A Bucket List of Books (1,500 Novels, Biographies, Essays, Memoirs, Plays, Science, Science Fiction and Sports Books). Updated to 2021 - Page 2

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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All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque

All Things Bright and Beautiful

Herriot, James

All Things Wise and Wonderful

Herriot, James

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon

The Ambassadors

Henry James

The Amber Spyglass

Philip Pullman

American Gods

Neil Gaiman

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham

American Pastoral

Philip Roth

American Poison: How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise

Eduardo Porter

American Sphinx

Joseph J Ellis

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

America's Quarterback: Bart Starr and the The Rise of the National Football League

Keith Dunnavant

Amnesty

Aravind Adiga

Among Others

Jo Walton

Amsterdam

Ian McEwan

An African in Greenland

Tété-Michel Kpomassie

An American Marriage

Tayari Jones

An American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser

An Angel at My Table

Janet Frame

Anathem

Neal Stephenson

Anatomy of a Disappearance

Hisham Matar

Ancillary Justice

Ann Leckie

Ancillary Mercy

Ann Leckie

Ancillary Sword

Ann Leckie

And the Band Played On

Randy Shilts

And the Mountains Echoed

Khaled Hosseini

And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

The Andromeda Strain

Michael Crichton

Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt

Angels in America

Tony Kushner

Angle of Repose

Wallace Stegner

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Anne of Avonlea

L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables

L.M. Montgomery

Annihilation

Jeff Vandermeer

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Antigone

Sophocles

Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

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