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A list of 100 books I haven’t read yet (modern and classic) and think are important for being a well-rounded, educated adult.

  1. 1.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck
  2. 2.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  3. 3.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston
  4. 4.
    Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by William Golding
  5. 5.
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    by Dave Eggers
  6. 6.
    1984
    by George Orwell
  7. 7.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac
  8. 8.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo
  9. 9.
    Secret Life of Bees
    by Sue Monk Kidd
  10. 10.
    Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature)
    by Patrick McCarthy
  11. 11.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike
  12. 12.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  13. 13.
    Waiting for Godot
    by Samuel Beckett
  14. 14.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller
  15. 15.
    Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
    by Azar Nafisi
  16. 16.
    Farenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury
  17. 17.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray - Literary Touchstone
    by Oscar Wilde
  18. 18.
    The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Cormac McCarthy
  19. 19.
    Bee Season: A Novel
    by Myla Goldberg
  20. 20.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou
  21. 21.
    The World According to Garp
    by John IRVING
  23. 23.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    by Milan Kundera
  25. 25.
    Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  27. 27.
    Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
    by Barbara Ehrenreich
  28. 28.
    Out of Africa
    by Isak Dinesen
  29. 29.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf
  30. 30.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by D. H. Lawrence
  31. 31.
    The Virgin Suicides
    by Jeffrey Eugenides
  32. 32.
    The House on Mango Street
    by Sandra Cisneros
  33. 33.
    The Godfather
    by Mario Puzo
  34. 34.
    One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey
  35. 35.
    The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)
    by Ayn Rand
  36. 36.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote
  37. 37.
    The Alchemist
    by Paulo Coelho
  38. 38.
    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anthony Burgess
  39. 39.
    The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Barbara Kingsolver
  40. 40.
    Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by John Kennedy Toole
  41. 41.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  42. 42.
    The Last of the Mohicans
    by James Fenimore Cooper
  43. 43.
    The Cider House Rules
    by John Irving
  44. 44.
    Me Talk Pretty One Day
    by David Sedaris
  45. 45.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  46. 46.
    The Namesake
    by Jhumpa Lahiri
  47. 47.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice (Crime Masterworks)
    by James M. Cain
  48. 48.
    Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  49. 49.
    The Shining
    by Stephen King
  50. 50.
    Water for Elephants: A Novel
    by Sara Gruen
  51. 51.
    The Time Machine (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells
  52. 52.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Herman Melville
  53. 53.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather
  54. 54.
    Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintainance
    by Robert M. Pirsig
  55. 55.
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway
  56. 56.
    The Ox-Bow Incident
    by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  57. 57.
    Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    by Louis De Bernieres
  58. 58.
    Cry, the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton
  59. 59.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque
  60. 60.
  61. 61.
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
    by Haruki Murakami
  62. 62.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett
  63. 63.
    My Name Is Asher Lev
    by Chaim Potok
  64. 64.
    Kafka on the Shore
    by Haruki Murakami
  65. 65.
    Anna Karenina (Signet Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  66. 66.
    Red Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes
    by Terry Southern
  67. 67.
    Jane Eyre (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Charlotte Brontë
  68. 68.
    Swann's Way (Modern Library Classics)
    by Marcel Proust
  69. 69.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  70. 70.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton
  71. 71.
    Robinson Crusoe
    by Daniel Defoe
  72. 72.
    An American Tragedy
    by Theodore Dreiser
  73. 73.
    The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
    by Upton Sinclair
  74. 74.
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    by Audrey Niffenegger
  75. 76.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway
  76. 77.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père
  77. 78.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce
  78. 79.
    Silas Marner (Enriched Classics (Pocket))
    by George Eliot
  79. 80.
    The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells
  80. 81.
    White Oleander: A Novel
    by Janet Fitch
  81. 82.
    The Neverending Story
    by Michael Ende
  82. 83.
    LEAVES OF GRASS
    by Walt, Whitman
  83. 84.
    Them (Modern Library)
    by Joyce Carol Oates
  84. 85.
    Prozac Nation (Movie Tie-In)
    by Elizabeth Wurtzel
  85. 86.
    A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
    by Ishmael Beah
  86. 87.
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    by Tennessee Williams
  87. 88.
    The Agony and the Ecstasy
    by Irving Stone
  88. 89.
    Like Water For Chocolate
    by Laura Esquivel
  89. 90.
    The Crucible
    by Arthur Miller
  90. 91.
    The Year of Magical Thinking
    by Joan Didion
  91. 92.
    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Modern Library)
    by John Berendt
  92. 93.
    A Room with a View
    by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
  93. 94.
    Infinite Jest
    by David Foster Wallace
  94. 95.
    Old School
    by Tobias Wolff
  95. 96.
    Running with Scissors: A Memoir
    by Augusten Burroughs
  96. 97.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany
    by John Irving
  97. 98.
    The Age of Innocence
    by Edith Wharton
  98. 99.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph Conrad
  99. 100.
    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    by Mark Twain
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