100 Books Everyone Should Read

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Editors from Amazon has released a list of their 100 "nust read" books before you die.

"With 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime, we set out to build a road map of a literary life without making it experience like a homework assignment," Sara Nelson, Editorial Director of Print and Kindle Books at Amazon.

Almost of the books are century classics or recent bestsellers and the oldest in the list is Jane Austen's 1813 'Pride and Prejudice'. Of class the all time favorites 'Harry Potter' and 'The Hunger Games' that spans multiple genres with adult fiction, epic, nonfiction, immature adult novels.

"Over many months, the team passionately debated and defended the books we wanted on this list. In other words, we applied plenty of the academic equivalent of elbow-grease, and we can't wait to hear what customers take to say about our final picks," said Nelson in a printing release.

Here are the listing of books in alphabetical order.

1. "1984" past George Orwell

2. "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking

3. "A Heartbreaking Piece of work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers

iv. "A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah

5. "A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning: The Brusk-Lived Edition" by Lemony Snicket

6. "A Wrinkle in Time" past Madeleine L'Engle

7. "Alice Munro: Selected Stories" past Alice Munro

viii. "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll

nine. "All the President'southward Men" past Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

ten. "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

eleven. "Are You At that place, God? It's me, Margaret" by Judy Blume

12. "Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett

13. "Beloved" by Toni Morrison

14."Born To Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the Earth Has Never Seen" by Christopher McDougall

xv. "Breath, Eyes, Memory" by Edwidge Danticat

xvi. "Take hold of-22" by Joseph Heller

17."Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" past Roald Dahl

18. "Charlotte'due south Web" by E.B. White

19. "Cutting For Stone" by Abraham Verghese

20. "Daring Greatly: How the Backbone to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way Nosotros Live, Love, Parent, and Pb" by Brene Brown

21. "Diary of a Wimpy Child, Book 1" by Jeff Kinney

22. "Dune" past Frank Herbert

23. "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

24. "Fright and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" by Hunter S. Thompson

25. "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn

26. "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown

27. "Not bad Expectations" by Charles Dickens

28. "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Man Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

29. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Rock" past J.K. Rowling

30. "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

31. "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

32. "Invisible Man" past Ralph Ellison

33. "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Child on Earth" past Chris Ware

34. "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain

35. "Life Afterward Life" by Kate Atkinson

36. "Little House on the Prairie" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

37. "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov

38. "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

39. "Love Medicine" past Louise Erdrich

40. "Man'south Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl

41. "Me Talk Pretty I Day" past David Sedaris

42. "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides

43."Midnight's Children" past Salman Rushdie

44. "Moneyball" by Michael Lewis

45. "Of Human being Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham

46. "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac

47. "Out of Africa" by Isak Dinesen

48. "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi

49. "Portnoy's Complaint" by Philip Roth

fifty. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

51. "Silent Jump" by Rachel Carson

52. "Slaughterhouse-5" by Kurt Vonnegut

53. "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin

54. "The Age of Innocence" past Edith Wharton

55. "The Astonishing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" past Michael Chabon

56. "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X and Alex Haley

57. "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak

58. "The Cursory Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" past Junot Diaz

59. "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger

sixty. "The Colour of H2o" by James McBride

61. "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen

62. "The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America" by Erik Larson

63. "The Diary of Anne Frank" by Anne Frank

64. "The Error in Our Stars" past John Green

65. "The Giver" by Lois Lowry

66. "The Golden Compass: His Nighttime Materials" by Philip Pullman

67. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

68. "The Handmaid'southward Tale" by Margaret Atwood

69. "The Business firm At Pooh Corner" by A. A. Milne

70. "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

71. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" past Rebecca Skloot

72. "The Liars' Club: A Memoir" by Mary Karr

73. "The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Volume 1)" by Rick Riordan

74. "The Petty Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

75. "The Long Farewell" by Raymond Chandler

76. "The Looming Belfry: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/xi" by Lawrence Wright

77. "The Lord of the Rings" past J.R.R. Tolkien

78. "The Human Who Mistook His Married woman For A Chapeau: And Other Clinical Tales" by Oliver Sacks

79. "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals" by Michael Pollan

80. "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster

81. "The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel" by Barbara Kingsolver

82. "The Power Banker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" past Robert A. Caro

83. "The Right Stuff" by Tom Wolfe

84. "The Route" by Cormac McCarthy

85. "The Hole-and-corner History" by Donna Tartt

86. "The Shining" past Stephen King

87. "The Stranger" past Albert Camus

88. "The Sun Also Rises" past Ernest Hemingway

89. "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

ninety. "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle

91. "The Wind in the Willows" past Kenneth Grahame

92. "The Wind-Upwards Bird Relate: A Novel" past Haruki Murakami

93. "The Earth According to Garp" by John Irving

94. "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion

95. "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe

96. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

97. "Unbroken: A World War Ii Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" past Laura Hillenbrand

98. "Valley of the Dolls" past Jacqueline Susann

99. "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein

100. "Where the Wild Things Are" past Maurice Sendak