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