Ok so two places I totally go to for my reading news, Amazon and GoodReads, put together a list of books one should read in a lifetime. I’ve decided it’s time to go back to the classics, the ones I never got to read in high school or college. I’m not gonna set a time limit on it, but I’m going to do my best. How many have you read? Do you agree with this list? I have to say, I enjoyed The Hunger Games, but I don’t think it really warrants a book everyone should read in their lifetime.
Goodreads 100 Books You Should Read in a Lifetime
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank- 1984 by George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien- Fahrenheit 451: A Novel by Ray Bradbury
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Help by Kathryn Stockett- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Night by Elie WieselHamlet by William ShakespeareA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensA Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettRomeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupery
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Giver by Lois Lowry- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Holy Bible: New King James Version by Thomas Nelson- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas pere
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- The Stand by Stephen King
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass 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: A Novel by Arthur Golden
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire Book 1) by George R.R. Martin
- The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingCatching Fire (The Hunger Games Book 2) by Suzanne CollinsWater for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen- The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingslover
- The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Odyssey by Homer- Celebrating Silence: Excerpts From Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000 by Sri SriRavi Shankar
- A Prayer for Owen 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 McCullough
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
Mockingjay (The Final Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Helen Keller: The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster- From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
List originally from : Kansas City Mamas via Pinterest.