If you are thinking of starting your own little library, then the books mentioned in this article should be a definite part of your collection. Read on to uncover some of the greatest novels ever written, in the following article.
“I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man’s abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.” – William Faulkner (Absalom, Absalom!)
There are many books that one can continue to read for very long without feeling tired or getting bored. The greatest treasures in the world are books. Books are immortal souls that help you relive stories. Everyone has a specific taste in books. A few love to read thrillers and a few are die-hard romance fans. A few love to get lost in the magical worlds of Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings and still others love the painful romance of Scarlet O’Hara and Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind. Some of the best novels offer something for everyone.
Best-selling Novels
| 100 Best Novels Ever | Author name |
| White Fang | Jack London |
| A Message to Garcia | Elbert Hubbard |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie |
| Angels and Demons | Dan Brown |
| Anne of Green Gables | Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions: The autobiography of a horse |
Anna Sewell |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl |
| Charlotte’s Web | E.B. White |
| Dream of the Red Chamber | Cao Xueqin |
| Dune | Frank Herbert |
| Eye of the Needle | Ken Follett |
| Fear of Flying | Erica Jong |
| Follow Your Heart | Susanna Tamaro |
| God’s Little Acre | Erskine Caldwell |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| Goodnight Moon | Margaret Wise Brown |
| Guess How Much I Love You | Sam McBratney |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | J.K. Rowling |
| Heidi’s Years of Wandering and Learning | Johanna Spyri |
| How the Steel Was Tempered | Nikolai Ostrovsky |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie |
| In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do? | Charles M. Sheldon |
| Jaws | Peter Benchley |
| Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Richard Bach |
| Kane and Abel | Jeffrey Archer |
| The Adventures of Pinocchio | Carlo Collodi |
| Love Story | Erich Segal |
| Love You Forever | Robert Munsch |
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville |
| Night | Elie Wiesel |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell |
| No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai |
| Norwegian Wood | Haruki Murakami |
| On the Three Representations | Jiang Zemin |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez |
| Perfume | Patrick Süskind |
| Peyton Place | Grace Metalious |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| Santa Evita | Tomás Eloy Martínez |
| She: A History of Adventure | H. Rider Haggard |
| Shōgun | James Clavell |
| Sophie’s World | Jostein Gaarder |
| Steps to Christ | Ellen G. White |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
| The Bridges of Madison County | Robert James Waller |
| The Cat in the Hat | Dr. Seuss |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger |
| The Celestine Prophecy | James Redfield |
| The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care | Dr. Benjamin Spock |
| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown |
| The Diary of a Young Girl/The Diary of Anne Frank | Anne Frank |
| The Exorcist | William Peter Blatty |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson |
| The Godfather | Mario Puzo |
| The Gruffalo | Julia Donaldson |
| The Happy Hooker: My Own Story | Xaviera Hollander |
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams |
| The Hite Report | Shere Hite |
| The Hobbit | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| The Horse Whisperer | Nicholas Evans |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| The Late, Great Planet Earth | Hal Lindsey, C. C. Carlson |
| The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | C. S. Lewis |
| The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
| The Lord of the Rings | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold |
| The Naked Ape | Desmond Morris |
| The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco |
| The Outsiders | S. E. Hinton |
| The Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett |
| The Plague | Albert Camus |
| The Poky Little Puppy | Janette Sebring Lowrey |
| The Prophet | Khalil Gibran |
| The Purpose Driven Life | Rick Warren |
| The Revolt of Mamie Stover | William Bradford Huie |
| The Secret | Rhonda Byrne |
| The Shack | William P. Young |
| The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafón |
| The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Beatrix Potter |
| The Thorn Birds | Colleen McCullough |
| The Very Hungry Caterpillar | Eric Carle |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame |
| The Women’s Room | Marilyn French |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe |
| Think and Grow Rich | Napoleon Hill |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom |
| Valley of the Dolls | Jacqueline Susann |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| What Color is Your Parachute? | Richard Nelson Bolles |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini |
| Wild Swans | Jung Chang |
| Wolf Totem | Jiang Rong |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |
| You Can Heal Your Life | Louise Hay |
Best Novels of the 20th Century
| 100 Greatest Novels of All Time | Author name |
| 2001 – A Space Odyssey | Arthur C. Clarke |
| Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | Roddy Doyle |
| The Adventures of Hucleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| Perfume | Patrick Suskind |
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess |
| Possession | A.S. Byatt |
| A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier |
| A Passage to India | E.M. Forster |
| Remembrance of Things Past | Marcel Proust |
| A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving |
| Slaughterhouse 5 | Kurt Vonnegut |
| A Room with a View | E.M. Forster |
| Sons and Lovers | D.H. Lawrence |
| A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth |
| Sophie’s World | Jostein Gaarder |
| All Quiet On The Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque |
| Tales of the City | Armistead Maupin |
| American Psycho | Bret Easton Ellis |
| Testament of Youth | Vera Brittain |
| An Evil Cradling | Brian Keenan |
| The Alexandria Quartet | Lawrence Durrell |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| The BFG | Roald Dahl |
| Birdsong | Sebastian Faulks |
| The Bonfire of the Vanities | Tom Wolfe |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| Brighton Rock | Graham Greene |
| The Diary of Anne Frank | Anne Frank |
| Captain Corelli’s Mandolin | Louis de Bernières |
| The French Lieutenant’s Woman | John Fowles |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Cider with Rosie | Laurie Lee |
| The Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood |
| Complete Cookery Course | Delia Smith |
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams |
| Cry, the Beloved Country | Alan Paton |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternack |
| The Horse Whisperer | Nicholas Evans |
| Down and Out in Paris and London | George Orwell |
| The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis |
| Dune | Frank Herbert |
| The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Earthly Powers | Anthony Burgess |
| The Magus | John Fowles |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson |
| The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco |
| Gormenghaste | Mervyn Peake |
| The Outsider | Albert Camus |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| The Power and the Glory | Graham Greene |
| High Fidelity | Nick Hornby |
| The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropist | Robert Tressel |
| Howards End | E.M. Forster |
| The Rainbow | D.H. Lawrence |
| I, Claudius | Robert Graves |
| The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| If This Is a Man | Primo Levi |
| The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins |
| It | Stephen King |
| The Stand | Stephen King |
| James and the Giant Peach | Roald Dahl |
| The Tin Drum | Gunter Grass |
| Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton |
| The Trial | Franz Kafka |
| Lady Chatterley’s Lover | D.H. Lawrence |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabosky |
| The Van | Roddy Doyle |
| Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela |
| The Wasp Factory | Iain Banks |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel García Marquez |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| Lucky Jim | Kingsley Amis |
| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf |
| Matilda | Roald Dahl |
| Trainspotting | Irvine Walsh |
| Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie |
| Ulysses | James Joyce |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell |
| Watership Down | Richard Adams |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
| Wild Swans | Jung Chang |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
| Winnie-The-Pooh | A.A. Milne |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Marquez |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance | Robert Pirsig |
Reading books is not only the best way to spend time, but it is also an excellent learning experience. They have the ability to teach life’s biggest lessons in a subtle and impressive way. Once you pick up the best books, you won’t be able to put them down till you read every single page. Hope you find your favorite novels mentioned in the above list. The question is, how many have you read till date?
