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100 Must Read Classics
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton, 1920
North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell, 1854
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce, 1916
Orlando
Virginia Woolf, 1919
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy, 1891
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1962
Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck, 1961
The Castle
Franz Kafka, 1922
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh, 1930
The Chrysalids
John Wyndham, 1955
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith, 1948
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys, 1966
Silas Marner
George Eliot, 1861
Hard Times
Charles Dickens, 1854
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham, 1915
The Death of the Heart
Elizabeth Bowen, 1938
The Go-Between
L.P. Hartley, 1953
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann, 1901
The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot, 1800
Another Country
James Baldwin, 1962
Scoop
Evelyn Waugh, 1938
The Diary of a Nobody
George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith, 1889
The betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni, 1800
The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch, 1978
§ 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.