100 books you need to read in your lifetime

 This is the Goodreads Top 100 books list. Many of these I have read before but I am not going to count them. I will start reading them as of today and post a little blurb about them as I finish, it may be in order or it may not, I'm not sure yet.

1. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
   
   

2. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
   
   

3. "The Diary of Anne Frank" by Anne Frank 7-10-22
   
   

4. "1984" by George Orwell
   
   

5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
   
   

6. "The Lord of the Rings" (1-3) by J.R.R. Tolkien
   
   

7. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
   
   

8. "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
   
   

9. "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien
   
   

10. "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
    
    

11. "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
    
    

12. "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte
    
    

13. "Animal Farm" by George Orwell
    
    

14. "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell
    
    

15. "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
    
    

16. "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
    
    

17. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain
    
    

18. "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
    
    

19. "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
    
    

20. "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wadrobe" by C.S. Lewis
    
    

21. "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck
    
    

22. "The Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
    
    

23. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
    
    

24. "Night" by Elie Wiesel
    
    

25. "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare
    
    

26. "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
    
    

27. "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
    
    

28. "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens
    
    

29. "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare
    
    

30. "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
    
    

31. "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
    
    

32. "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
    
    

33. "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    
    

34. "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
    
    

35. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
    
    

36. "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
    
    

37. "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
    
    

38. "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein
    
    

39. "Wuthering Heights" Emily Bronte
    
    

40. "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
    
    

41. "Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery
    
    

42. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain
    
    

43. "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare
    
    

44. "The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larrson 
    
    

45. "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
    
    

46. "The Holy Bible: King James Version"
    
    

47. "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker
    
    

48. "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas
    
    

49. "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
    
    

50. "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
    
    

51. "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
    
    

52. "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
    
    

53. "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
    
    

54. "The Stand" by Stephen King
    
    

55. "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon
    
    

56. "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
    
    

57. "Enders Game" by Orson Scott Card
    
    

58. "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
    
    

59. "Watership Down" by Richard Adams
    
    

60. "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden
    
    

61. "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
    
    

62. "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
    
    

63. "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
    
    

64. "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
    
    

65. "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (#3) by Arthur Conan Doyle
    
    

66. "Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo
    
    

67. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
    
    

68. "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
    
    

69. "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
    
    

70. "Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge" by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
    
    

71. "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis
    
    

72. "The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett
    
    

73. "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
    
    

74. "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
    
    

75. "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
    
    

76. "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
    
    

77. "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
    
    

78. "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
    
    

79. "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
    
    

80. "The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel" by Barbara Kingsolver
    
    

81. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
    
    

82. "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger
    
    

83. "The Odyssey" by Homer
    
    

84. "The Good Earth (House of Earth #1)" by Pearl S. Buck
    
    

85. "Mockingjay (Hunger Games #3)" by Suzanne Collins
    
    

86. "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
    
    

87. "The Thorn Birds" by Colleen McCullough
    
    

88. "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving
    
    

89. "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
    
    

90. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
    
    

91. "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    
    

92. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
    
    

93. "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
    
    

94. "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
    
    

95. "Beloved" by Toni Morrison
    
    

96. "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
    
    

97. "Cutting For Stone" by Abraham Verghese
    
    

98. "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
    
    

99. "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    
    

100. "The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller