100 Ranked Books Everyone Should Read Before They Die

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According to users of Goodreads, the largest book recommendation site on the web.
These 100 books were voted  books to read in a Lifetime:

Below is the full ranked list:
  1. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
  2. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
  3. "The Diary of Anne Frank" by Anne Frank
  4. "1984" by George Orwell
  5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
  6. "The Lord of the Rings" (1-3) by J.R.R. Tolkien
  7. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  8. "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
  9. "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien
  10. "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott 
  11. "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
  12. "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte
  13. "Animal Farm" by George Orwell
  14. "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell 
  15. "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
  16. "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
  17. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain
  18. "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
  19. "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett 
  20. "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wadrobe" by C.S. Lewis 
  21. "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck
  22. "The Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
  23. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
  24. "Night" by Elie Wiesel 
  25. "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare
  26. "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
  27. "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
  28. "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens
  29. "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare 
  30. "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
  31. "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  32. "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
  33. "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  34. "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley 
  35. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling 
  36. "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
  37. "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
  38. "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein
  39. "Wuthering Heights" Emily Bronte
  40. "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
  41. "Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery
  42. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain 
  43. "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare 
  44. "The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larrson  
  45. "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
  46. "The Holy Bible: King James Version"
  47. "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker
  48. "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas
  49. "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
  50. "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck 
  51. "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
  52. "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
  53. "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
  54. "The Stand" by Stephen King 
  55. "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon
  56. "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
  57. "Enders Game" by Orson Scott Card
  58. "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
  59. "Watership Down" by Richard Adams 
  60. "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden 
  61. "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
  62. "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin 
  63. "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
  64. "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway 
  65. "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (#3) by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  66. "Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo 
  67. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
  68. "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel 
  69. "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  70. "Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge" by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
  71. "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis 
  72. "The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett
  73. "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins 
  74. "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
  75. "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
  76. "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman 
  77. "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen 
  78. "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe 
  79. "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
  80. "The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel" by Barbara Kingsolver
  81. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez 
  82. "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger
  83. "The Odyssey" by Homer
  84. "The Good Earth (House of Earth #1)" by Pearl S. Buck 
  85. "Mockingjay (Hunger Games #3)" by Suzanne Collins
  86. "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
  87. "The Thorn Birds" by Colleen McCullough 
  88. "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving
  89. "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls 
  90. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
  91. "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
  92. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
  93. "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
  94. "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse 
  95. "Beloved" by Toni Morrison
  96. "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
  97. "Cutting For Stone" by Abraham Verghese
  98. "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
  99. "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  100. "The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller 

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