Top 51 of the Best Books to Read

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Reading books is a great past time that can help open up your mind. However, choosing which book to read can sometimes be difficult. You have so many choices from books with great quotes, to banned books, to some of the funniest novels of all time, to some of the most controversial books of all time, and the most published books of all time. Check out below for the top 51 best books to read.

#51 – 40. Best Books to Read

#51. Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen

#50. 1984
by George Orwell

#49. To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee

#48. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

#47. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller

#46. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger

#45. Animal Farm
by George Orwell

#44. Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens

#43. Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott

#42. Lord of the Flies
by William Golding

#41. Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë

#40. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley

#39 – 30. Best Books to Read

#39. Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë

#38. Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy

#37. The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck

#36. Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#35. Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell

#34. Charlotte’s Web
by E.B. White

#33. The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas

#32. The Handmaid’s Tale
by Margaret Atwood

#31. One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez

#30. Dracula
by Bram Stoker

#29 – 20. Best Books to Read

#29. The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#28. The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien

#27. Of Mice and Men 
by John Steinbeck

#26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams

#25. Ulysses
by James Joyce

#24. Lolita  
by Vladimir Nabokov

#23. Rebecca 
by Daphne du Maurier

#22. The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien

#21. The Secret Garden 
by Frances Hodgson Burnett

#20. A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens

#19 – 10. Best Books to Read

#19. On the Road
by Jack Kerouac

#18. Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad

#17. Anne of Green Gables
by L.M. Montgomery

#16. Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo

#15. Midnight’s Children
by Salman Rushdie

#14. Life of Pi
by Yann Martel

#13. The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame

#12. Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden

#11. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl

#10. A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving

#9 – 1. Best Books to Read

#9. The Time Traveler’s Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger

#8. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
by Herman Melville

#7. Atonement
by Ian McEwan

#6. Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury

#5. The Color Purple
by Alice Walker

#4. War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

#3. Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut

#2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
by J.K. Rowling

#1. A Clockwork Orange 
by Anthony Burgess

The best books to read were taken from the following resource.^[1]Goodreads – Popular 100 Books To Read Before You Die Shelf