100 Books to Read by book cover

Joel Patrick
6 min readApr 13, 2020

A while back I published -and regularly update- a list of 100 Books To Read Before You Die.

It has been enormously popular, so I thought I’d provide an additional resource: the list of 100 books, browsable by book cover.

I found that looking at the cover of each book gave a different perspective to the potential content within.

Browse below- all books are clickable. Enjoy

Lord of the Flies, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and The Great Gatsby book covers
Charlottes Web, The Catcher in the Rye, and To Kill A Mockingbird book covers
Catch-22, Lolita, and On the Road book covers
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Midnight’s Children, and Ulysses book covers
1984, Grapes of Wrath, and Jane Eyre book covers
A Passage to India, Moby Dick, and Mrs. Dalloway book covers
Brave New World, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and Things Fall Apart book covers
Animal Farm, Beloved, and Crime and Punishment book covers
Invisible Man, Slaughter-house Five, and The Stranger book covers
Don Quixote, Frankestein, and Robinson Crusoe book covers
David Copperfield, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Wuthering Heights book covers
Little Women, The Call of the Wild, and The Wind in the Willows book covers
Lucky Jim, Scoop, and The Big Sleep book covers
A Bend in the River, Housekeeping, and If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler book covers
Atonement, His Dark Materials, and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy book covers
Brideshead Revisited, Great Expectations, and Middlemarch book covers
Anna Karenina, Portnoy’s Complaint, and The Age of Innocence book covers
The Handmaid’s Tale, The Sun Also Rises, and To The Lighthouse book covers
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Sound and The Fury, and White Noise book covers
Go Tell It On The Mountain, I, Claudius, and Pale Fire book covers
A Dance to the Music of Time, Tropic of Cancer, and Wide Sargasso Sea book covers
Clarissa, Gulliver’s Travels, and Tom Jones book covers
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Madame Bovary, and The Portrait of a Lady book covers
In Search of Lost Time, Nostromo, and The Rainbow book covers
As I Lay Dying, The Good Soldier, and The Trial book covers
Herzog, The Tin Drum, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy book covers
Money, Oscar and Lucinda, and Song of Solomon book covers
American Pastoral, Austerlitz, and Haroun and the Sea of Stories book covers
Are You There God? It’s me, Margaret, Of Human Bondage, and A Wrinkle In Time book covers
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, and The Corrections book covers
The Phantom Tollbooth, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and The Wind-up Bird Chronicles book covers
The Catcher in the Rye, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and The Watchmen book covers

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Joel Patrick

Texas-born, London-based. Investing time/energy in startups. Former CPO of health social network @HealthUnlocked. https://joelpatrick.co @joelapatrick