100
Must
Read
Books




1. The
Great
Gatsby
by
F.
Scott
Fitzgerald

2. The
Prince
by
Niccolo
Machiavelli

3. Slaughterhouse‐Five
by
Kurt
Vonnegut

4. 1984
by
George
Orwell

5. The
Republic
by
Plato

6. Brothers
Karamazov
by
Fyodor
Dostoevsky

7. The
Catcher
and
the
Rye
by
J.D.
Salinger

8. The
Wealth
of
Nations
by
Adam
Smith

9. For
Whom
the
Bell
Tolls
by
Ernest
Hemingway

10. The
Picture
of
Dorian
Gray
by
Oscar
Wilde

11. The
Grapes
of
Wrath
by
John
Steinbeck

12. Brave
New
World
by
Aldous
Huxley

13. How
To
Win
Friends
And
Influence
People
by
Dale
Carnegie

14. Call
of
the
Wild
by
Jack
London

15. The
Rise
of
Theodore
Roosevelt
by
Edmund
Morris

16. Swiss
Family
Robinson
by
Johann
David
Wyss

17. Dharma
Bums
by
Jack
Kerouac

18. The
Iliad
and
Odyssey
of
Homer

19. Catch‐22
by
Joseph
Heller

20. Walden
by
Henry
David
Thoreau

21. Lord
of
the
Flies
by
William
Golding

22. The
Master
and
Margarita
by
by
Mikhail
Bulgakov

23. Bluebeard
by
Kurt
Vonnegut

24. Atlas
Shrugged
by
Ayn
Rand

25. The
Metamorphosis
by
Franz
Kafka

26. American
Boys’
Handy
Book

27. Into
Thin
Air
by
John
Krakauer

28. King
Solomon’s
Mines
by
H.
Rider
Haggard

29. The
Idiot
by
Fyodor
Dostoevsky

30. A
River
Runs
Through
It
by
Norman
F.
Maclean

31. The
Island
of
Dr.
Moreau
by
H.G.
Wells

32. Malcolm
X:
The
Autobiography

33. Theodore
Rex
by
Edmund
Morris

34. The
Count
of
Monte
Cristo
by
Alexandre
Dumas

35. All
Quiet
on
The
Western
Front
by
Erich
Maria
Remarq

36. The
Red
Badge
of
Courage
by
Stephen
Crane

37. Lives
of
the
Noble
Greeks
and
Romans
by
Plutarch

38. The
Strenuous
Life
by
Theodore
Roosevelt

39. The
Bible

40. Lonesome
Dove
by
Larry
McMurtry

41. The
Maltese
Falcon
by
Dashiell
Hammett

42. The
Long
Goodbye
by
Raymond
Chandler

43. To
Kill
a
Mockingbird
by
Harper
Lee

44. The
Dangerous
Book
for
Boys
by
Conn
and
Hal
Iggulden

45. The
Killer
Angels
by
Michael
Shaara

46. The
Autobiography
of
Benjamin
Franklin

47. The
Histories
by
Herodotus

48. From
Here
to
Eternity
by
James
Jones

49. The
Frontier
in
American
History
by
Frederick
Jackson
Turner

50. Zen
and
the
Art
of
Motorcycle
Maintenance
by
Robert
Pirsig

51. Self
Reliance
by
Ralph
Waldo
Emerson

52. Another
Roadside
Attraction
by
Tom
Robbins

53. White
Noise
by
Don
Delillo

54. Ulysses
by
James
Joyce

55. The
Young
Man’s
Guide
by
William
Alcott

56. Blood
Meridian,
or
the
Evening
Redness
in
the
West
by
Cormac
McCarthy

57. Seek:
Reports
from
the
Edges
of
America
&
Beyond
by
Denis
Johnson

58. Crime
And
Punishment
by
Fyodor
Dostoevsky

59. Steppenwolf
by
Herman
Hesse

60. The
Book
of
Deeds
of
Arms
and
of
Chivalry
by
Christine
De
Pizan

61. The
Art
of
Warfare
by
Sun
Tzu

62. Don
Quixote
by
Miguel
de
Cervantes
Saavedra

63. Into
the
Wild
by
Jon
Krakauer

64. The
Divine
Comedy
by
Dante
Alighieri

65. The
Hobbit
by
JRR
Tolkien

66. The
Rough
Riders
by
Theodore
Roosevelt

67. East
of
Eden
by
John
Steinbeck

68. Leviathan
by
Thomas
Hobbes

69. The
Thin
Red
Line
by
James
Jones

70. Adventures
of
Huckleberry
Finn
by
Mark
Twain

71. The
Politics
by
Aristotle

72. First
Edition
of
the
The
Boy
Scout
Handbook

73. Cyrano
de
Bergerac
by
Edmond
Rostand

74. Tropic
of
Cancer
by
Henry
Miller

75. The
Crisis
by
Winston
Churchill

76. The
Naked
and
The
Dead
by
Norman
Mailer

77. Hatchet
by
Gary
Paulsen

78. Animal
Farm
by
George
Orwell

79. Tarzan
of
the
Apes
by
Edgar
Rice
Burroughs

80. Beyond
Good
and
Evil
by
Freidrich
Nietzsche

81. The
Federalist
Papers
by
Alexander
Hamilton,
John
Jay,
and
James
Madison

82. Moby
Dick
by
Herman
Melville

83. Essential
Manners
for
Men
by
Peter
Post

84. Frankenstein
by
Mary
Wollstonecraft
Shelly

85. Hamlet
by
Shakespeare

86. The
Boys
of
Summer
by
Roger
Kahn

87. A
Separate
Peace
by
John
Knowles

 88. A
Farewell
To
Arms
by
Ernest
Hemingway

89. The
Stranger
by
Albert
Camus

90. Robinson
Crusoe
by
Daniel
Dafoe

91. The
Pearl
by
John
Steinbeck

92. On
the
Road
by
Jack
Kerouac

93. Treasure
Island
by
Robert
Louis
Stevenson

94. Confederacy
of
Dunces
‐
John
Kennedy
Toole

95. Foucault’s
Pendulum
‐
Umberto
Eco

96. The
Great
Railway
Bazaar
by
Paul
Theroux

97. Fear
and
Trembling
by
Soren
Kierkegaard

98. Undaunted
Courage
by
Stephen
Ambrose

99. Paradise
Lost
by
John
Milton

100. Cannery
Row
by
John
Steinbeck