# Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-100-books-to-read-in-a-lifetime/682032
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 23, 2014, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-100-books-to-read-in-a-lifetime/682032 "2014-02-23T20:15:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-100-books-to-read-in-a-lifetime/682032/81 "2014-04-23T23:11:19Z")
I’ve read 11, plus a lot of Sherlock Holmes and Edgar Allan Poe stories. That’s more than I expected; mysteries aren’t my favourite genre.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-100-books-to-read-in-a-lifetime/682032/82 "2014-04-23T23:39:42Z")
Only 16
And I threw one of them across the room, unable to finish. It’s a stupid list.
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-100-books-to-read-in-a-lifetime/682032/83 "2014-04-24T00:32:43Z")
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I enjoyed most of the ones I read. Some I will never read, others area on my reading list.
I’m impressed that my 15 yo son has read 14 of them.
ETA: I have read 17 from the mystery list, including all of Sherlock Holmes.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-100-books-to-read-in-a-lifetime/682032/84 "2014-04-24T01:30:34Z")
21 for me, incl. Holmes, of course. Glad to see Cussler’s _Raise the Titanic!_ on the list; it’s been a favorite of mine since I was a kid.
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-100-books-to-read-in-a-lifetime/682032/85 "2014-04-24T02:11:23Z")
I think I’ve read 28 from the mystery list.
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### Author:  [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-100-books-to-read-in-a-lifetime/682032/86 "2014-04-24T02:16:14Z")
23, with about another 20 sitting on the shelves in my home as yet unread, I having married into possession of them.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-100-books-to-read-in-a-lifetime/682032/87 "2014-04-24T02:17:01Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> I’m reviving this thread because Amazon has just released a companion list of [100 Mysteries and Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime](http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=8994558011).
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> On a quick look-through, it looks like a good list; I can’t off the top of my head think of any glaring mistakes they made either in what they included or in whom they omitted. (Though if they were going to throw in Encyclopedia Brown, Nancy Drew, and the Hardy Boys, I personally wish they would have included The Three Investigators as well.)
_Anything_ by Tony Hillerman could make the list, not just the one that did.
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### Author:  [@The\_Batman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Batman)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazons-100-books-to-read-in-a-lifetime/682032/88 "2014-04-24T02:54:14Z")
1.
It’s a crap list. I mean, “Moneyball”? “Kitchen Confidential”?
And many of the ones they seem to suggest are outstanding in their genre certainly aren’t.
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