100 Books You Should Read in a Lifetime from Goodreads
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee2009Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenSpring 2017- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
1984 by George OrwellWinter 2013Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. RowlingFirst Grade- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldJanuary 2017Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteElementary School- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien2015Fahrenheit 451: A Novel by Ray Bradbury2014/2015- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Animal Farm by George OrwellWinter 2013The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger2011The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain2013- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisSummer 2016The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHigh SchoolThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak2015- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Night by Elie Wiesel
Hamlet by William Shakespeare2013- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck2010- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare2009- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Brave New World by Aldous HuxleySummer 2014- The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupery
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel SilversteinElementary SchoolWuthering Heights by Emily Bronte2015The Giver by Lois LowryMiddle School- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Macbeth by William Shakespeare2013- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling2007Frankenstein by Mary Shelley2013- The Holy Bible: New King James Version by Thomas Nelson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonOctober 2015- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas pere
The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenSummer 2013- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
East of Eden by John SteinbeckSummer 2014- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteSummer 2015- The Stand by Stephen King
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis CarrollElementary School- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardSummer 2014- 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. RowlingElementary School- 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 DahlThird GradeLife of Pi by Yann MartelSummer 2009- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- Les Miserable sby Victor Hugo
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling2005Catching Fire (The Hunger Games Book 2) by Suzanne CollinsHigh School- Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
The Raven by Edgar Allen PoeFall 2016The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddWinter 2016- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara KingsloverFall 2012The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck2010The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerHigh School- The Odyssey by Homer
- Celebrating Silence: Excerpts From Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000by Sri Sri Ravi 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 CollinsHigh SchoolThe 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 Morrison2013 & January 2017- 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 Flynn2014- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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List courtesy of Goodreads (www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
Hello, I love your list! #23 Kite Runner was such a great book. I’ve read a lot of books but that one always stuck with me.
That’s great to know! Thanks for reaching out!