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Ninety-Nine books to read in my lifetime

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Many of these are classics all will recognize, while others were recommended to me based on my own personal interests. Most I feel are critical reading as they are the root of countless literary allusions or are necessary to help understand the world we live in. And some, well, I've just always wanted to read.

  1. 1984 - George Orwell
  2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The - Mark Twain
  3. Adventures of Robin Hood, The
  4. Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The - Mark Twain
  5. Animal Farm - George Orwell
  6. Arabian Nights, The
  7. Art of War, The - Sun Tzu
  8. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
  9. Autobiography of Malcom X, The - Malcolm X/Alex Haley
  10. Bell Jar, The - Sylvia Plath
  11. Billy Budd - Herman Melville
  12. Birth of Tragedy, The - Friedrich Nietzche
  13. Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
  14. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  15. Brief History of Time, A - Stephen Hawking
  16. Brothers Karamazov, The - Fedor Dostoyevsky
  17. Call of the Wild, The - Jack London
  18. Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
  19. Captain Courageous - Ruyard Kipling
  20. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
  21. Catcher in the Rye, The - J. D. Salinger
  22. Complete Essays of Montaigne, The - Michel De Montaigne
  23. Conquest of Happiness, The - Bertrand Russell
  24. Conversations With God - Neale Walsch
  25. Count of Monte Cristo, The - Alexandre Dumas
  26. Crime and Punishment - Fedor Dostoyevsky
  27. Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
  28. Das Kapital - Karl Marx
  29. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
  30. Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
  31. Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
  32. Don Quixote - Cervantes
  33. Dracula - Bram Stoker
  34. Fall of the House of Usher, The - Edgar Allan Poe
  35. Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
  36. Farewell to Arms, A - Ernest Hemingway
  37. Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
  38. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
  39. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
  40. Grapes of Wrath, The - John Steinbeck
  41. Great Gatsby, The - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  42. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
  43. Heart of Darkness - Jospeh Conrad
  44. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The - Douglas Adams
  45. Bible (Old + New Testaments)
  46. House of the Seven Gables, The - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  47. How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
  48. Innumeracy - John Allen Paulos
  49. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
  50. Iliad, The - Homer
  51. Inferno, The - Alighieri Dante
  52. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  53. Jungle, The - Upton Sinclair
  54. King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
  55. King Solomon's Mines - Sir H. Rider Haggard
  56. Koran
  57. Last of the Mohicans, The - James Fenimore Cooper
  58. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
  59. Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The - Washington Irving
  60. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
  61. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  62. Lord of the Flies - William Gerald Golding
  63. Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes
  64. Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler
  65. Metamagical Themas - Douglas Hofstadter
  66. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
  67. Nostromo - Jospeh Conrad
  68. Odyssey, The - Homer
  69. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
  70. Old Man and the Sea, The - Ernest Hemingway
  71. On War - Carl Von Clausewitz
  72. Origin of Species, The - Charles Darwin
  73. Picture of Dorian Gray, The - Oscar Wilde
  74. Politics of Glory, The - Bill James
  75. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A - James Joyce
  76. Prince, The - Niccolo Machiavelli
  77. Republic, The - Plato
  78. Robinson Carusoe - Daniel Defoe
  79. Satanic Verses, The - Salman Rushdie
  80. Scarlet Letter, The - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  81. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The - T. E. Lawrence
  82. Selfish Gene, The - Richard Dawkins
  83. Sherlock Holmes, The Adventures of (Complete Works) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  84. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
  85. Speeches and Letters - Abraham Lincoln
  86. Summa Theologica - Thomas Aquinas
  87. Tale of Genji, The - Murasaki Shikibu
  88. Tale of Two Cities, A - Charles Dickens
  89. Three Kingdoms, The - Luo Guanzhong
  90. Turn of the Screw, The - Henry James
  91. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
  92. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
  93. Walden II - B.F. Skinner
  94. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  95. War With Hannibal, The - Titus Livy
  96. Wealth of Nations, The - Adam Smith
  97. William Shakespeare (Complete Works) - William Shakespeare
  98. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  99. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pursig