Goodreads 100 Books You Should Read in a Lifetime
An invitation/challenge to work your way thru this list of 100 books, as voted on and ranked by users of Goodreads, the largest book recommendation site on the web. How many have you read so far? Check them off the list by punching out the corresponding numbers on your bookmark (an awesome, easy dopamine hit), and then punch as you go – as you continue to read books from this list.
Happy reading! 
Love, Jennifer 
P.S. The bookmark is intended and made for longer-term keeping. It is printed on water-resistant, tear-resistant, restaurant menu paper. And this book list is just parked on an unpublished page on my business website for easier ad-free, sign-in-free access, but you can access the original Goodreads website list thru this link here. (As people continue to read and review books on Goodreads, the list shifts – ever so slightly, but THIS list here is the one locked in from December 2022.)
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling
- The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3) by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C.S. Lewis
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Night (The Night Trilogy, #1) by Elie Wiesel
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #1) by Douglas Adams
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1) by Madeline L’Engle
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) by J.K. Rowling
- The Giver (The Giver, #1) by Lois Lowry
- The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid’s Tale, #1) by Margaret Atwood
- Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) by L.M. Montgomery
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) by Stieg Larsson
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) by J.K. Rowling
- The Holy Bible: King James Version
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Alice in Wonderland adapted by Jane Carruth, original story by Lewis Carroll
- A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) by George R.R. Martin
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- Ender’s Game (Ender’s Saga, #1) by Orson Scott Card
- The Stand by Stephen King
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Outlander (Outlander, #1) by Diana Gabaldon
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) by J.K. Rowling
- Watership Down (Watership Down, #1) by Richard Adams
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7) by C.S. Lewis
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3) by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1) by Roald Dahl
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) by Suzanne Collins
- The Princess Bride by William Goldman
- The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1) by Ken Follett
- Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) by Suzanne Collins
- The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) by Pearl S. Buck
- The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Helen Keller: The Story of My Life by Helen Keller