100 Books Before You Die Reedsy 59 books by Roy

The House of Mirth

ByEdith Wharton

1905 • 141 Readers • 435 pages • 3.8

Oxford Bookworms

A Tale of Two Cities

ByCharles Dickens

19 • 899 Readers • 544 pages • 3.6

267 Readers • 4

1903 • 457 Readers • 142 pages • 3.7

#1 of 2 in Gone with the Wind Split-Volume (2) Editions

Gone with the Wind

ByMargaret Mitchell

1936 • 563 Readers • 825 pages • 4

#1 of 2 in Watership Down

Watership Down

ByRichard Adams

1972 • 670 Readers • 478 pages • 4.1

#1 of 6 in Maya Angelou's Autobiography

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

ByMaya Angelou

1969 • 476 Readers • 309 pages • 4.1

The Diary of a Young Girl

ByAnne Frank

1944 • 1,262 Readers • 111 pages • 4

#10

#1 of 4 in L'amica geniale

My Brilliant Friend

ByElena Ferrante,Ann Goldstein(Translator)

2011 • 525 Readers • 331 pages • 4.1

#11

The Year of Magical Thinking

ByJoan Didion

2005 • 437 Readers • 5h 1m • 4.1

#12

The Remains of the Day

ByKazuo Ishiguro

1989 • 660 Readers • 258 pages • 4.2

#13

The Princess Bride

ByWilliam Goldman

1973 • 1,054 Readers • 465 pages • 4.2

#14

White Teeth

ByZadie Smith

281 Readers • 3.9

#15

#1 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

The Fellowship of the Ring

ByJ.R.R. Tolkien

1954 • 2,565 Readers • 398 pages • 4.4

#16

Middle-earth Legendarium

The Hobbit

ByJ.R.R. Tolkien

1937 • 3,289 Readers • 4.3

#17

#1 of 8 in Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

ByJ. K. Rowling

1997 • 4,300 Readers • 309 pages • 4.3

#18

#3 of 9 in Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

ByArthur Conan Doyle

1891 • 428 Readers • 333 pages • 4.3

#19

#4 of 46 in Hercule Poirot

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

ByAgatha Christie

1926 • 524 Readers • 288 pages • 4.2

#20

In Cold Blood

ByTruman Capote

1959 • 682 Readers • 370 pages • 4.1

#21

#1 of 7 in Foundation (Publication Order)

Foundation

ByIsaac Asimov

1951 • 1,485 Readers • 255 pages • 4

#22

#4 of 9 in Hainish Cycle

The Left Hand of Darkness

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1969 • 1,050 Readers • 267 pages • 4.1

#23

#1 of 8 in Dune

Dune

ByFrank Herbert

1965 • 3,768 Readers • 704 pages • 4.3

#24

1984

ByGeorge Orwell

1949 • 4,502 Readers • 352 pages • 4.2

#25

Fahrenheit 451

ByRay Bradbury

1953 • 2,858 Readers • 227 pages • 3.9

#26

#1 of 3 in La Divina Commedia

The Devine Comedy

ByDante Alighieri,Henry Francis Cary(Translator)

1320 • 2 Readers • 132 pages

#27

#1 of 3 in Los Miserables

Les Misérables

ByVictor Hugo,Isabel Florence Hapgood(Translator)

7 • 676 Readers • 1,378 pages • 4.2

#28

Madame Bovary

ByGustave Flaubert,Alan Russell(Translator)

1856 • 465 Readers • 368 pages • 3.6

#29

The Metamorphosis

ByFranz Kafka

199 • 1,091 Readers • 77 pages • 3.8

#30

#1 of 3 in The Journey to the West

The Journey to the West, Volume 1 (Journey to the West)

ByWu Cheng'en,Anthony C. Yu(Translator)

1592 • 39 Readers • 544 pages • 5

#31

#1 of 5 in The Story of the Stone

The Dream of the Red Chamber

ByTsao Hsueh-Chin

1958 • 36 Readers • 356 pages • 4.3

#32

Pedro Páramo

ByJuan Rulfo,Margaret Sayers Peden(Translator)

1955 • 195 Readers • 144 pages • 3.9

#33

#3 of 3 in Involuntary trilogy

The House of the Spirits

ByIsabel Allende

1985 • 298 Readers • 433 pages • 4.2

#34

Season of Migration to the North

ByTayeb Salih,Denys Johnson Davies(Translator)

1966 • 71 Readers • 180 pages • 4

#35

Hopscotch

ByJulio Cortázar,Gregory Rabassa(Translator)

1963 • 142 Readers • 577 pages • 4

#36

Wizard of the Crow

ByNgũgĩ wa Thiong'o

2004 • 49 Readers • 786 pages • 4.4

#37

The Little Prince

ByAntoine de Saint-Exupéry,Richard Howard(Translator)

1 • 1,542 Readers • 96 pages • 4.2

#38

#1 of 2 in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

ByLewis Carroll

1864 • 719 Readers • 132 pages • 3.9

#39

The Lorax

ByDr. Seuss

1911 • 187 Readers • 72 pages • 4.2

#40

The Phantom Tollbooth

ByNorton Juster

1961 • 380 Readers • 268 pages • 4.2

#41

#1 of 4 in The Giver

The Giver

ByLois Lowry

1993 • 1,517 Readers • 202 pages • 4

#42

The Book Thief

ByMarkus Zusak

2005 • 1,794 Readers • 582 pages • 4.3

#43

#4 of 7 in Logans

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

ByMildred D. Taylor

1976 • 84 Readers • 304 pages • 4

#44

#1 of 7 in The Chronicles of Narnia (Publication Order)

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

ByC. S. Lewis

1950 • 1,600 Readers • 146 pages • 4

#45

#1 of 9 in Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables

ByL.M. Montgomery

1908 • 593 Readers • 384 pages • 4.3

#46

#1 of 3 in Pippi Långstrump

Pippi Longstocking

ByAstrid Lindgren,Florence Lamborn(Translator)

1945 • 137 Readers • 124 pages • 4

#47

Matilda

ByRoald Dahl

1988 • 655 Readers • 240 pages • 4.3

#48

#1 of 2 in Holes

Holes

ByLouis Sachar

1988 • 687 Readers • 263 pages • 4

#49

#7 of 14 in Jeeves

The Code of the Woosters: Jeeves to the Rescue

ByP.G. Wodehouse

1938 • 73 Readers • 7 pages • 4.2

#50

#1 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

ByDouglas Adams

30 • 2,836 Readers • 215 pages • 4.2

#51

#1 of 3 in His Dark Materials

The Golden Compass

ByPhilip Pullman

1995 • 1,542 Readers • 399 pages • 4

#52

Hamlet

ByWilliam Shakespeare

1600 • 994 Readers • 508 pages • 4

#53

#2 of 4 in Adventures of Tom and Huck

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

ByMark Twain

1876 • 997 Readers • 327 pages • 3.6

#54

The Old Man and the Sea

ByErnest Hemingway

1952 • 1,191 Readers • 96 pages • 3.7

#55

Of Mice and Men

ByJohn Steinbeck

1869 • 1,716 Readers • 162 pages • 3.8

#56

#1 of 3 in The Color Purple Collection

The Color Purple

ByAlice Walker

1976 • 747 Readers • 288 pages • 4.1

#57

The Secret History

ByDonna Tartt

1992 • 1,612 Readers • 523 pages • 4

#58

The Complete Grimms' Fairy Tales

ByGrimm

1812 • 155 Readers • 863 pages • 4.1

#59

The Brothers Karamazov

ByFyodor Dostoevsky,Andrew H. MacAndrew(Translator)

19 • 1,001 Readers • 796 pages • 4.4

#60

#1 of 2 in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

The Secret Garden

ByFrances Hodgson Burnett

1865 • 779 Readers • 288 pages • 4

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