100 Classic Books To Read – ClassicLiterature.com
The ClassicLiterature.com Top 100 is a list of the top 100 must read classics. If your favorite is not on the list, it’s #101 :). This list is subject to change based on input from readers. Feel free to post in the comments classic books you feel should be in the top 100. Thanks.
| Book Title | Author |
|---|---|
| 1984 | George Orwell |
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess |
| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway |
| A Passage to India | E.M. Forster |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce |
| A Room with a View | E.M. Forster |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith |
| Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque |
| All the King’s Men | Robert Penn Warren |
| An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh |
| Candide | Francois Voltaire |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| East of Eden | John Steinbeck |
| Emma | Jane Austen |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| I, Claudius | Robert Graves |
| In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
| Journey to the End of the Night | Louis-Ferdinand Céline |
| Lady Chatterley's Lover | D.H. Lawrence |
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman |
| Les Miserables | Victor Hugo |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
| Middlemarch | George Eliot |
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville |
| Mrs Dalloway | Virginia Woolf |
| Native Son | Richard Wright |
| Of Human Bondage | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Of Mice And Men | John Steinbeck |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Marquez |
| Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| The Aeneid | Virgil |
| The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas |
| The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood |
| The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers |
| The Iliad | Homer |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair |
| The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann |
| The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka |
| The Odyssey | Homer |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde |
| The Pilgrim's Progress | John Bunyan |
| The Plague | Albert Camus |
| The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
| The Stranger (The Outsider) | Albert Camus |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Trial | Franz Kafka |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf |
| Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller |
| Ulysses | James Joyce |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |
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