Dune by Frank HerbertThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerSiddhartha by Hermann HesseCatch-22 by Joseph HellerEnder’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Flavorwire's 50 Essential Cult Novels
51 books — 33 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George OrwellThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,321 books — 5,841 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Best Bildungsroman book
364 books — 323 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonSophie's Choice by William StyronThe Shipping News by Annie ProulxThe Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
National Book Award Winners
241 books — 204 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwaySiddhartha by Hermann HesseLord of the Flies by William Golding
Nobel Laureates
660 books — 566 voters

Chess by Stefan ZweigIn the Penal Colony by Franz KafkaThe Machine Stops by E.M. ForsterBabylon Revisited by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft
Penguin Mini Modern Classics
50 books — 55 voters
And Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieDeath on the Nile by Agatha ChristieThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Classic Mysteries (fiction)
229 books — 163 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George OrwellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Must Read Classics
1,861 books — 4,648 voters


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