Must -read list of classics

1. Aesop’s Fables by Aesop- 560

2. The Odyssey by Homer- 800
3. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer-1390
4. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe- 1719
5. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift-1726
6. Paradise Lost by John Milton-1667
7. Pride and Prejudice– Jane Austen- 1813
8. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 1847
9. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 1861
10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë- 1847
11. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy- 1877
12. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas-
1844
13. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky-
1866
14. Dracula by Bram Stoker- 1897
15. Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville- 1851
16. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens – 1859
17. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo- 1862
18. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert- 1856
19. Middlemarch by George Eliot- 1871
20. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy- 1867
21. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens- 1850
22. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad- 1899
23. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens- 1843
24. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne- 1850
25. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley- 1818
26. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark
Twain- 1876
27. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy- 1891
28. Persuasion by Jane Austen- 1818
29. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur
Conan Doyle- 1892
30. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens- 1839
31. Emma by Jane Austen- 1815
32. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll – 1865
33. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas- 1844
34. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen- 1811
35. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray- 1847
36. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins- 1859
37. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy-
1874
38. Bleak House by Charles Dickens- 1853
39. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde-1890
40. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain-1875
41. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe -1827
42. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James-1881
43. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson-1882
44. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells- 1897
45. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo-1831
46. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell- 1877
47. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen- 1879
48. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle- 1887
49. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen- 1814
50. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells- 1898
51. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane-1892
52. Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith-
1895
53. The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni- 1827
54. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells- 1895
55. Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy- 1878
56. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy- 1886
57. The Children of the New Forest by Frederick
Marryat- 1847
58. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell- 1854
59. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens- 1857
60. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins -1868
61. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy- 1895
62. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman- 1855
63. 1984 – George Orwell- 1949
64. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald- 1925
65. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller- 1961
66. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger- 1951
67. Animal Farm by George Orwell- 1945
68. Lord of the Flies by William Golding – 1954
69. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood- 1985
70. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee- 1960
71. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck- 1939
72. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White- 1952
73. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García
Márquez- 1967
74. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell- 1936
75. Ulysses by James Joyce- 1922
76. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck- 1937
77. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien- 1955
78. On the Road by Jack Kerouac- 1957
79. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie- 1981
80. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry- 1943
81. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame- 1908
82. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier- 1938
83. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.- 1969
84. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett- 1910
85. The Color Purple by Alice Walker- 1982
86. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery- 1908
87. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury- 1953
88. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden- 1997
89. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone -J.K.
Rowling- 1997
90. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García
Márquez- 1985
91. Watership Down by Richard Adams- 1972
92. Beloved by Toni Morrison- 1987
93. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving- 1989
94. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger –
2003
95. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis 1949
96. The Call of the Wild by Jack London- 1903
97. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch
Albom – 2003
98. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank- 1947
99. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak – 2005
100. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway- 1926
101. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne- 1926
102. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho – 1988
103. The Stranger by Albert Camus- 1942
104. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway –
1951
105. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore
Cooper- 1826
106. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith-1943
107. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller-1902
108. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen- 1937
109. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway- 1929
110. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka- 1915
111. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan
Doyle- 1901
112. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster- 1908
113. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien- 1937
114. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov- 1950
115. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum- 1900
116. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux- 1909
117. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence- 1913
118. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje- 1992
119. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams- 1945
120. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco-
1922
121. King Lear by William Shakespeare-1606
122. The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley- 1953
123. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann- 1901
124. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton- 1920
125. Another Country by James Baldwin- 1962
126. Orlando by Virginia Woolf- 1928
127. Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck- 1962
128. Perfume by Patrick Süskind- 1985
129. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf- 1925
130. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh- 1945
131. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene-1938
132. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales by
Edgar Allan Poe- 1960
133. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis- 1991
134. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy- 1905
135. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn- 1962
136. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams-
1947
137. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov- 1967
138. Dubliners by James Joyce- 1914
139. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.- 1963
140. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf- 1927
141. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan
Kundera- 1984
142. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick- 1977
143. The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery- 1926