100 Books Every Human Should Read

1/11/2015
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100 Books That Every Human Being Should

Read In Their Lifetime
Mark Pygas 13-Apr
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Reading changes lives. Yet, in the last year, 4 out of 5 American families did not buy or
read a single book. It's quite sad. The visitors to Good Reads put together a list of the
top 100 books to read in your lifetime, and even if you only put a small dent in the list,
you're bettering yourself and doing your part to keep books alive.
source: statisticbrain.com
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
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Harper Lee
2. Pride and Prejudice
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Jane Austen
3. The Diary of a Young Girl
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Anne Frank
4. 1984
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George Orwell
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5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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J.K. Rowling
6. The Lord of the Rings
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J.R.R. Tolkien
7. The Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. Charlotte's Web
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E.B. White
9. The Hobbit
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J.R.R. Tolkien
10. Little Women
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Louisa May Alcott
11. Fahrenheit 451
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Ray Bradbury
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12. Jane Eyre
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Charlotte Bront
13. Gone with the Wind
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Margaret Mitchell
14. Animal Farm
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George Orwell
15. The Catcher in the Rye
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J.D. Salinger
16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Mark Twain
17. The Help
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Kathryn Stockett
18. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
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C.S. Lewis
19. The Grapes of Wrath
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John Steinbeck
20. The Hunger Games
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Suzanne Collins
21. The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak
22. The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini
23. Lord of the Flies
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William Golding
24. Night
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Elie Wiesel
25. Hamlet
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William Shakespeare
26. A Wrinkle in Time
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Madeleine L'Engle
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27. A Tale of Two Cities
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Charles Dickens
28. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Douglas Adams
29. A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
30. Of Mice and Men
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John Steinbeck
31. Brave New World
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Aldous Huxley
32. The Secret Garden
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
33. Romeo and Juliet
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William Shakespeare
34. The Handmaid's Tale
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Margaret Atwood
35. Where the Sidewalk Ends
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Shel Silverstein
36. The Little Prince

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Antoine de Saint-Exupry
37. Anne of Green Gables
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L.M. Montgomery
38. The Giver
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Lois Lowry
39. Wuthering Heights
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Emily Bront
40. Macbeth
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William Shakespeare
41. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Mark Twain
42. The Count of Monte Cristo

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Alexandre Dumas
43. Holy Bible: King James Version
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Anonymous
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44. Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley
45. The Fault in Our Stars
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John Green
46. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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Stieg Larsson
47. East of Eden
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John Steinbeck
48. In Cold Blood
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Truman Capote
49. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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J.K. Rowling
50. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Betty Smith
51. The Color Purple
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Alice Walker
52. Catch-22
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Joseph Heller
53. The Stand
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Stephen King
54. Watership Down
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Richard Adams
55. Ender's Game
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Orson Scott Card
56. Alice in Wonderland
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Lewis Carroll
57. Anna Karenina

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Leo Tolstoy
58. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes #3)
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Arthur Conan Doyle
59. Memoirs of a Geisha
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Arthur Golden
60. Rebecca
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Daphne du Maurier
61. The Old Man and the Sea
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Ernest Hemingway
62. The Princess Bride
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William Goldman
63. Great Expectations
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Charles Dickens
64. A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1)
83/132
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George R.R. Martin
65. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter #3)
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J.K. Rowling
66. Life of Pi
86/132
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Yann Martel
67. The Pillars of the Earth (The Pillars of the Earth #1)
87/132
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
68. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket #1)
88/132
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Roald Dahl
69. The Scarlet Letter
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
70. Les Misrables
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Victor Hugo
71. The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia

(Publication Order) #1-7)
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C.S. Lewis
72. Dracula
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Bram Stoker
73. Catching Fire (The Hunger Games #2)
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Suzanne Collins
74. The Raven
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Edgar Allan Poe

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75. The Secret Life of Bees
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Sue Monk Kidd (Goodreads Author)
76. Water for Elephants
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Sara Gruen
77. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter #6)
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J.K. Rowling
78. The Good Earth (House of Earth #1)
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Pearl S. Buck
79. One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Gabriel Garc
a Mrquez
80. The Poisonwood Bible
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Barbara Kingsolver
81. The Time Traveler's Wife
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Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author)
82. Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly

Knowledge 1995-2000
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
83. A Prayer for Owen Meany
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
84. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author)
85. And Then There Were None
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Agatha Christie
86. The Thorn Birds
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Colleen McCullough
87. The Glass Castle
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Jeannette Walls
88. The Things They Carried
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Tim O'Brien
89. The Road
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Cormac McCarthy
90. The Odyssey
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Homer
91. Mockingjay (The Hunger Games #3)
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Suzanne Collins
92. Beloved (Toni Morrison Trilogy #1)
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Toni Morrison
93. The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With

Epilogue
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
94. Siddhartha
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Hermann Hesse
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95. Cutting for Stone
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Abraham Verghese
96. The Story of My Life
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Helen Keller
97. Outlander (Outlander #1)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
98. Gone Girl
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Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author)
99. The Phantom Tollbooth
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Norton Juster
100. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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E.L. Konigsburg
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1/11/2015

100 Books That Every Human Being Should

2. Pride and Prejudice

3. The Diary of a Young Girl

5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

6. The Lord of the Rings

7. The Great Gatsby

10. Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

11. Fahrenheit 451

12. Jane Eyre

13. Gone with the Wind

14. Animal Farm

15. The Catcher in the Rye

16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

17. The Help

18. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

19. The Grapes of Wrath

20. The Hunger Games

21. The Book Thief

22. The Kite Runner

23. Lord of the Flies

26. A Wrinkle in Time

27. A Tale of Two Cities

28. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

29. A Christmas Carol

30. Of Mice and Men

31. Brave New World

32. The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

33. Romeo and Juliet

34. The Handmaid's Tale

35. Where the Sidewalk Ends

36. The Little Prince

37. Anne of Green Gables

38. The Giver

39. Wuthering Heights

41. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

42. The Count of Monte Cristo

43. Holy Bible: King James Version

45. The Fault in Our Stars

46. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

47. East of Eden

48. In Cold Blood

49. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

50. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

51. The Color Purple

53. The Stand

54. Watership Down

55. Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card

56. Alice in Wonderland

57. Anna Karenina

58. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes #3)

Arthur Conan Doyle

59. Memoirs of a Geisha

61. The Old Man and the Sea

62. The Princess Bride

63. Great Expectations

64. A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1)

George R.R. Martin

Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)

68. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket #1)