First of all, I decided on only putting fiction/ novels on my list as nonfiction seemed like a wholly different goal. I found a couple sources to draw from in creating my list:
First, Modern Library's 100 Best Novels list and the companion Reader's Choice 100 Best list:
http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/
Then there was Radcliffe's Rival list:
http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/radcliffes-rival-100-best-novels-list/
Then another reader submission-based list:
http://www.thebest100lists.com/best100novels/
And finally NPR's top novels list:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103869541
From this I created my own. What I liked about the reader submissions was that there were more contemporary novels, not just "classics." In choosing my list I wanted some variety and not just the obvious literary greats. So here goes:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee- 1984 by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen- Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Animal Farm by George Orwell- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- The Arabian Nights
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Lord of the Flies by William Golding- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia MarquezHarry Potter Series by J.K. RowlingThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (In Progress)
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
- The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Stand by Stephen King
The Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Dune by Frank Herbert
Little Women by Louisa May AlcottMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert- Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (In Progress)
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Golden Cage by Shirin Ebadi (In Progress)
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Persuasion by Jane Austen- Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho- Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World by H.H. the Dalai Lama
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath- Emma by Jane Austen
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini- Siddharta by Hermann Hesse
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (In Progress)
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- What is the What by Dave Eggers (In Progress)
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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