Reading is one of the most enjoyable and intellectually stimulating activities one can engage in. Whether you’re a seasoned reader or just getting started, there are countless books out there waiting to be discovered. In this article, we’ve compiled a list of the top 100 books that everyone should read at least once in their lifetime.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1984 by George Orwell
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Odyssey by Homer
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Iliad by Homer
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Dubliners by James Joyce
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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