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100 Books Everyone Should Read In Order Printable List PDF

100 Books Everyone Should Read In Order

  1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  2. 1984 – George Orwell
  3. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  4. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
  5. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
  6. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
  7. The Odyssey – Homer
  8. The Stranger – Albert Camus
  9. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  11. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  12. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
  13. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
  14. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  15. The Iliad – Homer
  16. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
  17. The Trial – Franz Kafka
  18. The Divine Comedy: Inferno – Purgatorio – Paradiso – Dante Alighieri
  19. King Lear – William Shakespeare
  20. Moby-Dick or, The Whale – Herman Melville
  21. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
  22. The Complete Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen
  23. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
  24. Othello – William Shakespeare
  25. The Arabian Nights – Anonymous
  26. Ulysses – James Joyce
  27. The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
  28. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1) – Sophocles
  29. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
  30. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
  31. Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1) – Astrid Lindgren
  32. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  33. Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) – Marcel Proust
  34. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
  35. The Collected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe – Edgar Allan Poe
  36. Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) – Toni Morrison
  37. Faust, First Part – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  38. Blindness – José Saramago
  39. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) – Chinua Achebe
  40. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
  41. Zorba the Greek – Nikos Kazantzakis
  42. Middlemarch – George Eliot
  43. The Death of Ivan Ilych – Leo Tolstoy
  44. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
  45. The Epic of Gilgamesh – Anonymous
  46. A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen
  47. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  48. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
  49. Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
  50. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
  51. The Book of Disquiet – Fernando Pessoa
  52. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
  53. Hunger – Knut Hamsun
  54. The Decameron – Giovanni Boccaccio
  55. Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol
  56. Metamorphoses – Ovid
  57. The Castle – Franz Kafka
  58. The Aeneid – Virgil
  59. Medea – Euripides
  60. Mahabharata – Anonymous
  61. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
  62. The Red and the Black – Stendhal
  63. Gargantua and Pantagruel – François Rabelais
  64. The Complete Stories – Franz Kafka
  65. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
  66. Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
  67. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
  68. Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov – Anton Chekhov
  69. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
  70. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family – Thomas Mann
  71. Ramayana – Vālmīki
  72. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
  73. Demons – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  74. Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo
  75. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
  76. The Book of Job (Pocket Canon) – Anonymous
  77. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
  78. The Complete Essays – Michel de Montaigne
  79. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman – Laurence Sterne
  80. Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
  81. مثنوی معنوی – Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
  82. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
  83. Season of Migration to the North – Tayeb Salih
  84. The Tale of Genji – Murasaki Shikibu
  85. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
  86. أولاد حارتنا – Naguib Mahfouz
  87. Independent People – Halldór Laxness
  88. The Sound of the Mountain – Yasunari Kawabata
  89. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories – Lu Xun
  90. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
  91. Grande Sertão: Veredas – João Guimarães Rosa
  92. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
  93. Romancero gitano – Federico García Lorca
  94. History – Elsa Morante
  95. Poems of Paul Celan – Paul Celan
  96. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
  97. Njal’s Saga – Anonymous
  98. The Recognition of Śakuntalā – Kālidāsa
  99. The Orchard: The Bostan Of Saadi Of Shiraz – Saadi
  100. The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi – Giacomo Leopardi

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