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50 Books You Need to Read

This is a list of fifty incredible books you should definitely read if you haven't read them already.
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In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
1
Marcel Proust
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
2
Herman Melville
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
3
James Joyce
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
4
William Shakespeare
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
5
Miguel De Cervantes
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
6
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
7
F. Scott Fitzgerald
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
8
Leo Tolstoy
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
9
Homer
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
10
Gustave Flaubert
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
11
Dante Alighieri
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
12
Vladimir Nabokov
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
13
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
14
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
15
Emily Bronte
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
16
J.D. Salinger
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
17
Mark Twain
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
18
Jane Austen
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
19
Leo Tolstoy
Alices's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alices's Adventures in Wonderland
20
Lewis Carroll
Iliad (Homer)
Iliad
21
Homer
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
22
Virginia Woolf
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
23
Joseph Heller
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
24
Joseph Conrad
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Nineteen Eighty-Four
25
George Orwell
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
26
William Faulkner
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
27
Charles Dickens
Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Grapes of Wrath
28
John Steinbeck
One Thousand and One Nights (Anonymous)
One Thousand and One Nights
29
Anonymous
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
30
Ralph Ellison
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
31
Harper Lee
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
32
Franz Kafka
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black
33
Stendhal
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
34
George Eliot
Gullivers Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gullivers Travels
35
Jonathan Swift
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
36
Toni Morrison
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway
37
Virginia Woolf
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
38
Albert Camus
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
39
Charlotte Bronte
Aeneid (Virgil)
Aeneid
40
Virgil
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