A Bucket List of Books (1,500 Novels, Biographies, Essays, Memoirs, Plays, Science, Science Fiction and Sports Books). Updated to 2021 - Page 3

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 Anubis Gates

Tim Powers

Anywhere but Here

Mona Simpson

Appointment in Samarra

John O'Hara

The Arabian Nightmare

Robert Irwin

The Art of Fielding

Chad Harbach

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Garth Stein

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

As You Like It

William Shakespeare

The Ascent of Money

Assassination Vacation

Sarah Vowell

The Assistant

Bernard Malamud

At Canaan's Edge

Taylor Branch

At the Mountains of Madness

H.P. Lovecraft

At Swim-Two-Birds

Flann O'Brien

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand

Atonement

Ian McEwan

The Audacity of Hope

Barack Obama

Austerlitz

W.G. Sebald

Authority

100

Jeff Vandermeer

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

101

Gertrude Stein

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

102

Alex Haley and Malcolm X

Autobiography of Mark Twain

103

Mark Twain

The Awakening

104

Kate Chopin

Axis

105

Robert Charles Wilson

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

106

Babe: The Legend Comes to Life

107

ROBERT CREAMER

The Bacchae

108

Euripides

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

109

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts

110

Joshua Hammer

The Ball and the Cross

111

G.K. Chesterton

Ball Four

112

Jim Bouton

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

113

Suzanne Collins

Balthazar

114

Lawrence Durrell

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

115

Dai Sijie

Band of Brothers

116

Stephen Ambrose

Bang the Drum Slowly

117

MARK HARRIS

Barabbas

118

Pär Lagerkvist

Bartleby, the Scrivener

119

Herman Melville

Baseball's Great Experiment

120

JULES TYGIEL

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