Have you held any of the classic books of the century? We’ve put down the top 100 classics for your next reading challenge. This list has it all. Take a look at our list and see how it goes down with you.
- 1984 by George Orwell
- A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Cane by Jean Toomer
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Howards End by E.M. Forster
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Moby-Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
- The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor
- The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
- The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
- Metamorphoses by Ovid
- The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Remember not all books are created equal. Like George Orwell says, not all animals are equal. So why not take a different approach to every classic that you choose on the shelves.