Want to sound smart in conversations with grownups or college friends? Make reference to one or two of these books (only ifyou’ve really read them!) and you will! There are lots of #books in the universe and they’re not all required #reading for class, so if youwere to read only 100 books as a Young Adult, reading these would certainly not be a bad idea.
<p>100 Books That Will Make You More Interesting,
More Attractive, and Sound Smart Even If You Aren’t (Yet)
Want to sound smart in conversations with grownups or college friends? Make reference to one or two of these books (only if
you’ve really read them!) and you will! There are lots of books in the universe and they’re not all required reading for class, so if you
were to read only 100 books as a Young Adult, reading these would certainly not be a bad idea.
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua
Achebe
The Handmaid’s
Tale by Margaret
Atwood
Murder on
the Orient
Express by
Agatha
Christie
The Brief
Wondrous Life
of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
Madame
Bovary by
Gustave
Flaubert
The Hitchhiker’s
Guide to the
Galaxy by
Douglas Adams
Pride and
Prejudice by Jane
Austen
The Last of
the Mohicans
by James
Fenimore
Cooper
Great
Expectations
by Charles
Dickens
Everything is
Illuminated by
Jonathan
Safran Foer
A Death in the
Family by James
Agee
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray
Bradbury
Inferno by
Dante
The Adventures
of Sherlock
Holmes by
Arthur Conan
Doyle
The Pillars of
the Earth by
Ken Follett
The Absolutely
True Diary of a
Part-Time Indian
by Sherman
Alexie
Jane Eyre by
Charlotte Bronte
Don Quixote
by Miguel de
Cervantes
The Worst
Hard Time
by Timothy
Egan
American
Gods by Neil
Gaiman
Bastard Out of
Carolina by
Dorothy Allison
Wuthering
Heights by
Emily Bronte
The Little
Prince by
Antoine de
Saint-Exupery
Zeitoun by
Dave Eggers
A Lesson
Before Dying
by Ernest J.
Gaines
In the Time of
the Butterflies
by Julia Alvarez
A Short History
of Nearly
Everything by
Bill Bryson
Robinson
Crusoe by
Daniel Defoe
Nickel and
Dimed: On
(Not) Getting
By in America
by Barbara
Ehrenreich
Outliers: The
Story of
Success by
Malcolm
Gladwell
Undaunted
Courage by
Stephen
Ambrose
The Amazing
Adventures of
Kavalier and
Clay by
Michael Chabon
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