I’ve mentioned before that I’m slowly working through a list of “100 Books Everyone Should Read.” I think I’ve also promised to post that list here. I started to do that this morning and realized I don’t remember where I got the list from and, like an idiot, I didn’t cite the source. I copied it into Word, formatted it into a table, added publication years, added a column to record the year I read the book, and somewhere in that process I removed the source URL.
So what’d I do? I Googled 100 books everyone should read. The results were a very, very long list of everyone in the world suggesting lists of books they think everyone should read. So… here are links to a bunch of them. If any appeal to you, copy the text into a program that will let you track your reading.
- From Random House
- Time Magazine critics pick the best English-language novels 1923-2005
- Books recommended for college-bound readers
- Some guy’s blog: 30 Books Everyone Should Read Before Their 30th Birthday
- The BBC’s Big Read (2003)
- Some guy’s blog: 100 Books You Should Read Before You Die!
- The same guy’s blog: 100 MORE Books You Should Read BEFORE You Die
- The Telegraph: 100 novels everyone should read
- Penguin Classics's 100 Classic Books You Must Read Before You Die
There are lots of children’s reading lists out there too.
- New York Public Library’s 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know
- Pierce County (Washington state) Library System: 100 Books Every Child Should Hear Before Kindergarten
- National Education Association: 100 Great Books to Read To Your Kids
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