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100 Must Read Classics
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck, 1939
Beloved
Toni Morrison, 1987
The Code of the Woosters
P.G. Wodehouse, 1938
Dracula
Bram Stoker, 1896
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain, 1876
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens, 1860
Catch-22
Joseph Heller, 1955
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton, 1920
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe, 1958
Middlemarch
George Eliot, 1831
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie, 1981
The Iliad
Homer, -800
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh, 1930
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger, 1951
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, 1865
The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot, 1800
Barchester Towers
Anthony Trollope, 1857
Another Country
James Baldwin, 1962
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo, 1800
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl, 1964
The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton, 1967
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas, 1844
§ 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.