2014.2.20  香港《文匯報》

網上書店亞馬遜日前公布「100本人生必讀好書」，入圍著作面世年代橫跨200年，除了《傲慢與偏見》、《小王子》及《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》等老牌經典，也有《哈利波特：神秘的魔法石》一類的近年暢銷書，且題材不限於小說，霍金的《時間簡史》和人文史類的《槍炮、細菌與鋼鐵》也有上榜。

亞馬遜實體與電子書總編輯納爾遜表示，篩選過程不涉演算或統計等數學方式，而是基於各評審的喜好，當中盡量避免過於死板或說教式的書籍。是次入圍的書籍中，只有一本是亞馬遜的最佳年度暢銷書，即思科魯特（Rebecca Skloot）的《拉克絲的不朽生命》（The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks，海拉細胞的不死傳奇）。 

從公布名單中可見，《哈利波特》、《魔戒三部曲》及《飢餓遊戲》等大受歡迎的奇幻作品均有上榜，《孤星淚》及《巨鯨無比敵》等巨著雖然家喻戶曉，但評審激烈辯論後決定割愛。名單以字母順序編排，不分排名。 

據透露，公眾可在應用程式Goodreads上投選喜愛的書籍或建議沒有上榜的遺珠，亞馬遜將於數週內公布由讀者選出的百大必讀書籍。

1.To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

2.Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

3.Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

4.1984 by George Orwell

5.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

6.The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

7.The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

8.Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

9.Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

10.The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

11.Fahrenheit 451: A Novel by Ray Bradbury

12.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

13.Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

14.Animal Farm by George Orwell

15.The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

16.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

17.The Help by Kathryn Stockett

18.The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

19.The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

20.The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

21.The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

22.Lord of the Flies by William Golding

23.The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

24.Night by Elie Wiesel

25.Hamlet by William Shakespeare

26.A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

27.A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle

28.The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

29.A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

30.Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

31.The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

32.Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

33.The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

34.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

35.The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupery

36.Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

37.Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

38.The Giver by Lois Lowry

39.Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

40.Macbeth by William Shakespeare

41.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

42.Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

43.Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

44.The Holy Bible: New King James Version by Thomas Nelson

45.The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

46.The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas pere

47.The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

48.The Color Purple by Alice Walker

49.East of Eden by John Steinbeck

50.A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

51.Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

52.In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

53.The Stand by Stephen King

54.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

55.Watership Down by Richard Adams

56.Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

57.Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

58.Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

59.Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

60.Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel by Arthur Golden

61.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

62.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

63.The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

64.Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire Book 1) by George R.R. Martin

65.The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High 66.Adventure by William Goldman

66.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

67.Life of Pi by Yann Martel

68.The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

69.Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

70.The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

71.Dracula by Bram Stoker

72.Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

73.Catching Fire (The Hunger Games Book 2) by Suzanne Collins

74.Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen

75.The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

76.The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

77.Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

78.One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

79.The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingslover

80.The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

81.The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

82.The Odyssey by Homer

83.Celebrating Silence: Excerpts From Five Years of Weekly Knowledge.1995-2000 by Sri SriRavi Shankar

84.A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

85.And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

86.The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

87.The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

88.The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

89.Mockingjay (The Final Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins

90.The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

91.The Road by Cormac McCarthy

92.Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

93.The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

94.Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

95.Beloved by Toni Morrison

96.Helen Keller: The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

97.The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

98.From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

99,Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

100.Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky