1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

The famous reference book listing essential novels throughout history.

• Beloved (1988) by Toni Morrison
• Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie
• Sophie's Choice (1980) by William Styron
• The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
• The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger
• The Lord of the Rings (1954) by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1961) by Harper Lee
• 1984 (1949) by George Orwell
• Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë
• Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
• Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell
• The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
• For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway
• Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez
• Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
• Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
• On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
• The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler
• Under the Volcano (1947) by Malcolm Lowry
• Invisible Man (1953) by Ralph Ellison
• Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
• Blood Meridian (1985) by Cormac McCarthy
• The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright
• American Pastoral (1998) by Philip Roth
• The Road (2007) by Cormac McCarthy
• A Death in the Family (1958) by James Agee
• The Blind Assassin (2000) by Margaret Atwood
• Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh
• I, Claudius (1934) by Robert Graves
• The Moviegoer (1962) by Walker Percy
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) by James Joyce
• As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner
• Sons and Lovers (1913) by D.H. Lawrence
• Light in August (1932) by William Faulkner
• The Confessions of Nat Turner (1968) by William Styron
• The Corrections (2001) by Jonathan Franzen
• Dog Soldiers (1975) by Robert Stone
• Gravity's Rainbow (1974) by Thomas Pynchon
• Herzog (1965) by Saul Bellow
• Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding
• The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
• To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf
• Henderson the Rain King (1959) by Saul Bellow
• Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë
• Moby-Dick (1851) by Herman Melville
• War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy
• Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf
• The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
• Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell
• The Handmaid's Tale (1986) by Margaret Atwood
• White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo
• Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo
• Schindler's Ark (1982) by Thomas Keneally
• Rebecca (1938) by Daphne du Maurier
• A Passage to India (1924) by E.M. Forster
• Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck
• The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus
• Lord Jim (1900) by Joseph Conrad
• The Age of Innocence (1921) by Edith Wharton
• The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) by John Fowles
• The Name of the Rose (1980) by Umberto Eco
• Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) by Gabriel García Márquez
• Revolutionary Road (1961) by Richard Yates
• A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) by V.S. Naipaul
• Housekeeping (1980) by Marilynne Robinson
• Ironweed (1984) by William Kennedy
• Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Wolf Hall (2009) by Hilary Mantel
• Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert
• The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey
• The Color Purple (1983) by Alice Walker
• Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan
• Life of Pi (2002) by Yann Martel
• The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy
• The Plague (1947) by Albert Camus
• A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess
• Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys
• The Sheltering Sky (1949) by Paul Bowles
• The Remains of the Day (1989) by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Pereira Maintains (1994) by Antonio Tabucchi
• Black Rain (1966) by Masuji Ibuse
• Silence (1966) by Shūsaku Endō
• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962) by Giorgio Bassani
• The Day of the Owl (1961) by Leonardo Sciascia
• The Leopard (1958) by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
• Two Women (1957) by Alberto Moravia
• The Conformist (1951) by Alberto Moravia
• Christ Stopped at Eboli (1945) by Carlo Levi
• Conversations in Sicily (1941) by Elio Vittorini
• Bread and Wine (1936) by Ignazio Silone
• Zeno's Conscience (1923) by Italo Svevo
• The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) by Carlo Collodi