There are book lists like this all over the net and for good reason. Everyone’s list of “must-read” books differs and through reading through others’ lists, we can maybe open ourselves up to reading more diverse literature that we might have normally overlooked. By no means are the following books in any specific order, however they all possess a charm and influence that marks their spot on the list.
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1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
3. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
4. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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6. Watership Down by Richard Adams
7. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
8. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9. The Vegetarian by Han Kang
10. The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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11. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
12. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
13. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
14. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
15. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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16. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
17. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
18. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
19. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
20. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
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21. Animal Farm by George Orwell
22. Atonement by Ian McEwan
23. Barney’s Version by Mordecai Richler
24. The Beetle by Richard Marsh
25. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
26. The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
27. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
28. The Giver by Lois Lowry
29. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
30. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
31. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
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32. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
33. Catch-22 Joseph Heller
34. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
35. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
36. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
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37. City of Thieves by David Benioff
38. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
39. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
40. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
41. Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
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42. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
43. Dracula by Bram Stoker
44. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
45. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
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What are a few novels and stories that you think should be on a lifetime book list?
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