100 books to read before you die discussion

I found this updated version of a BBC list from 2019 - I might use this as the basis for my tracking:

Identity
1 Beloved - Toni Morrison
2 Days Without End – Sebastian Barry
3 Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
4 Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5 Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
6 Small Island – Andrea Levy
7 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
8 The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
9 Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
10 White Teeth – Zadie Smith


Love, Sex & Romance
11 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
12 Forever – Judy Blume
13 Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
14 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
15 Riders – Jilly Cooper
16 The Far Pavilions – M. M. Kaye
17 The Forty Rules of Love – Elif Shafak
18 Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
19 The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
20 The Slaves of Solitude – Patrick Hamilton


Adventure
21 City of Bohane – Kevin Barry
22 Eye of the Needle – Ken Follett
23 For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
24 His Dark Materials Trilogy – Philip Pullman
25 Ivanhoe – Walter Scott
26 Mr Standfast – John Buchan
27 The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
28 The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
29 The Jack Aubrey Novels – Patrick O’Brian
30 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – J.R.R. Tolkien


Life, Death & Other Worlds
31 A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin
32 Astonishing the Gods – Ben Okri
33 Dune – Frank Herbert
34 Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
35 Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
36 The Chronicles of Narnia – C. S. Lewis
37 The Discworld Series – Terry Pratchett
38 The Earthsea Trilogy – Ursula K. Le Guin
39 The Road – Cormac McCarthy
40 The Sandman Series – Neil Gaiman


Politics, Power & Protest
41 A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
42 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
43 Home Fire – Kamila Shamsie
44 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
45 Noughts & Crosses – Malorie Blackman
46 Strumpet City – James Plunkett
47 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
48 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
49 Unless – Carol Shields
50 V for Vendetta – Alan Moore


Class & Society
51 A House for Mr Biswas – V. S. Naipaul
52 Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
53 Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
54 Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
55 Poor Cow – Nell Dunn
56 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
57 The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne – Brian Moore
58 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
59 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
60 Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys


Coming of Age
61 Emily of New Moon – L. M. Montgomery
62 Golden Child - Claire Adam
63 Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
64 So Long, See You Tomorrow – William Maxwell
65 Swami and Friends – R. K. Narayan
66 The Country Girls - Edna O’Brien
67 The Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling
68 The Outsiders – S. E. Hinton
69 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾ - Sue Townsend
70 The Twilight Saga – Stephenie Meyer


Family & Friendship
71 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
72 Ballet Shoes – Noel Streatfeild
73 Cloudstreet – Tim Winton
74 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
75 I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
76 Middlemarch – George Eliot
77 Tales of the City – Armistead Maupin
78 The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
79 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
80 The Witches – Roald Dahl


Crime & Conflict
81 American Tabloid – James Ellroy
82 American War – Omar El Akkad
83 Ice Candy Man – Bapsi Sidhwa
84 Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
85 Regeneration – Pat Barker
86 The Children of Men – P.D. James
87 The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
88 The Quiet American – Graham Greene
89 The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid
90 The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith


Rule Breakers
91 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
92 Bartleby, the Scrivener – Herman Melville
93 Habibi – Craig Thompson
94 How to be Both – Ali Smith
95 Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
96 Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
97 Orlando – Virginia Woolf
98 Psmith, Journalist – P. G. Wodehouse
99 The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
100 Zami: A New Spelling of My Name – Audre Lorde