1 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald 2 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger 3 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 4 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 5 The Color Purple by Alice Walker 6 Ulysses by James Joyce 7 Beloved by Toni Morrison 8 Lord of the Flies by William Golding 9 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 10 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 11 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 12 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 13 Charlotte's Web by EB White 14 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 15 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 16 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 17 Animal Farm by George Orwell 18 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 19 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 20 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 21 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 22 Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne 23 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 24 The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 25 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 26 Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell 27 Native Son by Richard Wright 28 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 29 Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut 30 For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 31 On The Road by Jack Kerouac 32 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 33 The Call of the Wild by Jack London 34 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 35 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 36 Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin 37 The World According to Garp by John Irving 38 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren 39 A Room with a View by EM Forster 40 The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien 41 Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally 42 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 43 The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 44 Finnegans Wake by James Joyce 45 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 46 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 47 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum 48 Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence 49 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 50 The Awakening by Kate Chopin 51 My Antonia by Willa Cather 52 Howards End by EM Forster 53 In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 54 Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger 55 Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie 56 Jazz by Toni Morrison 57 Sophie's Choice by William Styron 58 Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner 59 A Passage to India by EM Forster 60 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 61 A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor 62 Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald 63 Orlando by Virginia Woolf 64 Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence 65 The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe 66 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 67 A Separate Peace by John Knowles 68 Light in August by William Faulkner 69 The Wings of the Dove by Henry James 70 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 71 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 72 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 73 The Naked Lunch by William Burroughs 74 Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 75 Women in Love by DH Lawrence 76 Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe 77 In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway 78 The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokias by Gertrude Stein 79 The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett 80 The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 81 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 82 White Noise by Don DeLillo 83 O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 84 Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller 85 The War of the Worlds by HG Wells 86 Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 87 The Bostonians by Henry James 88 An American Tragedy by Theodor Dreiser 89 Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather 90 The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 91 This Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald 92 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 93 The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles 94 Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis 95 Kim by Rudyard Kipling 96 The Beautiful and the Damned by F Scott Fitzgerald 97 Rabbit, Run by John Updike 98 Where Angels Fear to Tread by EM Forster 99 Main Street by Sinclair Lewis 100 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie