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Top 50 Essential Books to Read to Earn "Well-Read" Status

Here is a list of top 50 essential books you need to read to earn "Well-Read" status. This list includes Western Classics, Dystopia, Satire and Literary heavy hitters.
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The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
1
Albert Camus
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
2
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
3
George Orwell
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
4
George Orwell
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
5
Aldous Huxley
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
6
Emily Bronte
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
7
Harper Lee
Devils (Dostoevsky)
Devils
8
Dostoevsky
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
9
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
10
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
11
J.D. Salinger
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
12
Franz Kafka
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince
13
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
14
Jack Kerouac
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
15
William Shakespeare
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice in Wonderland
16
Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
Through the Looking Glass
17
Lewis Carroll
The Picture of Dorian Grey (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Grey
18
Oscar Wilde
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
19
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
Cat's Cradle
20
Kurt Vonnegut
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
21
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
22
Leo Tolstoy
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nausea
23
Jean-Paul Sartre
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
24
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)
Hermann Hesse
25
Siddhartha
Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
Tropic of Cancer
26
Henry Miller
Choke (Chuck Palahniuk)
Choke
27
Chuck Palahniuk
Howl (Allen Ginsberg)
Howl
28
Allen Ginsberg
The Devine Comedy
The Devine Comedy
29
Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar Novel)
Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar Novel)
30
Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales & Poems (Edgar Allan Poe)
Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales & Poems
31
Edgar Allan Poe
The Tin Drum (Günter Grass)
The Tin Drum
32
Günter Grass
Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
Farewell to Arms
33
Ernest Hemingway
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
34
Charles Dickens
Post Office
Post Office
35
A Clockwork Orange .. 1962 (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange .. 1962
36
Anthony Burgess
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces
37
John Kennedy Toole
Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
38
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
39
John Milton
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
40
Herman Melville
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