Do you have a READING BUCKET LIST?
I am sure you remember reading great literature in school. Some of those books probably left somewhat of an impact on you, without you really knowing it.
For me, I remember reading The Great Gatsby, one of my favorite books, and although I was really "into" reading in school, I remember a lot of my friends griping about having to read so many books!
I was in hog heaven...Anywhoo, I think that it is important to instill this LOVE for reading in my own children, because it is a HUGE part of my life.
I love everything about words, paper, word on paper...and now on my Nook! (well, I read on my tablet just because its BIGGER...OLD AGE DARN YOU!)
So, I have a list, compiled from others' lists of books that I think (yes, based on my personal opinions here) you NEED to read in your lifetime and I am not limited to ADULTS here... since I am a MOMMY Blogger...it is important to start with the children's books and work our way from there...and I won't judge any of you for bringing back the kids books, I promise!
I think that might be the BEST part, I get to re-read the classic books I grew up with and we have found some new ones along the way through my own kiddos! (SH!)
Alright, here goes:
TOP 100 BOOKS (Kel) thinks you NEED to read in your LIFETIME!
Did your favorites MAKE the list?
- 1984 by George Orwell
- A Brief History Of Time by Stephen Hawking
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
- A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
- A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning: The Short-Lived Edition by Lemony Snicket
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- Alice Munro: Selected Stories by Alice Munro
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
- Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
- Are You There, God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume
- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Born To Run – A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
- Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
- Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1 by Jeff Kinney
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
- Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
- Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
- Moneyball by Michael Lewis
- Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
- Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Color of Water by James McBride
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
- The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The House At Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- The Liars’ Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr
- The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
- The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- The Shining by Stephen King
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
- The World According to Garp by John Irving
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
- Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
- Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
How many have you read?
I am excited to RE-READ these and of course, I have added SO MANY MORE to my list...especially with my DAILY DEALS and STEALS! (check out my blog)
Please, shoot me a pic of the books your reading or that YOU THINK need to be on the list on my INSTAGRAM page!
