McCourt – Angela's Ashes

21. Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time

✅22. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451

23. Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

✅24. JK Rowling – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

25. Alice Munro – Selected Stories (1968 – 1994)

26. John Green – The Fault in our Stars

✅27. Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass

28. Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man (I own, TBR)

✅29. Judy Blume – Are you there God? It’s Me Margaret

30. 30. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – 100 Years of Solitude

✅31. Joseph Heller – Catch 22 - Hilarious and stoopid.

32. Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis

✅33. EB White – Charlotte's Web

34. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse – Five (Own/TBR)

35. Abraham Verghese – Cutting for Stone

✅36. Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X

37. Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

38. Jumpa Lahiri – Interpreter of Maladies

✅39. Anne Frank – Diary of a Young Girl

40. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita

41. Louise Erdrich – Love Medicine

42. David Sedaris – Me Talk Pretty One Day (Own/TBR)

43. Jeffery Eugenides – Middlesex (I own, TBR)

44. Salman Rushdie – Midnight's Children

⁉️45. John Steinbeck – East of Eden (I read this a long time ago, but cannot remember it. So, it doesn't count)

46. Michael Lewis – Moneyball

47. W. Somerset Maugham – Of Human Bondage

48. Jack Kerouac – On the Road (Own/TBR)

49. Isak Dinesen – Out of Africa

✅50. Agatha Christie – And then There were None

51. Philip Roth – Portnoy's Complaint

52. Rachel Carson – Silent Spring

53. Doris Kearns Goodwin – Team of Rivals

54. Yaa Gyasi – Homegoing (Own/TBR)

55. Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence

56. Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

✅57. Markus Zusak – The Book Thief - Loved

58. Rita Mae Brown – Rubyfruit Jungle

59. Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous of Life Oscar Wao

✅60. JD Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye - One of my favs; but I will not reread it.

61. James McBride – The Color of Water

✅62. Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club - 5 Stars

✅63. Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections - Hard read, but not in subject matter. I think he was just being obtuse.

64. Eric Larson – The Devil in the White City

✅65. Lois Lowry – The Giver - This entire series is *chef's kiss*

66. Louise Erdrich – The Night Watchman

✅67. Philip Pullman – The Golden Compass

68. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby ( I own, TBR)

69. Rebecca Skloot – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (I own.TBR)

70. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go (I own, TBR)

71. Mary Karr – The Liar’s Club

72. Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye

73. Lawrence Wright – The Looming Tower

74. Oliver Sacks – The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat

75. Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemna

76. Robert A. Caro – The Power Brokers

77. Tom Wolfe – The Right Stuff

78. James Baldwin – Go Tell it on the Mountain

✅79. Cormac McCarthy – The Road - All the stars

80. Albert Camus – The Stranger

81. Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises

82. Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me (I own, TBR)

✅83. Tim O’Brien - The Things they Carried - Highly recommended

84. Haruki Murakami – The Wind – Up Bird Chronicle

85. John Irving – The World According to Garp

✅86. Shakespeare – Hamlet - I love Shakespeare. I still have my original books from High School, with all of my notes in the margins.

87. Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking

88. Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart

89. Laura Hillenbrand – Unbroken

✅90. Louisa May Alcott – Little Woman

91. Zadie Smith – White Teeth (I own)

✅92. Alice Walker – The Color Purple - Highly recommended.

93. Ian McEwen – Atonement (I own, TBR)

94. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights

✅95. CS Lewis – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

96. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah (I own, TBR)

✅97. Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes were Watching God (This is a tough read d/t language, as well as, situations. It can take 1 or 2 rereads to fully digest this work)

98. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World

✅99. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner - Excellent read, highly recommended

100. Jennifer Egan – A Visit from the Goon Squad


message 6: by Lea (new)

Lea (leaspot) | 3629 comments I've read and rated 61 on GR. There are some other books that I read before GR, but I don't remember enough of the books to count them!


message 7: by Alondra, Moderator Schmoderator (new)

Alondra Miller | 4190 comments Mod
Lea wrote: "I've read and rated 61 on GR. There are some other books that I read before GR, but I don't remember enough of the books to count them!"

That's fabulous, Lea!!


message 8: by Bill, Moderator (new)

Bill | 4248 comments Mod
Lea wrote: "I've read and rated 61 on GR. There are some other books that I read before GR, but I don't remember enough of the books to count them!"

Impressive


message 9: by Bill, Moderator (new)

Bill | 4248 comments Mod
Alondra wrote: "Read 31 (?); with most being read prior to Goodreads.

1. Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina

✅2. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird

✅3. Shel Silverstein – Where the Sidewalk Ends

4. Jacqueline Susan..."


I found it to be an odd list at times as well.


message 10: by Jackie (new)

Jackie | 1103 comments I have read 46 on this list so far.

The list -

✅1. Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina

✅2. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird

✅3. Shel Silverstein – Where the Sidewalk Ends

✅4. Jacqueline Susan – The Valley of the Dolls

5. Stephen King – The Shining

6. Antoine de Saint Exupery – The Little Prince

7. JRR Tolkien – The Fellowship of the Ring

✅8. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale

✅9. Madeleine l’Engle - A Wrinkle in Time

✅10. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice

✅11. Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men

✅12. Viktor E. Frankl – Man's Search for Meaning

13. Toni Morrison – Beloved

✅14. Truman Capote – In Cold Blood

15. Ishmael Beah – A Long Way Gone

16. Frank Herbert – Dune

17. Charles Dickens – Great Expectations

18. Brene Brown – Daring Greatly

✅19. George Orwell – 1984

20. Frank McCourt – Angela's Ashes

21. Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time

✅22. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451

23. Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

✅24. JK Rowling – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

25. Alice Munro – Selected Stories (1968 – 1994)

✅26. John Green – The Fault in our Stars

27. Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass

28. Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man

✅29. Judy Blume – Are you there God? It’s Me, Margaret

30. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – 100 Years of Solitude

✅31. Joseph Heller – Catch 22

32. Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis

✅33. EB White – Charlotte's Web

34. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse – Five

✅35. Abraham Verghese – Cutting for Stone

36. Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X

37. Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

38. Jumpa Lahiri – Interpreter of Maladies

✅39. Anne Frank – Diary of a Young Girl

✅40. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita

41. Louise Erdrich – Love Medicine

42. David Sedaris – Me Talk Pretty One Day

✅43. Jeffery Eugenides – Middlesex

44. Salman Rushdie – Midnight's Children

45. John Steinbeck – East of Eden

46. Michael Lewis – Moneyball

47. W. Somerset Maugham – Of Human Bondage

48. Jack Kerouac – On the Road

✅49. Isak Dinesen – Out of Africa

✅50. Agatha Christie – And Then There Were None

✅51. Philip Roth – Portnoy's Complaint

✅52. Rachel Carson – Silent Spring

53. Doris Kearns Goodwin – Team of Rivals

54. Yaa Gyasi – Homegoing

55. Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence

56. Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

✅57. Markus Zusak – The Book Thief

58. Rita Mae Brown – Rubyfruit Jungle

59. Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous of Life Oscar Wao

✅60. JD Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye

61. James McBride – The Color of Water

✅62. Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club

63. Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections

✅64. Eric Larson – The Devil in the White City

✅65. Lois Lowry – The Giver

66. Louise Erdrich – The Night Watchman

67. Philip Pullman – The Golden Compass

✅68. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby

✅69. Rebecca Skloot – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

70. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go

71. Mary Karr – The Liar’s Club

72. Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye

73. Lawrence Wright – The Looming Tower

74. Oliver Sacks – The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat

75. Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemna

76. Robert A. Caro – The Power Brokers

✅77. Tom Wolfe – The Right Stuff

78. James Baldwin – Go Tell it on the Mountain

79. Cormac McCarthy – The Road

✅80. Albert Camus – The Stranger

✅81. Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises

82. Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me

✅83. Tim O’Brien - The Things They Carried

84. Haruki Murakami – The Wind–Up Bird Chronicle

✅85. John Irving – The World According to Garp

✅86. Shakespeare – Hamlet

87. Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking

88. Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart

✅89. Laura Hillenbrand – Unbroken

✅90. Louisa May Alcott – Little Woman

91. Zadie Smith – White Teeth

✅92. Alice Walker – The Color Purple

✅93. Ian McEwen – Atonement

✅94. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights

✅95. CS Lewis – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

96. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah

97. Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes were Watching God

✅98. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World

✅99. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner

100. Jennifer Egan – A Visit from the Goon Squad


message 11: by Joy D (new)

Joy D | 1289 comments I've read 83 of them but I've always been interested in classic literature, and many of them are on other lists of "must reads."


message 12: by Vicki (last edited Oct 13, 2023 06:42AM) (new)

Vicki Hyatt (vhyatt2014) | 10 comments I've read most of these but I am going to start afresh - this will surely go past 2023.

1. Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
2. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Shel Silverstein – Where the Sidewalk Ends
4. Jacqueline Susan – The Valley of the Dolls
✔5. Stephen King – The Shining
6. Antoine de Saint Exupery – The Little Prince
7. JRR Tolkien – The Fellowship of the Ring
8. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
9. Madeleine l’Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
10. Jane Austen – pride and Prejudice
11. Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men
12. Viktor E. Frankl – Man's Search for Meaning
13. Toni Morrison – Beloved
14. Truman Capote – In Cold Blood
15. Ishmael Beah – A Long Way Gone
16. Frank Herbert – Dune
17. Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
18. Brene Brown – Daring Greatly
19. George Orwell – 1984
20. Frank McCourt – Angela's Ashes
21. Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time
22. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
23. Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
24. JK Rowling – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
25. Alice Munro – Selected Stories (1968 – 1994)
26. John Green – The Fault in our Stars
27. Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
28. Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man
29. Judy Blume – Are you there God? It’s Me Margaret
30. 30. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – 100 Years of Solitude
31. Joseph Heller – Catch 22
32. Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis
33. EB White – Charlotte's Web
34. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse – Five
35. Abraham Verghese – Cutting for Stone
36. Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X
✔37. Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | 9/3/23
38. Jumpa Lahiri – Interpreter of Maladies
39. Anne Frank – Diary of a Young Girl
40. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
41. Louise Erdrich – Love Medicine
42. David Sedaris – Me Talk Pretty One Day
43. Jeffery Eugenides – Middlesex
44. Salman Rushdie – Midnight's Children
45. John Steinbeck – East of Eden
46. Michael Lewis – Moneyball
47. W. Somerset Maugham – Of Human Bondage
48. Jack Kerouac – On the Road
49. Isak Dinesen – Out of Africa
✔50. Agatha Christie – And then There were None | 9/3/23
51. Philip Roth – Portnoy's Complaint
52. Rachel Carson – Silent Spring
53. Doris Kearns Goodwin – Team of Rivals
54. Yaa Gyasi – Homegoing
55. Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence
56. Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
57. Markus Zusak – The Book Thief
58. Rita Mae Brown – Rubyfruit Jungle
59. Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous of Life Oscar Wao
60. JD Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
61. James McBride – The Color of Water
62. Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club
63. Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections
64. Eric Larson – The Devil in the White City
65. Lois Lowry – The Giver
66. Louise Erdrich – The Night Watchman
67. Philip Pullman – The Golden Compass
68. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
69. Rebecca Skloot – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
70. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
71. Mary Karr – The Liar’s Club
72. Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye
73. Lawrence Wright – The Looming Tower
74. Oliver Sacks – The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
75. Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemna
76. Robert A. Caro – The Power Brokers
77. Tom Wolfe – The Right Stuff
78. James Baldwin – Go Tell it on the Mountain
79. Cormac McCarthy – The Road
80. Albert Camus – The Stranger
81. Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
82. Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me
83. Tim O’Brien - The Things they Carried
84. Haruki Murakami – The Wind – Up Bird Chronicle
85. John Irving – The World According to Garp
86. Shakespeare – Hamlet
87. Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking
88. Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
89. Laura Hillenbrand – Unbroken
90. Louisa May Alcott – Little Woman
91. Zadie Smith – White Teeth
92. Alice Walker – The Color Purple
93. Ian McEwen – Atonement
94. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
95. CS Lewis – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
96. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah
97. Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes were Watching God
98. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
99. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
100. Jennifer Egan – A Visit from the Goon Squad


message 13: by Vikki, Moderator (new)

Vikki (silverstarz) | 838 comments Mod
I've only read 14 from this list.....


message 14: by Linda (new)

Linda Boyd (boydlinda95gmailcom) | 192 comments 😬 I wonder if I should be embarrassed, I’ve only read 7 of these.


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