Must Read Classics

Lawrence Clark Powell, literary critic once said, "What makes a book great, a so-called classic, is its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation." Most classic books everyone should read are given that importance in the literary field because they have crossed all borders to appeal to an audience regardless of gender, age, social background, ethnicity, etc. There are many novels that are published every year which top bestseller lists and which make their authors very rich. But there are some books that make a mark in the mind of the reader. These are must reads that should be a part of the essential reading list of every bibliophile. Given below is a list of the 100 best books according to us.

100 Must Read Books

There are many books which are considered great reading. But there are some classics for kids and adults alike that should be read by everyone at least once in their lifetime.

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
3. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
4. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
5. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
6. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
7. Aesop's Fables by Aesop
8. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
9. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
10. Animal Farm by George Orwell
11. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
12. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
13. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
14. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
16. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
17. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol
18. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
19. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
20. Dracula by Bram Stoker
21. Emma by Jane Austen
22. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
23. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
24. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
25. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
26. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
27. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
28. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
29. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
30. Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
31. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
32. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
33. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
34. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
35. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
36. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
37. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
38. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
39. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
40. Middlemarch by George Eliot
41. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
42. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
43. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
44. My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
45. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
46. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
47. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
48. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
49. Persuasion by Jane Austen
50. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
51. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
52. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
53. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
54. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
55. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
56. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
57. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
58. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
59. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
60. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
61. The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories by Jack London
62. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
63. The Chosen by Chaim Potok
64. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
65. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
66. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
67. The Divine Comedy by Dante
68. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
69. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
70. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
71. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
72. The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
73. The Iliad by Homer
74. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
75. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
76. The Metamorphosis, In The Penal Colony, and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
77. The Odyssey by Homer
78. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
79. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
80. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
81. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
82. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
83. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
84. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
85. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
86. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
87. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
88. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
89. The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot
90. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
91. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
92. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
93. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
94. Ulysses by James Joyce
95. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
96. Utopia by Thomas More
97. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
98. Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
99. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
100. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Hopefully this list of classic books to read will help you add to your collection of must read classics. These must read novels are called so because they have been popular for many years now. These are books that makes reading the pleasure it is.