A list of 100 books recommended to read in a lifetime - and how many I have read!

I like to read various blogs on Monday mornings - to see what other bloggers are buzzing about, and one of my favorites is my dear friend Sheila's blog, Book Journey: Continuing Adventures of a True Bookaholic (www.bookjourney.net), and she had a great post about the new Amazon list of 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime and I thought it would be interesting to see how many I had read!

I was surprised that I had only read 32 of the 100 books listed.  Looks like I've got some reading to do!

I was also surprised to find no inspirational, religious or spiritual books included - I would have added The Bible, Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers, A Case for Christ, 5 Love Languages, - I could go on, and as a matter of fact, I think I will compose a list - be on the watch for that post soon!


Thanks to Perfectly Tolerable for making this into a meme.




I have marked the ones I have read.

Which have you read?  Which books would you add to this list as must reads in a lifetime?

Title	Author	Read?
1984	George Orwell
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
A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L’Engle
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	Yes
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.	Judy Blume	Yes
Bel Canto	Ann Patchett
Beloved	Toni Morrison	Yes
Born to Run	Christopher McDougall
Breath, Eyes, Memory	Edwidge Danticat	Yes
Catch-22	Joseph Heller
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Roald Dahl	Yes
Charlotte’s Web	E. B White	Yes
Cutting for Stone	Abraham Verghese
Daring Greatly	Brené Brown
Diary of a Wimpy Kid	Jeff Kinney
Dune	Frank Herbert
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Hunter S. Thompson
Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn	Yes
Goodnight Moon	Margaret Wise Brow	Yes
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	Yes
Interpreter of Maladies	Jhumpa Lahiri
Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth	Chris Ware
Kitchen Confidential	Anthony Bourdain
Life After Life	Kate Atkinson
Little House on the Prairie	Laura Ingalls Wilder	Yes
Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	Yes
Love in the Time of Cholera	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love Medicine	Louise Erdrich
Man’s Search for Meaning	Viktor E. Frankl
Me Talk Pretty One Day	David Sedaris
Middlesex	Jeffrey Eugenides
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
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
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	Junot Díaz
The Catcher in the Rye	J. D. Salinger
The Color of Water	James McBride	Yes
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
The Golden Compass	Philip Pullman
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	Yes
The Handmaid’s Tale	Margaret Atwood
The House at Pooh Corner	A. Milne	Yes
The Hunger Games	Suzanne Collins	Yes
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	Yes
The Liars’ Club	Mary Karr
The Lightning Thief	Rick Riordan
The Little Prince	Houghton Mifflin	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
The Phantom Tollbooth	Norton Juster
The Poisonwood Bible	Barbara Kingsolver	Yes
The Power Broker	Robert A. Caro
The Right Stuff	Tom Wolfe	Yes
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
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	Yes
The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle	Haruki Murakami
The World According to Garp	John Irving	Yes
The Year of Magical Thinking	Joan Didion	Yes
Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	Yes
Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand
Valley of the Dolls	Jacqueline Susann	Yes
Where the Sidewalk Ends	Shel Silverstein	Yes
Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak        Yes