50 Must-Read Books

We have so many novels available for us to choose from, the following is a collection of novels and series written by some of the most brilliant authors in history that I feel are novels that everyone should read, or quite possibly -must- read, before we kick the bucket.

1.       The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

2.       1984 – George Orwell

3.       The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger

4.       The Sword of Truth series – Terry Goodkind

5.       Bluebeard – Kurt Vonnegut

6.       Dresden Files – Jim Butcher

7.       Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling

8.       The Time Machine – H.G. Wells

9.       The Belgariad – David Eddings

10.   The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley

11.   Lies of Locke Lamora – Scott Lynch

12.   Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand

13.   The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien

14.   The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – C S Lewis

15.   DragonLance (Chronicles series and Legends series) – Margaret Weis and Tracey Hickman

16.   King Lear – William Shakespeare

17.   The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

18.   War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

19.   Neverwhere – Neil Gaimann

20.   The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane

21.   World War Z  An Oral History of the Zombie War – Max Brooks

22.   The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

23.   Guilty Pleasures – Laurell K. Hamilton

24.   Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick

25.   The Dune Chronicles – Frank Herbert

26.   A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway

27.   Chronicles of Thomas Covenant – Stephen R. Donaldson

28.   The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

29.   The Dark Tower (The collection)– Stephen King

30.   A Wizard of Earthsea (The collection) – Ursula K. Le Guin

31.   A Game of Thrones – George RR Martin

32.   The Wheel of Time series – Robert Jordan

33.   Foundation – Isaac Asimov

34.   Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

35.   Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne

36.   A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle

37.   Contact – Carl Sagan

38.   Animal Farm – George Orwell

39.   American Gods – Neil Gaiman

40.   Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

41.   Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A. Heinlein

42.   The Last Unicorn – Peter S. Beagle

43.   A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess

44.   Dragonflight – Anne McCaffrey

45.   Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

46.   Coraline – Neil Gaiman

47.   The Call of Cthulhu – HP Lovecraft

48.   The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman

49.   The Road – Cormac McCarthy

50.   The Legend of Drizzt series – R.A. Salvatore