Must Read Classic Novels

Below is a list of must read classic novels that I devised from other online sources as well as my own personal favorites. I have not read all of these novels, but I am currently working on doing so. This is a great list for those looking for a book to purchase as a gift, or those looking for a book to read at the library. They are in no particular order.

1. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1869

2. 1984, George Orwell, 1949

3. Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922

4. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955

5. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, 1929

6. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1952

7. The Illiad and The Odyssey, Homer, 700 B.C.

8. Pride and Prejudice,Jane Austen, 1813

9. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift, 1726

10. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951

11. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

12. Catch-22, Joseph Heller, 1961

13. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, 1939

14. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, 1932

15. On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin, 1859

16. Das Kapital, Karl Marx, 1867

17. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis, 1950

18. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960

19. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, 1962

20. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, 1877

21. Huck Finn, Mark Twain, 1855

22. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, 1818

23. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey, 1962

24. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, 1969

25. Animal Farm, George Orwell, 1945

26. Lord of the Flies, William Golding, 1954

27. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner, 1930

28. All the King's Men, Robert P. Warren, 1946

29. Charlotte's Web, E.B. White, 1952

30. Night, Elie Wiesel, 1958

31. Rabbit, Run, John Updike, 1960

32. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller, 1934

33. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammet, 1930

34. Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freund, 1900

35. Quotations from Chairman Mao, Mao Zedong, 1964

36. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1965

37. The Color Purple, Alice Walker, 1982

38. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens, 1859

39. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, 1953

40. Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne, 1873

41. Moby Dick, Herman Melville, 1851

42. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne, 1870

43. A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne, 1864

44. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe, 1719

45. An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser, 1925

46. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt, 1996

47. I, Claudius, Robert Graves, 1934

48. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866

49. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, 1861

50. Don Quixote, Miquel De Cervantes, 1605

51. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, 1979

52. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, 2003

53. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck, 1937

54. Dracula, Bram Stoker, 1897

55. Walden, Henry Thoreau, 1854

56. A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking, 1988