50 novels

  1. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen

  2. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

  3. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

  4. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

  5. Dracula - Bram Stoker

  6. The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  7. The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank

  8. 1984 - George Orwell

  9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis

  10. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

  11. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

  12. The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith

  13. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

  14. The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson

  15. Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote

  16. Dune - Frank Herbert

  17. Stoner - John Williams

  18. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez

  19. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison

  20. Play It as It Lays - Joan Didion

  21. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch

  22. The Child in Time - Ian McEwan

  23. Potiki - Patricia Grace

  24. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides

  25. Secret History - Donna Tartt

  26. I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman

  27. Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer

  28. Naked - David Sedaris

  29. A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket

  30. Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris

  31. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane

  32. Tu - Patricia Grace

  33. Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim - David Sedaris

  34. The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion

  35. The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas - John Boyne

  36. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson

  37. Just Kids - Patti Smith

  38. My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante

  39. The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton

  40. The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

  41. Calypso - David Sedaris

  42. Educated - Tara Westover

  43. Normal People - Sally Rooney

  44. Boy Swallows Universe - Trent Dalton

  45. My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh

  46. Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan

  47. Nothing To See - Pip Adam

  48. Betty - Tiffany McDaniel

  49. Birnam Wood - Elenor Catton

  50. Martyr - Kaveh Akbar