There is a reason why these books are called classics. Written by the world’s most brilliant minds, these books have become the standard for various contemporary authors to follow. They’ve inspired the creation of several modern genres of literature due to their sheer brilliance.
If you’re a lover of books and literature, then you can never go wrong with this list below. All these books are worth reading at least once in a lifetime.
1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
3. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
4. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
5. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
6. Persuasion by Jane Austen
7. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
8. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
9. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
10. The Outsiders by Susan Eloise Hinton
11. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
13. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot; (woman, I had no idea)
14. Moby Dick by Charles Dickens
15. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
17. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
18. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
19. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
20. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
21. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
22. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
23. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
24. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
25. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
26. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
27. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
28. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
29. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
30. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
31. The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley
32. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
33. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
34. Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
35. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
36. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
38. The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
39. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
40. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
41. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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42. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
43. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
44. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
45. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
46. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
47. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
48. “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
49. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
50. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
51. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
52. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
53. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
54. The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larrson
55. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
56. “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas
57. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
58. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
59. Ulysses by James Joyce
60. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
61. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
62. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (#3) by Arthur Conan Doyle
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