100 Books to Read in a Lifetime

Amazon and Goodreads  (click to take you there) recently got together and complied a list of 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime.  I am always trying to get ideas on what to read next, so here's the list (click individual titles to purchase or get more info): 

• “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee (classic and available also at Target for $3.99)
• Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen
• “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Anne Frank (don't miss this) 
• “1984″ by George Orwell
• “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling
• “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien
• “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• “Charlotte’s Web” by ER White  (I read aloud with the kids, and loved it as much as them!)
• “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott
• The Hobbit by JRR Toiken
• “Fahrenheit 451″ by Ray Bradbury
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte  (of course) 
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  by Mark Twain
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett (modern classic, even if you've seen the movie, read the book)
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis (try the whole Narnia series!)
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (I gave into the hype and read the series, and enjoyed it!) 
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (one you won't forget) 
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (kinda gut wrenching, but excellently written) 
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (a fav as a teenager, and I want to pick it up again this summer)
• The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• The Handmade’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Little Prince by Antoine de St-Expupery
• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (anything Shel Silverstein is a hit!)
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
• MacBeth by William Shakespeare
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Holy Bible: New King James Version by Thomas Nelson (not a huge King James fan, I think any version you like works!)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas pere
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (I've been hearing a lot about this one, but haven't picked it up yet)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (a book club pick a couple years back that was very enjoyable)
• Catch-22 by Joesph Heller
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• The Stand by Stephen King
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman 
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (we are lovers of Roald Dahl, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is no exception.  Don't forger James and the Giant Peach!) 
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (interesting read!)
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (yes! I really liked the story and historical aspect of this) 
• The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (an east to love story, and nice summer read)
• Outlander by Gabaldon
• A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (a don't miss!) 
• The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
• The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• The Odessy by Homer
• Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from 5 Years of Weekly Knowledge by Sri Sri Ravi Shanker
• A Prayer for Own Meany by John Irving
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullogh 
• The Glass Castle by Jeanette Wall (sad, but definitely a worthy read)
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (part of the Hunger Games series)
• The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (long but great) 
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Helen Keller: The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (Another kids classic I loved, and may revisit as an adult)
• From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler by EL Konigsburg (a fav as a kid!)
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (weird yet addicting) 
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I've read 20 of these, so I better get busy! I added some comments to some of the titles I've read. 
A few they may have missed: 
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahari (or anything by her!)
I could think of more...
What do you think? 
Happy (almost) summer reading!