Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
A list curated by "Amazon's book editors".
- 1
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · 43 lists
- 2
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1955 · 38 lists
- 3
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell · 1948 · 36 lists
- 4
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1960 · 33 lists
- 5
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger · 1951 · 32 lists
- 6
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987 · 31 lists
- 7
Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 1961 · 29 lists
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison · 1952 · 29 lists
- 9
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 1813 · 28 lists
- 10
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 1865 · 26 lists
- 11
Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie · 1981 · 25 lists
- 12
On the Road
Jack Kerouac · 1957 · 24 lists
- 13
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood · 1985 · 23 lists
- 14
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954 · 23 lists
- 15
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1942 · 23 lists
- 16
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway · 1926 · 22 lists
- 17
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · 1861 · 19 lists
- 18
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut · 1969 · 19 lists
- 19
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe · 1958 · 19 lists
- 20
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton · 1920 · 17 lists
- 21
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote · 1965 · 16 lists
- 22
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen · 2001 · 16 lists
- 23
Dune
Frank Herbert · 1965 · 14 lists
- 24
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz · 2007 · 14 lists
- 25
The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2006 · 14 lists
- 26
Charlotte’s Web
E. B. White · 1952 · 12 lists
- 27
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2002 · 12 lists
- 28
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame · 1908 · 12 lists
- 29
The World According to Garp
John Irving · 1979 · 12 lists
- 30
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon · 2000 · 10 lists
- 31
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank · 1947 · 10 lists
- 32
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien · 1990 · 10 lists
- 33
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury · 1953 · 9 lists
- 34
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson · 1962 · 9 lists
- 35
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Alex Haley · 1968 · 9 lists
- 36
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 1943 · 9 lists
- 37
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion · 2005 · 9 lists
- 38
The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler · 1953 · 8 lists
- 39
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver · 1998 · 8 lists
- 40
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 1992 · 8 lists
- 41
The Shining
Stephen King · 1977 · 8 lists
- 42
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami · 1997 · 8 lists
- 43
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle · 1962 · 7 lists
- 44
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Judy Blume · 1970 · 7 lists
- 45
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett · 2001 · 7 lists
- 46
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn · 2011 · 7 lists
- 47
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez · 1985 · 7 lists
- 48
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham · 1915 · 7 lists
- 49
Portnoy’s Complaint
Philip Roth · 1967 · 7 lists
- 50
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · 2005 · 7 lists
- 51
Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown · 1947 · 6 lists
- 52
Life after life
Kate Atkinson · 2013 · 6 lists
- 53
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins · 2008 · 6 lists
- 54
The Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright · 2006 · 6 lists
- 55
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak · 1963 · 6 lists
- 56
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers · 2000 · 5 lists
- 57
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson · 1971 · 5 lists
- 58
Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen · 1937 · 5 lists
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The Power Broker
Robert Caro · 1974 · 5 lists
- 61
The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe · 1979 · 5 lists
- 62
Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich · 1986 · 4 lists
- 63
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi · 2000 · 4 lists
- 64
The Giver
Lois Lowry · 1993 · 4 lists
- 65
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl · 1964 · 3 lists
- 66
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond · 1991 · 3 lists
- 67
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri · 1999 · 3 lists
- 68
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
Chris Ware · 2000 · 3 lists
- 69
Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1935 · 3 lists
- 70
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson · 2003 · 3 lists
- 71
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green · 2010 · 3 lists
- 72
The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman · 2007 · 3 lists
- 73
The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster · 1961 · 3 lists
- 74
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle · 1929 · 3 lists
- 75
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking · 1988 · 2 lists
- 76
All the Presidents Men
Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein · 1974 · 2 lists
- 77
Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese · 2009 · 2 lists
- 78
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney · 2002 · 2 lists
- 79
Man’s Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl · 1946 · 2 lists
- 80
Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris · 2000 · 2 lists
- 81
The Color of Water
James McBride · 1995 · 2 lists
- 82
The House at Pooh Corner
Christina Milner · 1925 · 2 lists
- 83
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot · 2009 · 2 lists
- 84
The Liars' Club: A Memoir
Mary Karr · 2 lists
- 85
Valley of the Dolls
Jacqueline Susann · 1966 · 2 lists
- 86
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah · 2014 · 1 list
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Born to Run
Chris McDougall · 2009 · 1 list
- 89
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Edwidge Danticat · 1994 · 1 list
- 90
Daring Greatly
Brené Brown · 2012 · 1 list
- 91
Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain · 2000 · 1 list
- 92
Moneyball
Michael M. Lewis · 2003 · 1 list
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks · 1980 · 1 list
- 96
The Omnivores Dilemma
Michael Pollan · 2017 · 1 list
- 97
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand · 2014 · 1 list
- 98
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein · 1974 · 1 list