100 books to read before you die – and oh the places this amazing list of books could take you to?
100 Books to Read Before You Die
100 books to read before you die
“A good book is an event in my life.” – Stendhal
Oh, I do like a good book list. You may recently have read my list on best books on happiness?
Well if you did and if you enjoyed that I have a new one for you today – 100 books to read before you die,#, this was a pure labour of love, I do so hope you like it.
100 Books to Read Before You Die
Do you have a wishlist of 100 books to read before you die?
Here is one I have compiled. How many have you read? I am intrigued to know? Would any of them make your list of 100 books to read before you die perhaps?
Many book bucket lists haven’t been updated in quite some time. They include the classics, but leave out many modern-day works. This list includes those classics that are on every list, in addition to modern fiction, self-help books, and other fantastic reads. How many have these have you already read?
I have read a lot of them and some are ones I absolutely must read again or long to read. There is a hefty dose of American modern classics and a lot of love stuff because that’s what I like. Everyone’s list would be different.
My 100 books to read before you die
Mine is very personal but a lot of my choices I imagine are pretty universal. It is not a heavy list and it is not all classics but they are books without exception that have touched me or that I long to read.
Can I challenge you to create your 100 books to read before you die?
100 Books to Read Before You Die
100 books to read before you die … here we go
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- 1984 by George Orwell
- My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (the book ends drastically differently than the movie!)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (trigger warning: mental health themes)
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (trigger warning: child abuse/child sex trafficking as the main plot)
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Go Ask Alice (trigger warning: drug addictions and other serious mental health themes)
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The second sex by Simone de Beauvoir
- The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
- The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
- The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
- A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
- His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
100 Books to Read Before You Die – better get comfy!
And there are more in the 100 books to read before you die list ….
- Moonbath by Yanick Lahens
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Go Set a Watchmen by Harper Lee
- War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
- The art of war by Sun Tsu
- The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson (trigger warning: graphic sex scene right from the start)
- The Prophet Kahil Gibran
- Bridget Jones Diary Helen Fielding
- Keeper of Lost Things Ruth Hogan
- The death and life of Charlie St Cloud by Ben Sherwood
- Create your own happy by Becky Goddard-Hill Penny Alexander
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
- Candide by Voltaire
- Madame Bovary by Flaubert
- The reader on the 6.27 by Jean Paul Didierlaurent
- A man called Ove – by Fredrik Backman
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- One Day by David Nicholls
- 84 Charing Cross Road Helen Hanff
- The fault in our stars – John Green
- The Little Prince by Antonie de Saint-Exupery
- The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Song of Soloman by Toni Morrison
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Paper Towns by John Green
- A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
- I know why the cage bird sings Maya Angelou
- The god of small things by Arundhati Roy
- If You Feel Too Much by Jamie Tworkowski
- The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime by Mark Haddon
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Go-Between by LP Hartley
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
- Five Feet Apart by Rachel Lippincott (the movie’s about to come out!)
- Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
- Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli
- The Celestine Prophecy James Redfield
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (trigger warning: rape and violence)
- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- The Color Purple
- The Kurdish Bike by Alesa Lightbourne
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
- All my Sons by Arthur Miller
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Do you like this list of 100 books to read before you die?
Love your library & go find those 100 Books to Read Before You Die
Although you could buy these books on Amazon, it’s much cheaper to rent them from your local library. That will also help reduce the amount of clutter in your home. Libraries really are the most amazing places – all those wonderful stories , true or make believe all withoin the reach of you and your family and all for free. It is absolutely the gift that keeps giving. You have to get your self a library membership it is worth worlds.
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of a Library.”
“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.” (Neil Gaiman)
100 books to read before you die – which would you read first?
Which book are you most excited to read on this list of 100 books to read before you die? Head to your local library with a list and see which ones you can find.
Did you count? I bet you counted how many you had read of my 100 Books to Read Before You Die
So what’s your number? How many of these 100 books to read before you die can you tick off your list?
A love of reading
Reading has been and probably always will be one of the very greatest pleasures of my life, books have taught me, lifted me, helped me escape. They have inspired me, soothed me and helped me cope. Books are my passion and my pleasure and being able to make a living as a writer has pleased me absolutely no end.
I long to write a book so amazing it would be included in a book list like this by someone else..I definitely snuck my Create Your Own Happy book up on my list but oh, to write a great epic love story! or a book of poems that touched the heart of someone hurting.
That is what I would love to achieve.
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.” – Roald Dahl
My favourite of all on the 100 books to read before you die list
My number 1 favourite book of all times is probably Rebecca and The Great Gatsby and I Capture the Castle and …oh I can never ever, ever pick just one…..
I do hope you have enjoyed my list of 100 books to read before you die
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100 Books to Read Before You Die
Quotes for book lovers
Quotes for book lovers make me smile because what book lover doesn ‘t love a great quote?
Here are a few of my favourites:
Alberto Manguel
An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
– Stephen Fry
The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.
– Albert Einstein
100 Books to Read Before You Die
The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.
– Libba Bray
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I will save this list and read through it. I have only read 10 of them. They are really interesting. Thank you!
Perfect!!! I love it
great!
I loved this! I have read at least half of them which really surprised me x
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great minds Donna!