Amazon has put together a list of the 100 Books You Should Read During Your Life.
The list was created by the Amazon Book Editors and consists of children’s, teen, fiction, and non-fiction and is meant to be a guide for a well-read life.
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100 Books You Should Read During Your Life
- 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 (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1) by Lemony Snicket
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
- Alice Munro: Selected Stories by Alice Munro
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
- All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward
- 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 Brene 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
- 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 Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
- Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson
- Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Lolita by Vladimir Nobokov
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 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: A Novel 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 Phillip Roth
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel 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: A Novel by Michael Chabon
- The Autobiography of Malcom X: As told by Alex Haley by Malcom X
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- 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: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America 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 Phillip 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 (Book 1) by Suzanne Collins
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- The Liar’s Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr
- The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- 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 Ominvore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover
- 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: A Novel 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 by Shel Silverstein
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
What do you think? Are there any children’s or teen books they missed?
Don’t forget to check out our Best Books of 2013 List and Goodreads 100 Books You Should Read in a Lifetime.