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100 Must Read Classics
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen, 1811
To Kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee, 1960
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez, 1967
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote, 1959
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys, 1966
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley, 1930
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith, 1948
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë, 1846
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866
The Secret History
Donna Tartt, 1992
The Call of the Wild
Jack London, 1903
The Chrysalids
John Wyndham, 1955
Persuasion
Jane Austen, 1789
Moby Dick
Herman Melville, 1851
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis, 1950
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf, 1925
The Death of the Heart
Elizabeth Bowen, 1938
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy, 1891
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley, 1818
The Go-Between
L.P. Hartley, 1953
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey, 1962
1984
George Orwell, 1949
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann, 1901
§ About this list
- Books
- 99
- Published
- 1777–2004
- Average rating
- 4.0 / 5 across 68,481 ratings
- Genres
- Classics, General, History, Fantasy
Most-rated on 100 Must Read Classics
- 11984 · George Orwell
- 2To Kill A Mockingbird · Harper Lee
- 3The Great Gatsby · F. Scott Fitzgerald
Common questions about 100 Must Read Classics
- How many books are on 100 Must Read Classics?
- 100 Must Read Classics has 99 books, published between 1777 and 2004.
- Which book on 100 Must Read Classics is the most popular?
- 1984 by George Orwell is the most-rated book on the list, with 5,983 ratings and a 4.2 average.
- What is the highest-rated book on 100 Must Read Classics?
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien has the highest average rating among the list's books with at least 100 ratings: 4.6 out of 5.
- Where should I start with 100 Must Read Classics?
- Start with 1984, To Kill A Mockingbird and The Great Gatsby: the three most-rated books on the list.
- What genres are on 100 Must Read Classics?
- The books on this list are tagged Classics, General, History and Fantasy.