100 Amazing Books to Read in a Lifetime

Amazon has a list of 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime.  This is an extensive list of good books across several categories and these books were selected by Goodreads readers and Amazon editors.

I have had a lifelong love affair with books- especially the classics- and I think this is an excellent list.  There is definitely something for everyone and looking through this list is like seeing old friends for me.  Catcher in the Rye, The Good Earth, Gone with the Wind… all such beautiful books.  There are some current bestsellers included as well like several of the Harry Potter books and Gone Girl (which I loved).  Plus the Secret Life of Bees (another old friend of mine) and The Help.

So you might take a look at this list and see if you want to add some things to your bookshelf.  You can click the links to be taken to the main page where all 100 books are listed.  There are (4) pages in total.

I read a lot of books and I actually have a Pinterest board for books I liked or ones I want to read so that can be a great way to keep track.  I have read 55 of these books so I guess I have some work to do!

Here are the top 100 books:

• “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee
• Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen
• “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Anne Frank
• “1984″ by George Orwell
• “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling
• “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien
• “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• “Charlotte’s Web” by ER White 
• “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott
• The Hobbit by JRR Toiken
• “Fahrenheit 451″ by Ray Bradbury
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  by Mark Twain
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• The Handmade’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Little Prince by Antoine de St-Expupery
• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
• MacBeth by William Shakespeare
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Holy Bible: New King James Version by Thomas Nelson
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas pere
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• Catch-22 by Joesph Heller
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• The Stand by Stephen King
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman 
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen