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A Bucket List of Must Read Books
1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
3. Slaughterhouse‐Five by Kurt Vonnegut
4. 1984 by
George Orwell
5. O Pioneers by
Willa Cather
6. Charlotte's Web by
E. B. White
7. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
8. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
10. The Grapes of Wrath by
John Steinbeck
11. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
12. How To Win Friends And Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
13. Call of the Wild by Jack London
14. Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
15. The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer
16. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
17. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
18. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
19. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
20. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
21. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
22. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
23. Into Thin Air by John Krakauer
24. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
25. A River Runs Through It by
Norman F. Maclean
26. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
27. Malcolm X: The Autobiography
28. The Count of Monte Cristo by
Alexandre Dumas
29. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
30. The Red Badge of Courage by
Stephen Crane
31. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
32. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
33. The Giver by
Lois Lowery
34. To Kill a Mockingbird by
Harper Lee
35. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
36. Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson 37. The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupery
38. The Hobbit by
J.R.R. Tolkien
39. The Art of Warfare by Sun Tzu
40. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
41. The Divine Comedy by Dante
42. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
43. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
44. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
45. Animal Farm by George Orwell
46. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
47. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
48. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly
49. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
50. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson