In high school, I made a list of 50 books that make up my reading bucket list. As I've learned of new books over time, my list has changed slightly, but I am slowly but surely making my way through my list. Here are the 50 books I want to read before I die and that I think you should read too.
1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
3. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
4. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
5. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
6. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
7. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
8. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
9. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
10. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
11. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
12. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
13. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
14. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
15. The Lover by A.B. Yehoshua
16. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
17. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
18. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
19. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
20. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
21. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
22. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
23. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
24. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
25. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
26. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
27. A Perfect Crime by A Yi
28. Finding Rebecca by Eoin Dempsey
29. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
30. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
31. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
32. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
33. The Stranger by Albert Camus
34. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
35. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
36. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
37. Dracula by Bram Stoker
38. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
39. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
40. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
41. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
42. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
43. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
44. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
45. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
46. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
47. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
48. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Wolf
49. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
50. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck