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Top 50 Books of All Time

Goodreads.com is a website that lets users rate and review books that they have read. This list is a compilation of the 50 books that users have rated as the books that everyone should read in their lifetime. How many of them have you read?
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
1
Harper Lee
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
2
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (J.K. Rowling)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
3
J.K. Rowling
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
4
Jane Austen
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
5
George Orwell
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
6
Charlotte Bronte
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
7
Aldous Huxley
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
8
J.D. Salinger
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
9
Emily Brontë
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
10
William Golding
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
11
William Shakespeare
A Bend in the River (V.S. Naipaul)
A Bend in the River
12
V.S. Naipaul
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Life of Pi
13
Yann Martel
Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
Rebecca
14
Daphne Du Maurier
Money (Martin Amis)
Money
15
Martin Amis
The Diary of Anne Frank (Anne Frank)
The Diary of Anne Frank
16
Anne Frank
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
17
Sylvia Plath
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
18
Joseph Heller
The Quiet American (Graham Greene)
The Quiet American
19
Graham Greene
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
20
James Joyce
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
21
Geoffrey Chaucer
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
22
Miguel De Cervantes
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
23
Alexandre Dumas
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
24
Oscar Wilde
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
25
Mark Twain
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
26
Jonathan Swift
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple
27
Alice Walker
The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope)
The Way We Live Now
28
Anthony Trollope
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
29
Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
30
Mark Haddon
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
31
Leo Tolstoy
Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks)
Birdsong
32
Sebastian Faulks
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
33
Dante Alighieri
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
34
Daniel Defoe
The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)
The War of the Worlds
35
H.G. Wells
The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)
The Wind in the Willows
36
Kenneth Grahame
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
37
Ken Kesey
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Memoirs of a Geisha
38
Arthur Golden
Men Without Women (Ernest Hemingway)
Men Without Women
39
Ernest Hemingway
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
40
Mary Shelley
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