These are books that I must read. They are from Amazon’s Books to Read in a Lifetime. I know some are not great and there are others that should be on the list, but I will go through these, one by one. They appear in no particular order.

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. A Brief History in Time by Stephen Hawking
3. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
4. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
5. The Bad Beginnings: Or, Orphans by Lemony Snicket
6. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
7. Selected Stories, 1968-1994 by Alice Munro
8. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
9. All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein
10. Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
11. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judey Blume
12. Bel Canto (P.S.) by Ann Patchett
13. Beloved by Toni Morrison
14. Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
15. Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
16. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
17. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
18. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
19. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
20. Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
21. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1 by Jeff Kinney
22. Dune by Frank Herbert
23. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
24. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
25. Gone Girl by Gill Flynn
26. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
27. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
28. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
29. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
30. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
31. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpra Lahiri
32. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
33. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
34. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
35. Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson
36. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
37. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
38. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
39. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
40. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
41. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
42. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
43. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
44. Moneyball by Michael Lewis
45. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
46. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
47. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
48. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
49. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
50. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
51. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
52. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
53. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
54. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
55. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
56. The Autobiography of Malcom X by Alex Haley
57. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
58. The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Oscar Wao
59. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
60. The Color of Water by James McBride
61. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
62. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
63. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
64. The Fault of Our Stars by John Green
65. The Giver by Lois Lowry
66. The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
67. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
68. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
69. The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
70. The Hunger Games Book 1 by Suzanne Collins
71. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
72. The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr
73. Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
74. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
75. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
76. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
77. The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
78. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
79. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
80. The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
81. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
82. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
83. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
84. The Shining by Stephen King
85. The Stranger by Albert Camus
86. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
87. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
88. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
89. The Wind and the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
90. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
91. The World According to Garp by John Irving
92. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
93. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
94. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
95. Unbroken <by Laura Hillenbrand
96. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
97. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
98. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak