A Bucket List of Books (1,500 Novels, Biographies, Essays, Memoirs, Plays, Science, Science Fiction and Sports Books). Updated to 2021 - Page 31

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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Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-And-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

1201

Gayle Wald

Shuggie Bain

1202

Douglas Stuart

Siddhartha

1203

Hermann Hesse

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don'

1204

The Silence of the Lambs

1205

Thomas Harris

The Silent Patient

1206

Alex Michaelides

Silent Spring

1207

Rachel Carson

Silk

1208

Alessandro Baricco

Simon's Night

1209

Jon Hassler

Sing, Unburied, Sing

1210

Jesmyn Ward

The Sisters Brothers

1211

Patrick Dewitt

Skippy Dies

1212

Paul Murray

Slaughterhouse-Five

1213

Kurt Vonnegut

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

1214

Joan Didion

Smiley's People

1215

John Le Carré

Smilla's Sense of Snow

1216

Peter Høeg, Trans. Tiina Nunnally

Snow Crash

1217

Neal Stephenson

Snow Falling on Cedars

1218

David Guterson

The Snow Leopard

1219

Peter Matthiessen

The Snowman

1220

Jo Nesbø

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

1221

Douglas Adams

So Long, See You Tomorrow

1222

William Maxwell

Solaris

1223

Stanisław Lem

Soldiers of Salamis

1224

Javier Cercas

The Solitude of Prime Numbers

1225

Paolo Giordano

Something Fresh

1226

P. G. Wodehouse

Something Happened

1227

Something Wicked This Way Comes

1228

Ray Bradbury

The Song of Achilles

1229

Madeline Miller

Song of Kali

1230

Dan Simmons

Song of Night

1231

Grenville Lovell

Song of Solomon

1232

Toni Morrison

Songs of Innocence and Experience

1233

William Blake

Sonnets

1234

Shakespeare

Sonnets From the Portuguese

1235

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sons

1236

Pearl S. Buck

Sons and Lovers

1237

D.H. Lawrence

Sophie's Choice

1238

William Styron

Sophie's World

1239

Jostein Gaarder

The Sorrow of Belgium

1240

Hugo Claus

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