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Amazon's Top 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime
I want to read Amazon's Top 100 Books... but I'm having a hard time figuring out which to read next... something that I might like. I've only read 17 of them and loved or liked 13 of them. Only 4 have I disliked. Here are the ones I already read broken down by my opinion on them:
Loved:
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Where The Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Enjoyed:
Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Dune by Frank Herbert
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History Of Four Meals by Michael Pollen
Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Did Not Like:
A Brief History Of Time by Stephen Hawking
Charlotte's Web by EB White
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
So.. any suggestions??
Message edited 7/16/2014 10:29:10 AM.
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Amazon's Top 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime
I loved
Me Talk Pretty One Day - This book was So FUNNY I guess because they were all true stories of his childhood! His sister is actress Amy Sedaris, so it's even funnier because you have faces to names.
Angela's Ashes - Very moving!
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APT910
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Re: Amazon's Top 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime
I loved The Fault in Our Stars.
I liked Little House on the Prairie, The Book Thief and The Great Gatsby.
ETA- I really liked Gone Girl until the end...HATED the ending.
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JME78
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Re: Amazon's Top 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime
I've read most of these - I read a lot -
My absolute favorites from the list -
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - probably my favorite book of all time
From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - my absolute favorite children's book - I used to read this book repeatedly when I was little. Its magical.
A Prayer for Owen Meany (top 5 of all time)
Pride & Prejudice (top 5 of all time)
Harry Potter - love them all
The Book Thief
Gone With the Wind
The Handmaid's Tale
The Secret Garden
The Fault in Our Stars
The Color Purple
In Cold Blood
Water For Elephants
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Thorn Birds - when I was 13 I was obsessed with this book, I thought it was so scandalous!
The Glass Castle
Cutting for Stone
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Amazon's Top 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime
Pride and Prejudice!
Of the ones I read recently enough to remember, I really liked:
Gone Girl
Angela's Ashes
Hunger Games
To Kill a Mockingbird
Cutting for Stone
The Giver
Didn't like-
Great Gatsby
Catcher in the Rye
BTW- I loved Time Traveler's Wife which is on pp's list but a lot of the one listed there I didn't see on Amazon's list.
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Re: Amazon's Top 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime
Posted by JME78
I've read most of these - I read a lot -
My absolute favorites from the list -
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - probably my favorite book of all time
From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - my absolute favorite children's book - I used to read this book repeatedly when I was little. Its magical.
A Prayer for Owen Meany (top 5 of all time)
Pride & Prejudice (top 5 of all time)
Harry Potter - love them all
The Book Thief
Gone With the Wind
The Handmaid's Tale
The Secret Garden
The Fault in Our Stars
The Color Purple
In Cold Blood
Water For Elephants
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Thorn Birds - when I was 13 I was obsessed with this book, I thought it was so scandalous!
The Glass Castle
Cutting for Stone
majority of these books are not on the amazon 100 to read in a lifetime but also loved many listed so thanks for the extra recommendations.
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JME78
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Re: Amazon's Top 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime
I googled and saw a list with these but maybe it wasn't the right one! 
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Hofstra26
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Re: Amazon's Top 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime
The Road by Cormac McCarthy was an excellent book. Very dark and sad but very good.
The Giver by Lois Lowry is just an amazing young adult novel. It's one of my favorites, I've read it multiple times.
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Re: Amazon's Top 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime
Posted by Hofstra26
The Giver by Lois Lowry is just an amazing young adult novel. It's one of my favorites, I've read it multiple times.
I read The Giver multiple times when I was younger. Its by far my favorite book. I'm finishing Gone Girl now and I'll be re-reading The Giver next. I can't wait!
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