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100 Must Read Classics
Bleak House
Charles Dickens, 1850
Lost Illusions
Honoré de Balzac, 1843
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut, 1973
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens, 1843
Silas Marner
George Eliot, 1861
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf, 1923
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott, 1868
The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch, 1978
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Robert M. Pirsig, 1974
The Castle
Franz Kafka, 1922
I, Claudius
Robert Graves, Stephen Alcorn, 1934
Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie, 1911
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole, 1978
The Razor's Edge
W. Somerset Maugham, 1944
Lark Rise to Candleford
Flora Thompson, 1939
The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy, 1878
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce, 1916
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad, 1899
North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell, 1854
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood, 1985
What a Carve Up!
Jonathan Coe, 1994
The Godfather
Mario Puzo, 1961
Suite Française
Irène Némirovsky, 2004
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1962
§ 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.