A Bucket List of Books (1,500 Novels, Biographies, Essays, Memoirs, Plays, Science, Science Fiction and Sports Books). Updated to 2021 - Page 27

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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Pillar of Fire

1041

Taylor Branch

Pillars of the Earth

1042

Ken Follett

The Places in Between

1043

Rory Stewart

The Plague

1044

Albert Camus

Play It as It Lays

1045

Joan Didion

The Play That Goes Wrong

1046

Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, and Jonathan Sayer

Plays by Moliere

1047

Moliere

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

1048

Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain

The Plot

1049

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Pnin

1050

Vladimir Nabokov

Poems of Giacomo Leopardi

1051

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

1052

Deborah Blum

The Poisonwood Bible

1053

Barbara Kingsolver

Pope Joan

1054

Donna Woolfolk Cross

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

1055

James Joyce

The Portrait of a Lady

1056

Henry James

The Possessed

1057

Dostoyevsky

Possession

1058

A.S. Byatt

Post Cards From the Edge

1059

Carrie Fisher

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

1060

Tony Judt

The Power

1061

Naomi Alderman

The Power and the Glory

1062

Graham Greene

THE POWER BROKER by Robert A. Caro

1063

The Power of Myth

1064

Joseph Campbell

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

1065

Caroline Fraser

Praise of Folly

1066

Erasmus

A Prayer for Owen Meany

1067

John Irving

Pride and Prejudice

1068

Jane Austen

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

1069

Muriel Spark

The Prince

1070

Niccolò Machiavelli

The Princess Bride

1071

William Goldman

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

1072

James Hogg

Profiles in Courage

1073

John F. Kennedy

Psycho

1074

Robert Bloch

Pulphead

1075

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Purge

1076

Sofi Oksanen

Pygmalion

1077

George Bernard Shaw

Queenpin

1078

Megan Abbott

The Queen's Gambit

1079

Walter Tevis

A Queer History of the United States

1080

Michael Bronski

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