100 of the Best Books of All Time
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- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1878)
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
- Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (1974)
- Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (1966)
- The Shining by Stephen King (1977)
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)
- The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954)
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (1962)
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
- All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (1974)
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (1946)
- Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1965)
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (2007)
- Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861)
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown (2012)
- 1984 by George Orwell (1949)
- Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (1996)
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (1988)
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (2000)
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (1997)
- Selected Stories, 1968–1994 by Alice Munro (1996)
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (2012)
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (1865)
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
- Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume (1970)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (2000)
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White (1952)
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (2009)
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X and Alex Haley (1965)
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson (1971)
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1999)
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947)
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
- Love Medicine by Louise Eldrich (1984)
- Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (2000)
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)
- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis (2003)
- Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (1915)
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
- Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (1937)
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (1939)
- Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth (1969)
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962)
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2005)
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (2016)
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Warton (1920)
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2000)
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (2005)
- Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown (1973)
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (2007)
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)
- The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride (1995)
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (1989)
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001)
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (2003)
- The Giver by Lois Lowry (1993)
- The Night Watchmen by Louise Erdrich (2020)
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (1995)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (2010)
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
- The Liars’ Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr (1995)
- The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (1953)
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (2006)
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Olive Sacks (1985)
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (2006)
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro (1974)
- The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (1979)
- Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (1953)
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006)
- The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (1990)
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (1994)
- The World According to Garp by John Irving (1978)
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1603)
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005)
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (2010)
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2000)
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)
- Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001)
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (1950)
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003)
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (2010)
- Reader's Digest's 100 of the Best Books of All Time by Leandra Beabout