100 Books Everyone Should Read Before They Die

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Amazon book editors have just released a list of their 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime.
Many of the books are 20th century classics or recent bestsellers — the oldest book on the list is Jane Austen's 1813 masterpiece "Pride and Prejudice." It also spanned multiple genres, with adult fiction, nonfiction, children's, and young adult novels such as "The Hunger Games" and "Harry Potter" making the list.
“With 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime, we set out to build a roadmap of a literary life without making it feel like a homework assignment,” Sara Nelson, Editorial Director of Print and Kindle Books at Amazon, said in a press release. “Over many months, the team passionately debated and defended the books we wanted on this list. In other words, we applied plenty of the bookish equivalent of elbow-grease, and we can’t wait to hear what customers have to say about our final picks.”

Check out the final list of books in alphabetical order below.

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" by Ishmael Beah
   
5. "A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning: The Short-Lived Edition" by Lemony Snicket
   
6. "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
   
7. "Alice Munro: Selected Stories" by Alice Munro
   
8. "Alice in Wonderland" 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 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: 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 M. 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 Jhumpa Lahiri
    
32. "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
    
33. "Jimmy Corrigan: 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 Garcia Marquez
    
39. "Love Medicine" by Louise Erdrich
    
40. "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor 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" 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 and Clay" by Michael Chabon
    
56. "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
    
57. "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
    
58. "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz
    
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: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America" by Erik Larson
    
63. "The Diary of Anne Frank" 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 (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)" 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: A Novel" 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: A Novel" 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" by Shel Silverstein
    
100. "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak