Amazon and Goodreads currently have a fun challenge to users — pick the 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime! They’ve already done it, and now are encouraging you to do the same and then share on social media with the hashtag #100books. While we pride ourselves on brevity around here and would, quite frankly, need more time to come up with 100, we don’t mind playing along with seven picks here. For yours truly, it would be:
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Red Leaves, Thomas H. Cook
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
The Books of Blood, Clive Barker
This is all worth considering. After all, there is only a finite amount of time in life to read books. Considering that it takes, on average, about eight hours to read a book, 75 years of reading eight hours per day with no breaks, would mean you could only squeeze in about 27,375 books in a lifetime. Can you find 100 “must-reads” in that limited amount of space?
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