Here Are the 100 Books Amazon Thinks You Should Read Before You Die

If your New Year’s resolution is to read more in 2018 but don’t know where to start, Amazon editors have got you covered. They’ve put together a list of the 100 books to read in a lifetime, which covers fiction and nonfiction, with writers that range from Doris Kearns Goodwin to Shel Silverstein .

The list is mostly classics, so if you’re looking to beef up your library with something more zeitgeisty, they also released their most read Kindle and Audible books of 2017. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale topped the Kindle fiction list, with The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson taking top nonfiction honors.

1. 1984, by George Orwell
2. A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking
3. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers
4. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah
5. The Bad Beginning: 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 & Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll
9. All the President’s Men, by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
10. Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir, by Frank McCourt
11. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume
12. Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett
13. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
14. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, 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: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, by Brené 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: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, by Hunter S. Thompson
25. Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
26. Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown
27. Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
28. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond, Ph.D.
29. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling
30. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
31. Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa 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, 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 García Márquez
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: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, 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: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, 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 Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
57. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
58. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz
59. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
60. The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother, 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 in Our Stars, by John Green
65. The Giver, by Lois Lowry
66. The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials, by Philip 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, by Suzanne Collins
71. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
72. The Liars’ Club: A Memoir, by Mary Karr
73. The Lightning Thief , by Rick Riordan
74. The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
75. The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler
76. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright
77. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
78. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales, by Oliver Sacks
79. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan
80. The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
81. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
82. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, by Robert A. Caro
83. The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe
84. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
85. The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
86. The Shining, by Stephen King
87. The Stranger, by Albert Camus
88. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
89. The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien
90. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle
91. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
92. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
93. The World According to Garp, by John Irving
94. The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
95. Things Fall Apart , by Chinua Achebe
96. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
97. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand
98. Valley of the Dolls, by Jacqueline Susann
99. Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein, by Shel Silverstein
100. Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak

How many have you read? What would you add to the list?

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