Amazon’s “100 Books to Read in a Lifetime” Tag

I saw this on Baking Thad Books, and even though I wasn’t tagged I couldn’t resist joining in. In case you can’t tell by now, I love lists. I used to have a reading journal (which I obviously kept up with for longer than 2 months…) that had all kinds of lists at the back. The lists were my favorite part, lol. I don’t know, I guess I feel like if I was ever stuck and couldn’t figure out what to read next I could always just read something off my favorite list.

Also, thanks to this tag I’ve officially added Bel Canto to my tbr. It’s been recommended to me so many times, both online and by people I actually know. I just never really cared enough to actually bother. But at this point I can take a hint. I’ll read it, already!

How to Play:

1. Include the link to Amazon’s List
2. Tag the creator of the meme (Perfectly Tolerable)
3. Tag and thank the Person that tagged you
4. Copy the list below and indicate which ones you have read
5. Tally up your total
6. Comment on the post you were tagged in and let them know how many you read
7. Tag 5 new people! (And comment on one of their posts to let them know you tagged them)

DISCLAIMER: ALL AMAZON LINKS ARE AFFILIATE LINKS. IF YOU PURCHASE ANY OF THESE BOOKS THROUGH ONE OF THE LINKS, PERFECTLY TOLERABLE WILL GET A SMALL COMMISSION!

Title	Author	Read?
1984	George Orwell	Yes
A Brief History of Time	Stephen Hawking
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius	Dave Eggers
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier	Ishmael Beah
The Bad Beginning	Lemony Snicket	Yes
A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L’Engle	Yes
Selected Stories, 1968-1994	Alice Munro
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll
All the President’s Men	Bob Woodward
Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir	Frank McCourt	(I’ve read his less popular book…)
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.	Judy Blume
Bel Canto	Ann Patchett
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Born to Run	Christopher McDougall
Breath, Eyes, Memory	Edwidge Danticat
Catch-22	Joseph Heller	Yes
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Roald Dahl
Charlotte’s Web	E. B White	Yes
Cutting for Stone	Abraham Verghese
Daring Greatly	Brené Brown
Diary of a Wimpy Kid	Jeff Kinney
Dune	Frank Herbert
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	Yes
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Hunter S. Thompson
Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn	Yes
Goodnight Moon	Margaret Wise Brow	Yes
Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	Yes
Guns, Germs, and Steel	Jared Diamond Ph.D.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone	J.K. Rowling	Yes
In Cold Blood	Truman Capote
Interpreter of Maladies	Jhumpa Lahiri
Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth	Chris Ware
Kitchen Confidential	Anthony Bourdain
Life After Life	Kate Atkinson	Yes
Little House on the Prairie	Laura Ingalls Wilder	Yes
Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov
Love in the Time of Cholera	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	Yes
Love Medicine	Louise Erdrich
Man’s Search for Meaning	Viktor E. Frankl	Yes
Me Talk Pretty One Day	David Sedaris
Middlesex	Jeffrey Eugenides	Yes
Midnight’s Children	Salman Rushdie
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game	Michael Lewis
Of Human Bondage	W. Somerset Maugham
On the Road	Jack Kerouac
Out of Africa	Isak Dinesen
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood	Marjane Satrapi	Yes
Portnoy’s Complaint	Philip Roth
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	Yes
Silent Spring	Rachel Carson
Slaughterhouse-Five	Kurt Vonnegut
Team of Rivals	Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Age of Innocence	Edith Wharton
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay	Michael Chabon
The Autobiography of Malcolm X	Malcolm X
The Book Thief	Markus Zusak	Yes
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	Junot Díaz
The Catcher in the Rye	J. D. Salinger	Yes
The Color of Water	James McBride
The Corrections	Jonathan Franzen
The Devil in the White City	Erik Larson
The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank	Yes
The Fault in Our Stars	John Green	Yes
The Giver	Lois Lowry	Yes
The Golden Compass	Philip Pullman	Yes
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	Yes
The Handmaid’s Tale	Margaret Atwood	Yes
The House at Pooh Corner	A. Milne	Yes
The Hunger Games	Suzanne Collins	Yes
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot
The Liars’ Club	Mary Karr
The Lightning Thief	Rick Riordan	Yes
The Little Prince	Houghton Mifflin
The Long Goodbye	Raymond Chandler
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11	Lawrence Wright
The Lord of the Rings	J.R.R. Tolkien	Yes
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat	Oliver Sacks
The Omnivore’s Dilemma	Michael Pollan
The Phantom Tollbooth	Norton Juster
The Poisonwood Bible	Barbara Kingsolver
The Power Broker	Robert A. Caro
The Right Stuff	Tom Wolfe
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
The Secret History	Donna Tartt
The Shining	Stephen King
The Stranger	Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises	Ernest Hemingway
The Things They Carried	Tim O’Brien
The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Eric Carle	Yes
The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle	Haruki Murakami
The World According to Garp	John Irving
The Year of Magical Thinking	Joan Didion
Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	Yes
Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand
Valley of the Dolls	Jacqueline Susann
Where the Sidewalk Ends	Shel Silverstein	Yes
Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak	Yes

33 out of 100. A lot less than I imagine some people, but pretty much par for course for me when it comes to lists like these. Maybe I should make a Top 100 books and see how many the people at Amazon have read!

(Also, Goodnight Moon, seriously? I have at least 4 goodnight books on my kid’s bookshelf that are WAY better.)

Since I wasn’t tagged I’m bending the rules and not tagging anyone specific. (Also, because I’ve already done a couple of tags this month and don’t like to feel like I’m bothering people). But if you also like tags, feel free to tag yourself! ❤

So what about you? How many have you read? Are there any books on this list that you think maybe shouldn’t be?