Amazon’s 100 must read books are as follows:
- 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: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah
- The Bad Beginning: Or, Orphans!, by Lemony Snicket
- A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
- Selected Stories, 1968-1994, by Alice Munro
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, 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 Brené 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 Diamond, Ph.D.
- 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: The 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 García Márquez
- Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich
- Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl
- Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris
- Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis
- Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham
- On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
- Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen
- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi
- Portnoy’s Complaint, by Philip Roth
- Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson
- Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
- The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz
- The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
- The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother, by James McBride
- The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen
- The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
- The Diary of a Young Girl, 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 , 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, 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, 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: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein, by Shel Silverstein
- Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak