Tag: 100 Books to read in a lifetime.

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:

1. Include the link to Amazon’s List
2. Tag the creator of the meme (Perfectly Tolerable)
3. Tag and thank the Person that tagged you
4. Copy the list below and indicate which ones you have read
5. Tally up your total
6. Comment on the post you were tagged in and let them know how many you read
7. 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!

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