Tuesday, 8 April 2014

100 Books to Read In a Life Time

100 Books to read in a life time


Meet Big Brother
1984
1984 by George Orwell
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Explore the Universe
A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
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Memoir as metafiction
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
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A child-soldier's story
A Long Way Gone
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
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Wicked good fun
A Series of Unfortunate Events
A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning: The Short-Lived Edition by Lemony Snicket
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The 60s kids classic
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
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A short-form master
Alice Munro: Short Stories
Alice Munro: Selected Stories by Alice Munro
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Go down the rabbit hole
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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Unseated a president
All the President's Men
All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
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An Irish-American Memoir
Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
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The angst of adolescence
Are You There, God? It's me, Margaret
Are You There, God? It's me, Margaret by Judy Blume
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A literary page turner
Bel Canto
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
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The ghosts of slavery
Beloved
Beloved by Toni Morrison
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Why and how we run
Born to Run
Born To Run - A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
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A journey from Haiti
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
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Launched its own catchphrase
Catch-22
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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Vintage Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
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The timeless classic
Charlotte's Web
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
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Ambitious and humane
Cutting For Stone
Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
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Vulnerability breeds courage
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown
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For reluctant readers
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1 by Jeff Kinney
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A science fiction classic
Dune
Dune by Frank Herbert
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"It was a pleasure to burn."
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Gonzo journalism takes flight
Fear and Loathing
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
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Marriage can be a real killer
Gone Girl
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
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First published in 1947
Goodnight Moon


Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
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Dickens' best novel
Great Expectations
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Understanding societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond
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Meet the boy wizard
Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
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True crime at its best
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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Award-winning short story debut
Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
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A literary milestone
Invisible Man
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
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A brilliant graphic novel
Jimmy Corrigan


Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
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Don't eat while you read this
Kitchen Confidential
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
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One of the best of 2013
Life After Life
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
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Childhood on the frontier
Little House on the Prairie
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Nabokov's triumph
Lolita
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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A Latin American masterpiece
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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A saga set on the reservation
Love Medicine
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
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A life-changing book
Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
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Funny and poignant
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
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A beautifully-written novel
Middlesex
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Rushdie's breakthrough
Midnight's Children
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
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Lewis hits it out of the park
Moneyball
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
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A writer's writer
Of Human Bondage
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
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The essence of the Beats
On the Road
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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A remarkable woman's story
Out of Africa
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
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A groundbreaking graphic novel
Persepolis
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
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Roth at his finest
Portnoy's Complaint
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
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The perennial favorite
Pride and Prejudice
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
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The birth of ecology
Silent Spring
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
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The absurdist WW2 novel
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
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How Lincoln led
Team of Rivals
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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19th Century high society
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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Chabon's magnum opus
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
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A classic modern autobiography
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
Print
The international sensation
The Book Thief
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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The trials of a "ghetto nerd"
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
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Meet Holden Caulfield
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Print
Exploring a mother's past
The Color of Water
The Color of Water by James McBride
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Great, but divisive
The Corrections
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
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A triumph of narrative nonfiction
The Devil in the White City
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
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Moving and eloquent
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
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A soulful young adult novel
The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
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Classic dystopia
The Giver
The Giver by Lois Lowry
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Pullman's fantasy classic
The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials
The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
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The rich are different.. ..
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Feminist speculative fiction
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
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A boy, a bear, a honeypot
The House At Pooh Corner
The House At Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne
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Reality tv writ large
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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Race, ethics, and medicine
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
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A darkly funny memoir
The Liars' Club: A Memoir
The Liars' Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr
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Monsters, Mythology, and a boy
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
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Unique and universal
The Little Prince
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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First-rate Chandler Noir
The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
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The history of terrorism
The Looming Tower
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
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One ring to rule them all
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
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A deeply human account
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
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The origins of food
The Omnivore's Dilemma
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
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An odd and original journey
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
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Missionaries in Africa
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
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The Enforcer
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
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The inner life of astronauts
The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
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This way to the apocalypse
The Road
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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A modern classic
The Secret History
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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Chilling and thrilling
The Shining
The Shining by Stephen King
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Existentialist fiction
The Stranger
The Stranger by Albert Camus
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Meet the Lost Generation
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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The best book on Vietnam
The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
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Baby's first book
The Very Hungry Caterpillar



The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
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Mole, Toad, Rat, and Badger
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Print
From the modern Japanese master
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
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Beware the "Undertoad"
The World According to Garp
The World According to Garp by John Irving
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Life, Love, Death
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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Tradition vs. change
Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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A beloved family story
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Print
An American inspiration
Unbroken
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
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Addictively entertaining
Valley of the Dolls
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
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The joys of imagination
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
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Let the wild rumpus start!
Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
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