A Bucket List of Books (1,500 Novels, Biographies, Essays, Memoirs, Plays, Science, Science Fiction and Sports Books). Updated to 2021 - Page 16

Most lists of "essential books" are flawed in some manner. They are either too short ("top 50 books for men", or too old (no books from the last 50 years). Other book lists fail to include essays, plays, rock and roll memoirs, science books, and science fiction. Other lists fall short in providing a true world view. I tried to get a solid sampling from every genre and from most countries. This list was created by taking the best of 15 lists. I then added several years of recommended books from the The Week, and foreign language recommended books. I then added my favorites to the list if they were not already there. Enjoy!

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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

601

Richard Preston

The Hours

602

Michael Cunningham

A House Divided

603

Pearl S. Buck

A House for Mr. Biswas

604

V.S. Naipaul

House Made of Dawn

605

N. Scott Momaday

House of Impossible Beauties

606

Joseph Cassara

House of Leaves

607

Mark Z. Danielewski

The House of Mirth

608

Edith Wharton

House of Sand and Fog

609

Andre Dubus III

The House of the Spirits

610

Isabel Allende

The House on Mango Street

611

Sandra Cisneros

Housekeeping

612

Marilynne Robinson

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent

613

Julia Alvarez

How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone

614

Saša Stanišić

How to Be an Antiracist

615

Ibram X. Kendi

How to Win Friends & Influence People

616

Dale Carnegie

Howard's End

617

Forster, E.M.

Howl and Other Poems

618

Allen Ginsberg

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

619

Kiran Desai

Human Nature (Doctor Who Novel)

620

The Human Stain

621

Philip Roth

Humboldt's Gift

622

Saul Bellow

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

623

Victor Hugo

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

624

Jonas Jonasson

Hunger

625

Knut Hamsun

The Hunger Games

626

Suzanne Collins

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

627

Carrie Brownstein

The Hunt for Red October

628

Tom Clancy

The Hurricane Party

629

Hyperion

630

Dan Simmons

I Am Legend

631

Richard Matheson

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

632

Maya Angelou

I Love the Bones of You

633

Christopher Eccleston

I Served the King of England

634

I, Claudius

635

Robert Graves

I, Robot

636

Isaac Asimov

The Iceman Cometh

637

Eugene O'Neill

I'd Rather Teach Peace

638

Colman McCarthy

The Idiot

639

Fyodor Dostoevsky

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

640

Italo Calvino

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