100 Amazing Books to Read in a Lifetime

When I stumbled upon Stumbleupon, I had no idea what a gift it could be.  They recently shared "100 Amazing Books to Read in a Lifetime".  http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/6Hh8tV# 

Their list (below) is excellent, although I'm disappointed in two areas.  First, I've read all but 3 on the list (I was hoping for some wonderful new books I had not yet read).  Second, two of my favorites are not on the list:  Egalia's Daughters by Gert Brantenberg by  and Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl.  But it is definitely a list of books worth re-reading.  The books, not the list.

Here are the top 100 books on their list:

• “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee
• Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen
• “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Anne Frank
• “1984″ by George Orwell
• “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling
• “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien
• “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• “Charlotte’s Web” by ER White 
• “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott
• The Hobbit by JRR Toiken
• “Fahrenheit 451″ by Ray Bradbury
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  by Mark Twain
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• The Handmade’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Little Prince by Antoine de St-Expupery
• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
• MacBeth by William Shakespeare
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Holy Bible: New King James Version by Thomas Nelson
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas pere
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• Catch-22 by Joesph Heller
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• The Stand by Stephen King
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman 
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Outlander by Gabaldon
• A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
• The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• The Odessy by Homer
• Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from 5 Years of Weekly Knowledge by Sri Sri Ravi Shanker
• A Prayer for Own Meany by John Irving
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullogh 
• The Glass Castle by Jeanette Wall
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
• The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Helen Keller: The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler by EL Konigsburg
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky