101 Books to Read before you Die

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This is my list of 101 books to read before you die. Its a mix of modern and classic.

  • 1984 – George Orwell
  • Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  • To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  • The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
  • Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
  • Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
  • Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
  • War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
  • The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
  • The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
  • Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
  • The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
  • East of Eden – John Steinbeck
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
  • Dracula – Bram Stoker
  • Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
  • The Odyssey – Homer
  • The Iliad – Homer
  • The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
  • Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
  • Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
  • The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
  • Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  • David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
  • The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
  • Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
  • Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
  • Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
  • Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
  • Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
  • The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
  • Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
  • The Stranger – Albert Camus
  • The Plague – Albert Camus
  • The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
  • Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
  • Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
  • The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Animal Farm – George Orwell
  • A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
  • On the Road – Jack Kerouac
  • The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
  • The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
  • Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Life of Pi – Yann Martel
  • The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
  • The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon
  • The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
  • The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
  • Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
  • All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
  • Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
  • The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
  • The Secret History – Donna Tartt
  • The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
  • Circe – Madeline Miller
  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart
  • The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett
  • Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
  • A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara
  • The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
  • Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • The Three-Body Problem – Liu Cixin
  • Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
  • The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Dune – Frank Herbert
  • American Gods – Neil Gaiman
  • Good Omens – Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
  • The Giver – Lois Lowry
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
  • Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
  • Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
  • Educated – Tara Westover
  • Night – Elie Wiesel
  • The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
  • The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
  • The Power – Naomi Alderman
  • Annihilation – Jeff VanderMeer
  • The Priory of the Orange Tree – Samantha Shannon
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
  • The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh

Created 26/01/2026

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