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100 Books That Will Make You More Interesting,

More Attractive, and Sound Smart Even If You Arent (Yet)

Want to sound smart in conversations with grownups or college friends? Make reference to one or two of these books (only if

youve reallyread them!) and you will! There are lots of books in the universe and theyre not all required reading for class, soif

were to read only 100 books as a Young Adult, reading these would certainly not be a bad idea.

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua

Achebe

The Handmaids

Taleby Margaret

Atwood

Murder on

the Orient

Expressby

Agatha

Christie

The Brief

Wondrous Life

of Oscar Wao

by Junot Diaz

Madame

Bovaryby

Gustave

Flaubert

The Hitchhikers

Guide to the

Galaxyby

Douglas Adams

Pride and

Prejudiceby Jane

Austen

The Last of

the Mohicans

by James

Fenimore

Cooper

Great

Expectations

by Charles

Dickens

Everything

Illuminated

Jonathan

Safran Foe

A Death in the

Familyby James

Agee

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray

Bradbury

Infernoby

Dante

The Adventures

of Sherlock

Holmesby

Arthur Conan

Doyle

The Pillars

the Earth

Ken Follet

The Absolutely

True Diary of a

Part-Time Indian

by Sherman

Alexie

Jane Eyreby

Charlotte Bronte

Don Quixote

by Miguel de

Cervantes

The Worst

Hard Time

by Timothy

Egan

American

Godsby N

Gaiman

Bastard Out of

Carolinaby

Dorothy Allison

Wuthering

Heights by

Emily Bronte

The Little

Princeby

Antoine de

Saint-Exupery

Zeitounby

Dave Eggers

A Lesson

Before Dyi

by Ernest

Gaines

In the Time of

the Butterflies

by Julia Alvarez

A Short History

of Nearly

Everything by

Bill Bryson

Robinson

Crusoeby

Daniel Defoe

Nickel and

Dimed: On

(Not) Getting

By in America

by Barbara

Ehrenreich

Outliers: Th

Story of

Successby

Malcolm

Gladwell

Undaunted

Courageby

Stephen

Ambrose

The Amazing

Adventures of

Kavalier and

Clayby

Michael Chabon

The Red Tent

by Anita

Diamant

Invisible Man

by Ralph

Ellison

Lord of the

Fliesby

William

Golding

I Know Why the

Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

The Canterbury

Talesby

GeoffreyChaucer

Guns, Germs,

and Steel: The

Fates of Human

Societies by

Jared Diamond

The Great

Gatsbyby

F. ScottFitzgerald

Looking fo

Alaskaby

John Gree

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A Brief History of

Time by Stephen

Hawking

A Prayer for

Owen Meany

by John Irving

The

Namesake

by Jhumpa

Lahiri

Kafka On the

Shoreby

Haruki

Murakami

Hamlet by

Shakespea

(play)

The Scarlet

Letterby

Nathaniel

Hawthorne

Never Let Me

Goby Kazuo

Ishiguro

The Devil in

the White

City by Erik

Larson

The Things

They Carried

by Tim

OBrien

Macbethb

Shakespea

(play)

Catch-22by

Joseph Heller

The Known

Worldby

Edward P.

Jones

To Kill a

Mockingbird

by Harper

Lee

1984 by

George

Orwell

Frankenste

by Mary

Shelley

The Sun Also

Risesby Ernest

Hemingway

The

Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

The Call of

the Wildby

Jack London

When the

Emperor Was

Divineby Julie

Otsuka

The

Radioactiv

Boy Scout

Ken Silvers

Duneby Frank

Herbert

The Boy Who

Harnessed theWindby William

Kamkwamba

One Hundred

Years ofSolitudeby

Gabriel Garcia

Marquez

The Bell Jar

by SylviaPlath

The Immort

Life ofHenrietta L

by Rebecca

Skloot

The Iliadby

Homer

The Laramie

Projectby

Moises

Kaufman

The Roadby

Cormac

McCarthy

The

Omnivores

Dilemmaby

Michael Pollan

The Comp

Mausby

Spiegelm

(graphic

novel)

The Odysseyby

Homer

On the Roadby

Jack Kerouac

Angelas

Ashesby

Frank

McCourt

His Dark

Materials

trilogy by

Phillip Pullman

The Grape

Wrathby

John

Steinbeck

The Kite Runner

by Khaled

Hosseini

One Flew Over

the Cuckoos

Nest by Ken

Kesey

Death of a

Salesmanby

Arthur Miller

(play)

Atlas

Shruggedby

Ayn Rand

Treasure

Islandby

Robert Lo

Stevenson

Their Eyes Were

Watching God

by Zora Neale

Hurston

The Standby

Stephen King

Watchmen by

Alan Moore

(graphic

novel)

The Catcher in

the Rye by

J.D. Salinger

The Hobbi

J.R.R. Tolk

Brave NewWorldby

Aldous Huxley

Into Thin Air: APersonal Account

of the Mt.

Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer

Beloved byToni

Morrison

The CompletePersepolisby

Marjane

Satrapi

(graphic novel)

TheAdventur

Hucklebe

Finnby M

Twain

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Vanity Fairby

William

Thackeray

Candideby

Voltaire

The Glass

Castleby

Jeanette Walls

Nightby Elie

Wiesel

Native Son

Richard Wr

Rabbit, Runby

John Updike

Slaughter

house-

Fiveby KurtVonnegut

Salvage the

Bonesby

Jesmyn Ward

This Boys Life

by Tobias

Wolff

The Book Th

by Marcus

Zusak