The List

Buzzfeed’s “The 65 Books You Need to Read in Your 20s”

1. The Emperor’s Children- Claire Messud
2. What She Saw…- Lucinda Rosenfeld
3. The Deptford Trilogy- Robertson Davies
4. The Secret History- Donna Tartt
5. Giovanni’s Room- James Baldwin
6. A Visit from the Goon Squad- Jennifer Egan
7. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao- Junot Diaz
8. Lucy- Jamaica Kincaid
9. The Moviegoer- Walker Percy
10.  White Teeth- Zadie Smith
11.  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay- Michael Chabon
12.  Infinite Jest- David Foster Wallace
13.  Bright Lights, Big City- Jay McInerney
14.  The Namesake- Jhumpa Lahiri
15.  Call Me by Your Name- Andre Aciman
16.  The Rachel Papers- Martin Amis
17.  Song of Solomon- Toni Morrison
18.  The Sun Also Rises- Ernest Hemingway
19.  Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro
20.  A Home at the End of the World- Michael Cunningham
21.  The Sandman Series- Neil Gaiman
22.  The Group- Mary McCarthy
23.  Quicksand and Passing- Nella Larsen
24.  Pastoralia- George Saunders
25. Ready Player One- Ernest Cline
26.  A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius- Dave Eggers
27.  The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath
28.  Main Street- Sinclair Lewis
29.  His Dark Materials- Philip Pullman
30.  Generation X- Douglas Coupland
31.  The Fortress of Solitude- Jonathan Lethem
32.  House-Keeping- Marilynne Robinson
33.  I Love Dick- Chris Kraus
34.  On the Road- Jack Kerouac
35.  Even Cowgirls Get the Blues- Tom Robbins
36.  Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World- Haruki Murakami
37.  Bossypants- Tina Fey
38.  Kitchen Confidential- Anthony Bourdain
39.  How to Lose Friends and Alienate People- Toby Young
40.  The Dirt- Motley Crue and Neil Strauss
41.  Lunar Park- Bret Easton Ellis
42.  Just Kids- Patti Smith
43.  Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
44.   Oh the Glory of it All- Sean WIlsey
45.  I Don’t Care About Your Band- Julie Klausner
46.  Wild- Cheryl Strayed
47.  Lit- Mary Karr
48.  I’m with the Band- Pamela Des Barres
49.  Dear Diary- Lesley Arfin
50.  The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton- Anne Sexton
51.  Actual Air- David Berman
52.  The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch- Kenneth Koch
53.  Alien vs. Predator- Michael Robbins
54.  The Collected Poems of Audre Lord- Audre Lord
55.  Me Talk Pretty One Day- David Sedaris
56.  How to be a Woman- Caitlin Moran
57.  My Misspent Youth- Meghan Daum
58.  Slouching Towards Bethlehem- Joan Didion
59.  Up in the Old Hotel- Joseph Mitchell
60.  How to Cook Everything- Mark Bittman
61.  How’s Your Drink?- Eric Felten
62.  The Elements of Style- Strunk & White
63.  Letters to a Young Contrarian- Christopher Hitchens
64.  Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain- Betty Edwards
65.  He’s Just Not That Into You- Liz Tuccillo