A Bucket List of Books (1,500 Novels, Biographies, Essays, Memoirs, Plays, Science, Science Fiction and Sports Books). Updated to 2021 - Page 34

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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Their Eyes Were Watching God

1321

Zora Neale Hurston

Then She Was Gone

1322

Lisa Jewell

Theodore Rex

1323

Edmund Morris

The Thief

1324

Fuminori Nakamura

The Thief and the Dogs

1325

Naguib Mahfouz

The Thin Man

1326

Dashiell Hammett

Things Fall Apart

1327

Chinua Achebe

The Things They Carried

1328

Tim O'Brien

The Third Policeman

1329

Flann O'Brien

The Thirty-Nine Steps

1330

John Buchan

This Side of Paradise

1331

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Those Guys Have All the Fun

1332

James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

1333

Elena Ferrante

A Thousand Acres

1334

Jane Smiley

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet

1335

David Mitchell

A Thousand Splendid Suns

1336

Khaled Hosseini

Three Day Road

1337

Joseph Boyden

Three Men in a Boat

1338

Jerome K. Jerome

The Three Musketeers

1339

Alexandre Dumas

Three Sisters

1340

Anton Chekhov

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

1341

The Three-Body Problem

1342

Cixin Liu

Through Black Spruce

1343

Joseph Boyden

Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

1344

Lewis Carroll

Thunderball (Bahamas)

1345

The Tiger

1346

John Vaillant

The Tiger's Wife

1347

Tea Obrent

The Time Machine

1348

H.G. Wells

The Time Traveler's Wife

1349

Audrey Niffenegger

The Tin Drum

1350

Günter Grass

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

1351

John Le Carré

Tinkers

1352

Paul Harding

Tis

1353

Frank McCourt

Titus Alone

1354

Mervyn Peake

Titus Groan

1355

Mervyn Peake

To the End of the Land

1356

David Grossman

To Kill a Mockingbird

1357

Harper Lee

To Let

1358

John Galsworthy

To the Lighthouse

1359

Virginia Woolf

To Say Nothing of the Dog

1360

Connie Willis

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