The 100 books every school-leaver ought to have read

Given by The Daily Telegraph

67 Works 1,402,615 Books 20,272 Reviews ½ 4.0
WorkYear
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
2014
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
1996
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
1994
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1967
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
1961
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
1957
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
1955
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
1954
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
1953
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1951
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
1950
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1945
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
1940
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1939
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
1939
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1938
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
1937
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1936
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
1935
Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
1934
Afternoon Men by Anthony Powell
1931
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
1929
Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
1928
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
1928
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
1927
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
1926
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
1926
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1925
Just William by Richmal Crompton
1922
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
1915
Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad
1913
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
1913
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
1911
The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells
1910
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
1908
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
1902
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
1892
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
1892
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome
1889
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
1886
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
1881
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
1876
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
1866
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
1865
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
1861
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
1859
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
1857
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
1852
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1850
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
1848
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
1847
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
1844
Dead Souls by Nikolai Vassilievitx Gogol
1842
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
1832
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
1814
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
1813
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
1791
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
1759
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
1749
Paradise Lost by John Milton
1667
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1605
Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
1485
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
1380
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
1314
The Iliad by Homer
0750
The Odes of Horace by Horace
0023
The Plays by William Shakespeare
1969
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