The following is a list of classic novels, alphabetical by author’s last name, that I am in the process of reading. They are considered to be the greatest works of all time according to Modern Library, World Library, Time Magazine, The New York Times, and Harvard University. I challenge everyone to read these books. Feel free to message me with suggestions to add to this list, or if you would like my thoughts on a novel I have completed. 

~ Completed   * Currently Reading 

The Divine Comedy- Dante Alighieri 

Emma- Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen

The Adventures of Augie March- Saul Bellow 

Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bonte 

Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte 

Don Quixote- Miguel de Cervantes 

The Awakening- Kate Chopin 

Great Expectations- Charles Dickens

Sherlock Holmes- Arthur Conan Doyle 

Middlemarch- George Eliot 

The Great Gatsby- F Scott Fitzgerald ~

This Side of Paradise- F Scott Fitzgerald 

Short Stories- F Scott Fitzgerald

Madame Bovary- Gustave Flaubert 

The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne 

Catch 22- Joseph Heller 

The Old Man and the Sea- Earnest Hemingway 

The Sun Also Rises- Earnest Hemingway 

The Iliad- Homer

The Odyssey- Homer 

The Hunchback of Notre Dame- Victor Hugo 

Les Miserables- Victor Hugo *

Brave New World- Aldous Huxley ~

The Portrait of a Lady- Henry James

Ulysses- James Joyce

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest- Ken Kesey 

To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee

The Prince- Niccolo Machiavelli 

Moby Dick- Herman Melrille 

Death of a Salesman- Arthur Miller 

Tropic of Cancer- Henry Miller 

Gone with the Wind- Margaret Mitchell 

Beloved- Toni Morrison

Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov 

1984- George Orwell 

Animal Farm- George Orwell 

In Search of Lost Time- Marcel Proust

The Catcher in the Rye- J D Salinger ~

Franny and Zooey- J D Salinger

Frakenstein- Mary Shelly ~

The Jungle- Upton Sinclair ~

The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck 

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- Robert Louis Stevenson   

Sophie’s Choice- William Styron 

Waden-Henry David Thoreau 

Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy 

War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy 

The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin- Mark Twain 

Rabbit, Run- John Updike 

Slaughterhouse-Five- Kurt Vonnegut 

The Color Purple- Alice Walker 

All the King’s Men- Robert Pen Warren 

The Picture of Dorian Grey- Oscar Wilde 

Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf