The Ultimate List: 100 Books To Read Before You Die

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The Ultimate List: 100 Books to Read before You Die

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 

2. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 

3. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 

4. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee 

5. The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

6. Lolita Vladimir by Nabokov 

7. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger 

8. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie 

9. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 

10. Ulysses by James Joyce 

11. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 

12. The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck 

13. 1984 by George Orwell 

14. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 

15. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 

16. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 

17. A Passage to India by EM Forster 

18. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 

19. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 

20. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 

21. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 

22. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 

23. Animal Farm by George Orwell 

24. Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

25. Beloved by Toni Morrison 

26. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 

27. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 


28. The Stranger by Albert Camus 

29. Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes 

30. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 

31. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 

32. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 

33. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 

34. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 

35. Little Women by Louisa M Alcott 

36. The Call of the Wild by Jack London 

37. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 

38. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh 

39. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

40. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 

41. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino 

42. A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul 

43. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson 

44. Atonement by Ian McEwan 

45. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman 

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

47. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 

48. Middlemarch by George Eliot 

49. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 

50. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 

51. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth 

52. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 

53. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 

54. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 

55. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 

56. White Noise by Don DeLillo 

57. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers 


58. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 

59. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov 

60. I, Claudius by Robert Graves 

61. Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin 

62. A Dance to The Music of Time by Anthony Powell 

63. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller 

64. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 

65. Under The Net by Iris Murdoch 

66. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift 

67. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 

68. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson 

69. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne 

70. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 

71. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 

72. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 

73. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

74. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad 

75. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust 

76. The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence 

77. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford 

78. The Trial by Franz Kafka 

79. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 

80. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White 

81. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass 

82. Herzog by Saul Bellow 

83. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré 

84. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 

85. Money by Martin Amis 

86. Oscar And Lucinda by Peter Carey 

87. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie 


88. American Pastoral by Philip Roth 

89. Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald 

90. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle 

91. Are You There, God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume 

92. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham 

93. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon 

94. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 

95. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 

96. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster 

97. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 

98. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 

99. Watchmen by Alan Moore 

100.The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 

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