A lifetime of must reads

[Bond18]

Lately i've really rediscovered a love for reading. Unfortunately, my literary knowledge is adequate at best.

What books would you guys consider must/great reads that have to be done in a lifetime.

Please include anything and everything: Fiction, non fiction, biography, philosophy, science, history, etc etc.

Let me know what i'm missing.

Also, if this thread has already happened (seems like the type that would around here) then my bad and please remove.

[ace_in_the_hole]

Cat In The Hat

[jkkkk]

Diceman - Rhinehart
Under the Skin - Faber

[sirtimo]

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

[bkholdem]

Tao Te Ching; by Lao Tzu. Read various translations and contemplate about 1,000 times or so.

The Prince; by Niccolo Machiavelli

The Art of War; by Sun Tzu

All I Ever Really Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarden; by Robert Fulgham

Enjoy

[dankhank]

the corrections - johnathan franzen
midnight's children - salman rushdie
something by anton chekhov
something by alice munro

[mason55]

Gödel, Escher, Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

[jtr]

Not saying you want to read everything on the list, but googling for Harold Bloom's "The Western Canon" could be helpful. (It's a list of great books.)

[Quicksilvre]

Peter Nichols, "A Voyage for Madmen" (solo-around-the-world race, it's so awesome)

Backstory on Wikipedia (spoilers)

[Dominic]

Thomas Sanchez's Mile Zero
Nabakov's Lolita
City of Angels by Greg Bear
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Andrew Vacchs' Burke novels