100 Books to Read before You Die,2020
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2019
- Reading a book can be an intensely personal experience. Books can be truly life-changing, and also, as it turns out, make you smarter. Research repeatedly shows you boost your analytical thinking by reading, along with expanding your vocabulary, as well as your mind in general.
Here are 100 Books to Read before You Die!
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1. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
3. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
4. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
5. The Lord of The Rings: volume 1 - J. R. R. Tolkein
6. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
7. The Catched In The Rye - J.D. Salinger
8. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
9. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
10. Ulysses - James Joyce
11. Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
12. The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck
13. 1984 - George Orwell
14. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
15. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
16. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
17. A Passage To India - E. M. Forster
18. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
19. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
20. The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
21. One Hundred Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
22. Prude And Prejudice - Jane Austen
23. Animal Farm - George Orwell
24. Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
25. Beloved - Toni Morrison
26. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
27. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
28. The Stranger - Albert Camus
29. Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
30. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
31. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
32. The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas Pere
33. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
34. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
35. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
36. The Call Of The Wild - Jack London
37. The Wind In The Willows - Kenneth Grahame
38. Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
39. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
40. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
41. If On A Winter's Night A Traveler - Italo Calvino
42. A Bend In The River - V.S. Naipaul
43. Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
44. Atonement - Ian McEwan
45. His Dark Materials - Philip Pallman
46. The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
47. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
48. Middlemarch - George Eliot
49. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
50. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
51. Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
52. The Age Of Innocence - Edith Wharton
53. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
54. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
55. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
56. White Noise - Don Delillo
57. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter - Carson Mccullers
58. The Sound And The Fury - William Faulkner
59. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
60. I, Claudius - Robert Graves
61. Go Tell It On The Mountain - James Baldwin
62. A Dance To The Music Of Time - Anthony Powell
63. Tropic Of Cancer - Henry Miller
64. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
65. Under The Net - Iris Murdoch
66. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
67. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
68. Clarissa: Or The History Of A Young Lady - Samuel Richardson
69. The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne
70. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
71. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
72. The Portrait Of A Lady - Henry James
73. The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
74. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
75. In Search Of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
76. The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
77. The Good Soldiers - Ford Madox Ford
78. The Trial - Franz Kafka
79. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
80. Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
81. The Tin Drums - Gunter Grass
82. Herzog - Saul Bellow
83. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John Le Carré
84. Song Of Solomon - Toni Morrison
85. Money - Martin Amis
86. Oscar And Lucinda - Peter Carey
87. Haroun And The Sea Of Stories - Salman Rushdie
88. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
89. Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald
90. A Wrinkle In Time - Madeleine L'engle
91. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
92. Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham
93. The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
94. The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz
95. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
96. The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
97. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
98. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
99. Watchmen - Alan Moore
100. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being - Milan Kundera
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#7 was no doubt meant to be "The Catcher in the Rye."
100 books to read, before you die in 2020!
Hell of a title
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Read all of them except maybe 18... But where is Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace?
I’ve read exactly 28 and will read at least 5 of these soon. The sound and the fury sounds good.
I’ve read about 22 or so. I’m 64 and I think I have read more, but I’m not counting them since I can’t remember.
Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Alice in Wonderland were books I read over and over as a child. They became as dear friends.
Many others of this list I have heard of but have not read.
Then, there are other books by some of these authors that I have read but not the one mentioned.
Lastly, I probably would have added several by Mark Twain; The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair; and Anne of Green Gables.
Any list like this is going to be inherently subjective. I thought it included some very good titles.
I agree it's a great list. I don't think Waugh should get 2 titles in though, Brideshead would have done
I’ve read 24 of them. Was looking for Brothers Karamazov (which I’ve read) and War and Peace (on my TBR). I’ve read other books by some of the listed authors like Marilyn Robinson and Steinbeck, but not the ones listed. Great list, gave me ideas for other books/authors to add to my wish list. Thanks!
Me too, I was wondering, "WHY DON'T THEY HAVE WAR AND PEACE?!?!?!?!?!?!"
Really disappointed. No ZOLA. No BALZAC..
I remember taking On the Road with me on my first trip to Europe back n 1971. English books were hard to find and expensive. We tended to choose them with attention to their trading value. I traded On the Road for Zorba the Greek, Last Temptation of Christ and the Bostonians, pretty good deal.
Wonderfully diverse list, beautifully presented. Thanks.
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I loved the count of Monte cristo, I was so sad to finish it
Just read it in 2020. Turned out to be the second best book of 36 reads.
Which translation did you read?
It's the book of my life! My eternity love!♥️♥️♥️♥️
@@fjorinasimoni9832 which translation did you choose?
I consider myself well-read, but about 15 I never heard of! I have read 28 of these.
Same here! I have read 30 of them, but some of them I have never heard of. And like you, I consider myself well-read at 65 years old and decades of reading behind me.
@@snowysnowyriver Similar for me. 33 in my case, plus a couple I think I might have read but cant' quite remember (depressing thought). There's probably about 20 on here I've either not heard of or have no intention of reading (Moby Dick, Little Women and the two Rushsdies top of the list here), so a fair few still to aim at..
I’ve read 74 of these, but I’ll get there.
Keep workin Rya
It seems to me as I am reading it, that the Bible is most pertinent💖💖😊😊🙏🙏
I've read 59 of these books. I'm in the middle of David Copperfield right now. After I'm done, it will be 60. Note: I'm counting Pullman's His Dark Materials even though I've only read The Golden Compass (Amber Spyglass). And I'm counting Proust's In Search of Lost Time even though I've only read Swann's Way.
Native Son by Richard Wright, The Autobiography of Malcom X, 12 Years a Slave, East of Eden, Of Mice & Men, Portrait of The Artist, The Master & Margarita has to be on there
It took me a decade to wright them all I hope they worth it....
I have read 15 of these. Of those I didn't like were Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Catcher in the Rye. The other books are all top shelf stuff, with the exception of Animal Farm which was okay.
4. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
5. The Lord of The Rings: volume 1 - J. R. R. Tolkein
7. The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger
11. Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
13. 1984 - George Orwell
14. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
18. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
22. Prude And Prejudice - Jane Austen
23. Animal Farm - George Orwell
30. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
37. The Wind In The Willows - Kenneth Grahame
46. The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
53. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
73. The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
97. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Books to recommend:
The Wicked Trilogy
Chronicles of Narnia
Picture of Dorian Grey
Dracula by Bran Stoker
Harry Potter
Dark Tower Series
Game of Thrones
Dune
Should say “novels” - due to a lack of poetry, short stories, plays, essays, and autobiographies.
The best one, by far, came in at exactly # 100 😄
Great call with "The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao" by Junot Díaz
No Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? No War and Peace ? No, Les Miserable?
I read the Iliad and The Odyessy and loved it. Also War and Peace. Wuthering would be my $#3.
Five novels to read AFTER you die:
- In Search of Lost Time
- Ulysses
- Finnagins Wake
- Gravity's Rainbow
- The collected works of Steven King
I was sad not to see All Quite On The Western Front, Call Of The Wild, The Old Man And The Sea.
The Call of the Wild is on there at 3:58
Where was The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
i have read 3: catcher in the rye, 1984 and the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde
IMO- In Cold Blood should be on this list. The Plague is better than The Stranger (Camus.) The Castle is better than The Trial (Kafka.) And Dracula is better than Frankenstein.
I agree about the Plague, also I feel there is better contemporary fiction than Watchmen. How about Infinite Jest? Also like 1Q84 better for Murakami.
It's no Mockingbird, Frankenstein, Catch 22 or Crime and Punishment but can we please have some love for Watership Down🐇🐇🐇
I would say it's almost impossible to create a list like that without sacrificing a few remarkable (or many) books. I would pick up more of the Russian and literature, and also Machado de Assis, which is, by far, the best Latin American writer of all times. He would be easily be ranked alongside with Balzac if he had written in French instead of Portuguese.
Where is Mark Twain? Anything by him should be on the list
The amount of illiteracy, ignorance, and cultural correctness required to leave Twain off this list is stagerring. I don't expect an appreciation for genre writing to be evidenced but Twain ?? There is no American Literature that matters more than his. This list is a joke.
No C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, Stephen King, or J.K. Rowling.....🤔 Still enjoyed the video
No writer has had a greater impact on modern popular culture than H.G. Wells, yet you can find no room for even one of his 100 books. I find that both sad and silly.
I am 95. I will not read anything depressing!!!!
Thank you for including a Sebald novel!
A few more for your consideration:
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness - Kenzaburo Oe
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
The Red and the Black - Stendahl
Candide - Voltaire
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
My Antonia - Willa Cather
I preferred Siddhartha over Steppenwolf personally tbh
@@Peter_Lynch Yes, I actually like Glass Bead Game the best. But I think Steppenwolf is a good intro to his work.
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I think The Glass Bead Game is his best, but everything he writes is great, even in translation.
I'd read 30 out of the first 50 and was like cool if I keep up at that rate I'll be happy. Got to 60 but only with the last three entries. Phew..
Where’s Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace?
I dnf-ed The Great Gatsby, have read To Kill a Mocking Bird, Lolita, The Count of Monte Cristo, Little Women, and Charlotte's Web. Guess I should read more...
Hi, what is the piano piece in the background?
In a way a list of the most famous books. I would have added Stefan Zweig ( Beware of Pity or Amok ) or some Katherine Mansflied but that's me.
Have you read them all?
I think I've read about 25 of them.
Exact same but you must have read at least 3 more by now.
Same!!
Only 17😑
There are some here that I have absolutely NO desire to read ( Camus for example.) Some I have read several times.
Camus is great.
Give the Stranger or the Plague a try. You might surprise yourself
Many great books. A little diversity but still very much englo-centrist.
Anyone heard of a little book called the Bible
I think i saw half of their movies..!
Just making sure you included Proust.
Out of the 100, I have only read 15.
I say before you get too relaxed
It seems my book acquisitions are inversely proportional to my time left to read them, and now this…. Curses!
Lol!
It'd be nice to see a brief intro to the story tho 😅
I have only read 36 of these 😳
The great Gatsby
I’ve read 27
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Really what is it about those lits that they hardly ever include German writers even though there are many of them with great works.
Americans are notorious for not knowing/liking things that are not american.
There aren't that many great German writers. There is a lot of great literature in German but not much of it is from Germany. Austria is a great country for literature.
The list did include Sebald and Kafka. That is: an Austrian and somebody who was born an Austrian and died a Czechoslovakian.
Jude DEveraux Twin of fire
What about Maus????
Maus is a must-read, definitely. But it's a graphic novel, and this list is about regular novels.
Good list Like that you included Invisible Man and Age of Innocence. Are you telling the truth about Carissa?
53 is derivative garbage but the rest is interesting.
I have read only 1 from this list👀 Really disappointing
A list made by someone who only understand English :)
One flew over the cuckoo's nest...why?
No Brothers Karamazov? No Tolstoy? No Shakespeare? No McCarthy? Very disappointing.
Anna Karenina is listed at #50.
Shame on me! i'm sorry to say that I have read just 35 of the books on this list.
This video should be titled, "100 novels By Mostly White Men".
I appreciate that composing such a list is a very personal and an almost inherently impossible undertaking. That said this list clearly lost its way about half way through by trying to be all encompassing and far too populist. Putting the likes of Dougas Adams with Kafka and Nabukov is clearly an error, albeit in a list that spans 100 books..
What makes this person an authority on this list of 100 books to read before we die? Is she a scholarly academic, an acclaimed author, a literature professor? We need to know. We also need an explanation of why each book has been included in the list.
Ridiculous list. Where is The Road? And, to have Catcher in the Rye at #7.....one of the most overvalued books of all time.....really?
Only about 40 of these books should be on a top 100 books list. Hemingway not even in the top 50 is appalling. No Dune by Frank Herbert, Odyssey by Homer, No Ursula LeGuin, No Ayn Rand, No H. G. Wells, No Asimov…No Edgar Rice Burroughs…No Arthur C Clarke, No Bradbury, No Agatha Christie, …not to mention all time best sellers such as Jk Rowling or Stephen King which have outsold half of the unworthy books on this list by a substantial margin. I therefore declare this list RUBBISH.
Why would anyone read the works of Jane Austen or - even worse - Virginia Woolf? Whenever I see them in some "must read"-list I feel like they are just included because they are women (and therefore pc/diverse).
Without using the google thingie, how many authors who wrote novels from 1742 besides Jane Austen who are still read today? Also have you read Mrs Dalloway or especially To the Lighhouse?
To the Lighthouse is one of the best books ever written about family dynamics. Wait a couple of years, get over your misogyny and give it a go.
Jane Austen has been read and loved for over 200 years by women AND men. She has had significant influence for most novels that followed hers.
any list that includes ulysses is a big no no
Bigotry
I'd say it was one of those books you read to be able to say you have (my case), but an utterly tedious experience with no desire whatsoever to repeat.
@@HampsteadOwl it's a tough read but it's actually quite funny. There were passages where I laughed my ass off.
No War and piece, brother karmajov, iliyad, odessy, crime and punishment, Ramayana, Maha Bharatiya. What kind of list is.