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100

Books You Should Read

With so many stories in the world, how do you know which book to pick up next? Easy! We have compiled the most celebrated, must-read books to get your started.

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How many have you read? Share your results in the comment section below! 

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I Capture The Castle

by Dodie Smith


Published 1948

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The Secret History

by Donna Tartt


Published 1992

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To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf


Published 1927

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The Go-Between

by L. P. Hartley


Published 1953

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The Iliad

by Homer


Written 8th Century

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The Outsiders

by S. E. Hinton


Published 1967

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde


Published 1890

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Diary of a Nobody

by George Grossmith


Published 1892

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War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy


Published 1867

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Peter Pan

by J.M. Barrie


Published 1904

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The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


Published 1943

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Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie


Published 1981

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The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame


Published 1908

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On the Road

by Jack Kerouac


Published 1957

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The Lord of the Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien


Published 1955

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Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck


Published 1937

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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams


Published 1979

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Ulysses

by James Joyce


Published 1922

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Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell


Published 1936

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Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov


Published 1955

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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë


Published 1847

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Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens


Published 1861

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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë


Published 1847

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Animal Farm

by George Orwell


Published 1945

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The Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger


Published 1951

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Catch-22

by Joseph Heller


Published 1961

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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald


Published 1925

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To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee


Published 1960

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Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen


Published 1813

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1984

by George Orwell


Published 1949

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Night

by Elie Wiesel


Published 1960

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Harry Potter Series

by J. K. Rowling


Published 1997

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The Diary of Anne Frank

by Anne Frank


Published 1947

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The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak


Published 2005

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain


Published 1884

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon


Published 2003

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The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini


Published 2003

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Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare


Published 1597

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A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle


Published 1962

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Hamlet

by William Shakespeare


Published 1609

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And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie


Published 1956

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The Thorn Birds

by Colleen McCullough


Published 1989

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A Prayer for Owen Meany

by John Irving


Published 1973

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The Glass Castle

by Jeannette Walls


Published 2006

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Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot


Published 1845

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The Road

by Cormac McCarthy


Published 2001

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The Things They Carried

by Tim O'Brien


Published 1998

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Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse


Published 1967

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Cutting For Stone

by Abraham Verghese


Published 2003

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The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster


Published 1870

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The Chronicles of Narnia

by C.S. Lewis


Published 1956

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The Pillars of the Earth

by Ken Follett


Published 1989

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The Princess Bride

by William Goldman


Published 1973

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Water for Elephants

by Sara Gruen


Published 2006

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The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe


Published 1845

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The Secret Life of Bees

by Sue Monk Kidd


Published 2001

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The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver


Published 1998

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100 Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez


Published 1967

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The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger


Published 2003

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The Odyssey

by Homer


Written 8th Century

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A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens


Published 1843

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The Giver

by Lois Lowry


Published 1993

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Where the Sidewalk Ends

by Shel Silverstein


Published 1974

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The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green


Published 2012

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Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain


Published 1876

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Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley


Published 1818

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The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larrson


Published 2005

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Macbeth

by William Shakespeare


Published 1606

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

by Betty Smith


Published 1943

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East of Eden

by John Steinbeck


Published 1952

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Alice in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll


Published 1865

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In Cold Blood

by Truman Capote


Published 1965

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The Stand

by Stephen King


Published 1978

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Outlander

by Diana Gabaldon


Published 1991

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Enders Game

by Orson Scott Card


Published 1985

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Watership Down

by Richard Adams


Published 1972

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A Game of Thrones

by George R.R. Martin


Published 1996

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The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway


Published 1952

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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle


Published 1892

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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne


Published 1850

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Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad


Published 1899

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Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo


Published 1862

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The Colour Purple 

by Alice Walker 


Published 1982

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Dracula 

by Bram Stoker 


Published 1897

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Moby-Dick

by Herman Melville


Published 1851

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Anne of Green Gables

by L. M. Montgomery


Published 1908

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Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


Published 1969

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Life of Pi

by Yann Martel


Published 2001

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The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien


Published 1937

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Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden


Published 1977

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A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens


Published 1859

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Beloved

by Toni Morrison


Published 1987

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

by Roald Dahl


Published 1964

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The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett


Published 1910

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Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert


Published 1857

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Rebecca

by Daphne du Maurier


Published 1938

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Middlemarch

by George Eliot


Published 1871

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Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury


Published 1953

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Atonement

by Ian McEwan


Published 2001

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David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens


Published 1850

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