List of 100 books to read before I die

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I’ve seen so many different lists but was wondering whether there was a definitive list that people go by?

I’ve decided to expand the type of books that I read and thought the above was the best way to do so.

TIA.

A few years ago the BBC did one

The problem with it is that several children's books that aren't essential IMHO eg Girls In Love by Jacqueline Wilson somehow made the cut

It does however have a good breadth of "important ones"

www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml

I always wonder when someone will come up with a list of 100 books to read after I’m dead. It’s such a daft title really.

That BBC list is strange, very heavy on children's books.

I came across one of these lists a while ago - there was some dross on it, while the Complete Works of Shakespeare counted as one book! Good luck OP

That BBC list was a poll on people’s favourite books, not one of those “100 worthy type books to read before you die”

My literature teacher gave us a list a long time ago. From what I remember it had Cervantes Don Quixote, James Joyce Ulysses, Shakespare Macbeth, Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment, Molière The Imaginary Invalid, Dumas les Miserables, Dickens (don't remember which one was in the list), Nabokov's Lolita, Gunter Grass Tin Drum, Dante's Divine comedy, Albert Camus Stranger, Goethe's Faust, etc etc

Some books I'm glad I have read in my life:
Middlemarch
Persuasion
Vanity Fair
Watership Down
The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard
The Reason Why by Cecil Woodham-Smith
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
Experience by Martin Amis
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Against Our Will by Susan Brownmiller
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr
Our Bodies Ourselves by the Boston Women's Health Collective
Thursday's Child by Noel Streatfeild
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Prospect Before Her by Olwen Hufton
Arthur and George by Julian barnes

This one's quite recent www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/100-novels

Might be an idea to make up your own 100 though. I might do that actually, it will use up the last bit of lockdown time nicely...