Title |
Author |
Read? |
1984 |
George Orwell |
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A Brief History of Time |
Stephen Hawking |
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius |
Dave Eggers |
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier |
Ishmael Beah |
Yes |
The Bad Beginning |
Lemony Snicket |
Yes |
A Wrinkle in Time |
Madeleine L’Engle |
|
Selected Stories, 1968-1994 |
Alice Munro |
|
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland |
Lewis Carroll |
DNF |
All the President’s Men |
Bob Woodward |
|
Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir |
Frank McCourt |
|
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. |
Judy Blume |
Yes |
Bel Canto |
Ann Patchett |
|
Beloved |
Toni Morrison |
|
Born to Run |
Christopher McDougall |
|
Breath, Eyes, Memory |
Edwidge Danticat |
|
Catch-22 |
Joseph Heller |
DNF |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
Roald Dahl |
Yes |
Charlotte’s Web |
E. B White |
Yes |
Cutting for Stone |
Abraham Verghese |
|
Daring Greatly |
Brené Brown |
|
Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
Jeff Kinney |
|
Dune |
Frank Herbert |
|
Fahrenheit 451 |
Ray Bradbury |
|
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
Hunter S. Thompson |
|
Gone Girl |
Gillian Flynn |
|
Goodnight Moon |
Margaret Wise Brow |
|
Great Expectations |
Charles Dickens |
|
Guns, Germs, and Steel |
Jared Diamond Ph.D. |
|
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone |
J.K. Rowling |
Yes |
In Cold Blood |
Truman Capote |
|
Interpreter of Maladies |
Jhumpa Lahiri |
|
Invisible Man |
Ralph Ellison |
|
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth |
Chris Ware |
|
Kitchen Confidential |
Anthony Bourdain |
|
Life After Life |
Kate Atkinson |
|
Little House on the Prairie |
Laura Ingalls Wilder |
Yes |
Lolita |
Vladimir Nabokov |
Yes |
Love in the Time of Cholera |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
|
Love Medicine |
Louise Erdrich |
|
Man’s Search for Meaning |
Viktor E. Frankl |
|
Me Talk Pretty One Day |
David Sedaris |
|
Middlesex |
Jeffrey Eugenides |
|
Midnight’s Children |
Salman Rushdie |
|
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game |
Michael Lewis |
|
Of Human Bondage |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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On the Road |
Jack Kerouac |
DNF |
Out of Africa |
Isak Dinesen |
|
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood |
Marjane Satrapi |
|
Portnoy’s Complaint |
Philip Roth |
|
Pride and Prejudice |
Jane Austen |
Yes |
Silent Spring |
Rachel Carson |
|
Slaughterhouse-Five |
Kurt Vonnegut |
|
Team of Rivals |
Doris Kearns Goodwin |
|
The Age of Innocence |
Edith Wharton |
|
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay |
Michael Chabon |
|
The Autobiography of Malcolm X |
Malcolm X |
|
The Book Thief |
Markus Zusak |
Yes |
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
Junot Díaz |
|
The Catcher in the Rye |
J. D. Salinger |
Yes |
The Color of Water |
James McBride |
|
The Corrections |
Jonathan Franzen |
|
The Devil in the White City |
Erik Larson |
|
The Diary of a Young Girl |
Anne Frank |
Yes |
The Fault in Our Stars |
John Green |
Yes |
The Giver |
Lois Lowry |
Yes |
The Golden Compass |
Philip Pullman |
Yes |
The Great Gatsby |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
|
The Handmaid’s Tale |
Margaret Atwood |
DNF |
The House at Pooh Corner |
A. Milne |
|
The Hunger Games |
Suzanne Collins |
Yes |
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks |
Rebecca Skloot |
|
The Liars’ Club |
Mary Karr |
|
The Lightning Thief |
Rick Riordan |
Yes |
The Little Prince |
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
|
The Long Goodbye |
Raymond Chandler |
|
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 |
Lawrence Wright |
|
The Lord of the Rings |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
Yes |
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat |
Oliver Sacks |
|
The Omnivore’s Dilemma |
Michael Pollan |
|
The Phantom Tollbooth |
Norton Juster |
|
The Poisonwood Bible |
Barbara Kingsolver |
DNF |
The Power Broker |
Robert A. Caro |
|
The Right Stuff |
Tom Wolfe |
|
The Road |
Cormac McCarthy |
DNF |
The Secret History |
Donna Tartt |
|
The Shining |
Stephen King |
Yes |
The Stranger |
Albert Camus |
|
The Sun Also Rises |
Ernest Hemingway |
|
The Things They Carried |
Tim O’Brien |
|
The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
Eric Carle |
Yes |
The Wind in the Willows |
Kenneth Grahame |
Yes |
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle |
Haruki Murakami |
DNF |
The World According to Garp |
John Irving |
|
The Year of Magical Thinking |
Joan Didion |
|
Things Fall Apart |
Chinua Achebe |
DNF |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
Harper Lee |
Yes |
Unbroken |
Laura Hillenbrand |
|
Valley of the Dolls |
Jacqueline Susann |
|
Where the Sidewalk Ends |
Shel Silverstein |
|
Where the Wild Things Are |
Maurice Sendak |
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Awesome list! Precisely yesterday I was making a list of 20 classics I want to read and I went as far as 10 and ran out of ideas. I've read a few like The Omnivore’s Dilemma, the Little Prince. Just finishing the Golden Compass now and I have a few from your list like The Road, The Handmaid Tale, and The book thief I'll add Unbroken and To kill a Mockingbird from your list.
ReplyDeleteMy list of 100 books to read would be somewhat different from this one! I'm surprised I picked up as many as I did!
DeleteInteresting! I’ve read 43 and DNFed 1 (Lord of the Rings).
ReplyDeleteAj @ Read All The Things!
43 is pretty good!
DeleteWell, I've read 17 of these - much better than I thought I would. Very interesting.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny, I look at them and think how my tastes have changed!
DeleteI might have to steal this from you and force myself to read some more fiction!
ReplyDeleteThat 1001 books to read before you die...I think I got about 20 on it! This list was better but only because I used to read more varied genres! The ones I haven't read don't interest me much!
DeleteOh my gosh so many to read here (and realistically how many will I really get to lol)?? But I'd really like to get to some of these. I am happy to have finally!! read the hunger Games series recently. and I love the Pooh books, kids books or not!
ReplyDeleteI found it interesting to see what I've read but I don't plan to read anything else from it! I just did this as a quick book tag for fun!
DeleteYou read more of these than I did. I'm surprised at some that I hadn't read!
ReplyDeleteI read a lot of asian and african fiction back around 2010 but don't read the genres now. I tried a lot of them through Bookcrossing but found quite a few not to my taste!
DeleteThere are a bunch I would pass on. No interest in reading, so this would not be a good 'challenge' for me to do. :-)
ReplyDeletesherry @ fundinmental
Same here! What I haven't looked at doesn't interest me. In fact, if I was starting the list from scratch, I'd hardly look at any of them!
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