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McDougall’s Born to Run featured amongst ‘A bucket list of books to create a well-read life’

Who would have ever thought that a book about running would be regarded as a classic, and feature amongst other literary classics such as Orwell’s 1984, Nabokov’s Lolita, and Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (not to mention Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar)?

Well, the international bestseller took the word by storm in 2010, and has made Amazon.com’s cut! Incredible.

Amazon.com’s 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime:

Title Author
1984 George Orwell
A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers
A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah
A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning: The Short-Lived Edition Lemony Snicket
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L’Engle
Alice Munro: Selected Stories Alice Munro
Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
All the President’s Men Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir Frank McCourt
Are You There, God? It’s me, Margaret Judy Blume
Bel Canto Ann Patchett
Beloved Toni Morrison
Born To Run – A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Christopher McDougall
Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
Charlotte’s Web E.B. White
Cutting For Stone Abraham Verghese
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead Brene Brown
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1 Jeff Kinney
Dune Frank Herbert
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Hunter S. Thompson
Gone Girl Gillian Flynn
Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared M. Diamond
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone J.K. Rowling
In Cold Blood Truman Capote
Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth Chris Ware
Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain
Life After Life Kate Atkinson
Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love Medicine Louise Erdrich
Man’s Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl
Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
Moneyball Michael Lewis
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham
On the Road Jack Kerouac
Out of Africa Isak Dinesen
Persepolis Marjane Satrapi
Portnoy’s Complaint Philip Roth
Pride & Prejudice Jane Austen
Silent Spring Rachel Carson
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X and Alex Haley
The Book Thief Markus Zusak
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
The Color of Water James McBride
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America Erik Larson
The Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank
The Fault in Our Stars John Green
The Giver Lois Lowry
The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
The House At Pooh Corner A. A. Milne
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot
The Liars’ Club: A Memoir Mary Karr
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) Rick Riordan
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Lawrence Wright
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales Oliver Sacks
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Michael Pollan
The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel Barbara Kingsolver
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Robert A. Caro
The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe
The Road Cormac McCarthy
The Secret History Donna Tartt
The Shining Stephen King
The Stranger Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel Haruki Murakami
The World According to Garp John Irving
The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Laura Hillenbrand
Valley of the Dolls Jacqueline Susann
Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak