1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1878)

2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)

3. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (1974)

4. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (1966)

5. The Shining by Stephen King (1977)

6. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)

7. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954)

8. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)

9. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (1962)

10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)

11. All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (1974)

12. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (1946)

13. Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)

14. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1965)

15. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (2007)

16. Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)

17. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861)

18. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown (2012)

19. 1984 by George Orwell (1949)

20. Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (1996)

21. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (1988)

22. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)

23. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (2000)

24. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (1997)

25. Selected Stories, 1968–1994 by Alice Munro (1996)

26. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (2012)

27. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (1865)

28. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)

29. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume (1970)

30. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)

31. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)

32. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (2000)

33. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White (1952)

34. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)

35. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (2009)

36. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X and Alex Haley (1965)

37. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson (1971)

38. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1999)

39. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947)

40. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)

41. Love Medicine by Louise Eldrich (1984)

42. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (2000)

43. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)

44. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)

45. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)

46. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis (2003)

47. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (1915)

48. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)

49. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (1937)

50. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (1939)

51. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth (1969)

52. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962)

53. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2005)

54. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (2016)

55. The Age of Innocence by Edith Warton (1920)

56. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2000)

57. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (2005)

58. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown (1973)

59. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (2007)

60. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)

61. The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride (1995)

62. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (1989)

63. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001)

64. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (2003)

65. The Giver by Lois Lowry (1993)

66. The Night Watchmen by Louise Erdrich (2020)

67. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (1995)

68. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

69. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (2010)

70. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)

71. The Liars’ Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr (1995)

72. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (1953)

73. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (2006)

74. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Olive Sacks (1985)

75. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (2006)

76. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro (1974)

77. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (1979)

78. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (1953)

79. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006)

80. The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)

81. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)

82. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)

83. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (1990)

84. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (1994)

85. The World According to Garp by John Irving (1978)

86. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1603)

87. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005)

88. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)

89. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (2010)

90. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)

91. White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2000)

92. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)

93. Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001)

94. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)

95. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (1950)

96. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)

97. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

98. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)

99. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003)

100. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (2010)