100 Books Worth Reading

There are too many variables to allow us to organize the list below by quality, so we are arranging it by publication date.

You will love some and hate others, but one thing is certain, you will learn from all.

Title	Author	# of Pages	Pub Year
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida	Shehan Karunatilaka	386	2022
The Nickel Boys	Colson Whitehead	213	2019
In the Distance	Hernan Diaz	256	2017
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)	Viet Thanh Nguyen	371	2015
The Orphan Master's Son	Adam Johnson	443	2012
My Brilliant Friend	Elena Ferrante	331	2011
Salvage the Bones	Jesmyn Ward	273	2011
Elena Knows	Claudia Piñeiro	143	2007
A Thousand Splendid Suns	Khaled Hosseini	372	2007
The Road	Cormac McCarthy	241	2006
Half of a Yellow Sun	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	433	2006
Never Let Me Go	Kazuo Ishiguro	288	2005
Middlesex	Jeffrey Eugenides	529	2002
Atonement	Ian McEwan	351	2001
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay	Michael Chabon	639	2000
The Feast of the Goat	Mario Vargas Llosa	475	2000
Disgrace	J.M. Coetzee	220	1999
Interpreter of Maladies	Jhumpa Lahiri	198	1999
The Savage Detectives	Roberto Bolaño	577	1998
American Pastoral	Philip Roth	432	1997
Fight Club	Chuck Palahniuk	224	1996
Blindness	José Saramago	349	1995
The Remains of the Day	Kazuo Ishiguro	276	1989
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)	Ken Follett	976	1989
Beloved	Toni Morrison	291	1987
Misery	Stephen King	370	1987
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)	Orson Scott Card	324	1985
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)	Larry McMurtry	960	1985
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West	Cormac McCarthy	351	1985
The Color Purple	Alice Walker	304	1982
The House of The Spirits	Isabel Allende	442	1982
Midnight’s Children	Salman Rushdie	647	1981
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	193	1979
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller	Italo Calvino	260	1979
Song of Solomon	Toni Morrison	338	1977
Feliz Ano Novo	Rubem Fonseca	176	1975
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)	Michael Shaara	345	1974
Angle of Repose	Wallace Stegner	569	1971
Slaughterhouse-Five	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	285	1969
Portnoy's Complaint	Philip Roth	289	1969
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya Angelou	289	1969
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	Philip K. Dick	258	1968
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel García Márquez	417	1967
Stoner	John Williams	292	1965
The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath	294	1963
A Clockwork Orange	Anthony Burgess	240	1962
Pale Fire	Vladimir Nabokov	246	1962
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	Ken Kesey	325	1962
The Slave	Isaac Bashevis Singer	320	1962
Butcher's Crossing	John Williams	274	1960
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	323	1960
In Cold Blood	Truman Capote	343	1959
On the Road	Jack Kerouac	307	1957
Grande Sertão: Veredas	João Guimarães Rosa	624	1956
Long Day’s Journey into Night	Eugene O'Neill	179	1956
Lord of the Flies	William Golding	182	1954
The Lord of the Rings (Middle Earth, #2-4)	J.R.R. Tolkien	1216	1954
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)	Ian Fleming	192	1953
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	194	1953
East of Eden	John Steinbeck	620	1952
The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	96	1952
Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison	610	1952
The Caine Mutiny	Herman Wouk	537	1951
The Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger	277	1951
1984	George Orwell	368	1949
All the King's Men	Robert Penn Warren	439	1946
Pavilion of Women	Pearl S. Buck	316	1946
Animal Farm	George Orwell	141	1945
Ficciones	Jorge Luis Borges	178	1944
The Razor’s Edge	W. Somerset Maugham	314	1944
The Stranger	Albert Camus	80	1942
Native Son	Richard Wright	504	1940
The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	479	1939
And Then There Were None	Agatha Christie	264	1939
The Yearling	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings	513	1938
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	166	1932
Viper’s Tangle	François Mauriac	234	1932
The Sound And The Fury	William Faulkner	386	1929
All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque	296	1928
The Trial	Franz Kafka	181	1925
A Passage to India	E.M. Forster	158	1924
Ulysses	James Joyce	925	1922
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	James Joyce	329	1916
The Metamorphosis	Franz Kafka	201	1915
The Call of the Wild	Jack London	172	1903
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	94	1899
Dracula	Bram Stoker	488	1897
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde	272	1890
Hunger	Knut Hamsun	227	1890
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)	Arthur Conan Doyle	123	1887
The Possessed	Fyodor Dostoevsky	768	1872
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass	Lewis Carroll	239	1871
Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoevsky	671	1866
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë	532	1847
Frankenstein	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	282	1818
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	279	1813
Macbeth	William Shakespeare	128	1623
King Lear	William Shakespeare	338	1605