Top 100 Fiction Books to Read Atleast Once Before You Die

 

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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