1 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 2 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 3 The Lottery by Shirley Jackson 4 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 5 Kindred by Octavia E Butler 6 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 7 Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 8 White Teeth by Zadie Smith 9 The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector 10 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 11 A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor 12 Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and the Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi 13 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 14 Beloved by Toni Morrison 15 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 16 Middlemarch by George Eliot 17 Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng 18 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 19 My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante 20 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 21 The Color Purple by Alice Walker 22 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 23 The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 24 Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 25 The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu