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100 Books Worth Reading
You will love some and dislike others, but one thing is certain: you will learn from all of them.
The list includes internationally renowned classics, recent standouts, and a few unexpected curveballs.
Title | Author | Pages | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
Demon Copperhead | Barbara Kingsolver | 560 | 2022 |
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida | Shehan Karunatilaka | 386 | 2022 |
The Nickel Boys | Colson Whitehead | 213 | 2019 |
In the Distance | Hernan Diaz | 256 | 2017 |
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1) | Viet Thanh Nguyen | 371 | 2015 |
The Orphan Master's Son | Adam Johnson | 443 | 2012 |
My Brilliant Friend | Elena Ferrante | 331 | 2011 |
Salvage the Bones | Jesmyn Ward | 273 | 2011 |
A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | 372 | 2007 |
Elena Knows | Claudia Piñeiro | 143 | 2007 |
Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 433 | 2006 |
The Road | Cormac McCarthy | 241 | 2006 |
Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | 288 | 2005 |
The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 371 | 2003 |
Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | 529 | 2002 |
Atonement | Ian McEwan | 351 | 2001 |
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Michael Chabon | 639 | 2000 |
The Feast of the Goat | Mario Vargas Llosa | 475 | 2000 |
Disgrace | J.M. Coetzee | 220 | 1999 |
The Savage Detectives | Roberto Bolaño | 577 | 1998 |
American Pastoral | Philip Roth | 432 | 1997 |
Fight Club | Chuck Palahniuk | 224 | 1996 |
Blindness | José Saramago | 349 | 1995 |
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1) | Ken Follett | 976 | 1989 |
The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | 276 | 1989 |
Beloved | Toni Morrison | 291 | 1987 |
Misery | Stephen King | 370 | 1987 |
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West | Cormac McCarthy | 351 | 1985 |
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1) | Orson Scott Card | 324 | 1985 |
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1) | Larry McMurtry | 960 | 1985 |
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) | Margaret Atwood | 311 | 1985 |
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) | William Gibson | 288 | 1984 |
The Color Purple | Alice Walker | 304 | 1982 |
The House of The Spirits | Isabel Allende | 442 | 1982 |
Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie | 647 | 1981 |
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller | Italo Calvino | 260 | 1979 |
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | 193 | 1979 |
Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | 338 | 1977 |
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2) | Michael Shaara | 345 | 1974 |
Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner | 569 | 1971 |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | 289 | 1969 |
Portnoy's Complaint | Philip Roth | 289 | 1969 |
Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 285 | 1969 |
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick | 258 | 1968 |
One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | 417 | 1967 |
Dune | Frank Herbert | 658 | 1965 |
Stoner | John Williams | 292 | 1965 |
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | 294 | 1963 |
A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | 240 | 1962 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey | 325 | 1962 |
Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov | 246 | 1962 |
The Slave | Isaac Bashevis Singer | 320 | 1962 |
Butcher's Crossing | John Williams | 274 | 1960 |
To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 323 | 1960 |
In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | 343 | 1959 |
On the Road | Jack Kerouac | 307 | 1957 |
Grande Sertão: Veredas | João Guimarães Rosa | 624 | 1956 |
Long Day’s Journey into Night | Eugene O'Neill | 179 | 1956 |
Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 182 | 1954 |
The Lord of the Rings (Middle Earth, #2-4) | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1216 | 1954 |
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1) | Ian Fleming | 192 | 1953 |
Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 194 | 1953 |
East of Eden | John Steinbeck | 620 | 1952 |
Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | 610 | 1952 |
The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | 96 | 1952 |
The Caine Mutiny | Herman Wouk | 537 | 1951 |
The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 277 | 1951 |
1984 | George Orwell | 368 | 1949 |
Cry, the Beloved Country | Alan Paton | 316 | 1948 |
All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren | 439 | 1946 |
Pavilion of Women | Pearl S. Buck | 316 | 1946 |
Animal Farm | George Orwell | 141 | 1945 |
The Razor’s Edge | W. Somerset Maugham | 314 | 1944 |
The Stranger | Albert Camus | 80 | 1942 |
Native Son | Richard Wright | 504 | 1940 |
And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | 264 | 1939 |
The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 479 | 1939 |
Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 166 | 1932 |
Viper’s Tangle | François Mauriac | 234 | 1932 |
The Sound And The Fury | William Faulkner | 386 | 1929 |
All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | 296 | 1928 |
The Trial | Franz Kafka | 181 | 1925 |
A Passage to India | E.M. Forster | 158 | 1924 |
Ulysses | James Joyce | 925 | 1922 |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | 329 | 1916 |
The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | 201 | 1915 |
The Call of the Wild | Jack London | 172 | 1903 |
Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 94 | 1899 |
Dracula | Bram Stoker | 488 | 1897 |
Hunger | Knut Hamsun | 227 | 1890 |
The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 272 | 1890 |
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1) | Arthur Conan Doyle | 123 | 1887 |
The Possessed | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 768 | 1872 |
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass | Lewis Carroll | 239 | 1871 |
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 671 | 1866 |
Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | 532 | 1847 |
Frankenstein | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | 282 | 1818 |
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 279 | 1813 |
Macbeth | William Shakespeare | 128 | 1623 |
King Lear | William Shakespeare | 338 | 1605 |
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