100 Books to Read Before You Die: The Official List
Reading is a journey, and what better way to embark on that journey than with a list of the most iconic and influential books ever written? The "100 Books to Read Before You Die" list is a curated collection of literary masterpieces that have shaped the world of literature. Here's the official list, categorized for your convenience:
Classics (20)
1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605)
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1865-1869)
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
5. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
6. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861)
7. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
8. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
9. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876)
10. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1885)
11. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
12. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890)
13. The Countess of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1848)
14. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (1826)
15. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
16. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
17. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)
18. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (14th century)
19. The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer (8th century BCE)
20. The Aeneid by Virgil (1st century BCE)
20th Century Fiction (30)
21. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
22. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)
23. 1984 by George Orwell (1949)
24. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
25. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954-1955)
26. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)
27. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1952)
28. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)
29. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1929)
30. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
31. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
32. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937)
33. The Crucible by Arthur Miller (1953)
34. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
35. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)
36. Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
37. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003)
38. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (2003)
39. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2005)
40. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008)
41. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (2015)
42. The Help by Kathryn Stockett (2009)
43. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (2008)
44. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (2005)
45. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (2005)
46. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (2001)
47. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (1980)
48. The Princess Bride by William Goldman (1973)
