100 OF THE MOST FAMOUS BOOKS EVER WRITTEN

Reading books is undeniably one of the greatest treasures that anyone can have. You can learn anything from it. The descriptive imagination that it portrays as if you have been there. It is also our gateway to unimaginable secrets. They can be our healers and confidant in tough times.

The following are the lists of the most famous books ever written:

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
4. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
5. The Odyssey by Homer
6. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
7. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
8. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
9. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
10. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
11. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
12. Ulysses by James Joyce
13. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
14. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
15. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
16. The Iliad by Homer
17. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
18. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
19. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
20. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
21.  Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
22. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
23. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
24. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
25. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
26. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
27.  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
28.  Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
29. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
30. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
31. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
32. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
33.  The Trial by Franz Kafka
34. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
35.  Middlemarch by George Eliot
36. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
37.  Beloved by Toni Morrison
38.  Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
39. The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
40. The Stranger by Albert Camus
41.  Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
42. The Aeneid by Virgil
43. Collected Fiction by Jorge Luis Borges
44. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
45. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
46. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
47.  Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
48. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
49. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
50. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
51. Oedipus the King by Sophocles
52. Candide by Voltaire
53.  The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
54. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
55.  Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
56. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
57.  The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
58.  Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
59. Emma by Jane Austen
60. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
61.  Native Son by Richard Wright
62. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
63.  Paradise Lost by John Milton
64. Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
65. Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
66. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
67. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
68. The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
69. Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
70.  For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
71. The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
72. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
73. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
74.  Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
75.  Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
76. Antigone by Sophocles
77.  As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
78.  The Color Purple by Alice Walker
79. The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
80. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
81. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
82. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
83. The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
84. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
85. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
86. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
87. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
88. Animal Farm by George Orwell
89. Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
90. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
91. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
92. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
93. The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
94. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
95. Journey to the End of The Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
96. The Castle by Franz Kafka
97. A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
98. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
99. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
100. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Books have let us feel various emotions whether happy, sad, anxious, fear, etc., nonetheless it has created a place in our hearts and mind.

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”

– Charles W. Eliot

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