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100 Must Read Classics
East of Eden
John Steinbeck, 1952
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1876
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov, 1777
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1865
Scoop
Evelyn Waugh, 1938
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens, 1800
The Diary of a Nobody
George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith, 1889
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy, 1877
The betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni, 1800
Orlando
Virginia Woolf, 1919
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand, 1936
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells, 1895
The Art of War
Sun Tzu, -500
The Forsyte Saga
John Galsworthy, 1921
Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck, 1961
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller, 1934
Women in Love
D.H. Lawrence, 1920
Staying On
Paul Scott, 1977
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame, 1908
My Ántonia
Willa Cather, 1918
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë, 1847
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Süskind, 1985
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy, 1805
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham, 1915
§ 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.