50 Books You Should Read

A list compiled by staff of Longford Branch Library

1. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
2. 1984 by George Orwell
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
5. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
8. A Passage to India by E.M Foster
9. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
10. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
11. The Bend in the River by E.M. Naipaul
12. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
14. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
15. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
16. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
17. Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
18. The Bible by Various
19. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chauncer
20. Ulysses by James Joyce
21. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
22. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
23. Money by Martin Amis
24. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
25. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
26. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
27. His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
28. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
29. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland  by Lewis Carroll
30. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
31. The Curious Incident of the Dog
32. in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
33. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
34. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
35. The Way we Live Now by Anthony Trollope
36. The Outsider by Albert Camus
37. The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
38. Life of PI by Yann Martel
39. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
40. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
41. Men without Women by Ernest Hemingway
42. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
43. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
44. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
45. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
46. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
47. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
48. The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas
49. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
50. The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
51. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde