I am sure there are a million and one lists of 100 books to read before you die, but my goals is to find a couple of them and then make the ones that appear on lists more than once in bold. 😀 (Always looking for more. & updating.)

1. Cutting
2. Facing Love Addiction
3. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
4. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
5. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
6. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
7. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
8. The Bible
9. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
10. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
11. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
12. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
13. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
14. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
15. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
16. Complete Works of Shakespeare
17. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
18. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
19. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
20. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
21. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
22. Middlemarch – George Eliot
23. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
24. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
25. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
26. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
27. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
28. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
30. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
31. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
32. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy –
33. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
34. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
35. Emma – Jane Austen
36. Persuasion – Jane Austen
37. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
38. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
39. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
40. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
41. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne – There’s a book about Winnie the Pooh?
42. Animal Farm – George Orwell
43. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
44. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
45. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
46. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
47. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
48. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
49. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
50. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
51. Atonement – Ian McEwan
52. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
53. Dune – Frank Herbert
54. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
55. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
56. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
57. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
58. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
59. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
60. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon
61. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
62. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
63. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
64. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
65. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
66. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
67. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
68. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
69. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
70. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
71. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
72. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
73. Dracula – Bram Stoker
74. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
75. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
76. Ulysses – James Joyce
77. The Inferno – Dante
78. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
79. Germinal – Emile Zola
80. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
81. Possession – AS Byatt
82. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
83. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
84. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
85. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
86. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
87. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
88. Charlotte’s Web – EB White
89. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
90. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
91. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
92. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
93. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
94. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
95. Watership Down – Richard Adams
96. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
97. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
98. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
99. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
100. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
101. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
102. The Road Less Traveled — Dr. Scott M. Peck
103. In Cold Blood — Truman Capote
104. World War Z – Max Brooks
105. Education of a Wandering Man– Louis L’Amour
106. The Iliad – Homer
107. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
108. Paradise Lost – John Milton
109. 1984 – George Orwell
110. Shojun – James Clavell
111. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
112. The Stand – Stephen King
113. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
114. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
115. War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
116. A Clockwork Orange -Anthony Burgess
117. The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
118. The Art of War – Sun Tzu
119. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
120. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
121. Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
122. Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein
123. Deliverance – James Dickey
124. The Dark Knight Returns – Frank Miller
125. Season of Mists – Neil Gaiman
126. The Princess Bride – William Goldman
127. Eaters of the Dead – Michael Crichton
128. The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
129. Night – Eli Wiesel
130. Exodus – Leon Uris
131. Contact – Carl Sagan
132. You Can’t Go Home Again – Thomas Wolfe
133. Blubber – Judy Blume
134. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
135. The Stranger – Albert Camus
136. The Trial – Franz Kafka
137. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
138. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
139. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
140. Grendel – John Gardner
141. Hour of the Dragon – Robert E. Howard
142. The Executioner’s Song – Norman Mailer
143. Cop Hater – Ed McBain
144. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
145. McTeague – Frank Norris
146. A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin
147. Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
148. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
149. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
150. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
151. The Divine Comedy – Dante
152. Don Quixote – Miguel De Cervantes
153. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
154. The Magus – John Fowles
155. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
156. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
157. Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin
158. I Am Legend – Richard Matheson
159. The Compete Plays of Aristophanes – Aristophanes
160. The Science of God – Gerald L. Schroeder
161. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
162. No Exit – Jean-Paul Sartre
163. Alexander of Macedon – Harold Lamb
164. Battle Royale – Koushun Takami
165. We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson
166. Band of Brothers – Stephen Ambrose
167. Ancient Inventions – Peter James and Nick Thorpe
168. The Telltale Heart and Other Writings – Edgar Allan Poe
169. The Call of the Wild – Jack London
170. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – Frank Baum
171. The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer