99 Books To Read Before...You Know...

99 Of Donna’s Fav Books For Your TBR List

*if you don’t know what TBR means you’ve possibly taken a wrong turn…

1. The Stand – Stephen King

2. Harry Potter Series – J. K. Rowling

3. Good Omens – Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

4. Dracula – Bram Stoker

5. Lord of The Rings Trilogy – J. R. R. Tolkien

6. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon

7. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

8. The Secret History – Donna Tartt

9. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman

10. Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

11. Ready Player One – Ernest Cline

12. Motherless Brooklyn – Jonathan Lethem

13. Red Rising Series – Pierce Brown

14. Battle Royale – Koushun Takami

15. The Martian – Andy Weir

16. Bad Monkey/Sick Puppy – Carl Hiaasen

17. Heart Shaped Box – Joe Hill

18. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

19. This Story Is A Lie – Tom Pollock

20. I Am Pilgrim – Terry Hayes

21. The Shining/Doctor Sleep – Stephen King

22. Harriet The Spy – Louise Fitzhugh

23. The Eight – Katherine Neville

24. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

25. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

26. American Gods – Neil Gaiman

27. Silence of The Lambs – Thomas Harris

28. Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein

29. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Trilogy) – Stieg Larsson

30. A Simple Plan – Scott Smith

31. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

32. Winter’s Bone – Daniel Woodrell

33. Mystic River – Dennis Lehane

34. Little Brother – Cory Doctorow

35. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

36. The Sisters Brothers – Patrick deWitt

37. The 25thHour – David Benioff

38. Go Ask Alice – Anonymous

39. Bird Box –Josh Malerman

40. The Road –Cormac McCarthy

41. Murder of Roger Ackroyd/Crooked House – Agatha Christie

42. Princess Bride – William Goldman

43. Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Brothers Grimm

44. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer

45. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

46. Daisy Jones & The Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid

47. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

48. A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan

49. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith

50. In the Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco

51. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

52. High Fidelity – Nick Hornby

53. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen

54. Postcards from the Edge – Carrie Fisher

55. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

56. Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger

57. The Borrowers – Mary Norton

58. Kane and Abel – Jeffrey Archer

59. Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri

60. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt

61. The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next Series) – Jasper Fforde

62. The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah

63. Practical Magic – Alice Hoffman

64. The Stinky Cheese Man – Jon Scieszka

65. The Killing Circle – Andrew Pyper

66. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl – Jesse Andrews

67. White Teeth – Zadie Smith

68. The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett

69. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier

70. Lamb: Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal – Christopher Moore

71. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak

72. English Patient – Michael Ondaatje

73. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

74. The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova

75. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf – Edward Albee

76. Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk

77. Ordinary People – Judith Guest

78. Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin

79. The Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton

80. Oh, the Places You’ll Go! – Dr. Seuss

81. Heartburn – Nora Ephron

82. Clockers –Richard Price

83. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell – Susanna Clarke

84. Swamplandia! – Karen Russell

85. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

86. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett

87. Larry’s Party – Carol Shields

88. The Fault in Our Stars – John Green

89. Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng

90. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

91. Franny & Zooey – J. D. Salinger

92. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut

93. This Is Where I Leave You – Jonathan Tropper

94. My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult

95. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

96. The Giant’s House – Elizabeth McCracken

97. Smila’s Sense of Snow – Peter Hoeg

98. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Leguin

99. Carry On, Jeeves – P. G. Wodehouse