500 Books for 500 Followers!
- Admin
- Jul 10, 2017
- 11 min read
In honor of reaching 500 followers on Instagram (@betterreadthandeadbookclub), we decided to give you a list of 500 books to read before you die. So in no particular order, here’s 500 books to read before you die!
13 Reasons Why- Jay Asher
1984 - George Orwell
A Briefer History of Time- Stephen Hawking
A Brief History of Time- Stephen Hawking
Absolute Friends- John LeCarré
A Case of Identity- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Memory- Truman Capote
A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess
A Delicate Truth- John LeCarré
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
After- Anna Todd
After Ever Happy- Anna Todd
After We Collided- Anna Todd
After We Fell- Anna Todd
A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
Alex and Eliza- Melissa de la Cruz
Alice in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll
All My Sons- Arthur Miller
Always - Sarah Jio
America’s First Daughter- Stephanie Dray
A Midsummer Night’s Dream- William Shakespeare
A Monster Calls- Patrick Ness
A Most Wanted Man- John LeCarré
A Moveable Feast- Ernest Hemingway
A Murder of Quality- John LeCarré
An Acceptable Time- Madeleine L’Engle
And Than There Were None- Agatha Christie
Angels and Demons- Dan Brown
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Annabel Lee- Edgar Allan Poe
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
A Raisin in the Sun- Lorraine Hansberry
Around the World in Eighty Days- Jules Verne
A Scandal in Bohemia- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
A Small Town in Germany- John LeCarré
A Streetcar Named Desire- Tennessee Williams
A Study in Scarlet- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Swiftly Tilting Planet- Madeleine L’Engle
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Atonement- Ian McEwan
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
Austenland - Shannon Hale
A Wind in the Door- Madeleine L’Engle
A Wrinkle in Time- Madeleine L’Engle
Babbitt- Sinclair Lewis
Beautiful Days - Anna Godbersen
Before- Anna Todd
Before I fall - Lauren Oliver
Before the Devil Breaks You- Libba Bray
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Beowulf - John McNamara
Birdsong- Sebastian Faulks
Black Holes and Baby Universes- Stephen Hawking
Bleak House- Charles Dickens
Blood Demon- Eric J. Gates
Blood Feud- Eric J. Gates
Bloodline- Eric J. Gates
Bloodstone- Eric J. Gates
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Breakfast at Tiffany’s- Truman Capote
Breath, Eyes, Memory- Danticat Edwidge
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason- Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries- Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones’s Diary- Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones’s Guide to Life- Helen Fielding
Bridge to Terabithia- Katherine Paterson
Bright Young Things - Anna Godbersen
Burmese Days- George Orwell
Call for the Dead- John LeCarré
Camino Island- John Grisham
Carrie - Stephen King
Casino Royale- Ian Fleming
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Catching Fire- Suzanne Collins
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof- Tennessee Williams
Cat’s Cradle- Kurt Vonnegut
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- Roald Dahl
Charlotte’s Web- E.B. White
Citizen - Claudia Rankine
City of Ashes- Cassandra Clare
City of Bones- Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels- Cassandra Clare
City of Glass- Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire- Cassandra Clare
City of Lost Souls- Cassandra Clare
Civil Disobedience- Henry David Thoreau
Clear and Present Danger- Tom Clancy
Coming Up for Air- George Orwell
Common Sense- Thomas Paine
Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crossed- Ally Condie
Dark Places- Gillian Flynn
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Death Comes to Pemberley- P.D. James
Death of a Salesman- Arthur Miller
Debt and Honor- Tom Clancy
Diamonds are Forever- Ian Fleming
Distant Waves- Suzanne Weyn
Doctor No- Ian Fleming
Don Quixote- Miguel de Cervantes
Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell
Dracula- Bram Stoker
East of Eden John - Steinbeck
Eldorado- Edgar Allan Poe
Eleanor & Park- Rainbow Rowell
Ella Enchanted- Gail Carson Levine
Emily Windsnap and the Castle in the Mist- Liz Kessler
Emily Windsnap and the Land of the Midnight Sun- Liz Kessler
Emily Windsnap and the Monster from the Deep- Liz Kessler
Emily Windsnap and the Ship of Lost Souls- Liz Kessler
Emily Windsnap and the Siren’s Secret- Liz Kessler
Emma- Charlotte Bronte
Emma - Jane Austen
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Envy - Anna Godbersen
Eragon- Christopher Paolini
Executive Orders- Tom Clancy
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Fangirl- Rainbow Rowell
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them- J.K. Rowling
Fight Club- Chuck Palahniuk
For Whom the Bell Tolls- Ernest Hemingway
For Your Eyes Only- Ian Fleming
Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
From Russia With Love- Ian Fleming
Girl with a Pearl Earring- Tracy Chevalier
God Help the Child- Toni Morrison
Goldfinger- Ian Fleming
Gone Girl- Gillian Flynn
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens: Terry Pratchett
Good Wives- Louisa May Alcott
Go Set a Watchman - Harper Lee
Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
Grimm’s Fairy Tales- Jacob Grimm
Gulliver’s Travels- Jonathan Swift
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Hannibal Rising- Thomas Harris
Hannibal- Thomas Harris
Hard Times- Charles Dickens
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone- J.K. Rowling
Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad
Henry VIII- William Shakespeare
Henry VI- William Shakespeare
Henry V- William Shakespeare
His Dark Materials- Philip Pullman
Holes - Louis Sachar
Homage to Catalonia- George Orwell
Horns- Joe Hill
How the Other Half Lives- Jacob Riis
If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Maya Angelou
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl- Harriet Jacobs
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Inferno- Dan Brown
In Our Time-Ernest Hemingway
Interview with the Vampire- Anne Rice
Into the Water - Paula Hawkins
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
I Shot Him Because I Loved Him- Antonia Monacelli
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell- Susanna Clarke
Journey to the Center of the Earth- Jules Verne
Jo’s Boys- Louisa May Alcott
Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
King Henry IV- William Shakespeare
King Lear- William Shakespeare
Lady Susan- Jane Austen
Lair of Dreams- Libba Bray
Lenore- Edgar Allan Poe
Les Misérables- Victor Hugo
Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Light in August- William Faulkner
Little Men- Louisa May Alcott
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Live and Let Die- Ian Fleming
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Love and Friendship - Jane Austen
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Mad About the Boy- Helen Fielding
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Man in the Iron Mask- Alexandre Dumas
Mansfield Park- Jane Austen
Many Waters- Madeleine L’Engle
Mary Poppins- P.L. Travers
Matched- Ally Condie
Matilda- Roald Dahl
Maurice- E.M. Forster
Me Before You- Jojo Moyes
Memoirs of a Geisha- Arthur Golden
Men Without Women- Ernest Hemingway
Middlemarch- George Eliot
Milk and Honey- Rupi Kaur
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Mockingjay- Suzanne Collins
Moonraker- Ian Fleming
Moriarty- Anthony Horowitz
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH- Robert C. O’Brien
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes- Brad Ricca
Much Ado About Nothing- William Shakespeare
Murder Game- James Patterson
Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
Music for Chameleons- Truman Capote
My Brief History- Stephen Hawking
My Cousin Rachel- Daphne DuMaurier
My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
Nature- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
Night - Elie Wiesel
No Country for Old Men- Cormac McCarthy
Norse Mythology- Neil Gaiman
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Octopussy & the Living Daylights- Ian Fleming
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens
Omerta- Mario Puzo
On Chesil Beach- Ian McEwan
One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter- Scaachi Koul
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest- Ken Kesey
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service- Ian Fleming
Origin- Dan Brown
Othello- William Shakespeare
Other Voices, Other Rooms- Truman Capote
Our Game- John LeCarré
Our Kind of Traitor- John LeCarré
Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
Paper Towns - John Green
Paradise Lost- John Milton
Paris for One- Jojo Moyes
Patriot Games- Tom Clancy
Perfect Little World- Kevin Wilson
Pericles- William Shakespeare
Persepolis- Marjane Satrapi
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Peter Pan- J.M. Barrie
Poems of Solitude- Emily Bronte
Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
Purple Hibiscus - Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi
Quidditch Through the Ages- J.K. Rowling
Reached- Ally Condie
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Red Dragon- Thomas Harris
Red Rabbit- Tom Clancy
Richard III- William Shakespeare
Richard II- William Shakespeare
Rogue Lawyer- John Grisham
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Room- Emma Donoghue
Royal Beginnings- Ally Kay Tibbits
Rumors- Anna Godbersen
Sanditon- Jane Austen
Self-Reliance- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sense and Sensibility- Jane Austen
Shirley- Charlotte Bronte
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Silver Blaze- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Single & Single- John LeCarré
Slaughterhouse-Five- Kurt Vonnegut
Smiley’s People- John LeCarré
Song of Solomon- Toni Morrison
Spirits of the Dead- Edgar Allan Poe
Splendor - Anna Godbersen
Sula- Toni Morrison
Summer Crossing- Truman Capote
Sycamore Row- John Grisham
Tender is the Night- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tess of the D’urbervilles- Thomas Hardy
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Black Peter- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Crooked Man- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Dancing Men- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Empty House- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Final Problem- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Gloria Scott- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Naval Treaty- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Priory School- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Reigate Puzzle- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Resident Patient- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Speckled Blonde- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Stockbroker’s Clerk- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Yellow Face- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer- Mark Twain
The Alchemist- Paulo Coelho
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
The Awakening- Kate Chopin
The Beautiful and the Damned- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful Cassandra- Jane Austen
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Bells- Edgar Allan Poe
The Black Cat- Edgar Allan Poe
The Bluest Eye- Toni Morrison
The Bone Collector- Jeffery Deaver
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
The Boscombe Valley Murder- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Bourne Betrayal- Robert Ludlum
The Bourne Identity- Robert Ludlum
The Bourne Legacy- Robert Ludlum
The Bourne Supremacy- Robert Ludlum
The Bourne Ultimatum- Robert Ludlum
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas- John Boyne
The Brothers Karamazov- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Canterbury Tales- Chaucer
The Canterville Ghost- Oscar Wilde
The Cardinal of the Kremlin- Tom Clancy
The Cask of Amontillado- Edgar Allan Poe
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Chamber- John Grisham
The Circle- Dave Eggers
The Client- John Grisham
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Constant Gardener- John LeCarré
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
The DaVinci Code- Dan Brown
The Death of a President- William Manchester
The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank
The Divine Comedy- Dante
The Diviners- Libba Bray
The Epic of Gilgamesh- Anonymous
The Fall of the House of Usher- Edgar Allan Poe
The Family Corleone- Mario Puzo
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
The Federalist Papers- Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
The Fellowship of the Ring- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Firm- John Grisham
The Five Orange Pips- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Garden of Eden-Ernest Hemingway
The Girl Before- Rena Olsen
The Girl on the Train- Paula Hawkins
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
The Girl You Left Behind- Jojo Moyes
The Giver - Lois Lowry
The Giving Tree- Shel Silverstein
The Glass Menagerie- Tennessee Williams
The Godfather: Mario Puzo
The Godfather Returns- Mario Puzo
The Godfather’s Revenge- Mario Puzo
The Gold-Bug- Edgar Allan Poe
The Grand Design- Stephen Hawking
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Help- Kathryn Stockett
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams
The Hobbit- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Honourable Schoolboy- John LeCarré
The Hounds of the Baskervilles- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The House of Silk- Anthony Horowitz
The House of the Dead and Poor Folk- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
The Hunger Games- Suzanne Collins
The Hunt for Red October- Tom Clancy
The Idiot- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Iliad - Homer
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
The Interpretation of Dreams- Sigmund Freud
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
The Jungle Books- Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle- Upton Sinclair
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Last Don- Mario Puzo
The Last Letter from Your Lover- Jojo Moyes
The Last of the Mohicans- James Fenimore Cooper
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow- Washington Irving
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
The Litigators- John Grisham
The Little Drummer Girl- John LeCarré
The Looking Glass War- John LeCarré
The Lost Symbol- Dan Brown
The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold
The Lucky Ones- Anna Godbersen
The Luxe- Anna Godbersen
The Man in the High Castle- Philip K. Dick
The Man With the Golden Gun- Ian Fleming
The Man with the Twisted Lip- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Martian- Andy Weir
The Merchant of Venice- William Shakespeare
The Messenger- Markus Zusak
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton
The Mission Song- John LeCarré
The Murders in the Rue Morgue- Edgar Allan Poe
The Mysterious Affair at Styles- Agatha Christie
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
The Night is Darkening Round Me- Emily Bronte
The Night Manager- John LeCarré
The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
The Odyssey- Homer
The Old Man and the Sea- Ernest Hemingway
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
The Partner- John Grisham
The Pelican Brief- John Grisham
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
The Phantom of the Opera- Gaston Leroux
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
The Picture of Dorian Grey- Oscar Wilde
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Portrait of a Lady- Henry James
The Possessed- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Prince and the Pauper- Mark Twain
The Princess Bride- William Goldman
The Professor- Charlotte Bronte
The Rainmaker- John Grisham
The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
The Red-Headed League- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Republic- Plato
The Road- Cormac McCarthy
The Round House - Louise Erdrich
The Royal We- Heather Cocks
The Rules of Attraction- Bret Easton Ellis
The Runaway Jury- John Grisham
The Russia House- John LeCarré
The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Pilgrim- John LeCarré
The Shining- Stephen King
The Sicilian- Mario Puzo
The Sign of Four- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Silence of the Lambs- Thomas Harris
The Snows of Kilimanjaro- Ernest Hemingway
The Sound and the Fury- William Faulkner
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold- John LeCarré
The Spy Who Loved Me- Ian Fleming
The Stand - Stephen King
The Story of My Life - Helen Keller
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Sum of All Fears- Tom Clancy
The Sun Also Rises- Ernest Hemingway
The Tail of Emily Windsnap- Liz Kessler
The Tailor of Panama- John LeCarré
The Tales of Beedle the Bard- J.K. Rowling
The Taming of the Shrew- William Shakespeare
The Tell-Tale Heart- Edgar Allan Poe
The Tempest- William Shakespeare
The Theory of Everything- Stephen Hawking
The Things They Carried- Tim O’Brien
The Three Monarchs- Anthony Horowitz
The Three Musketeers- Alexandre Dumas
The Time Machine- H.G. Wells
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
The Two Towers- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Universe in a Nutshell- Stephen Hawking
The Valley of Fear- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Watsons- Jane Austen
The Whistler- John Grisham
The Wizard of Oz- L. Frank Baum
The Woman in White- Wilkie Collins
The Wonder- Emma Donoghue
Thunderball- Ian Fleming
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy- John LeCarré
To Have and Have Not- Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
Twelfth Night- William Shakespeare
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea- Jules Verne
Ulysses- James Joyce
Uncle Tom’s Cabin- Harriet Beecher
Utopia- Sir Thomas More
Vanity Fair- William Makepeace Thackeray
Villette- Charlotte Bronte
Walden- Henry David Thoreau
War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy
War of the Worlds- H.G. Wells
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
We Were Liars- E. Lockhart
Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein
Wicked- Gregory Maguire
Winnie-The-Pooh- A.A. Wilne
Without Remorse- Tom Clancy
Wit - Margaret Edson
World War Z- Max Brooks
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
You are a Badass - Jen Sincero
You Only Live Twice- Ian Fleming
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