The Book List

100 Books to Read Before You Die
(as determined by compiling several lists and appearing on at least 3 of those lists)

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
1984 by George Orwell
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokor
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Ulysses by James Joyce
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Warn and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anna Karenia by Leo Tolstoy
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Little Women by Louisa M Alcott
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Watership Down by Richard Adams
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Emma by Jane Austen
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Native Son by Richard Wright
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandrew Dumas
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Ronald Dahl
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitmans
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Odyssey by Homer
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Tale of Genji by Shikibu
The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenengger
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart by Chinua
Under Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackerey
The Bible