Must Read Novels

Reading to me is like taking in the air I breathe, it's more a vital function than a mere interest. Those who don't possess that love for reading, are at a great loss. There's a plethora of research done on the benefits of reading, and I think that to evolve one's mind and keep it riding on perspective and imagination, is to indulge and get lost in text. The better way of approaching the act of reading, is first start off with novels, and then non-fictional books, slowly moving on to audio books if you lack the time and energy.

A world without books is something I wouldn't want to fathom. It's a crying shame when someone tells me they don't read, especially when they say something like 'I hate reading' or 'I hate books' (shudder); sadly they aren't familiar with the importance of reading. So check out these must read novels, and make it a habit to kick back during the day, and cozy up with a book instead of whiling the hours away with unproductive activities.

The Top 100 Novels of All Time

A paperback book should be one of your prime assets, before the other materialistic things in your life. It is also crucial, for those who have kids, to start reading to them and slowly allowing them to read on their own as they mature. If you love reading as much as I do, you'll hook yourself up with good reads from this best books to read list.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen David Copperfield by Charles Dickens A Passage to India by E. M. Forster Middlemarch by George Elliot The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 1984 by George Orwell Les Miserables by Victor Hugo The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre Bag of Bones by Stephen King The Secret by Rhonda Bryne A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini His Bright Light by Danielle Steel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Harry Potter (7 book set) by JK Rowling The Lord of the Rings (3 book set) by JRR Tolkien Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan Crash by JG Ballard My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown Malice by Danielle Steel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolfe Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Stranger by Albert Camus Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger Night by Eli Wiesel The Color Purple by Alice Walker The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Black Beauty by Anna Sewell A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton Matilda by Roald Dahl Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding The Godfather by Mario Puzo Perfume by Patrick Suskind The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Cell by Stephen King The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Weaveworld by Clive Barker The Master and Magarita by Mikhail Bulgakov The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino Threw the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson The Shining by Stephen King Dracula by Bram Stoker Whispers by Dean Koontz The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris The Birds by Daphne Du Maurier The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Lone Pilgrim by Laurie Colwin Red Dragon by Thomas Harris Total Eclipse by John Brunner The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Animal Farm by George Orwell A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess A Death in the Family by James Agee Possession by AS Byatt Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut White Teeth by Zadie Smith The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller Ed the Happy Clown by Chester Brown The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald The Foutainhead by Ayn Rand The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Life of Pi by Yann Martel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Atonement by Ian McEwan Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller Fear Street Novels by RL Stine The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Psychological Types by Carl Gustav Jung Carrie by Stephen King Men Are From Mars and Women Are From Venus by John Gray Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps by Allan and Barbara Pease A Promise is a Promise by Dr. Wayne Dyer

With this hot list on what's the best in books to read, I'm sure you'll build on a love for reading if you gave it a shot, especially for those who don't like to read. If you don't have the time, like I said, audio books are a great way of reading a book, but using instead your sense of hearing. You can relax and plug-in those earphones, and get back to it anytime you feel like. Just remember how important it is to read, and instill the same to others, by not also discouraging those that love to read. Keep on reading!