Best Books to Read

Wouldn't you love to read an interesting book when you are sitting at a home and have absolutely nothing to do? Well, if you are a voracious reader and can feast on any type of writing such as romance, drama, thriller, fiction, biographies, etc., there are many writers that could keep you glued to your seat. Books can be great imagination boosters, they can be great companions while traveling and they can get you engrossed for hours without even realizing how time has passed. Usually, individuals tend to stick to their specific tastes in reading and have favorite authors whose books they never miss reading. But sometimes, when you are passing through a book store, a great book catches your eye! That is how it is with a few best books of all time, which are mentioned in the coming up paragraphs. So, take a look and pick the ones you would like to read.

Best Books to Read in 2011

When I pick a book that interests me, I look for a few things like the plot, the language and the prologue (if any). The old saying, "never judge a book by its cover", is usually used as a metaphor but I wouldn't mid using it literally! Since, any type of books are found interesting only after you read a few chapters or the first few pages, all readers like me have their demands from a book too. But many times, when we are looking for a good book in the store, we often end up spending too much time in finding all these demands put in one book. Therefore, an easier and less time-consuming solution to enjoy a great book is to check for which are the best books to read (those you haven't read earlier), online. To make this job easier for you, find out some of the 100 best books to read, put together just for you in the list below.

• 1984 ~ George Orwell
• A Dance to the Music of Time ~ Anthony Powell
• A Handful of Dust ~ Evelyn Waugh
• A Passage to India ~ E.M. Forster
• A Prayer for Owen Meany ~ John Irving
• A Town like Alice ~ Nevil Shute
• Absalom, Absalom! ~ William Faulkner
• All the King's Men ~ Robert Penn Warren
• American Pastoral ~ Philip Roth
• An American Tragedy ~ Theodore Dreiser
• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret ~ Judy Blume
• As I Lay Dying ~ William Faulkner
• At the Mountains of Madness ~ H.P. Lovecraft
• Catch-22 ~ Joseph Heller
• Deliverance ~ James Dickey
• Dog Soldiers ~ Robert Stone
• Go Tell it on the Mountain ~ James Baldwin
• Gone With the Wind ~ Margaret Mitchell (surely one of the classic books to read before you die)
• Gravity's Rainbow ~ Thomas Pynchon
• Harry Potter Series ~ JK Rowling
• I, Claudius ~ Robert Graves
• Invisible Man ~ Ralph Ellison
• Lolita ~ Vladimir Nabokov
• Midnight's Children ~ Salman Rushdie
• Mrs. Dalloway ~ Virginia Woolf
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ~ Ken Kesey
• Persuasion Jane Austen
• Possession ~ A.S. Byatt
• Red Harvest ~ Dashiell Hammett
• Revolutionary Road ~ Richard Yates
• Shane ~ Jack Schaefer
• The Adventures of Augie March ~ Saul Bellow
• The Assistant ~ Bernard Malamud
• The Blind Assassin ~ Margaret Atwood
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey ~ Thornton Wilder
• The Dark Knight Returns ~ Frank Miller
• The Day of the Locust ~ Nathanael West
• The French Lieutenant's Woman ~ John Fowles
• The Grapes of Wrath ~ John Steinbeck
• The Great Gatsby ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Heart is A Lonely Hunter ~ Carson McCullers
• The Lord of the Rings ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Power and the Glory ~ Graham Greene
• Their Eyes Were Watching God ~ Zora Neale Hurston
• To the Lighthouse ~ Virginia Woolf
• Under the Volcano ~ Malcolm Lowry
• White Noise ~ Don DeLillo
• Wide Sargasso Sea ~ Jean Rhys
• Wise Blood ~ Flannery O'Connor

With this ultimate list for the best books to read, I am sure you have made a list of your own favorites for yourself. So, the next time you go to a bookstore, make sure you pick some of the best books ever, so you would like to read and enjoy them whenever you feel like reading!