Top 10 Books To Read Before You Die

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1. Most of these books are from WatchMojo's Top 10 Banned Books :D
2. Harry Potter????? That book(s) wouldn't make it passed a year or so it is defiantly not a book you should read before you die. Aside from the fact that I was forced to read it and it nearly killed me. I am surprised The Great Gatsby and Gulliver's Travels was not on your list.
3. I'm actually readind to kill a mocking bird. It's so good. :)
4. so far 10 and 9 aren't really stellar
5. grapes of wrath .... uhgh
6. Life of Pie - Best book i've ever read
7. It's not an accurate list without War and Peace, and Atlas Shrugged.
8. This list is from an extreme American-centric perspective. The books that aren't written by Americans are written by Brits. There's a multitude of life changing publications that had to first be translated into English. Do not those great works surpass the significance of some listed here?
9. Great Gatsby
10. All quiet on the western front
11. If you are in doubt, everything; EVERYTHING written by the Brönte sisters, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Jack London, Tolstoi, Dostoyevsi and Herman Hesse are absolutley captivating and brilliant.
12. I truly think that Gone With The Wind should be in the top 10. There is just something so compelling about Scarlet, Rhett, Melanie, and Ashley and the end of the Great South and the intense loss on both sides of the Civil War.
13. I'd include one of Dostoevsky's books, maybe Oscar Wilde and Albert Camus as well...my three favorite authors
14. When I was fifteen and had read my way though all the children´s books, teen/young adult books and crime novels in my home and the local library my mum was not sure what should come next but eventually handed me a book the book that would change and shape my life, a book that would change every time I would pick it up one part or a character would speak to me in a profound way but the next time it would have changed because I have changed between readings. It is book that grows with you and changes, it will make you sad, happy, confused and angry, sometimes all at once and every time you are finished reading it you feel a emptiness and sadness in your soul but you also feel fulfilled and happy and sometimes you will just turn it round and read it again and sometimes you will just throw it way and make a silent wow (that you know you will never keep) to never read it again.
    The book I am speaking off is One Hundred Years of Solitude, Cien años de soledad or in my language Hundrað ára einsemd.
    
    I see that a lot of people are mad that some books were mentioned and some were not and came here to the comment section to do the same but then I realised that is my opinion but the people that made the list obviously have a different taste and opinion than I do. So in stead of arguing about it I am just going to recommend One Hundred Years of Solitude to all of you and hope that you could all recommend a book to me that I have to read before I die.....
15. to kill a mockingbird is in my personal opinion, the best book and movie of all time but that speech though, that speech was just a plain old masterpiece in whatever angle you look at it and he aced it in 1 take which is unbelievable but, he did it and it won him an oscar
16. Ah Harry Potter. I think you're really missing out if you haven't read those books. I'm still of the opinion these books influenced many gifted new YA authors, just look at the new books now versus before 10 or 15 years ago and there are so many currently with high fantasy elements in them now.
17. Lolita?
18. Anne Franks diary should have been on the list
19. the old man and the sea
20. Where's lord of the rings, a song of ice and fire, hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy and the hobbit