摘要 仔细读完这份清单会发现，它最大的亮点在可读性，比如里面会有《厨房机密》，会有《天生就会跑》，还有《饥饿游戏》《黄金罗盘》；比如毛姆选了《人性的枷锁》而不是《月亮和六便士》；比如没有莎士比亚但有大卫·伊格斯、安·帕切特、尤金尼德斯……这份清单恐怕比它涉及的书更值得一看。
亚马逊网近日发布了它的一生必读一百本书清单。所列书目从1813年的《傲慢与偏见》到1925年的《了不起的盖茨比》，到2013年的《生命不息》（Life after Life），跨越了两百年的文学时间。
网站编辑总监Sara Nelson接受了不少采访，听下来，印象最深的是：这是一份手作的推荐清单，没有用到点击率分析等技术手段；希望选的书有代表，能引领读者通往更多的书。
而仔细读完这份清单会发现，它最大的亮点在可读性，比如里面会有《厨房机密》，会有《天生就会跑》，还有《饥饿游戏》《黄金罗盘》；比如毛姆选了《人性的枷锁》而不是《月亮和六便士》；比如没有莎士比亚但有大卫·伊格斯、安·帕切特、尤金尼德斯……它肯定不是一份西方正典清单，但它接近阅读本身，接近风土和人情，因此，这份清单恐怕比它涉及的书更值得一看。
2013年的数据似乎还没出来，但2012年，我国出版物的品种是41万种。
——让我们带着这个背景看看亚马逊的一百种必读书都是什么吧：（书单中有中文版且认知度比较高的直接用了中文名，其他则直接采用英文书名和作者名以便检索。）
1.1984
2.时间简史
3.怪才的荒诞与忧伤
4.A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
5.雷蒙·斯尼奇的不幸历险
6.A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine LEngle
7.爱丽丝·门罗短篇小说选
8.爱丽丝漫游奇境
9.总统班底
10.安吉拉的灰烬
11.Are You There, God? Its me, Margaret by Judy Blume
12.Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
13.Beloved by Toni Morrison
14.天生就会跑
15.Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
16.第22条军规
17.查理和巧克力工厂
18.夏洛的网
19.Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
20.Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown
21.小屁孩日记
22.Dune by Frank Herbert
23.华氏451度
24.远离赌城
25.Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
26.晚安月亮
27.远大前程
28.枪炮、细菌与钢铁——人类社会的命运
29.哈利波特与魔法石
30.冷血
31.Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
32.隐身人
33.Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
34.厨房机密
35.Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
36.Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
37.洛丽塔
38.霍乱时期的爱情
39.Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
40.Mans Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
41.Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
42.中性
43.午夜的孩子
44.Moneyball by Michael Lewis
45.人性的枷锁
46.在路上
47.走出非洲
48.Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
49.Portnoys Complaint by Philip Roth
50.傲慢与偏见
51.寂静的春天
52.五号屠场
53.Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
54.纯真年代
55.The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
56.马尔科姆·X自传
57.窃书贼
58.The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
59.麦田里的守望者
60.The Color of Water by James McBride
61.纠正
62.The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
63.安妮日记
64.The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
65.The Giver by Lois Lowry
66.黄金罗盘
67.了不起的盖茨比
68.使女的故事
69.The House At Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne
70.饥饿游戏
71.The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
72.The Liars Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr
73.The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
74.小王子
75.漫长的告别
76.巨塔杀机
77.魔戒
78.The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
79.The Omnivores Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
80.The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
81.The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
82.The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
83.The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
84.路
85.The Secret History by Donna Tartt
86.闪灵
87.局外人
88.太阳照常升起
89.The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien
90.饥饿的毛毛虫
91.柳林风声
92.奇鸟形状录
93.The World According to Garp by John Irving
94.The World According to Garp by John Irving
95.Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
96.杀死一只知更鸟
97.Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
98.Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
99.Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
100.Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
