50 Books to (Re-)Read at 50

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Per Next Avenue.org

The Bible, various authors, ca. 1446 BC
The Iliad/The Odyssey, Homer, 1194–1184 BC
Hamlet, William Shakespeare, 1602 (estimated)
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, 1818
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas, 1844
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens, 1850
Moby Dick: Herman Melville, 1851
Les Misérables, Victor Hugo, 1862
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1869
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, 1884
Dracula, Bram Stoker, 1897
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair, 1906
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner, 1930
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, 1936
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, 1939
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway, 1940
Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank, 1942
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand, 1943
Animal Farm, George Orwell, 1945
The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer, 1948
1984, George Orwell, 1949
The Natural, Bernard Malamud, 1952
Night, Elie Wiesel, 1955
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
Profiles in Courage, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1955
Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, 1957
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss, 1960
Catch 22, Joseph Heller, 1961
Tropic of Cancer: Henry Miller, 1961
The Making of the President, 1960, Theodore White, 1961
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey, 1962
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote, 1966
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut, 1969
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, Hunter S. Thompson, 1973
Burr, Gore Vidal, 1973
All the President’s Men, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, 1974
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig, 1974
Ragtime, E.L Doctorow, 1975
Tao of Physics, Fritjof Capra, 1975
Roots, Alex Haley, 1976
Beloved, Toni Morrison, 1987
The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie, 1988
American Pastoral, Philip Roth, 1997
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen, 2001
John Adams, David McCullough, 2001
What Is the What, Dave Eggers, 2006
Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 2007
Julia Child, My Life in France (First Dynasty), 2008