100 Books Everyone Should Read 2022

It seems to me that I've picked up other bloggers' memes that demonstrated how many books on the 100 best books listing, before. What I can find in my postings is a meme having to do with science fiction books and one having to do with books that I recalled having read. The meme that follows is taken from The Misadventures of Widowhood, with the books that I recall having read highlighted in green. I must say that I do not consider some of the entries to be books, but I suppose I shouldn't quibble when the list is presented as 100 Books Everyone Should Read 2022. I hope that I have not confused having seen a video, movie, or live production for having read a book. I try hard not to confuse those actions.

 

1. 1984 (George Orwell) - B, S	51. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
2. The Alchemist	52. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) - S
3. American Gods (Neil Gaiman) - S	53. Lord of the Flies (William Golding) - B, S
4. And Then There Were None and Selected Plays (Agatha Christie)	54. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
5. Animal Farm - B, S	55. Madame Bovary
6. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)	56. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
7. Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One Nights) (Anonymous)	57. Metamorphosis
8. The Art of War - S	58. Middlesex
9. As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)	59. Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie) - S
10. Atlas Shrugged	60. No Country for Old Men
11. Atonement (Ian McEwan) - S	61. The Odyssey - B(?), S
12. Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)	62. Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck) - S
13. Beloved (Toni Morrison)	63. Old Man and the Sea
14. A Bend in the River (V.S. Naipaul)	64. On the Road (Jack Kerouac) - S
15. The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)	65. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - S
16. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) - S	66. One Hundred Years of Solitude
17. The Canterbury Tales - S	67. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) - S
18. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) - B, S	68. The Postman Always Rings Twice (James M. Cain)
19. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)	69. Pride and Prejudice
20. A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess) - S	70. The Raven - B, S
21. Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell) - S	71. The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
22. Crime and Punishment	72. The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
23. Divine Comedy - S	73. Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) - S
24. Don Quixote	74. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie - S
25. Dracula (Bram Stoker) - S	75. Schindlers List (Thomas Keneally) - S
26. Dune - S	76. Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
27. Emma	77. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
28. Ender's Game - B, S	78. Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut) - S
29. Fahrenheit 451, S	79. Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison)
30. Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Anderson) - S	80. The Stranger (Albert Camus)
31. Fanny Hill (John Cleland) - S	81. Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert a Heinlein) - B, S
32. The Fault in Our Stars	82. A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) - B, S
33. Faust - S	83. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), S
34. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Nevada)	84. To the Lighthouse
35. The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom	85. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
36. The Godfather (Mario Puzo)	86. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) - S
37. Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) - B(?), S	87. Ulysses - S
38. Gravity's Rainbow	88. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera) - S
39. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)	89. Vanity Fair
40. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)	90. War and Peace
41. Hamlet (William Shakespeare) - S	91. Wasp Factory
42. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)	92. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Raymond Carver)
43. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)	93. Where the Wild Things Are - S
44. House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)	94. White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
45. The Illiad - B, S	95. The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) - S
46. Interview with the Vampire (Louisiana)	96. Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne) - S
47. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)	97. The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
48. King Solomon's Mines	98. Women in Love
49. Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) - S	99. A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'engle)
50. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo - S	100. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

                                    B = Bogie, S = Stu

Comments

[Joared]

Excellent list I must come back and peruse more at my leisure. Animal Farm jumps out at me -- a favorite, most appropriate for our time today. Are some people more equal than the rest?

[bogie]

I haven't read much on that list; 1984, Animal Farm, Catch 22, Ender's Game, Lord of the Flies, The Illiad, The Raven (book? really?), Stranger in a Strange Land, A Tale of Two Cities & Winnie the Poo. I may have read The Grapes of Wrath and The Odyssey. I'm pretty sure I started Dune, but never made it thru.

I can say with relative confidence that the only one I've seen as a movie is the Godfather.

[bogie]

And now that I've posted that - I'm pretty sure I didn't actually read Winnie the Pooh. One of the counselors read it to us in the evening during the first back packing trip I took in Camp Fire Girls.

[Cop Car]

Joared--Amazing how many of this year's listing I have never heard of. Happy that you are more up to date.

Bogie--I'm impressed that you recall that much about CFG. I remember nothing about my year or two in Brownies/Girl Scouts. I don't even remember having been a Brownie. I am impressed at your listing of books because the majority of them were published long before you were born! (I know because I was there for the event - lol.)

[Joared]

I've read 22 of these books for sure, not certain about others. I did see quite a few books that became movies, some following the books better than others. I directed/produced Winnie The Pooh play but don't recall if I actually read the book or how much of the book was in the play for that matter.

I recall quite a bit about Brownies, "flying up" to be a Girl Scout, singing "Day Is Done" at the end of each meeting, a few badges I earned. Wishing we could afford to send me to summer camp. Saturday outings to a nearby creek to investigate the creatures, a small campfire where I first learned of S'mores which I've enjoyed ever since. Most of all I still picture in my mind our group walking up the street incline to return home one Saturday. As we reached the top of the hill, off in the distance I saw the city bus stop at the corner of the street and was startled to recognize a tall red-headed sailor exit. I took off running as fast as I could run having recognized my big brother returning home from WWII. Had been so long since we'd seen him.

I hadn't known where he was stationed, just overseas somewhere but he and Mom had a secret code and she had known the continent he was on though not exactly where. She didn't know he was in the secretive submarine service or might have worried more knowing he was in Australia and trying to be assigned on a sub. We learned later an assignment he wanted was cancelled by his commanding officer as he was needed more on site in Perth. The sub went out and was never heard from again.

[Ole phat stu]

1 3 5 8
11 16 17 18
20 21 23 25 26 28 29
30 31 33 37
41 45 49
50

[Stu]

52 53 59
61 62 64 65 67
70 73 74 75 78
81 82 83 86 87 88
93 95 96

[Cop Car]

Joared--Your memory is much better than mine has ever been. As posted before, I had kept all of my Brownie/Girl Scout pins and badges. I believe that I included an image found online that identified various GS badges. (After all of these years, many of them were not obvious from the image sewn into the badges.) That was how I knew that I had once been a Brownie. While all the family were gathered this month, I passed those pins and badges along to a younger generation. (Please don't embarrass me by asking who received them. We went through a lot of "stuff" and I recall very little of the actual distribution - lol.)

Stu--Thanks for the listings, comprising over half of the entries. Please let me know if I screwed anything up.

All--I added initials to the listing to indicate the listings provided in comments.

[Stu]

No but you found a bug in the browser on my mobile phone. It only displays the left of your 2 columns. Firefox on my PC shows both. Under Win and under Linux.

[Cop Car]

Interesting. I did wonder what happened, but happy that you put it together.

[Liz Hinds]

I've read 19 of those. I saw a good list recently. Books You Should Read: anything you want to! I rather like that list.

[Infidel753]

I've read 20 of these, or 21 if Metamorphosis refers to the Kafka story.

Even granting that this appears to be a listing only of works of fiction rather than best books overall (surely there would be many worthy history and science books), some of the choices strike me as eccentric. Why Dune and not Lord of the Rings? Why A Clockwork Orange and not Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? Nothing at all by Mark Twain? I suppose everyone would come up with a somewhat different list.

[Cop Car]

Liz--I like your list (anything you want to!)

Infidel--I assumed that Metamorphosis was Kafka's. (Hunky Husband tells me that jumping to conclusions provides most of my exercise.) I did note the lack of non-fiction book inclusion. I'm not opposed to having them covered by similar lists in other categories - and they may be.

As to omissions, Abe Books' 100 (fiction) books to read in a lifetime does include Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Anthony Buress's A Clockwork Orange. A listing of 100 Must Read Non-Fiction is provided by Good Reads.