This GOODREADS 100 BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ IN A LIFETIME list was created and voted on by avid readers. Goodreads is a social network site where members find and review books. I use the site also to track the books that I have read ever since I have joined the reading challenge way back in 2018. It is a great way to get recommendations and see what your friends are reading.
Browsing through the list, I could see that I have actually read only four (4) books. However, I am familiar with most of the classics in the list, I have probably read them when I was still very young. There are books in the list that I have watched their movie or TV adaptation, so I can say I am familiar with the story line. But still, this is quite a challenge to completely read this list. There is no harm in trying.
Meanwhile, the Amazon books editors came up with their list of the 100 Books You Should Read In A Lifetime. You can see the list HERE.
Bookmark or Pin this list and use it as you need for future book related needs.
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. Rowling
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- The 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 Twain
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- The 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 Wiesel
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- 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 Steinbeck
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Romeo 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 Twain
- Harry 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. Rowling
- Catching Fire (The Hunger Games Book 2) by Suzanne Collins
- Water 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 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 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
What do you think? Do you agree with the list? Or are there books that are missing? Comment down below!
Cheers!