100 books to read in a lifetime

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle
22,777 members
1,068 reviews
½ 4.4
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
80,630 members
1,369 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
42,286 members
1,139 reviews
4.1
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The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
44,631 members
763 reviews
4.2
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The House at Pooh Corner
by A. A. Milne
8,447 members
77 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
28,329 members
513 reviews
4.1
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1984
by George Orwell
81,953 members
1,272 reviews
4.2
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
72,170 members
1,170 reviews
3.8
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Goodnight Moon
by Margaret Wise Brown
18,801 members
694 reviews
4.2
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
40,004 members
526 reviews
4.1
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His Dark Materials
by Philip Pullman
14,234 members
202 reviews
½ 4.3
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
44,008 members
705 reviews
4.1
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Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
25,992 members
1,449 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
35,525 members
507 reviews
3.9
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The Shining
by Stephen King
23,147 members
453 reviews
4.1
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Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
36,123 members
1,023 reviews
4.2
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The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
17,452 members
425 reviews
½ 4.3
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A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
39,404 members
960 reviews
4
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Don Quixote [Norton Critical Edition]
by Miguel de Cervantes
562 members
5 reviews
½ 4.3
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Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
38,476 members
435 reviews
3.9
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The Giver
by Lois Lowry
40,073 members
1,586 reviews
4.2
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Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
27,793 members
412 reviews
4
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The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
26,244 members
501 reviews
4.2
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
22,836 members
406 reviews
3.9
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The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
5,232 members
114 reviews
4.2
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Little House on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
15,565 members
227 reviews
4.1
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Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
13,892 members
243 reviews
4
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
20,655 members
432 reviews
3.8
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
24,970 members
450 reviews
4.1
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
23,728 members
467 reviews
4.1
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The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
16,588 members
340 reviews
3.8
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The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
20,339 members
556 reviews
4.1
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Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
13,207 members
459 reviews
3.9
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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
27,931 members
387 reviews
½ 3.6
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The World According to Garp
by John Irving
15,296 members
196 reviews
4.1
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The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
26,907 members
1,552 reviews
4.2
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Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
27,144 members
631 reviews
4.1
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A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
6,798 members
99 reviews
4
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
31,708 members
563 reviews
4.1
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
21,074 members
368 reviews
4
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The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
4,665 members
72 reviews
4.2
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The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
22,956 members
337 reviews
3.8
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All the President's Men
by Bob Woodward
4,671 members
73 reviews
4.1
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
9,781 members
123 reviews
½ 4.3
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Valley of the Dolls
by Jacqueline Susann
3,760 members
82 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
34,424 members
1,406 reviews
4.1
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The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
44,847 members
2,125 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Complete Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
6,882 members
252 reviews
½ 4.3
6 Members
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
13,090 members
487 reviews
3.8
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Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
8,248 members
589 reviews
4
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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
by Chris Ware
3,216 members
59 reviews
4.1
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Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen
5,225 members
98 reviews
3.9
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
by Judy Blume
7,689 members
240 reviews
3.8
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Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman
3,432 members
89 reviews
½ 4.4
5 Members
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Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
8,464 members
146 reviews
4.1
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Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
21,848 members
337 reviews
4
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
17,864 members
370 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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Selected Stories
by Alice Munro
1,345 members
12 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
14,343 members
393 reviews
4.2
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70
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
16,174 members
212 reviews
4
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
2,367 members
30 reviews
½ 3.5
6 Members
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The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
64,491 members
3,485 reviews
½ 4.3
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
25,003 members
376 reviews
4.1
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74
Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
9,520 members
537 reviews
½ 4.3
5 Members
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75
The Lightning Thief
by Rick Riordan
31,645 members
1,246 reviews
4.1
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76
The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
22,148 members
701 reviews
4
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77
The Bad Beginning
by Lemony Snicket
21,330 members
491 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
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78
Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings
by Shel Silverstein
15,822 members
477 reviews
½ 4.3
5 Members
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79
Breath, Eyes, Memory
by Edwidge Danticat
2,904 members
66 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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80
Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor Frankl
15,724 members
313 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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81
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
22,087 members
1,542 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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82
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
14,627 members
740 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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83
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
14,403 members
192 reviews
4
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84
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
10,302 members
290 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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85
The Liars' Club: A Memoir
by Mary Karr
4,005 members
80 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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86
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
13,899 members
300 reviews
4
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87
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
13,920 members
351 reviews
4.2
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88
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
7,189 members
312 reviews
4
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89
Love Medicine
by Louise Erdrich
3,927 members
78 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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90
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri
12,112 members
268 reviews
4.1
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91
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright
3,451 members
79 reviews
½ 4.3
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93
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
9,926 members
229 reviews
½ 4.4
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Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
7,370 members
154 reviews
½ 3.6
5 Members
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95
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
12,217 members
594 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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97
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro
2,915 members
48 reviews
½ 4.6
3 Members
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98
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
6,519 members
97 reviews
4
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99
Dune
by Frank Herbert
42,528 members
690 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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100
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
by Michael Lewis
5,505 members
130 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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