100 livres à lire dans sa vie

Le site Amazon.com vient de mettre en ligne une sélection de 100 livres à lire dans sa vie. Si cette initiative n’a pas grand chose d’original, ce qui est intéressant c’est que le site de vente en ligne avait abandonné son contenu éditorial il y a déjà de nombreuses années.

Mais, il faut croire que les choses changent, en particulier depuis le rachat de la startup goodreads, puisque cette sélection est maintenant bien en vue sur le site Amazon.

Le titre des livres est en anglais et j’ai mis le titre français pour ceux que je connais :

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

Cette sélection est vraiment intéressante car elle mêle tous les genres. On des livres pour enfants, des livres scientifiques mais aussi des romans graphiques. D’autre part, si elle fait la part belle aux auteurs anglo-saxon, force est de constater que quelques auteurs étrangers se retrouve dans cette sélection.

Sans être la liste définitive des livres à avoir lu, cette liste des « 100 livres à lire » à le mérite de jouer l’éclectisme et le grand public !

Vous pouvez retrouver la sélection sur cette page du site Amazon.com.