- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
- Beowulf
- Brave New World - Alduous Huxley
- The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
- The Complete Stories of Edgar Allen Poe
- Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
- Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- A Game of Thrones - George RR Martin
- Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
- The Gospels
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Harry Potter & the Sorceror's Stone - J.K. Rowling
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
- Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
- Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
- The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
There's a lot of 100 best book lists, and at various points in pursuing this goal I've used different ones. Unfortunately, this means it took me longer to complete this goal than if I'd just picked one list and stuck with it. Other books I've read that frequently end up on other 100 Best book lists include:
- Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
- Gulliver's Travels - Jonathon Swift
- The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol
- Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- The Lord Of The Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- The BFG - Roald Dahl
- Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
- Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
There's obviously books that I'm more interested in reading than others from the Well-Read list. I'm putting the ones I really want to pick up here so I can find it easier next time I'm at the library.
- 1984 - George Orwell
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
- American Pastoral - Philip Roth
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
- Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
- The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
- The Book Theif - Markus Zusak
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier Clay - Michael Chabon
- Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
- Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
- Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
- Their Eyes were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
- Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
- The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
- Candide - Voltaire
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