55 of the Greatest Books of All Time That Should Be on Your Reading List
(In alphabetical order)
1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul
3. A Brief History Of Time by Stephen Hawking
4. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
5. A Passage to India by EM Forster
6. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
8. Atonement by Ian McEwan
9. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
10. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
12. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
13. Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
14. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
15. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
16. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
17. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
18. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
19. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
20. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
21. Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac
22. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
23. Middlemarch by George Eliot
24. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
25. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
26. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
27. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
28. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
29. One Thousand and One Nights Anon
30. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
31. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
32. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
33. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
34. The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
35. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
36. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
37. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
38. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
39. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
40. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
41. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
42. The Iliad by Homer
43. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
44. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
45. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
46. The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki
47. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
48. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
49. The Trial by Franz Kafka
50. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
51. The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
52. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
53. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
54. Ulysses by James Joyce
55. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë