100 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die

"100 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die" is a selection of the most celebrated books in history, including complete novels. Unlike other rankings, this collection is based on a consensus of readers and critics, ensuring an unbiased list of the very best literature ever written. From captivating love stories to epic adventures, these timeless novels have enchanted audiences for generations. Whether you're a seasoned book lover or new to the world of classic literature, this anthology is an essential companion that will ignite your imagination and nourish your love for storytelling.

The Ethics of Aristotle — Aristotle
The Confessions of St. Augustine — Saint Augustine
Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
Mansfield Park — Jane Austen
Persuasion — Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome — E.M. Berens
A Princess of Mars — Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Decameron — Giovanni Boccaccio
The Secret Garden — Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Land That Time Forgot — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Don Juan — George Gordon Byron
Through the Looking-Glass — Lewis Carroll
One of Ours — Willa Cather
The King in Yellow — Robert W. Chambers
The Seagull — Anton Chekhov
The Secret Of Chimneys — Agatha Christie
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nostromo — Joseph Conrad
The Red Badge of Courage — Stephen Crane
Moll Flanders — Daniel Defoe
Mr. Spaceship — Philip K. Dick
A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens
Bleak House — Charles Dickens
Great Expectations — Charles Dickens
Notes from the Underground — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Gambler — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Study in Scarlet — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas
Silas Marner — George Eliot
The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Room with a View — E. M. Forster
Howards End — E. M. Forster
Dream Psychology — Sigmund Freud
Cranford — Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Prophet — Kahlil Gibran
Plays — Susan Glaspell
The Diary of a Nobody — George and Weedon Grossmith
Jude the Obscure — Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy
Men Without Women — Ernest Hemingway
The Odyssey — Homer
The Prisoner of Zenda — Anthony Hope
Notre-Dame de Paris — Victor Hugo
Those Barren Leaves — Aldous Huxley
The Turn of the Screw — Henry James
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James Joyce
Dubliners — James Joyce
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — Washington Irving
The Trial — Franz Kafka
The Jungle Book — Rudyard Kipling
The Rainbow — D. H. Lawrence
Women in Love — D. H. Lawrence
Carmilla — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Babbitt — Sinclair Lewis
Second Treatise of Government — John Locke
On Liberty — John Stuart Mill
Paradise Lost — John Milton
Paradise Regained — John Milton
Anne of Green Gables — L. M. Montgomery
The Railway Children — Edith Nesbit
Thus Spake Zarathustra — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Pensées — Blaise Pascal
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Edgar Allan Poe
The Vampyre — John William Polidori
Clarissa — Samuel Richardson
The Reign of Greed — José Rizal
Bambi — Felix Salten
Best Russian Short Stories — Thomas Seltzer
A Midsummer Night’s Dream — William Shakespeare
Othello — William Shakespeare
The Tempest — William Shakespeare
The Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith
Kidnapped — Robert Louis Stevenson
The Black Arrow — Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island — Robert Louis Stevenson
The Art of War — Sunzi (Sun Tzu)
A Modest Proposal — Jonathan Swift
Walden — Henry David Thoreau
Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy
The Pursuit of God — A. W. Tozer
Barchester Towers — Anthony Trollope
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain
The Kama Sutra — Vatsyayana
Around the World in Eighty Days — Jules Verne
The Aeneid — Virgil
The Enchanted April — Elizabeth Von Arnim
2 B R 0 2 B — Kurt Vonnegut
The Castle of Otranto — Horace Walpole
The Box-Car Children — Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Invisible Man — H.G. Wells
The War of the Worlds — H.G. Wells
The Canterville Ghost — Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde
Mrs. Dalloway — Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf
We — Yevgeny Zamyatin