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
