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100 Books to Read before Y'all Die: Creating the Ultimate List

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[UPDATED Jan 4, 2022] One of my aims is to begin catching up on all the reading I've neglected for, well, the majority of my life. So, I started by googling several combinations of 'books to read before you die,' '100 most important books,' 'books anybody should should read in a lifetime,' and then on. I discovered that quite a few reputable (and a few not-then-reputable) sources accept published such a listing. Dainty, simply it all the same leaves me at a loss for what to do next. Which list do I get with?

After carefully reading through what was on offer I decided to take the collective wisdom from the diverse sources by painstakingly comparing (well, I hired 'Half-dozen' from Vietnam via Elance to painstakingly compare) all of the lists to determine how much overlap existed betwixt them. I used this information to create a new listing of the top books based on the number of times the book appeared as one of the list's recommendations. The more the book was referred to by the lists, the more the experts agreed, and the more securely that book's place became in my new and improved books-to-read-earlier-you lot-die list.

The Lists

Here are the 8 lists I started with, amalgamated, and culled.

• The Guardian's The 100 greatest novels of all fourth dimension.
• The BBC'southward Large Read Top 100.
• Amazon'due south 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
• Harvard'southward Volume store top 100.
• Modern Library's 100 Best Novels.
• Time'due south All-Time 100 Novels.
• The Telegraph's 100 Novels Everyone Should Read.
• The Art of Manliness' (hey, why non) 100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man's Library.

Creating the List

And at present for the books. Surprisingly enough, there were 520 books from the viii lists, which meant there was less overlap than I expected. 65 of the books were pretty straightforward equally they were mentioned at least 3 times (with The Great Gatsby and Catch-22 being the only 2 making it on all eight lists). To make upward the remaining 45 books, since my list had to exist 100 books long, I simply needed to cull those books that made it onto at least 2 lists. Unfortunately, 91 books were on at least two lists. So, I decided to farther cull those 91 by focusing on the books that were mentioned at least twice by The Guardian, Amazon, Harvard, Fourth dimension and The Telegraph. That left me with the right number of books and, voila, the greatest list ever created now lives. Lucky for me most are available on Aural ❤. Enjoy!

The Ultimate List: 100 Books to Read before Yous Die

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1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald — Set among the rich of 1920'south New York Urban center, the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby pursues his quixotic passion and obsession for the former debutante Daisy Buchanan.
2. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller — A novel vii years in the making (published in 1961) and said to be one of the nearly of import in the 20th century. Take hold of-22 primarily follows the storyline of Helm John Yossarian, a crewman of a World War Two bomber who is stationed on a small Mediterranean island where he repeatedly, and desperately, attempts to stay alive.
3. On the Road past Jack Kerouac — Inspired by the author'due south own experiences, the story of cross-country road trips by a number of penniless young people who are in beloved with life, beauty, jazz, sex, drugs, speed, and mysticism.
4. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee — A novel set in the American south exploring themes of justice and innocence through the experiences of a six year old girl, Scout, watching as her begetter defends a blackness human being on trial in the 30s.
5. The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien — From tranquility beginnings in the Shire the story follows hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin across Middle-earth to stop the Dark Lord Sauron, who had in an before historic period created the One Ring to dominion the other Rings of Power as the ultimate weapon in his campaign to conquer Middle-earth.
6. Lolita Vladimir past Nabokov — A controversial and shocking classic told from the perspective of the narrator, Humbert Humbert, a center-aged professor who falls for and becomes sexually involved with his 12-year-quondam step-daughter.
7. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger — Holden Caulfield narrates his story from the previous Christmas -when he was kicked out of a preparatory schoolhouse- to present. We learn about his life and his attempt to make sense of himself, pregnant, and the events that have shaped him.
8. Midnight'south Children by Salman Rushdie — Saleem was born at midnight on the night of India'southward independence. He is one of only 1,001 children born at that hour and each was endowed with an incredible talent.
9. Alice'due south Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll — Written in 1865, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) creates a fantasy world discovered by Alice when she falls through a rabbit hole.
10. Ulysses by James Joyce — Considered ane of the about of import works of modernist literature, Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Flower in Dublin in the form of an ordinary solar day.
11. Lord of the Flies by William Golding —A group of boys are stranded on an uninhabited island in the 50's when they embark on the disaster of trying to govern themselves.
12. The Grapes Of Wrath past John Steinbeck — Set confronting the properties of the neat low, Tom and his family are forced from their farm in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl and set out for California forth with thousands of others in search of a amend life.
13. 1984 past George Orwell — The novel was written in 1949 and depicted a future (1984) when government surveillance had reached a totalitarian country, repressing the freedoms of individuals and society as a whole. Follow Smith equally he shifts from party member to rebel, navigating the Thought Police, Large Blood brother, and more.
14. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë — Jane Eyre, offset published in London in 1874, is the honey story between the independent, once-orphaned Jane and her domineering employer, Rochester. Jane comes to a cross-roads when she discovers Rochester's terrible surreptitious.
15. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville — Moby dick is the story of Ahab, a whaling captain whose ship and leg were destroyed by an albino whale. Ahab pursues his mission: revenge on the whale.
16. Mrs. Dalloway past Virginia Woolf — The novel Mrs. Dalloway follows the thoughts, experiences, and memories of several characters on a unmarried day in London, most notably Mrs. Dalloway herself, the wife of a politician in mail service-World State of war I, equally she plans a dinner party for that evening. Some have said the book contains some of the about beautifully written sentences in English literature.
17. A Passage to Bharat by EM Forster —Written in 1924 when Britain ruled India and the Indian independence motility was active. Aziz, an Indian doctor, navigates the formalities, relationships, love interests and frustrations that develop when living alongside the English ruling grade.
18. Brave New Globe by Aldous Huxley —Huxley writes of a dystopian future genetically engineered to provide a pain-costless existence. There'south just 1 trouble: for Bernard, life is meaningless. Possibly visiting one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the sometime way of life and imperfection still exists will cure his existential angst.
19. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe — Okonkwo is an aggressive human adamant to be the leader of Umuofia, the village in which he lives. His beliefs and zealousness for the ways and traditions of the country are his guide.
20. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie past Muriel Spark — Miss Jean Brodie is adamant to instil in her students independence, passion, and ambition. She advises her girls, "Safe does not come up kickoff. Goodness, Truth, and Dazzler come up first. Follow me."
21. Ane Hundred Years of Confinement by Gabriel García Márquez — The novel, first published in Castilian equally Cien años de soledad in 1967, is a tale of 7 generations of the Buendía family that also spans 100 years of turbulent Latin American history. José Arcadio Buendía builds the beautiful city of Macondo in the middle of a swamp. At first prosperous, a tropical tempest lasting nearly v years almost destroys the town, and past the fifth Buendía generation its moral compass as well.
22. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen — Written in 1813, Pride and Prejudice remains one of English language literature's about beloved novels. Mr. Bennet has v daughters, merely can only pass his estate to a male person heir, risking devastation for the family upon his death. 1 of the daughters must marry well to stave off destitution. This pressure drives the plot, particularly for Mr. Bennet's girl, Elizabeth.
23. Animal Subcontract by George Orwell —An allegorical novella published in August 1945, ii weeks prior to the end of WWII, about a group of farm animals rebelling against their farmer in pursuit of fauna equality.
24. Offense And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky —Originally published in Russian in 12 parts, Dostoyevsky writes of Rodion, a jaded and poor student in St. Petersburg, who intends to kill an underhanded pawnbroker for money. What follows is the psychological and applied consequences of his actions.
25. Beloved by Toni Morrison —The 1988 Pulitzer Prize winning story of an African American slave woman who escapes to the gratis city of Cincinnati just prior to the Civil State of war. The story is told by four voices and reveals a shocking narrative, which darts dorsum and forth in time.
26. Invisible Man past Ralph Ellison — Far from the science fiction that may come to mind when reading the title of this work, an Invisible Man -published in 1952- is the powerful story of a young black man who is seen as a group of stereotypes rather than who he is, rendering him 'invisible'.
27. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut — The semi-autobiographical account of the firebombing of Dresden, Germany by the British and American air forces in the February of 1945. Abattoir Five is the story of Billy Pilgrim, a decidedly non-heroic man who travels back and forth through flashbacks, visiting his birth, death, all the moments in between.
28. The Stranger by Albert Camus — This 1942 novel exemplifies Camus' existentialism, Meursault tells the before and subsequently account of his murder of another man shortly subsequently his mother's funeral.
29. Don Quixote past Miguel De Cervantes — A eye-aged man from central Espana, Don Quixote, becomes obsessed with the ethics of chivalry and takes up his equus caballus, sword, and feeble side-kick to defend the helpless and exact penalization on the wicked. Quixote'south deeds are typically as as forlorn as his mental state.
30. Robinson Crusoe past Daniel Defoe — First published in London in 1719, Crusoe is the sole survivor of a shipwreck, leaving him on an uninhabited island and provides the account of how he survived and the unlikely helpers forth the style.
31. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley —A classic past any definition, Frankenstein tells the story of a scientist who creates a monster through a science experiment and is now faced with the consequences of what to do with this newly formed creature.
32. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas — Edmond, a young sailor from Marseilles, is set to become helm of his own ship and to marry his beloved. Even so, spiteful enemies provoke his arrest and imprisonment, until he intends to escape in search of subconscious treasure.
33. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens —Dickens initially published his eighth piece of work as a series betwixt 1849–1850 and thus the original total title was, The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery, which is every bit proficient of a description every bit information technology is a title. The story is told past Copperfield as a man, recounting the ups and downs of his childhood and youth.
34. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë — The story revolves effectually the tempestuous romance between Heathcliff, an orphan who is taken abode to Wuthering Heights on an impulse, and Catherine Earnshaw, a strong-willed girl whose mother died delivering her.
35. Little Women past Louisa M Alcott —Published in 1868 and 1869, the novel details the lives of four sisters' transition into womanhood and their harrowing experiences forth the manner.
36. The Call of the Wild by Jack London — A compelling tale of a assuming dog that, thrust into the harsh life of the Alaska Gilt Rush, ultimately faces a choice between living in man's world and returning to nature.
37. The Wind in the Willows past Kenneth Grahame — Published in the early 1900s, The Wind in the Willows are animal tales past British writer Kenneth Grahame that began as a series of bedtime stories for his son.
38. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh — Based on Waugh's own feel as a war contributor in Ethiopia, Scoop chronicles Lord Copper'southward decision to appoint just the right chap to embrace a promising war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia. So begins the story, a one-act of mistaken identity and brilliantly irreverent satire of the frenzied pursuit of hot news.
39. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler — A dying millionaire hires a private detective to take care of the blackmailer of ane of his two troublesome daughters. Even so, he finds himself involved with more than merely extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, and murder are but a few of the complications he finds himself in.
40. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis — Jim has accidentally landed a job in i of England'southward newly formed universities, which promises a comfortable hereafter- that is to say, if he can keep abroad boyfriend lecturer Margaret's unwelcome advances and navigate a host of other socially unbearable circumstances.
41. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller past Italo Calvino — Praised as a postmodern masterpiece, the book is most the reader trying to read the volume itself, with each chapter divided in 2 parts. The first part is in 2nd person describing the process of interpreting what's forthcoming and the second role is the continuation of the narrative unfolding — the story of a book-fraud conspiracy.
42. A Curve in the River by V. S. Naipaul —Salim, an Indian man, finds himself in mid-20th century, post-colonial Africa pursuing a business venture only to discover a ruined vanquish of a town left behind by European colonizers.
43. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson —Housekeeping is the story of two orphan girls living in secluded Idaho and are raised by a series of relatives until they land in the care of their aunt Sylvie, a truthful out-of-stater that becomes the fundamental character of the novel.
44. Amende past Ian McEwan —Amende follows Briony from the age of 13 where, in 1935, what she bore witness to marked her life and the trajectory of the lives around her. However, could it be that her preconceived notions shaped what is that she saw?
45. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman —A series of three fantasy novels focused on two children, Lyra and Volition, who travel through parallel universes, touching on themes of philosophy, faith, and physics while meeting friends and foes in the form of witches, polar bears and more.
46. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Milky way by Douglas Adams — The book was originally a BBC radio programme. Seconds earlier Earth is demolished, Arthur is retrieved from the planet past his friend Ford starting their comedic journey through space.
47. Great Expectations past Charles Dickens — Dickens' 1860 penultimate novel follows the story of Pip, a blacksmith's apprentice in a country village. He suddenly comes into a large fortune from an unknown benefactor and moves from Kent to London where he enters loftier guild.
48. Middlemarch by George Eliot —The novel examines the classes and lives of all those living in Middlemarch, a relatively unexciting town. The story canvasses the landed gentry downward to professional workers, with focuses on Dorothy and Tertius, both of which have disastrous marriages.
49. Brideshead Revisited past Evelyn Waugh —Charles meets Sebastian Flyte at Oxford College in 1923. Before long after his life becomes intwined with the Flyte family unit, Roman Cosmic aristocrats of the time. The novel depicts his relationship with the Flytes, God, and his romantic endeavors.
50. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy — Tolstoy described Anna Karenina as his first true novel. Others have since described it as the greatest work of literature ever written. In 1874 Russia, Prince Oblonsky, the blood brother of Anna Karenina, has an affair with his housemaid. Anna travels from Saint Petersburg to Moscow in an endeavor to save his marriage.
51. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth — Alexander Portnoy describes to his psychotherapist, in one continuous monologue, his life and animalism-crazed being as a immature Jewish bachelor.
52. The Historic period of Innocence by Edith Wharton — 3 people's lives are woven together are deeply affected by the rigidness of loftier society New York in the 1920s. Newland, a restrained young chaser, is engaged to marry May, simply falls in beloved with her cute and unconventional cousin, Ellen. Despite his fear of a dull wedlock he goes through with the ceremony, but continues to see Ellen.
53. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood —Offred is a Handmaid to the commander in the Republic of Gilead. Though she once had a married man, daughter, and a task, she at present navigates a world which controls her existence, a world she resists at risk of losing her life.
54. The Sun As well Rises past Ernest Hemingway — Inspired by Hemingway's trips to Spain, a 1926 novel that portrays American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to a Festival in Pamplona to sentry the running of the bulls and bullfights.
55. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf — A stream of consciousness passing of time equally the Ramsey family visit the lighthouse between 1910 and 1920, exploring themes of the transience of life and work as well as the subjective nature of reality.
56. White Dissonance past Don DeLillo — White Noise follows a year in the life of Jack Gladney, a professor who has made his name by pioneering the field of Hitler studies.
57. The Heart Is a Alone Hunter past Carson McCullers — The novel is centered upon John Singer, a deaf-mute living in Georgia in the 1930s, the only man for whom 4 other characters in the boondocks find a truthful confidant.
58. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner — Set in Mississippi in the early on 20th century, Faulkner's get-go major novel describes the decay and autumn of the aloof Compson family — and, implicitly, of an unabridged social gild.
59. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov — Fictional poet John Shade creates a 999 line poem that focuses on various aspects of his life. Shade's friend and editor Charles Kinbotes write a forward and commentary on the poem, which focuses primarily on his own concerns, and thereby reveals a plot piece past piece.
60. I, Claudius by Robert Graves —I, Claudius, Written in the form of an autobiography of the Roman Emperor Claudius, tells the history of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and the first of the Roman Empire, from Caesar's bump-off to Caligula's.
61. Become Tell It On The Mount by James Baldwin — Baldwin writes a semi-autobiographical story of John Grimes, an African American teenager in Harlem in the 1930s and his relationship to his parents, step-father, and the Pentecostal church, the latter a source of both oppression and inspiration.
62. A Dance to The Music of Fourth dimension by Anthony Powell —Non so much a book as it is 12, the story documents a British society from pre-Earth War I through to the 1970s, a society that was disappearing even as Powell wrote about information technology. A Dance to The Music of Time is an often funny commentary on the manners and movements, power and passivity in English political, cultural and armed forces life.
63. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller — Tropic of Cancer shifts between past and present and largely functions as an immersive meditation on the human being condition. Equally a struggling author, Miller describes his experience living in Paris in the xxx's, a bohemian beingness where he psychologically suffers from hunger, homelessness, loneliness, and low over his recent separation from his wife.
64. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys — Wide Sargasso Sea explores the ability of relationships between men and women and develops postcolonial themes, such equally racism, displacement, and absorption.
65. Under The Internet by Iris Murdoch — Set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with the successful. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is drifting, clever, likeable and makes a living out of translation work. A coming together with Anna, an old flame, leads him into a series of fantastic adventures.
66. Gulliver's Travels past Jonathan Swift — Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726 and follows the tale of Lemuel Gulliver as he embarks on four voyages. The volume is satirical look at human nature and the subgenre of travelers tales.
67. Tom Jones past Henry Fielding — First published in London, 1749, Tom Jones is a comic tale, which is both bildungsroman and picaresque that is among the earliest English prose to be classified as a novel.
68. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson — Published in 1748, Clarissa is the story of a beautiful, young woman, Clarissa Harlowe, whose quest for virtue is tragically thwarted by the wickedness of her world.
69. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne — A meandering story that tells of the many niggling accidents, which are perceived as pseudo-scientific calamities, of Tristram's life, from conception and across.
70. The Reddish Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne — An adulteress is forced to clothing a carmine A to mark her shame while her unidentified lover is wracked with guilt, and her husband seeks revenge.
71. Madame Bovary past Gustave Flaubert — Published in 1857, the story of a cute farm girl raised in a convent, Emma imagines married life to be an exciting adventure and is let down to find that her good natured, just relatively boring husband, isn't what she hoped for. She seeks true intimacy in romantic novels and and then other men to find her life spiralling out of control.
72. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James — James explores themes of personal freedom, responsibility, and betrayal through the story of a spirited young American woman who, in confronting her destiny, finds information technology overwhelming. Afterward inheriting a large amount of coin she becomes the victim of scheming past two American expatriates.
73. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson — A archetype novella first published in the 1800'due south tells the story of a man and his two alter egos: the respected Dr. Henry Jekyll and the loathsome Mr. Edward Hyde.
74. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad — Set in a fictitious South American country, the story begins halfway through the revolution, where rich man of affairs, Charles Gould, uses proceeds from his silverish mine to keep peace by supporting the current dictator. Instead he sparks chaos and war and must trust Nostromo with a boat of silver to keep it from falling into the hands of revolutionaries.
75. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust —Originally written in French, In Search of Lost Time could likewise be translated as Remembrance of Things Past. The vii-part novel follows the narrator'southward remembrances of babyhood and experiences into machismo equally he searches for truth and grapples with the meaninglessness of life. The story takes place in the late 19th and early 20th century aloof France.
76. The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence — Lawrence focuses on themes of individual'due south struggle for growth and fulfilment within the smothering strictures of of English language social life through the lens of iii generations of the Brangwen family living in Nottinghamshire.
77. The Adept Soldier by Ford Madox Ford — But prior to WWI, ii wealthy couples encounter at a spa in Germany and spend several years in comfy friendship until it is revealed that one of the wives and ane of the husbands are in an affair. Death and meaning follow.
78. The Trial by Franz Kafka — An upstanding banking concern officer who is all of a sudden and unexplainably put under abort and must defend himself against a accuse nearly which he tin can get no information.
79. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner —As I Lay Dying is Faulkner's distressing account of Addie Bundren'due south expiry and the family's odyssey to bury their wife and female parent in her hometown of Jefferson, Mississippi.
80. Charlotte'due south Web by East. B. White —The novel depicts the life-altering relationship of Wilbur, a barnyard grunter, and Charlotte, a spider. Wilbur is in danger of being slaughtered when Charlotte intervenes.
81. The Tin Pulsate by Gunter Grass — Oskar Matzerath tells us his life story from the solitude of a mental institution, from birth and coming of age in the time of World Wars I and Ii.
82. Herzog past Saul Bellow —Herzog is ready in 1964 and is near the midlife crunch of a Jewish man, Moses Herzog. The reader learns of Moses every bit he writes frantic, unsent letters to friends, enemies, colleagues, and the famous, those living and dead, show the spectacular workings of his mind and the secrets of his troubled heart.
83. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy past John Le Carré — The book follows the endevors of taciturn, aging spymaster forced out of retirement to detect a Soviet mole in the British Undercover Intelligence Service.
84. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison — A man's effort to fly from the top of Mercy hospital, resulting in his death, causes a scene which sends Ruth, a heavily pregnant woman, into labor and ushers in the birth of Macon "Milkman" Dead 3, the first African American born in the hospital. The story follows his life.
85. Money by Martin Amis — Coin is a tale about a true consumer, John Self. He spends extravagantly and with abandon, mindless of result, as he seeks to satisfy his appetites: booze, tobacco, pills, pornography, junk food, and more.
86. Oscar And Lucinda past Peter Carey — Oscar is an uptight preacher's child, Lucinda a frizzy-haired heiress. Life events means each grow up to develop a guilty passion for gambling. When the ii finally meet they are brought together by their disposition for risk, loneliness, and their awkwardly blossoming common affection.
87. Haroun and the Bounding main of Stories by Salman Rushdie — A phantasmagorical children's story set in a city so onetime and ruined that information technology has forgotten its own proper name. A mesmerising children'due south fantasy full in Indian folklore principally most a child's magical journey to recapture the stories his father used to tell him.
88. American Pastoral past Philip Roth —
89. Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald —
90. A Wrinkle in Fourth dimension by Madeleine L'Engle —
91. Are Yous At that place, God? It'south me, Margaret by Judy Blume —
92. Of Homo Chains by Due west. Somerset Maugham — Philip was abased as a child and raised by an unaffectionate family. In school he struggles to fit in and grows up with a desire for love, art, and feel. Subsequently a failed art career he begins studies in London, where he meets an uncaring waitress with whom he falls into a strong, agonizing, and life-changing love affair.
93. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Dirt by Michael Chabon — Prepare in 1939 NYC, a teenage budding wizard, Joe, arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy. While the long shadow of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in summit of the Aureate Age of comic books, and Sammy is looking for a way to cash in on the craze.
94. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz — The story is centered on Oscar De León (nicknamed Oscar Wao), an overweight Dominican male child growing up in New Jersey, who is obsessed with science fiction and fantasy novels and with falling in dearest, as well as the curse that has plagued his family for generations.
95. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen — Corrections is centered on the troubles of an elderly Midwestern couple and their three adult children, telling the story of their lives from the 1950s to "one concluding Christmas" together near the turn of the century.
96. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster — A tollbooth mysteriously appears in Milo's room, he drives through only considering he'due south got nothing improve to do. But on the other side, things seem dissimilar. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions, learns almost time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and much more.
97. The Air current-Up Bird Relate by Haruki Murakami — The unreality vortex circling around several loosely connected searches by the protagonist-narrator, Toru Okada, a lost human-male child in his early 30's.
98. Their Optics Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston — The novel narrates master graphic symbol Janie Crawford'southward blossoming from a vivid but voiceless, teenage girl into a adult female with her hand on the cycle of her own destiny.
99. Watchmen by Alan Moore — In an alternating 1985 America, costumed superheroes are role of everyday life. When i of his former comrades is murdered, masked vigilante Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley) uncovers a plot to kill and discredit all by and present superheroes.
100. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera — A novel possessing both comedy and trauma, the author addresses, 'Being' in a globe in which lives are irreversibly shaped choices and run a risk events in which everything occurs but one time, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight.

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