99 Books to Read in your Lifetime


  1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  2. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  3. Ulysses by James Joyce
  4. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
  5. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  6. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
  7. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  8. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
  9. Stoner by John Williams
  10. The Holy Bible
  11. The Stranger by Albert Camus
  12. The Trial by Franz Kafka
  13. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
  14. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
  15. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  16. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  17. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
  18. Dubliners by James Joyce
  19. The Odyssey by Homer
  20. 1984 by George Orwell
  21. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
  22. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  23. The Iliad by Homer
  24. Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  25. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  26. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
  27. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
  28. The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
  29. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  30. V. by Thomas Pynchon
  31. Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  32. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  33. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  34. Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
  35. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  36. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  37. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  38. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  39. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
  40. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  41. Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
  42. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  43. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  44. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
  45. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  46. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  47. No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
  48. Paradise Lost by John Milton
  49. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  50. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  51. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
  52. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
  53. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  54. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  55. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  56. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
  57. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
  58. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  59. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
  60. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  61. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
  62. The Waves by Virginia Woolf
  63. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
  64. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
  65. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  66. Dune by Frank Herbert
  67. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  68. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  69. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
  70. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
  71. The Trilogy by Samuel Beckett
  72. White Noise by Don DeLillo
  73. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
  74. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  75. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
  76. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
  77. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
  78. J R by William Gaddis
  79. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  80. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
  81. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  82. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
  83. The Republic by Plato
  84. Confessions by Saint Augustine
  85. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  86. If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
  87. The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
  88. The Tunnel by William H. Gass
  89. A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
  90. Aeneid by Virgil
  91. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  92. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
  93. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
  94. King Lear by William Shakespeare
  95. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
  96. The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
  97. Candide by Voltaire
  98. Jerusalem by Alan Moore
  99. Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling

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