100 essential books to read before you die

100 essential books
Crime and Punishment / Prestuplenye i Nakazanye
The Handmaid's Tale
Treasure Island
One Hundred Years of Solitude / Cien Años de Soledad
The Body
The Odyssey
American Psycho
Pedro Páramo
From Swann's Side / Du Côté de chez Swann
The Tin Drum / Die Bleichtrommel
The Tartar Steppe / Il Deserto del Tartari
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Wuthering Heights
The Metamorphosis / Die Verwandlung
Conversation at the Cathedral / Conversación en La Catedral
The Bell Jar
The General of the Dead Army / Gjenerali i ushtrisë së vdekur
Frankenstein
Bridget Jones's Diary
Les Miserables
Tala / Harvesting (poetry)
Heart of Darkness
The Diary of Anne Frank
War and Peace / Voyna i mir
The Lover / L'Amant
The Divine Comedy / La Divina Commedia
The Left Hand of Darkness
A Christmas Carol
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Istanbul: Memories of a City / İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir
Norwegian Wood
White Teeth
Mother / Мать
The Stranger / L'Etranger
A Room of One's Own
Murder on the Orient Express
Things Fall Apart
La Casa de los Espíritus / The House of the Spirits
Don Quixote of La Mancha / Don Quijote de La Mancha
Close Range (Brokeback Mountain)
The Possibility of an Island / La Possibilité d'une Ile
Der Zauberberg / The Magic Mountain
Middlemarch
Confessions of a Mask
Dracula
Pride and Prejudice
Ladrilleros / Brickmakers
The Great Gatsby
Doctor Zhivago / Доктор Живаго
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Midaq Alley / زقاق المدق
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Poet in New York / Poeta en Nueva York
The Big Sleep
The Road
Ports of Call / Les Échelles du Levant
Disgrace
Men Who Hate Women / Män som hatar kvinnor
Madame Bovary
Gringo Viejo / Old Gringo
The Little Prince / The Little Prince
The Year of Magical Thinking
A Woman in Jerusalem
The World of Yesterday / Die Welt von Gestern
American Pastoral
Gomorrah
The Moons of Jupiter
The Piano Teacher / Die Klavierspielerin
Missing Person / Rue des Boutiques Obscures
The Hive / La Colmena
The Last of the Mohicans
Se Questo é un Uomo / If This is a Man
To Kill a Mockingbird
Breakfast at Tiffany's
El Astillero / The Shipyard
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The God of Small Things
Sostiene Pereira / Pereira Maintains
The Man Who Would Be King
The Name of the Rose / Il Nome della Rosa
Blindness / Ensaio sobre a Cegueira
L 0 lita
Reading L0 lita in Tehran
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
One Thousand and One Nights
The Red and the Black
Out of Africa
Ulysses
Kaputt
Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate
As I Lay Dying
Los Vientos de Cuaresma / The Winds of Lent
Nada
Le Petit Nicolas / Little Nicholas
The Old Man and the Sea
The Tale of Genji
Hopscotch / Rayuela
The Unbearable Lightness of Being / Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí
The Aleph
Rien ne s'oppose de la Nuit / Nothing Holds Back the night
100 essential books

Do you think you've read all the classics there are in the world's libraries? Check out this gallery with one hundred books that should absolutely be on your list.

Crime and Punishment / Prestuplenye i Nakazanye

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

One Hundred Years of Solitude / Cien Años de Soledad

Gabriel García Marquez

The Body

Stephen King

The Odyssey

Homer

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

Pedro Páramo

Juan Rulfo

From Swann's Side / Du Côté de chez Swann

Marcel Proust

The Tin Drum / Die Bleichtrommel

Günter Grass

The Tartar Steppe / Il Deserto del Tartari

Dino Buzzati

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

The Metamorphosis / Die Verwandlung

Franz Kafka

Conversation at the Cathedral / Conversación en La Catedral

Mario Vargas Llosa

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

The General of the Dead Army / Gjenerali i ushtrisë së vdekur

Ismail Kadare

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

Bridget Jones's Diary

Helen Fielding

Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

Tala / Harvesting (poetry)

Gabriela Mistral

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

The Diary of Anne Frank

Anne Frank

War and Peace / Voyna i mir

Leo Tolstoy

The Lover / L'Amant

Marguerite Duras

The Divine Comedy / La Divina Commedia

Dante Alighieri

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Leguin

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Jules Verne

Istanbul: Memories of a City / İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir

Orhan Pamuk

Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami

White Teeth

Zadie Smith

Mother / Мать

Maxim Gorky

The Stranger / L'Etranger

Albert Camus

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

La Casa de los Espíritus / The House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende

Don Quixote of La Mancha / Don Quijote de La Mancha

Miguel de Cervantes

Close Range (Brokeback Mountain)

Annie Proulx

The Possibility of an Island / La Possibilité d'une Ile

Michel Houellebeq

Der Zauberberg / The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann

Middlemarch

George Eliot

Confessions of a Mask

Yukio Mishima

Dracula

Bram Stoker

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Ladrilleros / Brickmakers

Selva Almada

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Doctor Zhivago / Доктор Живаго

Boris Pasternak

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl

Midaq Alley / زقاق المدق

Naguib Mahfuz

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Patricia Highsmith

Poet in New York / Poeta en Nueva York

Federico Garcia Lorca

The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Ports of Call / Les Échelles du Levant

Amin Maalouf

Disgrace

J. M. Coetzee

Men Who Hate Women / Män som hatar kvinnor

Stieg Larsson

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Gringo Viejo / Old Gringo

Carlos Fuentes

The Little Prince / The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

A Woman in Jerusalem

Abraham Yenoshua

The World of Yesterday / Die Welt von Gestern

Stefan Zweig

American Pastoral

Phillip Roth

Gomorrah

Roberto Saviano

The Moons of Jupiter

Alice Munro

The Piano Teacher / Die Klavierspielerin

Elfriede Jelinek

Missing Person / Rue des Boutiques Obscures

Patrick Modiano

The Hive / La Colmena

Camilo Jose Cela

The Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper

Se Questo é un Uomo / If This is a Man

Primo Levi

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Truman Capote

El Astillero / The Shipyard

Juan Carlos Onetti

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

Sostiene Pereira / Pereira Maintains

Antonio Tabucchi

The Man Who Would Be King

Rudyard Kipling

The Name of the Rose / Il Nome della Rosa

Umberto Eco

Blindness / Ensaio sobre a Cegueira

Jose Saramago

L 0 lita

Vladimir Nabokov

Reading L0 lita in Tehran

Azar Nafisi

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

One Thousand and One Nights

Anonymous author

The Red and the Black

Stendhal

Out of Africa

Karen Blixen

Ulysses

James Joyce

Kaputt

Curzio Malaparte

Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate

Laura Esquivel

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

Los Vientos de Cuaresma / The Winds of Lent

Leonardo Padura

Nada

Carmen Laforet

Le Petit Nicolas / Little Nicholas

Sempé and Goscinny

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

The Tale of Genji

Murashaki Sikibu

Hopscotch / Rayuela

Julio Cortázar

The Unbearable Lightness of Being / Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí

Milan Kundera

The Aleph

Jorge Luis Borges

Rien ne s'oppose de la Nuit / Nothing Holds Back the night

Delphine de Vigan

 

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