Thank you baking_thad for tagging me!
How many books have you read from Amazon’s list of 100 Books to read in a lifetime?
How to Play:
- Include the link to Amazon’s List
- Tag the creator of the meme (Perfectly Tolerable)
- Tag and thank the Person that tagged you
- Copy the list below and indicate which ones you have read
- Tally up your total
- Comment on the post you were tagged in and let them know how many you read
- Tag 5 new people! (And comment on one of their posts to let them know you tagged them)
Title | Author | Read? |
1984 | George Orwell | Yes |
A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | |
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | Dave Eggers | |
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | Ishmael Beah | |
The Bad Beginning | Lemony Snicket | Yes |
A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L’Engle | Yes |
Selected Stories, 1968-1994 | Alice Munro | |
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | Yes |
All the President’s Men | Bob Woodward | |
Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir | Frank McCourt | |
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. | Judy Blume | |
Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | |
Beloved | Toni Morrison | Yes |
Born to Run | Christopher McDougall | |
Breath, Eyes, Memory | Edwidge Danticat | |
Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl | |
Charlotte’s Web | E. B White | |
Cutting for Stone | Abraham Verghese | |
Daring Greatly | Brené Brown | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid | Jeff Kinney | |
Dune | Frank Herbert | |
Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | Yes |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson | |
Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn | |
Goodnight Moon | Margaret Wise Brow | |
Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | |
Guns, Germs, and Steel | Jared Diamond Ph.D. | |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | J.K. Rowling | Yes |
In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | |
Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri | Yes |
Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | |
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth | Chris Ware | |
Kitchen Confidential | Anthony Bourdain | |
Life After Life | Kate Atkinson | Yes |
Little House on the Prairie | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | Yes |
Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Yes |
Love Medicine | Louise Erdrich | |
Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | |
Me Talk Pretty One Day | David Sedaris | |
Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie | |
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game | Michael Lewis | |
Of Human Bondage | W. Somerset Maugham | |
On the Road | Jack Kerouac | |
Out of Africa | Isak Dinesen | |
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood | Marjane Satrapi | Yes |
Portnoy’s Complaint | Philip Roth | |
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | Yes |
Silent Spring | Rachel Carson | |
Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | Yes |
Team of Rivals | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton | |
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Michael Chabon | Yes |
The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Malcolm X | |
The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | Yes |
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Díaz | Yes |
The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | |
The Color of Water | James McBride | |
The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | |
The Devil in the White City | Erik Larson | |
The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | Yes |
The Fault in Our Stars | John Green | Yes |
The Giver | Lois Lowry | Yes |
The Golden Compass | Philip Pullman | Yes |
The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
The Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood | Yes |
The House at Pooh Corner | A. Milne | |
The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | Yes |
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot | Yes |
The Liars’ Club | Mary Karr | |
The Lightning Thief | Rick Riordan | Yes |
The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
The Long Goodbye | Raymond Chandler | |
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 | Lawrence Wright | |
The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | Yes |
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat | Oliver Sacks | |
The Omnivore’s Dilemma | Michael Pollan | |
The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster | Yes |
The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | |
The Power Broker | Robert A. Caro | |
The Right Stuff | Tom Wolfe | |
The Road | Cormac McCarthy | Yes |
The Secret History | Donna Tartt | |
The Shining | Stephen King | Yes |
The Stranger | Albert Camus | Yes |
The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | |
The Things They Carried | Tim O’Brien | |
The Very Hungry Caterpillar | Eric Carle | Yes |
The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | |
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Haruki Murakami | |
The World According to Garp | John Irving | Yes |
The Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion | |
Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | |
To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | Yes |
Unbroken | Laura Hillenbrand | |
Valley of the Dolls | Jacqueline Susann | |
Where the Sidewalk Ends | Shel Silverstein | |
Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak | Yes |
I have read 34 of the 100 books which I think is okay, especially when you consider that there is only one book by a German author on this list. Quite a few of the books are on my “will get to that at some point”-list and some I am not at all interested. I don’t think I will read the children’s books I haven’t read yet and I am also really not interested in reading anything by Jonathan Franzen or Dave Eggers. (Is that unfair? It probably is.)
I do like these kinds of list but by design they will always miss books. There are some dubious choices here and some books are just – missing. I mean, no Tolstoy? Or Bronte? Or Goethe? Or Steinbeck? Or Shelley? But, I do like feeling well-read and this list definitely accomplished that (and maybe that is the plan).
I won’t tag anybody but if you choose do this, please let me know because I am interested to see your results!
I wholeaheartdely agree with you, Hannah. I mean, Anthony Bourdain is considered a ”writer” but no Bronte or Tolstoy or Dostoevsky? This list is a joke….
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Thanks for Participating! 34 is one of the better scores I have seen!
I think they tried to limit the classics. One of their criteria was that the list didn’t feel like homework. Thats why I liked this list so much, it wasn’t just a list of classics, it was different than any list I have looked at before.
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Thank you for creating the tag!
I liked the list also but I think it works better for people from English speaking countries.
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Oh! For sure. I think it was specifically target towards Americans. I didn’t notice it at first, but I have had a few people point it out to me 🙂
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(but I was smug to get a 34, I have to admit.)
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I don’t know if I’ll officially do this tag, but I just counted and I also got 34!
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I’m definitely gonna do this! I’m sure my % will be relatively low, but I guess we’ll see. 🙂
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Yay! I’m looking forward to it!
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