So many of us love to read. Oftentimes, we pick our reading material based on other people’s suggestions.
Well. Every year, book editors from all around the world give their two cents about the best fiction novels of all time. There are a hundred of these lists around, all of them different. But here is one that seemed to combine them all.
So here they are. The Top 30. In case you need a read or a re-read.
1. War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy (1869)
2. Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen (1813)
3. Moby-Dick — Herman Melville (1851)
4. The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
5. 1984 — George Orwell (1949)
6. To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee (1960)
7. Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
8. The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)
9. Ulysses — James Joyce (1922)
10. One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
11. The Lord of the Rings — J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)
12. Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë (1847)
13. The Catcher in the Rye — J. D. Salinger (1951)
14. The Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck (1939)
15. Beloved — Toni Morrison (1987)
16. Brave New World — Aldous Huxley (1932)
17. Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy (1878)
18. The Odyssey — Homer (circa 8th century BCE)
19. Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes (1605)
20. The Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri (1320)
21. The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner (1929)
22. Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison (1952)
23. Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë (1847)
24. Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
25. Frankenstein — Mary Shelley (1818)
26. The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas (1844)
27. Middlemarch — George Eliot (1871)
28. Catch-22 — Joseph Heller (1961)
29. Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
30. The Hobbit — J. R. R. Tolkien (1937)
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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” — George R. R. Martin
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“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” — Stephen King
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“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” — Joseph Addison
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“Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.” — Jeanette Winterson
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“Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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