Amazon 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
Meet Big Brother 1984 by George Orwell Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Explore the Universe A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking |
Memoir as metafiction A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
A child-soldier's story A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Wicked good fun A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning: The Short-Lived Edition by Lemony Snicket Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
The 60s kids classic A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
A short-form master Alice Munro: Selected Stories by Alice Munro Print | Kindle |
Go down the rabbit hole Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Unseated a president All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
An Irish-American Memoir Angela's Ashes: A Memoirby Frank McCourt Print | Kindle |
The angst of adolescence Are You There, God? It's me, Margaret by Judy Blume Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
A literary page turner Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
The ghosts of slavery Beloved by Toni Morrison Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Why and how we run Born To Run - A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall Print | Kindle |
A journey from Haiti Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Launched its own catchphrase Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Vintage Roald Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
The timeless classic Charlotte's Web by E.B. White Print | Audiobook |
Ambitious and humane Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Vulnerability breeds courage Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
For reluctant readers Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1 by Jeff Kinney Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
A science fiction classic Dune by Frank Herbert Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
"It was a pleasure to burn." Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Gonzo journalism takes flight Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Marriage can be a real killer Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
First published in 1947 Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown Print | Audiobook |
Dickens' best novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Understanding societies Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Meet the boy wizard Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling Print | Kindle |
True crime at its best In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Award-winning short story debut Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
A literary milestone Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
A brilliant graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware |
Don't eat while you read this Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
One of the best of 2013 Life After Life by Kate Atkinson Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Childhood on the frontier Little House on the Prairieby Laura Ingalls Wilder |
Nabokov's triumph Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
A Latin American masterpiece Love in the Time of Choleraby Gabriel Garcia Marquez Print | Audiobook |
A saga set on the reservation Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich Print | Kindle |
A life-changing book Man's Search for Meaningby Viktor Frankl Print | Kindle |
Funny and poignant Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
A beautifully-written novel Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Rushdie's breakthrough Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Lewis hits it out of the park Moneyball by Michael Lewis Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
A writer's writer Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
The essence of the Beats On the Road by Jack Kerouac Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
A remarkable woman's story Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
A groundbreaking graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi |
Roth at his finest Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth Print | Kindle |
The perennial favorite Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
The birth of ecology Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
The absurdist WW2 novel Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
How Lincoln led Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
19th Century high society The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Chabon's magnum opus The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
A classic modern autobiography The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley |
The international sensation The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
The trials of a "ghetto nerd" The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Meet Holden Caulfield The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger |
Exploring a mother's past The Color of Water by James McBride Print | Kindle |
Great, but divisive The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
A triumph of narrative nonfiction The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Moving and eloquent The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
A soulful young adult novel The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Classic dystopia The Giver by Lois Lowry Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Pullman's fantasy classic The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
The rich are different.. .. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Feminist speculative fiction The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
A boy, a bear, a honeypot The House At Pooh Cornerby A. A. Milne Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Reality tv writ large The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Race, ethics, and medicine The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
A darkly funny memoir The Liars' Club: A Memoirby Mary Karr Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Monsters, Mythology, and a boy The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Unique and universal The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
First-rate Chandler Noir The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
The history of terrorism The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11by Lawrence Wright Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
One ring to rule them all The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
A deeply human account The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
The origins of food The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
An odd and original journey The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster Print | Kindle |
Missionaries in Africa The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
The Enforcer The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro Print | Audiobook |
The inner life of astronauts The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe Print | Kindle |
This way to the apocalypse The Road by Cormac McCarthy Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
A modern classic The Secret History by Donna Tartt Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Chilling and thrilling The Shining by Stephen King Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Existentialist fiction The Stranger by Albert Camus Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Meet the Lost Generation The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
The best book on Vietnam The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Baby's first book The Very Hungry Caterpillarby Eric Carle Print | Audiobook |
Mole, Toad, Rat, and Badger The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame |
From the modern Japanese master The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Beware the "Undertoad" The World According to Garp by John Irving Print | Audiobook |
Life, Love, Death The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Tradition vs. change Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
A beloved family story To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee |
An American inspiration Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
Addictively entertaining Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann Print | Kindle | Audiobook |
The joys of imagination Where the Sidewalk Endsby Shel Silverstein |
Let the wild rumpus start! Where the Wild Things Areby Maurice Sendak Print | Audiobook |
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