100 Books to Read This Year

I’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.