Book Awards50 Books to Read Before You’re 50

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Works (49)

TitlesOrder
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton — not in English Common Knowledge
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy — not in English Common Knowledge
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton — not in English Common Knowledge
An artist of the floating world by Kazuo Ishiguro — not in English Common Knowledge
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron — not in English Common Knowledge
Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear — not in English Common Knowledge
Becoming by Michelle Obama — not in English Common Knowledge
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate — not in English Common Knowledge
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott — not in English Common Knowledge
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood — not in English Common Knowledge
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley — not in English Common Knowledge
Cook Like a Pro: Recipes and Tips for Home Cooks by Ina Garten — not in English Common Knowledge
Days without End by Sebastian Barry — not in English Common Knowledge
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver — not in English Common Knowledge
Dubliners by James Joyce — not in English Common Knowledge
Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks — not in English Common Knowledge
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy — not in English Common Knowledge
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit — not in English Common Knowledge
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin — not in English Common Knowledge
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez — not in English Common Knowledge
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin — not in English Common Knowledge
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford — not in English Common Knowledge
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford — not in English Common Knowledge
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski — not in English Common Knowledge
Last Orders by Graham Swift — not in English Common Knowledge
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo — not in English Common Knowledge
Love Poems for Married People by John Kenney — not in English Common Knowledge
The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki — not in English Common Knowledge
My Life in France by Julia Child — not in English Common Knowledge
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky — not in English Common Knowledge
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham — not in English Common Knowledge
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan — not in English Common Knowledge
On Revolution by Hannah Arendt — not in English Common Knowledge
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg — not in English Common Knowledge
The Rape of Europa : The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H. Nicholas — not in English Common Knowledge
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink — not in English Common Knowledge
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky — not in English Common Knowledge
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks — not in English Common Knowledge
The Second Sex [abridged English translation by H. M. Parshley] by Simone de Beauvoir — not in English Common Knowledge
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert — not in English Common Knowledge
So Much Life Left Over by Louis De Bernières — not in English Common Knowledge
Sons And Lovers by D. H. Lawrence — not in English Common Knowledge
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison — not in English Common Knowledge
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro — not in English Common Knowledge
Waiting by Ha Jin — not in English Common Knowledge
Walden / Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau — not in English Common Knowledge
Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit — not in English Common Knowledge
What We Talk about When We Talk about Love by Raymond Carver — not in English Common Knowledge
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle — not in English Common Knowledge