98 Books You Should Read Before You Die

According to Amazon's '100 Books to Read in a Lifetime' list, this includes old favourites and newer bestsellers. List is here: http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=8192263011
Books are from every genre, including literary and commercial
Non-Fiction, Collated Stories and Fiction novels included
In case of Series, the name of the series will do
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Meet Big Brother
1984
Explore the Universe
A Brief History Of Time
Memoir as Metafiction
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A Child Solider's Story
A Long Way Gone
Wicked Good Fun
A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning
A 60s Kid Classic
A Wrinkle In Time
A Short Form Master
Alice Munro: Selected Stories
Go Down the Rabbit Hole
Alice in Wonderland
Unseated a President
All The President's Men
An Irish-American Memoir
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
The Angst of Adolescence
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
A Literary Page Turner
Bel Canto
The Ghosts of Slavery
Beloved
Why and How We Run
Born To Run
A Journey From Haiti
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Launched Its Own Catchphrase
Catch-22
Vintage Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Timeless Pig Classic
Charlotte's Web
Ambitious and Humane
Cutting For Stone
Vulnerability Breeds Courage
Daring Greatly
A Cartoonish Book For Young Reluctant Readers
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
A Science Fiction Classic
Dune
"It Was a Pleasure to Burn"
Fahrenheit 451
Gonzo Journalism Takes Flight
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Marriage Can Be a Real Killer
Gone Girl
Picture Book, First Published in 1947
Goodnight Moon
Dickens' Best Novel
Great Expectations
Understanding Society
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Meet the Boy Wizard
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone
True Crime at its Best
In Cold Blood
Award-winning Short Story Debut
Interpreter of Maladies
1952 American Literary Milestone
Invisible Man
An Award-winning Graphic Novel
Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth
Don't Eat While You Read This
Kitchen Confidential
One of the Best of 2013
Life after Life
Childhood on The Frontier
Little House on the Praire
Nabokov's Triumph
Lolita
A Latin American Masterpiece
Love In The Time of Cholera
A Saga Set on the Reservation
Love Medicine
A Life-changing Book
Man's Search for Meaning
Grammatically Incorrect Title, Great Book
Me Talk Pretty One Day
LGBT Greek-American Novel
Middlesex
Rushdie's Breakthrough
Midnight's Children
Lewis Hits it Out of the Park
Moneyball
A Writer's Writer
Of Human Bondage
The Essence of the Beat Generation
On The Road
A Remarkable Woman's Story
Out of Africa
A Ground-breaking Graphic Novel
Persepolis
Roth at His Finest
Portnoy's Complaint
The Perennial Favourite From Austen
Pride and Prejudice
The Birth of Ecology
Silent Spring
The Absurdist WW2 Novel
Slaughterhouse-Five
How Lincoln Led
Team of Rivals
19th Century High Society
The Age of Innocence
Chabon's Magnum Opus
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
A Classic Modern Autobiography
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The International WW2 Children's Sensation
The Book Thief
The Trials of a "Ghetto Nerd"
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Meet Holden Caulfield
The Catcher in the Rye
Exploring a Mother's Past
The Colour of Water
Great, But Divisive
The Corrections
A Triumph of Narrative Non-Fiction
The Devil in the White City
Moving Journal
The Diary of Anne Frank
A Soulful, Young Adult Novel about Cancer
The Fault in Our Stars
Classic Dystopian
The Giver
Pullman's Fantasy Classic
The Golden Compass
The Rich are Different...
The Great Gatsby
Feminist Speculative Fiction
The Handmaid's Tale
A Boy, A Bear, A Honey Pot
The House at Pooh Corner
Reality TV Writ Large
The Hunger Games
Race, Ethics and Medicine
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Monsters, Mythology and a Boy
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
Unique, One of the All-time Bestsellers
The Little Prince
First-rate Chandler Noir
The Long Goodbye
The History of Terrorism
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
One Ring to Rule Them All
The Lord of the Rings
A Deeply Human Account
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
An Odd and Original Journey
The Phantom Tollbooth
Missionaries in Africa
The Poisonwood Bible
The Enforcer
The Power Broker
The Inner Life of Astronauts
The Right Stuff
This Way to the Apoclaypse
The Road
A Modern Classic
The Secret History
Chilling and Thrilling; Great Movie
The Shining
Existenalist Fiction
The Stranger
Meet the Lost Generation
The Sun Also Rises
The Best Book on Vietnam
The Things They Carried
Baby's First Book
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Mole, Toad, Rat, Badger
The Wind in the Willows
From the Modern Japanese Master
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Beware the "Undertoad"
The World According to Garp
Life, Love, Death
The Year of Magical Thinking
Tradition vs Change
Things Fall Apart
A Beloved Family Story; Famous Lawyer
To Kill a Mockingbird
An American Inspiration
Unbroken
Showbiz Girls Clawing Their Way to the Top
Valley of the Dolls
Surreal imagination 2002 picture-book
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Let the Wild Rumpus Start!
Where the Wild Things Are
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