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100 Books to Read This Year

January 26, 2015 by Mary 7 Comments

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100 Books to Read this YearI’ve been saying it for years. I miss reading something other than Goodnight Moon or something written by Dr. Seuss.  Don’t get me wrong, those are great books…for the kids. I love spending time reading with the kids, but I want to spend a little more time reading for myself something that isn’t for kids. Actually, I’m currently reading the Harry Potter series to the kids right now which is a great change, but I’m still looking for something just for me.

I decided I was going to write a list of 100 books I wanted to read this year. I will warn you before you dive into the list, I’m writing this list for me and it’s going to have a lot of books you may have read already. I haven’t sat down to read a good fiction book in years and I miss it! I have some catching up to do, some new authors to discover for myself, as well as a plethora of recommendations from friends and family.

A few weeks ago I read The Narrow Three by J.K. Miller II for a contest (yes, I won the iPad!) and it reminded me how much I missed reading. It was an amazing feeling to get lost in a book again, so I kicked it into gear and wrote up this list for myself.

In no particular order, here is my list of 100 books. I don’t think I’ll get through them all, but at least I have no excuse for not knowing what to read.

100 Books to Read This Year

  1. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
  2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  3. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  4. ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
  5. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  6. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
  7. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  8. Paper Towns by John Green
  9. Catch-22 by by Joseph Heller
  10. The Stain by Rikki Ducornet
  11. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  12. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  13. Insatiable Appetites by Stuart Woods
  14. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
  15. Dune by Frank Herbert
  16. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  17. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  18. Blue Labyrinth by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
  19. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
  20. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
  21. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  22. Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  23. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  24. Euphoria by Lily King
  25. Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich (I know there are a lot of them, I want to read them all!)
  26. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  27. All Souls Day by Cees Nooteboom
  28. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
  29. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins.
  30. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  31. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  32. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
  33. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  34. The Wanderer by Alain-Fournier
  35. Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
  36. Neuromancer by William Gibson
  37. The Bone People by Keri Hulme
  38. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  39. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
  40. The Colour by Rose Tremain
  41. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  42. Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
  43. Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
  44. Metamorphoses by Ovid
  45. The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin
  46. The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
  47. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  48. The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
  49. Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion
  50. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  51. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  52. Neuromancer by William Gibson
  53. The Joke by Milan Kundera
  54. Paradise Lost by John Milton
  55. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
  56. Contempt by Alberto Moravia
  57. Revival by Stephen King
  58. The Color of Water by James McBride
  59. Atonement by Ian McEwan
  60. In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
  61. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  62. The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
  63. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
  64. The Mortdecai Trilogy by Kyril Bonfiglioli
  65. City of Glass by Paul Auster
  66. Redeployment by Phil Klay
  67. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
  68. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  69. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  70. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  71. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
  72. Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
  73. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
  74. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchel
  75. The Martian by Andy Weir
  76. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  77. Anything by Anne Rice. I’ve read some, but I need to catch up and read new series. One of my favorites when I was younger.
  78. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
  79. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  80. Shirley by Susan Scarf Merrell
  81. In the Night of Time by Antonio Muñoz Molina; translated by Edith Grossman
  82. Ulysses by James Joyce
  83. Insurgent by Veronica Roth
  84. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  85. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  86. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  87. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  88. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
  89. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  90. The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide
  91. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
  92. Love in The Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
  93. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
  94. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
  95. Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
  96. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
  97. The Magus by John Fowles
  98. A handful of dust by Evelyn Waugh
  99. Watchmen by Alan Moore
  100. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

There’s my list of 100 books to read. I already know I’m not getting through them, but it will be fun to try!

What books would you add to this list? Tell me in the comments.

 

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  1. cristina

    January 26, 2015 at

    The Alchemist, and Memoirs of a Geisha are good adds!!

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    • Mary Juett

      January 27, 2015 at

      I haven’t read The Alchemist, but I LOVE Memoirs of a Geisha, so much better than the movie (aren’t they always?). I would have added it, but I was sticking with books I haven’t read.

      Reply
  2. Michaela

    January 31, 2015 at

    Resonance by Emily elaine

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  3. Anna

    February 3, 2015 at

    This list looks great! I Wanted to say that I’m from the same area as you! And I homeschool too! Nice to ‘meet’ you =)

    Reply
    • Mary Juett

      February 3, 2015 at

      That’s awesome! I’m a member of NESHE so I do a lot of stuff with that homeschool group. Hopefully this list will help me break away from being in constant homeschool mode, lol

      Reply

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