Thanks to Facebook, we now know what the 100 most influential books of our generation are. Facebook collected the data by asking users to comment with 10 books that have ‘stayed with them in some way’. That’s my reading list for the next year sorted…
1. J.K Rowling: The Harry Potter Books
2. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
3. JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings Books
4. JRR Tolkien: The Hobbit
5. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
6. The Holy Bible
7. Douglas Adams: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
8. Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games Series
9. J.D. Salinger: Catcher in the Rye
10 C.S. Lewis: Chronicles of Narnia
11. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. 1984 by George Orwell
13. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
14. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
15. The Stand by Stephen King
16. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
17. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
18. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
19. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
20. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
21. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
22. The Giver by Lois Lowry
23. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
24. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
25. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
26. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
27. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
28. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
29. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
30. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
31. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
32. Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
33. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
34. Animal Farm by George Orwell
35. The Book of Mormon
36. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
37. Dune by Frank Herbert
38. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
39. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
40. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
41. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
42. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
43. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
44. Lamb by Christopher Moore
45. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
46. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
47. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
48. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
49. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
50. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Which book has influenced you the most?
