Amazon's Top 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime - Plus Free A4 and FilofaxPrintables

I love book lists. They offer me new and unexpected titles to look out for; books I might not otherwise read.

So when Amazon published a list of 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime, I couldn’t resist typing out the whole thing to keep in my bag; something I could refer to (and tick off) when browsing the bookshelves at my favourite haunts.

After the jump, you’ll find the complete list (in alphabetical order). If you prefer, simply download the A4 sized PDF printable.

I’ve also developed a printable for Personal sized Filofaxes (which I’m currently using). This is designed to be printed on both sides of A$ paper - download here.

Feel free to print, reblog and share! I love great literature and am slowly working my way through the list, finding some unexpectedly wonderful reads along the way. I hope you will enjoy it too.

Amazon’s List of 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime

A bucket list of books to create a well read life from the Amazon book editors.


http://www.amazon.com/100books

1. 
   1984by George Orwell - Meet Big Brother
   


2. 
   A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking – Explore the universe
   


3. 
   A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers – Memoir as metafiction
   


4. 
   A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah - A child soldier’s story
   


5. 
   A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket – Wicked good fun
   


6. 
   A Wrinkle in Time by Madelaine L'Engle – The 60’s kids classic
   


7. 
   Alice Munro: Selected Stories by Alice Munroe – A short-form master
   


8. 
   Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol – Go down the rabbit hole
   


9. 
   All The Presidents Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein – Unseated a president
   


10. 
    Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt – An Irish-American memoir
    


11. 
    Are you There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume – The angst of adolescence
    


12. 
    Bel Canto by Ann Patchet – A literary page-turner
    


13. 
    Beloved by Toni Morrison – The ghosts of slavery
    


14. 
    Born To Run - A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall – Why and how we run
    


15. 
    Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat – A journey from Haiti
    


16. 
    Catch-22 by Joseph Heller – Launched it’s own catchphrase
    


17. 
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl – Vintage Roald Dahl
    


18. 
    Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White – The timeless classic
    


19. 
    Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese – Ambitious and humane
    


20. 
    Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown – Vulnerability breeds courage
    


21. 
    Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1 by Jeff Kinney – For reluctant readers
    


22. 
    Dune by Frank Herbert – Classic science fiction
    


23. 
    Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - “It was a pleasure to burn”.
    


24. 
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson – Gonzo journalism takes flight
    


25. 
    Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn – Marriage can be a real killer
    


26. 
    Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown – first published in 1947
    


27. 
    Great Expectations by Charles Dickens – Dicken’s best novel
    


28. 
    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond – Understanding societies
    


29. 
    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling – Meet the wizard
    


30. 
    In Cold Blood by Truman Capote – True crime at it’s best
    


31. 
    Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri – Award-winning short story debut
    


32. 
    Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison – A literary milestone
    


33. 
    Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware – A brilliant graphic novel
    


34. 
    Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain – Don’t eat while you read this
    


35. 
    Life After Life by Kate Atkinson – One of the best of 2013
    


36. 
    Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder – Childhood on the Prarie
    


37. 
    Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov – Nabokov’s triumph
    


38. 
    Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez – A Latin American masterpiece
    


39. 
    Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich – A saga set on the reservation
    


40. 
    Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl – A life-changing book
    


41. 
    Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris – Funny and poignant
    


42. 
    Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides – A beautifully-written novel
    


43. 
    Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie – Rushdie’s breakthrough
    


44. 
    Moneyball by Michael Lewis – Lewis hits it out of the park
    


45. 
    Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham – A writer’s writer
    


46. 
    On the Road by Jack Kerouac – The essence of the Beats
    


47. 
    Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen – A remarkable woman’s story
    


48. 
    Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi – A groundbreaking graphic novel
    


49. 
    Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth – Roth at his finest
    


50. 
    Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen – The perennial favourite
    


51. 
    Silent Spring by Rachel Carson – The birth of ecology
    


52. 
    Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut – The absurdist WWII novel
    


53. 
    Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin – How Lincoln led
    


54. 
    The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton - 19^th century high-society
    


55. 
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon – Chabon’s Magnum Opus
    


56. 
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley – A classic modern autobiography
    


57. 
    The Book Thief by Markus Zusak – The international sensation
    


58. 
    The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz – The trials of a “ghetto nerd”
    


59. 
    The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger – Meet Holden Caulfield
    


60. 
    The Color of Water by James McBride – Exploring a mother’s past
    


61. 
    The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen – Great, but divisive
    


62. 
    The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson – A triumph of narrative non-fiction
    


63. 
    The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank – Moving and eloquent
    


64. 
    The Fault in Our Stars by John Green – A soulful young adult novel
    


65. 
    The Giver by Lois Lowry – Classic dystopia
    


66. 
    The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman – Pullman’s fantasy classic
    


67. 
    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – The rich are different…
    


68. 
    The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood – Feminist speculative fiction
    


69. 
    The House At Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne – A boy, a bear, a honeypot
    


70. 
    The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins – Reality TV writ large
    


71. 
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot – Race, ethics and medicine
    


72. 
    The Liars’ Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr – A darkly funny memoir
    


73. 
    The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan – Monsters, mythology and a boy
    


74. 
    The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – Unique and universal
    


75. 
    The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler – First rate Chandler noir
    


76. 
    The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright – The history of terrorism
    


77. 
    The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien – One ring to rule them all
    


78. 
    The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks – A deeply human account
    


79. 
    The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan – The origins of food
    


80. 
    The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster – An odd and original journey
    


81. 
    The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver – Missionaries in Africa
    


82. 
    The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro – The Enforcer
    


83. 
    The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe – The inner life of astronauts
    


84. 
    The Road by Cormac McCarthy – This way to the Apocalypse
    


85. 
    The Secret History by Donna Tartt – A modern classic
    


86. 
    The Shining by Stephen King – Chilling and thrilling
    


87. 
    The Stranger by Albert Camus – Existentialist fiction
    


88. 
    The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway – Meet the lost generation
    


89. 
    The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien – The best book on Vietnam
    


90. 
    The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle – Baby’s first book
    


91. 
    The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame – Mole, Toad, Rat and Badger
    


92. 
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami – From the modern Japanese master
    


93. 
    The World According to Garp by John Irving – Beware the “undertoad”
    


94. 
    The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion – Life, Love, Death
    


95. 
    Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe – Tradition vs. change
    


96. 
    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – A beloved family story
    


97. 
    Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand – An American inspiration
    


98. 
    Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann – Addictively entertaining
    


99. 
    Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein – The joys of imagination
    


100. 
     Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak – Let the wild rumpus start!
     

Which titles have you read (and most importantly, enjoyed)?