100 Books That Will Make You More Interesting,

More Attractive, and Sound Smart Even If You Arent (Yet)

Want to sound smart in conversations with grownups or college friends? Make reference to one or two of these books (only if
youve really read them!) and you will! There are lots of books in the universe and theyre not all required reading for class, so if you
were to read only 100 books as a Young Adult, reading these would certainly not be a bad idea.

Things Fall Apart The Handmaids Murder on The Brief Madame

by Chinua Tale by Margaret the Orient Wondrous Life Bovary by
Achebe Atwood Express by of Oscar Wao Gustave
Agatha by Junot Diaz Flaubert
Christie
The Hitchhikers Pride and The Last of Great Everything is
Guide to the Prejudice by Jane the Mohicans Expectations Illuminated by
Galaxy by Austen by James by Charles Jonathan
Douglas Adams Fenimore Dickens Safran Foer
Cooper
A Death in the Fahrenheit 451 Inferno by The Adventures The Pillars of
Family by James by Ray Dante of Sherlock the Earth by
Agee Bradbury Holmes by Ken Follett
Arthur Conan
Doyle

The Absolutely Jane Eyre by Don Quixote The Worst American

True Diary of a Charlotte Bronte by Miguel de Hard Time Gods by Neil
Part-Time Indian Cervantes by Timothy Gaiman
by Sherman Egan
Alexie
Bastard Out of Wuthering The Little Zeitoun by A Lesson
Carolina by Heights by Prince by Dave Eggers Before Dying
Dorothy Allison Emily Bronte Antoine de by Ernest J.
Saint-Exupery Gaines

In the Time of A Short History Robinson Nickel and Outliers: The

the Butterflies of Nearly Crusoe by Dimed: On Story of
by Julia Alvarez Everything by Daniel Defoe (Not) Getting Success by
By in America Malcolm
Bill Bryson
by Barbara Gladwell
Ehrenreich
Undaunted The Amazing The Red Tent Invisible Man Lord of the
Courage by Adventures of by Anita by Ralph Flies by
Stephen Kavalier and Diamant Ellison William
Ambrose Clay by Golding
Michael Chabon
I Know Why the The Canterbury Guns, Germs, The Great Looking for
Caged Bird Sings Tales by and Steel: The Gatsby by Alaska by
by Maya Angelou Geoffrey Fates of Human F. Scott John Green
Societies by
Chaucer Fitzgerald
Jared Diamond
A Brief History of A Prayer for The Kafka On the Hamlet by
Time by Stephen Owen Meany Namesake Shore by Shakespeare
Hawking by John Irving by Jhumpa Haruki (play)
Lahiri Murakami

The Scarlet Never Let Me The Devil in The Things Macbeth by

Letter by Go by Kazuo the White They Carried Shakespeare
Nathaniel Ishiguro City by Erik by Tim (play)
Hawthorne Larson OBrien

Catch-22 by The Known To Kill a 1984 by Frankenstein

Joseph Heller World by Mockingbird George by Mary
Edward P. by Harper Orwell Shelley
Jones Lee

The Sun Also The The Call of When the The

Rises by Ernest Metamorphosis the Wild by Emperor Was Radioactive
Hemingway by Franz Kafka Jack London Divine by Julie Boy Scout by
Otsuka Ken Silverstein

Dune by Frank The Boy Who One Hundred The Bell Jar The Immortal
Herbert Harnessed the Years of by Sylvia Life of
Wind by William Solitude by Plath Henrietta Lacks
Kamkwamba Gabriel Garcia by Rebecca
Marquez Skloot

The Iliad by The Laramie The Road by The The Complete

Homer Project by Cormac Omnivores Maus by Art
Moises McCarthy Dilemma by Spiegelman
Michael Pollan (graphic
Kaufman
novel)

The Odyssey by On the Road by Angelas His Dark The Grapes of

Homer Jack Kerouac Ashes by Materials Wrath by
Frank trilogy by John
Phillip Pullman
McCourt Steinbeck

The Kite Runner One Flew Over Death of a Atlas Treasure

by Khaled the Cuckoos Salesman by Shrugged by Island by
Hosseini Nest by Ken Arthur Miller Ayn Rand Robert Louis
Kesey (play) Stevenson

Their Eyes Were The Stand by Watchmen by The Catcher in The Hobbit by
Watching God Stephen King Alan Moore the Rye by J.R.R. Tolkien
by Zora Neale (graphic J.D. Salinger
Hurston novel)

Brave New Into Thin Air: A Beloved by The Complete The

World by Personal Account Toni Persepolis by Adventures of
Aldous Huxley of the Mt. Morrison Marjane Huckleberry
Everest Disaster Satrapi Finn by Mark
by Jon Krakauer (graphic novel) Twain
Vanity Fair by Candide by The Glass Night by Elie Native Son by
William Voltaire Castle by Wiesel Richard Wright
Thackeray Jeanette Walls

Rabbit, Run by Slaughter Salvage the This Boys Life The Book Thief
John Updike house- Bones by by Tobias by Marcus
Five by Kurt Jesmyn Ward Wolff Zusak
Vonnegut