A Bucket List of Books (1,500 Novels, Biographies, Essays, Memoirs, Plays, Science, Science Fiction and Sports Books). Updated to 2021 - Page 37

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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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families

1441

Philip Gourevitch

The Wealth of Nations

1442

Adam Smith

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

1443

Alan Bradley

Welcome to Night Vale

1444

Joseph Fink

West With the Night

1445

Beryl Markham

Westside

1446

W. M. Akers

What It Is Like to Go to War

1447

Karl Marlantes

When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi

1448

David Maraniss

When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone

1449

Gal Beckerman

Where Angels Fear to Tread

1450

E.M. Forster

Where the Crawdads Sing

1451

Delia Owens

Where the Sidewalk Ends

1452

Shel Silverstein

Where the Wild Things Are

1453

Maurice Sendak

The White Album

1454

Joan Didion

The White Devil

1455

John Webster

White Noise

1456

Don Delillo

The White Queen

1457

Philippa Gregory

White Teeth

1458

Zadie Smith

The White Tiger

1459

Aravind Adiga

Who Fears Death

1460

Nnedi Okorafor

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1461

Edward Albee

Wide Sargasso Sea

1462

Jean Rhys

A Wild Sheep Chase

1463

Haruki Murakami

A Wind in the Door

1464

Madeleine L'engle

The Wind Up Bird Chronicles

1465

The Windup Girl

1466

Paolo Bacigalupi

Winesburg, Ohio

1467

Sherwood Anderson

The Wings of the Dove by Henry James

1468

Winner of the World

1469

Ken Follett

Winnie the Pooh

1470

A.A. Milne

Winston Spencer Churchill the Last Lion Part 2 - Alone. 1932-40

1471

William Manchester

Winter's Tale

1472

Mark Helprin

The Winter's Tale

1473

William Shakespeare

Wisconsin Death Trip

1474

Michael Lesy

Wise Blood

1475

Flannery O'Connor

Wishful Drinking

1476

Carrie Fisher

The Witches: Salem, 1692

1477

Stacy Schiff

A Wizard of Earthsea

1478

Ursula K. Le Guin

Wolf Hall

1479

Hilary Mantel

The Woman in White

1480

Wilkie Collins

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