100 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die

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Little Women — Louisa May Alcott

The Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri

Youth — Isaac Asimov

Emma — Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen

Father Goriot — Honoré de Balzac

Peter Pan — J.M. Barrie

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — L. Frank Baum

Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë

A Little Princess — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll

Death Comes for the Archbishop — Willa Cather

The Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories — Kate Chopin

The Big Four — Agatha Christie

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd — Agatha Christie

The Woman in White — Wilkie Collins

Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad

The Last of the Mohicans — James Fenimore Cooper

Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe

A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens

David Copperfield — Charles Dickens

Hard Times — Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist — Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers — Charles Dickens

Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Idiot — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World — Arthur Conan Doyle

An American Tragedy — Theodore Dreiser

The Souls of Black Folk — W.E.B. Du Bois

The Man in the Iron Mask — Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers — Alexandre Dumas

The Yellow Wallpaper — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Middlemarch — George Eliot

Light in August — William Faulkner

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling — Henry Fielding

The Beautiful and Damned — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert

A Passage to India — E. M. Forster

North and South — Elizabeth Gaskell

The Sorrows of Young Werther — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (J.W. von Goethe)

Dead Souls — Nikolai Gogol

The Wind in the Willows — Kenneth Grahame

Grimm's Fairy Tales — The Brothers Grimm

Far from the Madding Crowd — Thomas Hardy

The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Sun Also Rises — Ernest Hemingway

Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse

Leviathan — Thomas Hobbes

The Iliad — Homer

Les Misérables — Victor Hugo

A Doll's House — Henrik Ibsen

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl — Harriet Jacobs

Ulysses — James Joyce

Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka

Kim — Rudyard Kipling

Lady Chatterley's Lover — D. H. Lawrence

The Phantom of the Opera — Gaston Leroux

The Call of the Wild — Jack London

At the Back of the North Wind — George MacDonald

The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli

Le Morte d'Arthur — Sir Thomas Malory

Of Human Bondage — W. Somerset Maugham

Moby Dick — Herman Melville

Winnie the Pooh — A. A. Milne

The Blue Castle — L. M. Montgomery

Beyond Good and Evil — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Common Sense — Thomas Paine

Anthem — Ayn Rand

Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Captain Blood — Rafael Sabatini

Black Beauty — Anna Sewell

Hamlet — William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare

Pygmalion — George Bernard Shaw

Frankenstein — Mary Shelley

Heidi — Johanna Spyri

The Red and the Black — Stendhal

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson

Dracula — Bram Stoker

Uncle Tom's Cabin — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Gulliver's Travels — Jonathan Swift

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight — J. R. R. Tolkien

War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy

Fathers and Children — Ivan Turgenev

Roughing It — Mark Twain

20,000 Leagues under the Sea — Jules Verne

Journey to the Center of the Earth — Jules Verne

Candide — Voltaire

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ — Lew Wallace

The First Men in the Moon — H.G. Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau — H.G. Wells

The Time Machine — H.G. Wells

The Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton

The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde

Orlando — Virginia Woolf

Germinal — Émile Zola