Amazon 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime – Reading Quest

I’m currently questing my way through Amazon’s 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list.

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TitleAuthorReading Status
Cutting For StoneAbraham Verghese
The Subtle KnifePhilip Pullman
Life After LifeKate Atkinson
The Autobiography of Malcolm XMalcom X
Born To Run – A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never SeenChristopher McDougall
DuneFrank Herbert
The Amber SpyglassPhilip Pullman
Love In The Time Of CholeraGabriel Márquez
MiddlesexJeffrey Eugenides
Midnight’s ChildrenSalman Rushdie 
Of Human BondageW.Somerset Maugham
Out of AfricaIsak Dinesen
Team of RivalsDoris KearnsGoodwin
The Color of WaterJames McBride
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11Lawrence Wright
Angela’s Ashes: A MemoirFrank McCourt
Alice Munro: Selected StoriesAlice Munro
A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 
To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 
The Catcher in the RyeJD Salinger
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-GlassLewis Carroll
Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut
The StrangerAlbert Camus
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 
Portnoy’s ComplaintPhilip Roth
The Handmaid’s TaleMargaret Atwood
The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway
Charlotte’s Web E. B. White 
Charlie And The Chocolate FactoryRoald Dahl
A Wrinkle in TimeMadeleine L’Engle
Are You There, God? It’s me, MargaretJudy Blume
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and ClayMichael Chabon
The Long GoodbyeRaymond Chandler
The Phantom TollboothNorton Juster
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A NovelHaruki Murakami
A Long Way GoneIshmael Beah
The Bad BeginningLemony Snicket
All the President’s MenBob Woodward
Bel CantoAnn Patchett
Breath, Eyes, MemoryEdwidge Danticat
Diary of a Wimpy KidJeff Kinney
Fahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American DreamHunter S. Thompson
Gone GirlGillian Flynn
Goodnight MoonMargaret Wise Brown
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s StoneJK Rowling
Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on EarthChris Ware
Kitchen ConfidentialAnthony Bourdain
Little House on the PrarieLaura Ingalls Wilder
PersepolisMarjane Satrapi
The Book ThiefMarkus Zusak
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed AmericaErik Larson
The Diary of Anne FrankAnne Frank
The Fault in Our StarsJohn Green
The GiverLois Lowry
Winnie-the-PoohAA Milne
The Hunger GamesSuzanne Collins
The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksRebecca Skloot
The Lightning ThiefRick Riordan
The Little PrinceAntoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four MealsMichael Pollan
The ShiningStephen King
The Things They CarriedTim O’Brien
The Very Hungry CaterpillarEric Carle
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and RedemptionLaura Hillenbrand
Valley of the DollsJacqueline Susann
Where the Sidewalk EndsShel Silverstein
Where the Wild Things AreMaurice Sendak
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
On the RoadJack Kerouac 
The Fellowship of the RingJRR Tolkien
The Two TowersJRR Tolkien
The Return of the KingJRR Tolkien
Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe 
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen
The Golden CompassPhilip Pullman
Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens
The Secret HistoryDonna Tartt
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoJuNot Diaz
The CorrectionsJonathan Franzen
Interpreter of MaladiesJhumpa Lahiri
Love MedicineLouise Erdrich
Man’s Search for MeaningViktor Frankl
MoneyballMichael Lewis
Silent SpringRachel Carson
The Liars’ Club: A MemoirMary Karr
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical TalesOliver Sacks
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New YorkRobertA Caro
The Right StuffTom Wolfe
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers
1984 George Orwell
BelovedToni Morrison
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and LeadBrene Brown
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesJared M. Diamond
In Cold BloodTruman Capote
Invisible ManRalph Ellison
Me Talk Pretty One DayDavid Sedaris
The Age of InnocenceEdith Wharton
The Poisonwood BibleBarbara Kingsolver
The RoadCormac McCarthy
The World According to GarpJohn Irving
The Year of Magical ThinkingJoan Didion
Stats — Total Books: 104 | Books read: 89 | Books left to read: 15 | Percent complete: 86%

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