100 books to read in a lifetime

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle
21,707 members
1,041 reviews
½ 4.4
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
77,591 members
1,337 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
40,788 members
1,114 reviews
4.1
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The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
42,672 members
739 reviews
4.2
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The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
27,431 members
501 reviews
4.1
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1984
by George Orwell
79,063 members
1,244 reviews
4.2
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
69,642 members
1,133 reviews
3.8
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Goodnight Moon
by Margaret Wise Brown
17,982 members
673 reviews
4.2
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
38,913 members
513 reviews
4.1
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His Dark Materials
by Philip Pullman
13,884 members
201 reviews
½ 4.3
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
42,780 members
683 reviews
4.1
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Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
24,952 members
1,426 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
34,345 members
490 reviews
3.9
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The Shining
by Stephen King
22,296 members
438 reviews
4.1
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Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
34,890 members
1,006 reviews
4.2
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The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
16,803 members
419 reviews
½ 4.3
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A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
37,878 members
934 reviews
4
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Don Quixote [Norton Critical Edition]
by Miguel de Cervantes
554 members
5 reviews
½ 4.3
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Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
37,016 members
419 reviews
3.9
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The Giver
by Lois Lowry
38,407 members
1,557 reviews
4.2
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Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
27,136 members
405 reviews
4
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The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
25,819 members
495 reviews
4.2
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
22,053 members
399 reviews
3.9
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The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
5,086 members
111 reviews
4.2
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Little House on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
14,884 members
221 reviews
4.1
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Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
13,558 members
241 reviews
4
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
19,943 members
423 reviews
3.8
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
24,071 members
436 reviews
4.1
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
22,940 members
455 reviews
4.1
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The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
16,275 members
341 reviews
3.8
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The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
19,163 members
528 reviews
4.1
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Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
12,891 members
448 reviews
3.9
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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
27,269 members
382 reviews
½ 3.6
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The World According to Garp
by John Irving
15,044 members
193 reviews
4.1
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The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
25,602 members
1,532 reviews
4.2
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Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
26,671 members
622 reviews
4.1
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A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
6,657 members
97 reviews
4
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
30,956 members
548 reviews
4.1
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
20,754 members
360 reviews
4
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The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
4,542 members
68 reviews
4.2
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The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
22,327 members
323 reviews
3.8
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All the President's Men
by Carl Bernstein
4,594 members
72 reviews
4.1
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
9,442 members
118 reviews
½ 4.3
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Valley of the Dolls
by Jacqueline Susann
3,625 members
79 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
33,342 members
1,387 reviews
4.1
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The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
43,175 members
2,107 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Complete Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
6,587 members
244 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
12,881 members
474 reviews
3.8
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Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
8,054 members
576 reviews
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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
by Chris Ware
3,146 members
55 reviews
4.1
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Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen
5,077 members
100 reviews
3.9
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
by Judy Blume
7,449 members
235 reviews
3.8
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Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman
3,284 members
85 reviews
½ 4.4
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Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
8,207 members
142 reviews
4.1
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Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
21,467 members
334 reviews
4
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The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
10,159 members
285 reviews
3.8
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
17,414 members
372 reviews
4.2
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Selected Stories
by Alice Munro
1,301 members
12 reviews
4.1
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The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
13,833 members
380 reviews
4.2
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
15,734 members
203 reviews
4
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
2,304 members
30 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
61,614 members
3,443 reviews
½ 4.3
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
24,247 members
366 reviews
4.1
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Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
9,209 members
524 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Lightning Thief
by Rick Riordan
29,539 members
1,217 reviews
4.1
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The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
21,340 members
683 reviews
4
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The Bad Beginning
by Lemony Snicket
20,499 members
483 reviews
½ 3.7
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Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings
by Shel Silverstein
15,235 members
457 reviews
½ 4.3
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Breath, Eyes, Memory
by Edwidge Danticat
2,812 members
66 reviews
3.8
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Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
21,179 members
1,527 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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82
Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor Frankl
14,792 members
304 reviews
4.2
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
14,031 members
731 reviews
4.2
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84
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
13,984 members
189 reviews
4
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The Liars' Club: A Memoir
by Mary Karr
3,893 members
78 reviews
3.8
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The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
13,449 members
296 reviews
4
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
13,627 members
344 reviews
4.2
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
6,988 members
309 reviews
4
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Love Medicine
by Louise Erdrich
3,796 members
77 reviews
3.9
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Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri
11,825 members
260 reviews
4.1
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright
3,347 members
78 reviews
½ 4.3
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
9,586 members
227 reviews
½ 4.4
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Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
7,221 members
149 reviews
½ 3.6
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Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
6,246 members
98 reviews
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
11,696 members
581 reviews
½ 4.4
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98
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro
2,719 members
46 reviews
½ 4.6
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Dune
by Frank Herbert
40,167 members
652 reviews
½ 4.3
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100
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
by Michael Lewis
5,328 members
125 reviews
4.2
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