There’s a lot of reading, that is in store for readers who haven’t checked out these must read novels. For those of you who haven’t, I suggest you get your hands on them right away…
Reading to me is like taking in the air I breathe, it’s more a vital function than a mere interest. Those who don’t possess that love for reading, are at a great loss. There’s a plethora of research done on the benefits of reading, and I think that to evolve one’s mind and keep it riding on perspective and imagination, is to indulge and get lost in text. The better way of approaching the act of reading, is first start off with novels, and then non-fictional books, slowly moving on to audio books if you lack the time and energy.
A world without books is something I wouldn’t want to fathom. It’s a crying shame when someone tells me they don’t read, especially when they say something like ‘I hate reading’ or ‘I hate books’ (shudder); sadly they aren’t familiar with the importance of reading. So check out these must read novels, and make it a habit to kick back during the day, and cozy up with a book instead of whiling the hours away with unproductive activities.
The Top 100 Novels of All Time
A paperback book should be one of your prime assets, before the other materialistic things in your life. It is also crucial, for those who have kids, to start reading to them and slowly allowing them to read on their own as they mature. If you love reading as much as I do, you’ll hook yourself up with good reads from this list of best books to read.
| Crash by JG Ballard | Night by Eli Wiesel |
| Cell by Stephen King | 1984 by George Orwell |
| Matilda by Roald Dahl | Carrie by Stephen King |
| Dracula by Bram Stoker | Possession by AS Byatt |
| Atonement by Ian McEwan | Whispers by Dean Koontz |
| Malice by Danielle Steel | Life of Pi by Yann Martel |
| The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien | Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Perfume by Patrick Suskind | The Secret by Rhonda Bryne |
| Weaveworld by Clive Barker | White Teeth by Zadie Smith |
| Black Beauty by Anna Sewell | Red Dragon by Thomas Harris |
| The Foutainhead by Ayn Rand | The Godfather by Mario Puzo |
| The Shining by Stephen King | Animal Farm by George Orwell |
| Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy | Bag of Bones by Stephen King |
| Frankenstein by Mary Shelley | Middlemarch by George Elliot |
| Moby Dick by Herman Melville | The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown |
| The Stranger by Albert Camus | Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik |
| Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte | Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk | The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho |
| Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne | Total Eclipse by John Brunner |
| The Birds by Daphne Du Maurier | Fear Street Novels by RL Stine |
| The Color Purple by Alice Walker | Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolfe |
| Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger | The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga |
| The Lone Pilgrim by Laurie Colwin | Little Women by Louisa May Alcott |
| The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini | Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| A Passage to India by E. M. Forster | His Bright Light by Danielle Steel |
| Ed the Happy Clown by Chester Brown | A Death in the Family by James Agee |
| A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens | The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton |
| Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden | David Copperfield by Charles Dickens |
| The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald | Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut |
| The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson | To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee |
| Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery | A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess |
| The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton | Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan | The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James |
| Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson | A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| Harry Potter (7 book set) by JK Rowling | Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding |
| Psychological Types by Carl Gustav Jung | The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino |
| The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin | The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller |
| A Promise is a Promise by Dr. Wayne Dyer | Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland |
| The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy | The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield |
| Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson | The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris |
| The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame | A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini | Lord of the Flies by William Golding |
| The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson | The Master and Magarita by Mikhail Bulgakov |
| The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud | The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas |
| The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
| The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson | The Lord of the Rings (3 book set) by JRR Tolkien |
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams | The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller |
| Threw the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll | Men Are From Mars and Women Are From Venus by John Gray |
| The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett | Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps by Allan and Barbara Pease |
With this hot list on what’s the best in books to read, I’m sure you’ll build on a love for reading if you gave it a shot, especially for those who don’t like to read. If you don’t have the time, like I said, audio books are a great way of reading a book, but using instead your sense of hearing. You can relax and plug-in those earphones, and get back to it anytime you feel like. Just remember how important it is to read, and instill the same to others, by not also discouraging those that love to read. Keep on reading!
