What are some books that I *have* to read?

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In your opinion? As in, if I don't read them I'll miss something very exciting and well-written. :)

Luisa P · Accepted Answer

The 100 Best Books I’ve Read So Far
1.  Watership Down, Richard Adams
2.  Brave New World, Aldous Huxley*
3.  1984, George Orwell*
4.  Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
5.  Non-Violent Resistance: Satyagraha, Mohandas K. Gandhi
6.  The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
7.  Island, Aldous Huxley
8.  Green Shadows, White Whale, Ray Bradbury
9.  In the Penal Colony, Franz Kafka
10.  The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger*
11.  The Last Battle, C. S. Lewis
12.  Borderliners, Peter Hoeg
13.  Animal Farm, George Orwell*
14.  Our Town, Thornton Wilder
15.  Beware the Fish!, Gordon Korman
16.  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
17.  The Mouse That Roared (series), Leonard Wibberly
18.  Night, Elie Wiesel
19.  Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
20.  The Short Stories, Ernest Hemingway
21.  The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald*
22.  Antigone, Sophocles
23.  I Sing the Body Electric!, Ray Bradbury
24.  Trout Fishing in America, Richard Brautigan
25.  All Creatures Great and Small (series), James Herriot
26.  Babar’s Anniversary Book, Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff
27.  Pigs Might Fly, Dick King-Smith
28.  James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
29.  The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
30.  Gandhi on Non-Violence, Mohandas K. Gandhi
31.  The Little History of the Wide World, Mable Pyne
32.  The Magus, John Fowles*
33.  The Silver Chair, C. S. Lewis
34.  Hamlet, William Shakespeare
35.  Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton
36.  A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
37.  The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
38.  The Zucchini Warriors, Gordon Korman
39.  The Celery Stalks at Midnight, James Howe
40.  Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction, J. D. Salinger
41.  Beloved, Toni Morrison
42.  To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
43.  The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
44.  Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
45.  Danny, Champion of the World, Roald Dahl
46.  The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury
47.  The Time Garden, Edward Eager
48.  The House at Pooh Corner, A. A. Milne
49.  A Medicine for Melancholy, Ray Bradbury
50.  40 Stories, Donald Barthelme
51.  Matilda, Roald Dahl
52.  The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
53.  Losing Joe’s Place, Gordon Korman
54.  Uncle Wiggily’s Story Book, Howard R. Garis
55.  Nine Stories, J. D. Salinger
56.  The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot
57.  The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
58.  No Coins, Please, Gordon Korman
59.  The Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
60.  The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader", C. S. Lewis
61.  Franny and Zooey, J. D. Salinger
62.  The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Barbara Robinson
63.  The Peace Book, Bernard Benson
64.  The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe
65.  Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
66.  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
67.  Boy, Roald Dahl
68.  Nothing But the Truth, Avi
69.  Little House on the Prarie (series), Laura Ingalls Wilder
70.  The Toynbee Convector, Ray Bradbury
71.  Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Eleanor Coerr
72.  The October Country, Ray Bradbury
73.  Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Roald Dahl
74.  The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
75.  Bunnicula, Deborah and James Howe
76.  Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White
77.  The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis
78.  A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag, Gordon Korman
79.  The Haunted Bookshop, Christopher Morley
80.  We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
81.  Magic or Not?, Edward Eager
82.  The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle (series), Hugh Lofting
83.  A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
84.  Driving Blind, Ray Bradbury
85.  Long After Midnight, Ray Bradbury
86.  Early Stories, Anton Chekov
87.  Marcovaldo, Italo Calvino
88.  Dubliners, James Joyce
89.  Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
90.  Quicker Than the Eye, Ray Bradbury
91.  Miracle on 34th Street, Valentine Davies
92.  A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
93.  How to Play Better Baseball, C. Paul Jackson
94.  Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary
95.  The Golden Apples of the Sun, Ray Bradbury
96.  Frog and Toad are Friends (series), Arnold Lobel
97.  I Will Adventure, Elizabeth Janet Gray
98.  The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams
99.  Mossflower, Brian Jacques
100.  Who is Bugs Potter?, Gordon Korman

xc skiier forever!! · Answer

The Diary of Anne Frank
1984
The Sparrow
Anything by Edgar Allan Poe
Dracula
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Great Gatsby
Narnia Series
Harry Potter Series
If on a winter's night a traveler
A Long Way Gone
Persepolis
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Pygmalion
To Kill a Mockingbird
World War Z
The Plague
A Walk in the Woods

Happy Reading!

Mischief_Managed · Answer

As was previously stated, The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Some other good ones:
-The Mortal Instrument Series (City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass) by Cassandra Clare.
- Impulse by Ellen Hopkins (don't bother with Crank, Glass, Fallout, the story line in Impulse is much better)
- Burned by Ellen Hopkins (same as above)
- Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
- The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen (by far her most moving book)
- The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks

I've got some others but these books were either A: hugely inspirational and books that changed my life or B: An amazing read/ well written.

hope this helps :)

Moondragon · Answer

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
The Snow Queen by Joan Vinge
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
Dancing At The Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig
The Elegance of The Hedghog by Muriel Barbery
The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Little Prince by Antoine St. Exupery
1984 by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Dune by Frank Herbert
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Laddie by Gene Stratton Porter
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Anything by William Shakespear
Mythogo Wood by Robert Holdstock
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Rebecca by Daphne Dumaurier
An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden
The Dean's Watch by Elizabeth Goudge
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Kels · Answer

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 
          (Great series; much better character development than the Narnia books)
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand 
          (long book, highly philosophical, thought provoking, if you are into this type of literature you will love it, my favorite!!)
The Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde 
          (Oscar Wilde is an amazing writer and this play is humor versus cynical like The Picture of Dorian Grey)
The Thief - Megan Whalen Turner 
          (quick read, love the main character, the rest of the series is good as well)

whoaxsteph · Answer

1894 - George Orwell
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (Pretty sure that spelling's right...)
A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko

There are a ton more I can't think of at the moment.

Edit: Luisa P has a good list.

loren · Answer

The Miracle Of Right Thought by Orison Swett Marden

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HoneyBee · Answer

well i dont know if your a guy or a girl, but if you are a girl.. i really recommened the book
TWO WAY STREET -- Lauren Barnholdt
I could NOT put the book down!!!! Amazing book ive read:)

Anonymous · Answer

The hunger games trilogy

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