Goodreads’ 100 Books You Should Read In A Lifetime

  1. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  2. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  3. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
  4. 1984 – George Orwell
  5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
  6. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
  7. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  8. Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
  9. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
  10. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
  11. Fahrenheit 451: A Novel – Ray Bradbury
  12. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
  13. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
  14. Animal Farm – George Orwell
  15. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
  16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
  17. The Help – Kathryn Stockett
  18. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
  19. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
  20. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
  21. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
  22. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  23. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
  24. Night – Elie Wiesel
  25. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
  26. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
  27. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeline L’Engle
  28. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
  29. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
  30. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  31. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  32. Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
  33. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
  34. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  35. The Little Prince – Antoine Saint-Exupery
  36. Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein
  37. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
  38. The Giver – Lois Lowry
  39. Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
  40. Macbeth – William Shakespeare
  41. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
  42. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
  43. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
  44. The Holy Bible
  45. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
  46. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
  47. The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
  48. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
  49. East of Eden – John Steinbeck
  50. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
  51. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
  52. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
  53. The Stand – Stephen King
  54. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll
  55. Watership Down – Richard Adams
  56. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
  57. Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
  58. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  59. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
  60. Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel – Arthur Golden
  61. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
  62. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
  63. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
  64. Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire Book 1) – George R.R. Martin
  65. The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure – William Goldman
  66. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
  67. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
  68. The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
  69. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
  70. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  71. Dracula – Bram Stoker
  72. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling
  73. Catching Fire (The Hunger Games Book 2) – Suzanne Collins
  74. Water for Elephants: A Novel – Sara Gruen
  75. The Raven – Edgar Allen Poe
  76. The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
  77. Outlander – Diana Gabaldon
  78. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  79. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel – Barbara Kingsolver
  80. The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
  81. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
  82. The Odyssey – Homer
  83. Celebrating Silence: Excerpts From Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000 – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
  84. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
  85. And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
  86. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
  87. The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough
  88. The Glass Castle: A Memoir – Jeannette Walls
  89. Mockingjay (The Final Book of the Hunger Games) – Suzanne Collins
  90. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
  91. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
  92. Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese
  93. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  94. Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
  95. Beloved – Toni Morrison
  96. Helen Keller: The Story of My Life – Helen Keller
  97. The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
  98. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – E.L. Konigsburg
  99. Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
  100. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky