100 Must Read Works of Fiction

by Tamera Lynn Kraft

I’ve seen a lot of lists of books everyone should read before they died. Many times I was disappointed certain books weren’t on the list or that other books were. I decided to make my own fiction list everyone should read. It is in alphabetical order according to title. Comment how many of these you’ve read and if you think I should have added any.

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
3. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
4. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
5. Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
6. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
7. Animal Farm by George Orwell
8. Anne of Green Gables Series by LM Montgomery
9. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
10. Atonement by Ean McEwan
11. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
12. Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Willhelm Grimm
13. And Then There were None by Agatha Christie
14. Atlas Shrugged by Ann Rand
15. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
16. Christie by Catherine Marshall
17. Circle Series by Ted Dekker
18. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
19. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
20. Emma by Jane Austin
21. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
22. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
23. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
24. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
25. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
26. Hind’s Feet in High Places by Hannah Hurnard
27. His Brother’s Keeper by Charles M. Sheldon
28. Hondo by Louis L’Amour
29. Hounds of the Baskervilles by Sir Author Conan Doyle
30. In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon
31. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
32. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
33. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
34. Left Behind Series by Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye
35. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
36. Little House on the Prairie Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
37. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
38. Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke
39. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
40. Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C Douglas
41. Mark of the Lion Series by Francine Rivers
42. Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare
43. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
44. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
45. Persuasion by Jane Austin
46. Piercing the Darkness by Frank Peretti
47. Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
48. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
49. Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
50. Riven by Jerry Jenkins
51. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
52. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
53. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin
54. Shane by Jack Schaefer
55. Silas Marner by George Elliot
56. South Pacific by James A. Michener
57. Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
58. Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
59. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
60. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
61. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
62. The Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett
63. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
64. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
65. The Cantebury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
66. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
67. The Chronicles of Narnia Series by CS Lewis
68. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
69. The Covenant by Beverly Lewis
70. The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
71. The Giver by Lois Lowry
72. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
73. The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins
74. The Lord of the Rings Series by  J. R. R. Tolkien
75. The Hobbit by  J. R. R. Tolkien
76. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
77. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
78. The Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka
79. The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe
80. The Outsiders by SE Hinton
81. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
82. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
83. The Ranger’s Apprentice Series by John Flannigan
84. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
85. The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
86. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
87. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
88. The Time Machine by HG Wells
89. The Virginian: The Horseman on the Plains by Owen Wister
90. This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti
91. To Build a Fire by Jack London
92. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
93. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Sevenson
94. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
95. Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
96. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Tubman
97. War of the Worlds by HG Wells
98. Watership Down by Richard Adams
99. When the Heart Calls by Cindy Woodsmall
100. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte