Another Wednesday dawns, and it’s another one not in work. I’d be sad, but it means I once again have time to read, write, and just generally keep on top of all things blogging. Some of you might remember back to 2016 when I looked at the Amazon list of 100 books to read before you die. Well, four years later I decided it might be time to revisit that list! This post contains affiliate links – read more in my disclaimer.
It dawned on me that in exactly 9 posting days, I will be posting on my 25th birthday – a rather terrifying thought! As I reach the quarter of a century milestone in age, now seems as good a time as ever to take stock of how many of the 100 books before you die list I have actually read. I had started off putting a strike through the books I’ve read, but realised pretty quickly that means you can’t read them! So instead, any I have read are in bold. As I said, this post contains Affiliate links. If you would like to learn more about affiliate sales, check out the Beginners Guide to Affiliate Sales [AFF].
- To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- The Tiger Who Came to Tea – Judith Kerr
- The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
- We’re Going on a Bear Hunt – Michael Rosen
- American Gods – Neil Gaiman
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat – Oliver Sacks
- Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Secret History – Donna Tartt
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne
- Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- Noughts & Crosses – Malorie Blackman
- Atonement – Ian McEwan
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
- In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter
- The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
- Catch-22 – Joseph Heller and Howard Jacobson
- Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway
- Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
- Bad Science – Ben Goldacte
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 – Sue Townsend
- A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
- The Stand – Stephen King
- American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Maarquez and Gregory Rabassa
- The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
- The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
- Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
- The Road – Cormac McCarthy
- The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
- The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
- Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
- Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer
- All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
- A History of the World in 100 Objects – Neil MacGregor
- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China – Jung Chang
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John le Carré
- Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
- The Hare With Amber Eyes – Edmund de Waal
- The Sense of an Ending – Julain Barnes
- White Teeth – Zadie Smith
- Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
- I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
- The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
- Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee MBE
- Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
- London: The Biography – Peter Ackroyd
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Long Walk To Freedom – Nelson Mandela
- Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – J R R Tolkien
- To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
- Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
- Knots and Crosses – Ian Rankin
- The Story of Tracy Beaker – Jacqueline Wilson
- The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
- Venice – Jan Morris
- Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathon Swift
- Last Orders – Graham Swift
- London Fields – Martin Amis
- Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
- The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear – Arthur Conan Doyle
- Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
- The Gruffalo – Julia Donaldson
- The Mill On The Floss – George Eliot
- The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
- Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
- The Commitments – Roffy Doyle
- A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
- Dissolution – C. J. Sansom
- The Time Machine – H. G. Wells
- Winnie-the-Pooh – A. A. Milne
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
- Watership Down – Richard Adams
- Stormbreaker – Anthony Horowitz
- The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
- The Enchanted Wood – Enid Blyton
- Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
- My Man Jeeves – P. G. Wodehouse
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J. K. Rowling
- Watchmen – Dave Gibbons
- High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
- Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian
- Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
- Bridget Jones’ Diary – Helen Fielding
- The Worst Witch – Jill Murphy
So all together, I have read 31 out of the 100 books to read before you die. Compared to 24 books back in 2016, I would say that’s reasonable. How many have you read? Pin this post to come back and tick them off as you read!
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