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Essential Classics - Page 2

This list includes 150 essential Literary Classics from all over the world, not just Western canon. You must read them at least once in your life. Go ahead!
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Call of the Wild and White Fang (Jack London)
Call of the Wild and White Fang
41
Jack London
Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
Northanger Abbey
42
Jane Austen
Aesop's Fables (Aesop)
Aesop's Fables
43
Aesop
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
44
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale
45
Margaret Atwood
MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
MacBeth
46
William Shakespeare
The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling)
The Jungle Book
47
Rudyard Kipling
Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
Moll Flanders
48
Daniel Defoe
Lady Chatterly's Lover (Lawrence, D.H.)
Lady Chatterly's Lover
49
Lawrence, D.H.
100 Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcí­A Márquez)
100 Years of Solitude
50
Gabriel Garcí­A Márquez
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
51
Gustave Flaubert
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
52
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
53
Jonathan Swift
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
54
Mark Twain
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
55
Jack Kerouac
Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
Walden
56
Henry David Thoreau
The Monk (Matthew Lewis)
The Monk
57
Matthew Lewis
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
58
Charles Dickens
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
Sense and Sensibility
59
Jane Austen
Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
Divine Comedy
60
Dante Alighieri
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
61
Emily Brontë
The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
The Art of War
62
Sun Tzu
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
63
Jules Verne
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
64
Mikhail Bulgakov
William Blake the Complete Illuminated Books (William Blake)
William Blake the Complete Illuminated Books
65
William Blake
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
66
Geoffrey Chaucer
Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl
67
Anne Frank
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
68
Charles Dickens
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
69
Jane Austen
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
70
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Les Miserables
71
Victor Hugo
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Meditations
72
Marcus Aurelius
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
73
Victor Hugo
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women
74
Louisa May Alcott
The Oresteia (Aeschylus)
The Oresteia
75
Aeschylus
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
Oliver Twist
76
Charles Dickens
Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)
Ivanhoe
77
Sir Walter Scott
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
78
John Milton
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Choderlos De Laclos)
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
79
Choderlos De Laclos
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
80
Ernest Hemingway
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