Erica's 100 Things to Read before You Die

Jun 16, 2022 01:23

A lot of things do that 100 books everyone should read or whatever. A friend posted one and it got absolutely roasted which got me to wondering what mine would look like...

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr Seuss
Abarat by Clive Barker
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo
A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Arena by Fredric Brown
A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Beowulf by Tolkien
The Bible by Various
The Black Book of Secrets by FE Higgins
Black Hammer by Jeff Lemire
Black Science by Rik Remender, Matteo Scalera, Dean White
Blake, or the Huts of America by Martin R Delaney
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
The Cave of Time by Edward Packard or any Choose Your Own Adventure Book
Children will Listen by Stephen Sondheim
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang
Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon by Cyrano de Bergerac
Conscience for Change by Martin Luther King Jr
Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Curtis by Ray Billingsley
Daredevil by Ann Nocenti
Death of an Innocent by Jon Krakauer
Destined to Witness: Growing up Black in Nazi Germany by Hans J Massaquoi
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The end of policing by Alex S Vitale
Ernie Pook’s Comeek by Lynda Barry
The Fairy Caravan by Beatrix Potter
Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel
From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
Georges by Alexandre Dumas
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John
Gotham Academy by Becky Cloonan, Brenden Fletcher, and Karl Kerschl
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Hawkeye: Rio Bravo by Matt Fraction and David Aja
Hotel California by the Eagles
House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
If This is a Man by Primo Levi
Imagine by John Lennon
I Married Adventure by Osa Johnson
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
In search of our mothers’ gardens by Alice Walker
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Kaleidoscope by Brian Selznick
Kindred by Octavia E Butler
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
Krapp’s Last tape by Samuel Beckett
The Last leaf by O henry
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
Lost Stars by Claudia Gray
The Lost World by Michael Crichton
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman
Mean by Myriam Gurba
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
My Movie Business by John Irving
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
None of the Above by IW Gregorio
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by TS Elliot
OMAC: The One Man Army Corps by Jack Kirby
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Papa, Please get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
Queen’s Shadow by EK Johnston
The Quran by Various
Rainbow Revolutionaries by Sarah Prager
The Reason I jump by Naoki Higashida
Riders of the Suwannee by Lee Gramling
Shade, the Changing Girl by Cecil Castelluci, Marley Zarcone
Shipping Out by David Foster Wallace
Songs of the Gorilla Nation by Dawn Prince-Hughes
Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Kevin B Eastman and Peter Laird
Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly
The Tendrils of the Vine by Colette
This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin
This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get you killed by Charles E Cobb Jr
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
The Time Machine by HG Wells
Transformers by Nick Roche, James Roberts, Guido Guidi, Various
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
The Zero Meter Diving Team by Jim Shepard
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