50 Books to Read Before You’re 50

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On Revolution (1963) by Hannah Arendt
The Blind Assassin (2000) by Margaret Atwood
The Fire Next Time (1963) by James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) by James Baldwin
Days without End (2016) by Sebastian Barry
The Second Sex [abridged English translation by H. M. Parshley] (1949) by Simone de Beauvoir
The Art of Travel (2002) by Alain de Botton
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life (2019) by David Brooks
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (1992) by Julia Cameron
What We Talk about When We Talk about Love (1981) by Raymond Carver
My Life in France (2004) by Julia Child
Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones (2018) by James Clear
House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski
So Much Life Left Over (2018) by Louis De Bernières
Notes from Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Good Soldier (1915) by Ford Madox Ford
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (2009) by Jamie Ford
Cook Like a Pro: Recipes and Tips for Home Cooks (2018) by Ina Garten
The Signature of All Things (2013) by Elizabeth Gilbert
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) by Thomas Hardy
Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
An Artist of the Floating World (1986) by Kazuo Ishiguro
Waiting (1999) by Ha Jin
Dubliners (1914) by James Joyce
Love Poems for Married People (2018) by John Kenney
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (2011) by Marie Kondo
Salt: A World History (2002) by Mark Kurlansky
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (1994) by Anne Lamott
Sons And Lovers (1913) by D. H. Lawrence
Of Human Bondage (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham
A Year in Provence (1990) by Peter Mayle
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (2019) by Toni Morrison
Too Much Happiness (2009) by Alice Munro
The Rape of Europa : The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War (1994) by Lynn H. Nicholas
The Friend (2018) by Sigrid Nunez
Becoming (2018) by Michelle Obama
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver (1963) by Mary Oliver
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006) by Michael Pollan
Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales (2019) by Oliver Sacks
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy (2017) by Sheryl Sandberg
The Reader (1995) by Bernhard Schlink
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (2005) by Rebecca Solnit
Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2000) by Rebecca Solnit
Last Orders (1996) by Graham Swift
The Makioka Sisters (1943) by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Walden / Civil Disobedience (1849) by Henry David Thoreau
Anna Karenina (1875) by Leo Tolstoy
The Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton
Before We Were Yours (2017) by Lisa Wingate

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