Share-It Saturday: Amazon Says These Are the 100 Books Everyone Should’ve Read by Now

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Amazon Says These Are the 100 Books Everyone Should’ve Read by Now

How many can you check off?

BY CAROLINE PICARD

SEP 8, 2017

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Most bookworms can agree that 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Catcher in the Ryebelong on everyone’s reading bucket list. As for Diary of a Wimpy Kid? Your high school English teacher might disagree, but the beloved kids series just earned a spot in Amazon’s list of 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime.

The online bookseller turned shopping giant just released a definitive collection of must-reads, compiled by its own Amazon Books editors. The selection ranges from Frank McCourt’s heartbreaking memoir Angela’s Ashes to the delightfully zany Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.

“We had a few goals when we started out,” the editors wrote of their choices.
“We wanted the list to cover all stages of a life (which is why you’ll find children’s booksin here), and we didn’t want the list to feel like homework.” And with page turners like Gone Girl and In Cold Blood in the mix, there’s enough excitement to power through Barbara Kingsolver’s 500-plus-page epic The Poisonwood Bible. 

Bibliophiles likely know and love a good chunk of the entries, but there are plenty of new and surprising picks to choose from for your next fall read. Check out all 100 entries below and start adding to your library list — or arguing about its contents:

 

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1. 1984, by George Orwell ($6, amazon.com)

2. A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking ($10, amazon.com)

3. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers ($10, amazon.com)

4. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah ($10, amazon.com)

5. The Bad Beginning: Or, Orphans!, by Lemony Snicket ($7, amazon.com)

6. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle ($6, amazon.com)

7. Selected Stories, 1968-1994, by Alice Munro ($38, amazon.com)

8. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll ($6, amazon.com)

9. All the President’s Men, by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein ($13, amazon.com)

 

10. Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir, by Frank McCourt ($11, amazon.com)

11. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume ($9, amazon.com)

12. Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett ($12, amazon.com)

13. Beloved, by Toni Morrison ($11, amazon.com)

 

14. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, by Christopher McDougall ($10, amazon.com)

15. Breath, Eyes, Memory, by Edwidge Danticat ($4, amazon.com)

16. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller ($11, amazon.com)

17. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl ($8, amazon.com)

18. Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White ($6, amazon.com)

19. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese ($10, amazon.com)

20. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, by Brené Brown ($10, amazon.com)

21. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1, by Jeff Kinney ($10, amazon.com)

22. Dune, by Frank Herbert ($12, amazon.com)

23. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury ($9, amazon.com)

24. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, by Hunter S. Thompson ($10, amazon.com)

25. Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn ($10, amazon.com)

26. Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown ($6, amazon.com)

27. Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens ($8, amazon.com)

28. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond, Ph.D. ($11, amazon.com)

29. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling ($9, amazon.com)

30. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote ($11, amazon.com)

31. Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri ($10, amazon.com)

32. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison ($10, amazon.com)

33. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, by Chris Ware ($16, amazon.com)

34. Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain ($11, amazon.com)

35. Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson ($11, amazon.com)

36 Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder ($6, amazon.com)

37. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov ($9, amazon.com)

38. Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez ($10, amazon.com)

39. Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich ($10, amazon.com)

40. Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl ($15, amazon.com)

41. Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris ($9, amazon.com)

42. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides ($11, amazon.com)

43. Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie ($12, amazon.com)

44. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis ($11, amazon.com)

45. Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham ($13, amazon.com)

46. On the Road, by Jack Kerouac ($12, amazon.com)

47. Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen ($13, amazon.com)

48. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi ($9, amazon.com)

49. Portnoy’s Complaint, by Philip Roth ($11, amazon.com)

50. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen ($5, amazon.com)

51. Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson ($12, amazon.com)

52. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut ($11, amazon.com)

53. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin ($15, amazon.com)

54. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton ($7, amazon.com)

55. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon ($11, amazon.com)

56. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley ($6, amazon.com)

57. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak ($10, amazon.com)

58. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz ($10, amazon.com)

59. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger ($7, amazon.com)

60. The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother, by James McBride ($13, amazon.com)

61. The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen ($10, amazon.com)

62. The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson ($13, amazon.com)

63. The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank ($5, amazon.com)

64. The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green ($9, amazon.com)

65. The Giver, by Lois Lowry ($8, amazon.com)

66. The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman ($9, amazon.com)

67. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald ($7, amazon.com)

68. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood ($10, amazon.com)

69. The House at Pooh Corner, by A. A. Milne ($7, amazon.com)

70. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins ($8, amazon.com)

71. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot ($11, amazon.com)

72. The Liars’ Club: A Memoir, by Mary Karr ($11, amazon.com)

73. The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan ($6, amazon.com)

74. The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ($7, amazon.com)

75. The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler ($13, amazon.com)

76. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright ($11, amazon.com)

77. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien ($12, amazon.com)

78. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales, by Oliver Sacks ($11, amazon.com)

79. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan ($11, amazon.com)

80. The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster ($5, amazon.com)

81. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver ($15, amazon.com)

82. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, by Robert A. Caro ($16, amazon.com)

83. The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe ($13, amazon.com)

84. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy ($14, amazon.com)

85. The Secret History, by Donna Tartt ($10, amazon.com)

86. The Shining, by Stephen King ($6, amazon.com)

87. The Stranger, by Albert Camus ($9, amazon.com)

88. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway ($11, amazon.com)

89. The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien ($13, amazon.com)

90. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle ($7, amazon.com)

91. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame ($4, amazon.com)

92. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami ($11, amazon.com)

93. The World According to Garp, by John Irving ($6, amazon.com)

94. The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion ($10, amazon.com)

95. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe ($11, amazon.com)

96. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ($6, amazon.com)

97. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand ($12, amazon.com)

98. Valley of the Dolls, by Jacqueline Susann ($11, amazon.com)

99. Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein ($12, amazon.com)

100. Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak ($10, amazon.com)

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