100 Books Worth Reading
I have compiled a list of 100 books which I think are worth reading by everyone at least once in their lives.
The list is equal parts fiction and non-fiction, featuring both adult and children’s books.
Please enjoy!
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes (1615)
Living Untethered - Michael Singer (2022)
1984 - George Orwell (1949)
The Blue Zones - Dan Buettner (2008)
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift (1726)
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson (2003)
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
Lifespan - David Sinclair (2019)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson (1971)
Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari (2011)
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne (1864)
Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington (1901)
James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl (1961)
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl (1946)
The Time Machine - H. G. Wells (1895)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin (1791)
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline (2011)
Healing Back Pain - John E. Sarno (1991)
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (1818)
Miracle Eyesight Method - Meir Schneider (1996)
Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)
Hiroshima Diary - Michihiko Hachiya (1945)
The Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling (1997)
Unleash the Power Within - Tony Robbins (1999)
A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin (1996)
The Richest Man in Babylon - George S. Clason (1926)
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (1953)
Grinding it Out - Ray Croc (1977)
The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham (1957)
Sleep Smarter - Shawn Stevenson (2014)
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (1962)
The Story of My Experiments with Truth - Mahatma Gandhi (1925)
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne (1872)
Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond - Ajahn Brahm (2006)
The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells (1897)
The 5 Love Languages - Gary Chapman (1992)
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk (1996)
Silent Spring - Rachael Carson (1962)
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare (1597)
The 10 Secrets of 100% Healthy People - Patrick Holford (2009)
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke (1968)
Change Your Posture Change Your Life - Greg Parry (2015)
The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham (1951)
The Body - Bill Bryson (2019)
The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866)
Living with a Seal - Jesse Itzler (2015)
The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi (1883)
Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda (1946)
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote (1958)
Going Solo - Roald Dahl (1986)
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (1838)
On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin (1859)
Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka (1915)
The Story of My Experiments with Truth - Mahatma Gandhi (1925)
Hamlet - William Shakespeare (1599-1601)
Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell (1933)
News From Nowhere - William Morris (1890)
The Telomere Effect - Elizabeth Blackburn (2017)
Circe - Madeline Miller (2018)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X, Alex Haley (1965)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain (1876)
How to Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan (2018)
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute (1950)
DMT: The Spirit Molecule - Rick Strassman (2000)
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank (1947)
Erewhon - Samuel Butler (1872)
Light on Life - B. K. S. Iyengar (2005)
The Dark Fields - Alan Glynn (2001)
Strength Training Anatomy - Frederic Delavier (1998)
Animal Farm - George Orwell (1945)
Get Up! - James A. Levine (2014)
The Enchanted Wood - Enid Blyton (1939)
The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel (2020)
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (1811)
The War of Art - Steven Pressfield (2002)
Matilda - Roald Dahl (1988)
Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker (2017)
The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy (1889)
Shoe Dog - Phil Knight (2016)
King Lear - William Shakespeare (1606)
Yoga Anatomy - Leslie Kaminoff (2007)
The Island of Doctor Moreau - H. G. Wells (1896)
Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark (2017)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (1964)
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius (161-180 AD)
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (1890)
Dibs in Search of Self - Virginia Axline (1964)
My Man Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse (1919)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey (1989)
Lord of the Flies - William Golding (1954)
The Art of Learning - Joshua Waitzkin (2007)
Bartleby, the Scrivener - Herman Melville (1853)
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf (1929)
Dracula - Bram Stoker (1897)
The Hidden Life of Trees - Peter Wohlleben (2015)
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)
The Wisdom of Leonardo da Vinci - Leonardo da Vinci (1508)
Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1990)
The Little Bandits - Michael Henry (2025)
All the best.
M.H.
