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abbreviated as 100 BTRBYD, one hundred books to read before you die is a challenge revolving around insider's list of the subjectively best, most soul-wrenching, philosophically cinching books that have been written.

everyone should be advised that this challenge contains many classics but also ranges into modern day books like harry potter or the book thief :)

0-10 Valiant Knight
11-20 Super Baronet / Baronetess
21-30 Iridescent Baron / Baroness
31-40 Awesome Viscount / Viscountess
41-50 Splendid Earl / Countess
51-60 Shiny Marquess / Marchioness
61-70 Dazzling Duke / Duchess
71-80 Impressive Prince / Princess
81-90 Advanced Emperor / Empress
91-100 Timeless Monarch

this is a year-round challenge with no end date. post how many you are committing to here and read, read, read! if you have read any of these books within the last 2 years, you can mark them off :) within your post, continuously update it and link the books, preferably in some type of order so it makes it clearer to see how many books you have read. when you reach a new rank, feel free to add a message here or PM either me or Allie. happy reading!

you can read these in any order and note them in any style that you would like. we only ask that you let us know when you update so we can keep track of rankings. copy and paste this list to your post. within the spoilers are the links to the books

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (view spoiler)[ To Kill a Mockingbird (hide spoiler)]
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (view spoiler)[ Pride and Prejudice (hide spoiler)]
3. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank (view spoiler)[ The Diary of a Young Girl (hide spoiler)]
4. 1984 by George Orwell (view spoiler)[ 1984 (hide spoiler)]
5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (view spoiler)[ Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (hide spoiler)]
6. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (view spoiler)[ The Lord of the Rings (hide spoiler)]
7. The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald (view spoiler)[ The Great Gatsby (hide spoiler)]
8. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (view spoiler)[ Charlotte's Web (hide spoiler)]
9. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tokien (view spoiler)[ The Hobbit (hide spoiler)]
10. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (view spoiler)[ Little Women (hide spoiler)]
11. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (view spoiler)[ Fahrenheit 451 (hide spoiler)]
12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (view spoiler)[ Jane Eyre (hide spoiler)]
13. Animal Farm by George Orwell (view spoiler)[ Animal Farm (hide spoiler)]
14. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (view spoiler)[ Gone with the Wind (hide spoiler)]
15. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (view spoiler)[ The Catcher in the Rye (hide spoiler)]
16. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (view spoiler)[ The Book Thief (hide spoiler)]
17. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (view spoiler)[ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (hide spoiler)]
18. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (view spoiler)[ The Hunger Games (hide spoiler)]
19. The Help by Kathryn Stockett (view spoiler)[ The Help (hide spoiler)]
20. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (view spoiler)[ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (hide spoiler)]
21. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (view spoiler)[ The Grapes of Wrath (hide spoiler)]
22. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding (view spoiler)[ Lord of the Flies (hide spoiler)]
23. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (view spoiler)[ The Kite Runner (hide spoiler)]
24. Night by Elie Wiesel (view spoiler)[ Night (hide spoiler)]
25. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (view spoiler)[ Hamlet (hide spoiler)]
26. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (view spoiler)[ A Wrinkle in Time (hide spoiler)]
27. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (view spoiler)[ Of Mice and Men (hide spoiler)]
28. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (view spoiler)[ A Tale of Two Cities (hide spoiler)]
29.Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (view spoiler)[ Romeo and Juliet (hide spoiler)]
30.The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (view spoiler)[ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (hide spoiler)]
31. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (view spoiler)[ The Secret Garden (hide spoiler)]
32. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (view spoiler)[ A Christmas Carol (hide spoiler)]
33. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (view spoiler)[ The Little Prince (hide spoiler)]
34. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (view spoiler)[ Brave New World (hide spoiler)]
35. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (view spoiler)[ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (hide spoiler)]
36. The Giver by Lois Lowry (view spoiler)[ The Giver (hide spoiler)]
37. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (view spoiler)[ The Handmaid’s Tale (hide spoiler)]
38. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (view spoiler)[ Where the Sidewalk Ends (hide spoiler)]
39. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte (view spoiler)[ Wuthering Heights (hide spoiler)]
40. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (view spoiler)[ The Fault in Our Stars (hide spoiler)]
41. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (view spoiler)[ Anne of Green Gables (hide spoiler)]
42. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (view spoiler)[ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (hide spoiler)]
43. Macbeth by William Shakespeare (view spoiler)[ Macbeth (hide spoiler)]
44. The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larrson (view spoiler)[ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (hide spoiler)]
45. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (view spoiler)[ Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (hide spoiler)]
46. The Holy Bible: King James Version (view spoiler)[ The King James Bible, KJV (hide spoiler)]
47. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (view spoiler)[ The Color Purple (hide spoiler)]
48. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (view spoiler)[ The Count of Monte Cristo (hide spoiler)]
49. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (view spoiler)[ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (hide spoiler)]
50. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (view spoiler)[ East of Eden (hide spoiler)]
51. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (view spoiler)[ Alice in Wonderland (hide spoiler)]
52. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (view spoiler)[ In Cold Blood (hide spoiler)]
53. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (view spoiler)[ Catch-22 (hide spoiler)]
54. The Stand by Stephen King (view spoiler)[ The Stand (hide spoiler)]
55.Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (view spoiler)[ Outlander (hide spoiler)]
56. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (view spoiler)[ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (hide spoiler)]
57. Enders Game by Orson Scott Card (view spoiler)[ Ender’s Game (hide spoiler)]
58. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (view spoiler)[ Anna Karenina (hide spoiler)]
59.Watership Down by Richard Adams (view spoiler)[ Watership Down (hide spoiler)]
60. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (view spoiler)[ Memoirs of a Geisha (hide spoiler)]
61.Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (view spoiler)[ Rebecca (hide spoiler)]
62. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin (view spoiler)[ A Game of Thrones (hide spoiler)]
63. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (view spoiler)[ Great Expectations (hide spoiler)]
64. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (view spoiler)[ The Old Man and the Sea (hide spoiler)]
65. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (#3) by Arthur Conan Doyle
(view spoiler)[ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (hide spoiler)]
66. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (view spoiler)[ Les Miserables (hide spoiler)]
67. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (view spoiler)[ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (hide spoiler)]
68. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (view spoiler)[ Life of Pi (hide spoiler)]
69. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (view spoiler)[ The Scarlett Letter (hide spoiler)]
70. Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (view spoiler)[ Celebrating Silence (hide spoiler)]
71. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (view spoiler)[ The Chronicles of Narnia (hide spoiler)]
72. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (view spoiler)[ The Pillars of the Earth (hide spoiler)]
73. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (view spoiler)[ Catching Fire (hide spoiler)]
74. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (view spoiler)[ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (hide spoiler)]
75. Dracula by Bram Stoker (view spoiler)[ Dracula (hide spoiler)]
76. The Princess Bride by William Goldman (view spoiler)[ The Princess Bride (hide spoiler)]
77. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (view spoiler)[ Water for Elephants (hide spoiler)]
78. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (view spoiler)[ The Raven (hide spoiler)]
79. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (view spoiler)[ The Secret Life of Bees (hide spoiler)]
80. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver (view spoiler)[ The Poisonwood Bible (hide spoiler)]
81. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez (view spoiler)[ One Hundred Years Solitude kn d cht na isp yaz neadapt Sto let odinochestva kn d cht na isp yaz neadapt (hide spoiler)]
82. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (view spoiler)[ The Time Traveler's Wife (hide spoiler)]
83. The Odyssey by Homer (view spoiler)[ The Odyssey (hide spoiler)]
84. The Good Earth (House of Earth #1) by Pearl S. Buck (view spoiler)[ The Good Earth (hide spoiler)]
85. Mockingjay (Hunger Games #3) by Suzanne Collins (view spoiler)[ Mockingjay (hide spoiler)]
86. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (view spoiler)[ And Then There Were None (hide spoiler)]
87. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough (view spoiler)[ The Thorn Birds (hide spoiler)]
88. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (view spoiler)[ A Prayer for Owen Meany (hide spoiler)]
89. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (view spoiler)[ The Glass Castle (hide spoiler)]
90. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (view spoiler)[ Henrietta Lacks Biography - The Immortal Cell Life Lives On (hide spoiler)]
91. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (view spoiler)[ Crime and Punishment (hide spoiler)]
92. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (view spoiler)[ The Road (hide spoiler)]
93. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (view spoiler)[ (The Things They Carried) By Tim O'Brien (Author) Paperback on (hide spoiler)]
94. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (view spoiler)[ Siddhartha (hide spoiler)]
95. Beloved by Toni Morrison (view spoiler)[ Beloved (hide spoiler)]
96. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (view spoiler)[ Slaughterhouse-Five (hide spoiler)]
97. Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese (view spoiler)[ Cutting for Stone (hide spoiler)]
98. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (view spoiler)[ The Phantom Tollbooth (hide spoiler)]
99. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (view spoiler)[ The Brothers Karamazov (hide spoiler)]
100.The Story of My Life by Helen Keller (view spoiler)[ The Story of My Life (hide spoiler)]

welcome to the challenge, ash!
make sure to log your progress in your thread instead of this topic. :)

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (one of my fav classics)
3. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
4. 1984 by George Orwell
5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (unfortunately)
6. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
7. The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald (didn't like this one either)
8. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (Def read this when I was like 10)
9. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tokien
10. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (OBVIOUSLYYYY)
11. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
13. Animal Farm by George Orwell
14. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
15. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
16. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (very recently!)
17. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
18. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (yet again, when i was like 10/11)
19. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
20. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (come on it's amazing)
21. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
22. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
23. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
24. Night by Elie Wiesel
25. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
26. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
27. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
28. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
29.Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
30.The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (I didn't like this!?)
31. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (traumatised me but we're all good now)
32. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (i actually enjoyed this one)
33. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
34. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
35. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (sighs)
36. The Giver by Lois Lowry
. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (traumatised)
38. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
39. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
40. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
41. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
42. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
43. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
44. The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larrson
45. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (very mid)
46. The Holy Bible: King James Version (not gay enough)
47. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
48. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
49. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
50. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
51. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
52. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
53. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
54. The Stand by Stephen King
55.Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
56. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
57. Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
58. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
59.Watership Down by Richard Adams
60. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
61.Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
62. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
63. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
64. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
65. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (#3) by Arthur Conan Doyle
66. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
67. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
68. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (yip yip yip)
69. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
70. Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
71. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
72. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
73. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
74. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
75. Dracula by Bram Stoker
76. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
77. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
78. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
79. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
80. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
81. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
82. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
83. The Odyssey by Homer
84. The Good Earth (House of Earth #1) by Pearl S. Buck
85. Mockingjay (Hunger Games #3) by Suzanne Collins
86. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
87. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
88. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
89. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
90. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
91. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
92. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
93. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
94. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
95. Beloved by Toni Morrison
96. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
97. Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
98. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
99. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
100.The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

most of them are on my tbr!

welcome to the challenge, drew!
i'll make your thread shortly. make sure you track there instead of here :)

allison {no group invites!} wrote: "welcome to the challenge, ash!
make sure to log your progress in your thread instead of this topic. :)"

ohh okk sorry ty!