100 books to read in a lifetime

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle
23,055 members
1,069 reviews
½ 4.4
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
81,261 members
1,372 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
42,689 members
1,149 reviews
4.1
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The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
45,019 members
770 reviews
4.2
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The House at Pooh Corner
by A. A. Milne
8,538 members
78 reviews
½ 4.4
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
12,758 members
242 reviews
4.1
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1984
by George Orwell
82,486 members
1,276 reviews
4.2
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
72,630 members
1,176 reviews
3.8
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Goodnight Moon
by Margaret Wise Brown
19,014 members
695 reviews
4.2
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
40,196 members
529 reviews
4.1
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His Dark Materials
by Philip Pullman
14,292 members
202 reviews
½ 4.3
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
44,235 members
709 reviews
4.1
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Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
26,294 members
1,451 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
35,695 members
510 reviews
3.9
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The Shining
by Stephen King
23,317 members
453 reviews
4.1
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Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
36,347 members
1,027 reviews
4.2
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The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
17,606 members
425 reviews
½ 4.3
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A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
39,784 members
963 reviews
4
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Don Quixote [Norton Critical Edition]
by Miguel de Cervantes
563 members
5 reviews
½ 4.3
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Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
38,734 members
440 reviews
3.9
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The Giver
by Lois Lowry
40,471 members
1,590 reviews
4.2
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Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
27,939 members
413 reviews
4
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The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
26,412 members
502 reviews
4.2
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
23,032 members
409 reviews
3.9
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The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
5,250 members
114 reviews
4.2
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Little House on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
15,727 members
229 reviews
4.1
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Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
13,979 members
245 reviews
4
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
20,819 members
435 reviews
3.8
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
25,217 members
454 reviews
4.1
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
23,886 members
467 reviews
4.1
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The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
16,672 members
342 reviews
3.8
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The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
20,545 members
559 reviews
4.1
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Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
13,202 members
461 reviews
3.9
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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
28,030 members
387 reviews
½ 3.6
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The World According to Garp
by John Irving
15,349 members
198 reviews
4.1
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The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
27,157 members
1,557 reviews
4.2
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Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
27,265 members
632 reviews
4.1
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A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
6,856 members
100 reviews
4
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
31,855 members
565 reviews
4.1
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
21,167 members
369 reviews
4
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The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
4,682 members
73 reviews
4.2
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The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
23,056 members
339 reviews
3.8
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All the President's Men
by Bob Woodward
4,693 members
73 reviews
4.1
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
9,840 members
124 reviews
½ 4.3
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Valley of the Dolls
by Jacqueline Susann
3,780 members
83 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
34,618 members
1,407 reviews
4.1
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The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
45,252 members
2,131 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Complete Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
6,930 members
254 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
13,156 members
489 reviews
3.8
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Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
8,320 members
593 reviews
4
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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
by Chris Ware
3,233 members
59 reviews
4.1
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Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen
5,254 members
100 reviews
3.9
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
by Judy Blume
7,745 members
241 reviews
3.8
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Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman
3,459 members
89 reviews
½ 4.4
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Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
8,500 members
146 reviews
4.1
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Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
21,971 members
337 reviews
4
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
17,963 members
370 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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Selected Stories
by Alice Munro
1,358 members
12 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
14,459 members
393 reviews
4.2
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70
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
16,277 members
212 reviews
4
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
2,374 members
30 reviews
½ 3.5
6 Members
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The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
64,927 members
3,497 reviews
½ 4.3
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
25,145 members
377 reviews
4.1
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74
Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
9,572 members
538 reviews
½ 4.3
5 Members
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75
The Lightning Thief
by Rick Riordan
32,077 members
1,256 reviews
4.1
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76
The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
22,273 members
702 reviews
4
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77
The Bad Beginning
by Lemony Snicket
21,526 members
493 reviews
½ 3.7
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78
Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings
by Shel Silverstein
15,956 members
482 reviews
½ 4.3
5 Members
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79
Breath, Eyes, Memory
by Edwidge Danticat
2,917 members
67 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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80
Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor Frankl
15,890 members
314 reviews
4.2
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81
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
22,299 members
1,547 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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82
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
14,771 members
743 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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83
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
14,414 members
193 reviews
4
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84
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
10,328 members
292 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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85
The Liars' Club: A Memoir
by Mary Karr
4,028 members
81 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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86
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
13,992 members
302 reviews
4
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87
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
13,949 members
351 reviews
4.2
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88
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
7,229 members
313 reviews
4
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89
Love Medicine
by Louise Erdrich
3,946 members
78 reviews
3.9
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90
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri
12,134 members
268 reviews
4.1
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91
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright
3,467 members
79 reviews
½ 4.3
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93
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
10,001 members
229 reviews
½ 4.4
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Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
7,405 members
155 reviews
½ 3.6
5 Members
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95
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
12,365 members
595 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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97
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro
2,943 members
48 reviews
½ 4.6
3 Members
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98
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
6,606 members
98 reviews
4
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99
Dune
by Frank Herbert
42,958 members
695 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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100
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
by Michael Lewis
5,537 members
130 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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