One Hundred Must Read Novels

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List from "Stuff You Should Have Learned at School" by Michael Powell.

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  1. 1.
    1984 (Signet Classics)
    by George Orwell

  2. 2.
    Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  3. 3.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  4. 4.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

  5. 5.
    The Age of Innocence
    by Edith Wharton

  6. 6.
    Alexandria Quartet
    by Lawrence Durrell

  7. 7.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

  8. 8.
    The Ambassadors (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by Henry James

  9. 9.
    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser

  10. 10.
    Angle of Repose (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Wallace Stegner

  11. 11.
    Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  12. 12.
    Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
    by John O'Hara

  13. 13.
    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner

  14. 14.
    A Bend in the River
    by V.S. Naipaul

  15. 15.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  16. 16.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel
    by Thornton Wilder

  17. 17.
    The Brothers Karamazov (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  18. 18.
    The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
    by Jack London

  19. 19.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  20. 20.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  21. 21.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

  22. 22.
    Darkness at Noon: A Novel
    by Arthur Koestler

  23. 23.
    The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
    by Nathanael West

  24. 24.

  25. 25.
    The Death of the Heart
    by Elizabeth Bowen

  26. 26.
    Deliverance
    by James Dickey

  27. 27.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

  28. 28.
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

  29. 29.
    From Here to Eternity
    by James Jones

  30. 30.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

  31. 31.
    The Golden Bowl (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Henry James

  32. 32.
    The Good Soldier (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by Ford Madox Ford

  33. 33.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

  34. 34.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  35. 35.
    A Handful of Dust
    by Evelyn Waugh

  36. 36.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

  37. 37.
    Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad

  38. 38.
    The Heart of the Matter
    by Graham Greene

  39. 39.

  40. 40.
    A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Richard Hughes

  41. 41.
    A House for Mr. Biswas
    by V.S. Naipaul

  42. 42.
    The House of Mirth (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Edith Wharton

  43. 43.
    Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by E. M. Forster

  44. 44.
    The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

  45. 45.
    Ironweed: A novel
    by William J. Kennedy

  46. 46.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  47. 47.
    Kim (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Rudyard Kipling

  48. 48.
    Light in August (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

  49. 49.
    Lord Jim: A Tale (Penguin Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  50. 50.
    Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by William Golding

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