Last Updated on May 15, 2024
Want to read a new book and don’t know which one? Your problems are over. The editors of Amazon prepared a list with 100 titles that everyone should read before dying with works for children, teenagers, classics and news from the world of literature.
- 1984, by George Orwell
- A brief history of time, by Stephen Hawking
- A Moving Work of Amazing Talent, by Dave Eggers
- Far from home: memories of a child soldier, by Ishmael Beah
- Bad start, from the series Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket
- A fold in time, by Madeleine L’Engle
- Selected stories 1968-1994, by Alice Munro
- Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll
- All the men of the present, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
- Angela’s Ashes: Memories of Frank McCourt
- God, are you there? It’s me, Margaret, from Judy Blume
- Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett
- Amada, by Toni Morrison
- Born to run, by Christopher McDougall
- Breath, Eyes, Memory, by Edwidge Danticat
- Ardil 22, by Joseph Heller
- Charlie and the chocolate factory, by Roald Dahl
- Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White
- The Eleventh Commandment, by Abraham Verghese
- The courage to be imperfect, by Brené Brown
- Diary of a Banana, by Jeff Kinney
- The children of Duna, by Frank Herbert
- Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
- Fear and Delirium in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
- Exemplary Girl, by Gillian Flynn
- Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown
- Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
- Weapons, germs and steel – The fates of human societies, by Jared Diamond
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J. K. Rowling
- In cold blood, by Truman Capote
- Evil interpreter, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
- The Smartest Kid on Earth, by Chris Ware
- Anthony Bourdain’s Private Kitchen
- The thread of life, by Kate Atkinson
- A house in the countryside, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
- Love in times of cholera, by Gabriel García Márques
- Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich
- In search of meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl
- Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris
- Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenide
- “The children of midnight”, Salman Rushdie
- Moneyball: The man who changed the game, by Michael Lewis
- Human servitude, by W. Somerset Maugham
- On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
- Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen
- Persépolis, by Marjane Satrapi
- Philip Roth’s Portnoy Complete
- Pride and prejudice, by Jane Austen
- Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson
- Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five
- Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The age of innocence, by Edith Wharton
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon
- Malcolm X: A life of reinventions, by Malcolm X
- The girl who stole books, by Markus Zusak
- The Fantastic Short Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz
- Catcher in the rye, by J. D. Salinger
- The Color of Water, by James McBride
- The corrections, by Jonathan Franzen
- The demon in the white city, by Erik Larson
- Anne Frank’s diary, by Anne Frank
- The fault of the stars, by John Green
- The memory giver, by Lois Lowry
- Philip Pullman’s golden compass
- The great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Margaret Atwood’s tale
- The house at Pooh Corner, by A. A. Milne and Ernest H. Shepard
- The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
- The immortal life of Henrierra Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
- The Liars’ Club: A Memoir, by Mary Karr
- Percy Jackson and the lightning thief, by Rick Riordan
- The little prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Raymond Chandler’s eternal sleep
- The Shape of the Towers – Al-Qaeda and the Way to 9/11: Al-Qaeda and the Way 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, by Oliver Sacks
- Michael Pollan’s omnivore dilemma
- It all depends on how you see things, by Norton Juster
- Barbara Kingsolver’s poisoned Bible
- The Power Broker, by Robert A. Caro
- The Elect, by Tom Wolfe
- The road, by Cormac McCarthy
- The secret story, by Donna Tartt
- The Enlightened One, by Stephen King
- The foreigner, by Albert Camus
- The sun also rises, by Ernest Hemingway
- The Things they Carried, by Tim O’Brien
- A 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
- The world falls apart, by Chinua Achebe
- The sun is for everyone, by Harper Lee
- Invincible, by Laura Hillenbrand
- Valley of the Dolls, by Jacqueline Susann
- Where the sidewalk ends, by Shel Silverstein
- Where monsters live, by Maurice Sendak
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