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Having a
load of books is a bibliophile’s ultimate dream. Books are an escape from
reality or sometimes show reality. It all depends on why you are reading
that very book, or sometimes, you don’t need a purpose at all.
So, to all
the book geeks out there, here is a list of top 100 fictional books to read at
least once before you die, and also that most definitely belong to your bookshelf.
|
S.No |
Book Title |
Author |
|
1 |
Jane Eyre |
Charlotte Bronte |
|
2 |
Watership Down |
Richard Adams |
|
3 |
Lord of the flies |
William Golding |
|
4 |
A town like Alice |
Nevil Shute |
|
5 |
The Vegetarian |
Han Kang |
|
6 |
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
|
7 |
The Alchemist |
Paulo Coelho |
|
8 |
The Color Purple |
Alice Walker |
|
9 |
Frankenstein |
Mary Shelly |
|
10 |
The Handmaid's Tale |
Margaret Atwood |
|
11 |
Animal Farm |
George Orwell |
|
12 |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
Lewis Caroll |
|
13 |
Breakfast of Champions |
Kurt Vonnegut |
|
14 |
The Catcher in the Rye |
J.D. Salinger |
|
15 |
All the light we cannot see |
Anthony Doerr |
|
16 |
Atonement |
Ian McEwen |
|
17 |
The Bell Jar |
Sylvia Plath |
|
18 |
The Book Thief |
Markus Zusak |
|
19 |
Brave New World |
Aldous Huxley |
|
20 |
Catch-22 |
Joseph Heller |
|
21 |
Charlotte's Web |
E.B. White |
|
22 |
The Chrysalids |
John Wyndham |
|
23 |
Clockwork Orange |
Anthony Burgess |
|
24 |
Disgrace |
J.M. Coetzee |
|
25 |
Don Quixote |
Cervantes |
|
26 |
Doomsday Book |
Connie Willis |
|
27 |
The Fault in Our Stars |
John Green |
|
28 |
Dracula |
Bram Stoker |
|
29 |
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
Stieg Larrson |
|
30 |
The god of small things |
Arundhati Roy |
|
31 |
Gone with the Wind |
Margaret Mitchell |
|
32 |
Grapes of Wrath |
John Steinback |
|
33 |
Great Expectations |
Charles Dickens |
|
34 |
The Great Gatsby |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
|
35 |
Gulliver's Travels |
Jonathan Swift |
|
36 |
Ham on Rye |
Charles Bukowski |
|
37 |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
J.K. Rowling |
|
38 |
The help |
Kathryn Stockett |
|
39 |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
Douglas Adams |
|
40 |
The Hobbit |
J.R.R Tolkien |
|
41 |
The Hunger Games |
Suzanne Collins |
|
42 |
If tomorrow comes |
Sidney Sheldon |
|
43 |
Invisible Man |
Ralph Ellison |
|
44 |
Kindred |
Octavia Butler |
|
45 |
The kite runner |
Khaled Hosseini |
|
46 |
Life of Pi |
Yann Martel |
|
47 |
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe |
C.S. Lewis |
|
48 |
Lolita |
Vladimir Nabokov |
|
49 |
Love in the time of cholera |
Gabirel Gracia Marquez |
|
50 |
Midnight's children |
Salman Rushdie |
|
51 |
Moby Dick |
Herman Melville |
|
52 |
Mrs. Dalloway |
Virginia Woolf |
|
53 |
Native Son |
Richard Wright |
|
54 |
Never Let Me Go |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
|
55 |
North and South |
Elizabeth Gaskell |
|
56 |
Of Mice and Men |
John Steinback |
|
57 |
The Old Man and the Sea |
Ernest Hemingway |
|
58 |
One Hundred Years of Solitude |
Gabirel Gracia Marquez |
|
59 |
Pride and Prejudice |
Jane Austin |
|
60 |
The Shining |
Stephen King |
|
61 |
Beloved |
Toni Marrison |
|
62 |
1984 |
George Orwell |
|
63 |
The Sun Also Rises |
Ernest Hemingway |
|
64 |
The Giving Tree |
Shel Silverstein |
|
65 |
The Time Traveler's Wife |
Audrey Niffenegger |
|
66 |
To kill a Mockingbird |
Harper Lee |
|
67 |
Tropic of Cancer |
Henry Miller |
|
68 |
War and Peace |
Leo Tolstoy |
|
69 |
Fifty Shades of Grey |
E.L. James |
|
70 |
Angels and Demons |
Dan Brown |
|
71 |
Fifty Shades Darker |
E.L. James |
|
72 |
The Lost Symbol |
Dan Brown |
|
73 |
Twilight |
Stephenie Mayor |
|
74 |
The Lovely Bones |
Alice Sebold |
|
75 |
Digital Fortress |
Dan Brown |
|
76 |
One Day |
David Nicholls |
|
77 |
A thousand splendid suns |
Khaled Hosseini |
|
78 |
Billy Connolly |
Pamela Stephenson |
|
79 |
Birdsong |
Sebastian Faulks |
|
80 |
Labyrinth |
Kate Mosse |
|
81 |
Man and Boy |
Tony Parsons |
|
82 |
The Island |
Victoria Hislop |
|
83 |
PS, I love you |
Cecelia Ahern |
|
84 |
The Broker |
John Grisham |
|
85 |
Chocolat |
Delta Smith |
|
86 |
The Boy in the stripped Pyjamas |
John Boyne |
|
87 |
My Sister's Keeper |
Jodi Picoult |
|
88 |
Dear Fatty |
Dawn French |
|
89 |
Hannibal |
Thomas Harris |
|
90 |
Notes from a small island |
Bill Bryson |
|
91 |
The return of the naked chef |
Jamie Oliver |
|
92 |
Jamie's Italy |
Jamie Oliver |
|
93 |
The Simmons |
John Grisham |
|
94 |
About a Boy |
Nick Hornby |
|
95 |
White Teeth |
Zadie Smith |
|
96 |
The Ghost |
Robert Harris |
|
97 |
Night of Rain and Stars |
Maeve Binchy |
|
98 |
The house at the Riverton |
Kate Morton |
|
99 |
Lost Boy |
Dave Pelzer |
|
100 |
Sputnik Sweetheart |
Murakami |
I hope
these amazing books will keep you hooked and entertained. Happy reading!!
Written By - Anamika Malik
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