100 Books To Read Before You Die:

1. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
5. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954) Fellowship, Two Towers, Return
6. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)
7. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
8. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
9. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
10. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954)
11. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
12. Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)
13. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
14. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
16. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979)
17. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
18. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
19. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
20. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
21. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)
22. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
23. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861)
24. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (1937)
25. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
26. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
27. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1885)
28. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605)
29. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890)
30. Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
31. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
32. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1603)
33. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947)
34. The Odyssey by Homer (c. 8th Century BCE)
35. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)
36. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)
37. The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)
38. Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
39. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937)
40. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)
41. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (1950)
42. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936)
43. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003)
44. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (2005)
45. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (1997)
46. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1862)
47. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
48. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
49. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)
50. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)
51. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (1988)
52. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006)
53. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White (1952)
54. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (1962)
55. The Help by Kathryn Stockett (2009)
56. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008)
57. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2001)
58. The Shining by Stephen King (1977)
59. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966)
60. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)
61. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
62. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)
63. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927)
64. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
65. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (1962)
66. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)
67. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)
68. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938)
69. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)
70. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871)
71. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908)
72. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
73. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
74. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856)
75. The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)
76. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)
77. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (1922)
78. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963)
79. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (1959)
80. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)
81. Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001)
82. The Stand by Stephen King (1978)
83. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)
84. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2005)
85. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (2003)
86. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (2012)
87. The Martian by Andy Weir (2011)
88. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (2012)
89. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (2015)
90. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (2018)
91. Educated by Tara Westover (2018)
92. Becoming by Michelle Obama (2018)
93. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (2011)
94. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (2010)
95. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (1988)
96. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1952)
97. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
98. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)
99. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (1994)
100. Watchmen by Alan Moore (1987)

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