Short and simple:
I've read a thousand books since I started keeping track in late 2011. To celebrate I made a list of a hundred that I highly recommend. Organized roughly in the order I read them, blue is fiction, black is nonfiction. I'm happy to chat more about any of these if you'd like to!
1.
A Tale of Two
Cities-- Charles Dickens
2.
Treasure Island--
Robert Louis Stevenson
3.
Oliver Twist--
Charles Dickens
4.
The Alchemyst--
Michael Scott
5.
Wuthering Heights--
Emily Bronte
6.
Hide and Seek With Angels-- Lisa Chaney
7.
American Emperor-- Stewart
8.
The Scarlet Letter--
Nathaniel Hawthorne
9.
Maphead-- Ken Jennings
10.
Ivanhoe-- Walter
Scott
11.
War and Peace-- Leo
Tolstoy
12.
My Fair Godmother--
Rallison
13.
The Uses of Enchantment-- Bruno Bettelheim
14.
The Great Brain--
John Fitzgerald
15.
Union 1812-- AJ Langguth
16.
American Eve-- Paula Uruburu
17.
James Madison-- Richard Brookhiser
18.
The Better Angels of Our Nature-- Steven Pinker
19.
Ender’s Game-- Orson
Scott Card
20.
Roughing It-- Mark Twain
21.
Lad, a Dog-- Alfred
Terhune
22.
The Disreputable
History of Frankie Landau Banks-- E Lockhart
23.
At Home-- Bill Bryson
24.
The Ballad of Tom
Dooley-- Sharyn McCrumb
25.
The Fellowship of
the Ring-- JRR Tolkien
26.
The Color of Magic--
Terry Pratchett
27.
American Tempest-- Harlow Giles Unger
28.
The Merchant of
Death-- DJ MacHale
29.
The Violinist’s Thumb-- Sam Kean
30.
The Ghost Map-- Samuel Johnson
31.
The ABC Murders--
Agatha Christie
32.
Okay For Now-- Gary
Schmidt
33.
The Color Purple--
Alice Walker
34.
Emma-- Jane Austen
35.
Verily, a New Hope--
Ian Doescher
36.
The Kite Runner--
Khaleed Hosseini
37.
The Clockwork Universe-- Edward Dolnick
38.
Crime and
Punishment-- Fyodor Dostoevsky
39.
Living My Life-- Emma Goldman
40.
The Book Thief--
Marcus Zusak
41.
Neverwhere-- Neil
Gaiman
42.
Around the World in
80 Days-- Jules Verne
43.
The Hobbit-- JRR
Tolkien
44.
The Heart of the
Matter-- Graham Greene
45.
Song of Spider-man-- Glen Berger
46.
The Shakespeare Wars-- Ron Rosenbaum
47.
Gone Girl-- Gillian
Flynn
48.
Drums, Girls, and
Dangerous Pie-- Jordan Sonnelblick
49.
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?-- Mindy
Kaling
50.
George Eliot in Love-- Brenda Maddox
51.
Four Seasons in Rome-- Anthony Doerr
52.
Alice in
tumblr-Land-- Tim Manley
53.
This is a Book- Demetri Martin
54.
The Handmaid’s
Tale-- Margaret Atwood
55.
Odd Thomas-- Dean
Koontz
56.
Room-- Emma Donoghue
57.
Confessions of a Latter-day Virgin-- Nicole
Hardy
58.
Fooling Houdini-- Alex Stone
59.
The Girl With All
the Gifts-- MR Carey
60.
Born to Run-- Christopher McDougall
61.
Never Cry Wolf-- Farley Mowat
62.
The Princess Diarist-- Carrie Fisher
63.
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe-- Elaine
Showalter
64.
The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween
Dance-- Elna Baker
65.
Kissing in America--
Margo Rabb
66.
On the Map-- Simon Garfield
67.
Wishful Drinking-- Carrie Fisher
68.
The Ocean at the End
of the Lane-- Neil Gaiman
69.
A Man Called Ove--
Fredric Backman
70.
A Train in Winter-- Caroline Moorehead
71.
Timekeepers-- Simon Garfield
72.
Junius and Albert’s Aventures in the
Confederacy-- Peter Carlson
73.
What Alice Forgot--
Liane Moriarty
74.
The Caped Crusade-- Glen Weldon
75.
The Guernsey
Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society-- Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Burrows
76.
I, Robot-- Isaac
Asimov
77.
Clementine: The Life of Mrs Winston Churchill--
Sonia Purnell
78.
Anne of Green
Gables-- Lucy Maud Montgomery
79.
Eleanor Oliphant is
Completely Fine-- Gail Honeyman
80.
Strangers on a
Train-- Patricia Highsmith
81.
The Girls of Murder City-- Douglas Perry
82.
Permanent Record-- Edward Snowden
83.
The Rest of Us Just
Live Here-- Patrick Ness
84.
Planet Funny-- Ken Jennings
85.
Talking to Strangers-- Malcolm Gladwell
86.
Mao’s Last Dancer-- Li Cunxin
87.
The New One-- Mike Birbiglia
88.
The Mirage Factory-- Gary Krist
89.
The Fifth Season--
NK Jemisin
90.
Destiny of the Republic-- Candice Millard
91.
Station Eleven--
Emily St John Mandel
92.
American Heiress-- Jeffrey Toobin
93.
Listen to the
Marriage-- John Jay Osborn
94.
Pandora’s Jar-- Natalie Haynes
95.
Life Among the Savages-- Shirley Jackson
96.
November Road-- Lou
Berney
97.
Grant-- Ron Chernow
98.
The Queens of Animation-- Nathalia Holt
99.
Incendiary-- Michael Cannell
1 The Glass Hotel--
Emily St John Mandel
