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Does anyone have a really good list of the top 100 books to rad before you die?

I am up for a challenge and really want to get stuck into some good books so if anyone can help me I would be really grateful!!

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THE 100 GREATEST BOOKS OF ALL TIME http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1061083,00.html
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Not 100, but here's a start. This list is so long YAHOO cuts the bottom off the list and I have a 2nd list at website. Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888; American) - Rose's father has died leaving her an orphan. She goes to live with her Aunt Plenty and Aunt Rose. She is very lonely until she makes friends with a servant, Phoebe and then seven cousins, all boys, arrive. Life will never be the same. Publication 1875. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888; American) - This novel about Jo and her three sisters, Meg, Amy, and Beth, is set during the Civil War. Their father has gone off to fight. It is based upon the author's life and the lives of her three sisters. Publication 1868. Little Men by Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888; American). Publication 1871. Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888; American). Publication 1886. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855; English) - This is an amazing love story. Jane, an poor orphan, grows up in the loveless home of a hate-filled aunt. Her close friend at school dies and cruel punishments are administered by the superintendent. As an adult, Jane falls in love with her employer, Mr. Rochester. He is tormented by a terrible secret in his past. This is a true gothic tale of suspense, romance, insanity, and attempted murder. Publication 1847. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1818 - 1849; English) - The is the story of the tortured romantic relationship of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, an orphan adopted by Catherine's father. The tale is set on the rugged moors of Yorkshire. Publication 1847. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (1820 - 1849; English) Publication 1848. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1775 - 1817; English) - The courtship of proud Mr. Darcy and prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet is complicated by their persistent misunderstanding of each other's actions and feelings. There are many interesting characters. Mrs. Bennet is preoccupied with marrying off her five daughters. There is an impressive dowager aunt who intimidates everyone except Elizabeth. The amazingly conceited clergyman rehearses his speeches to young ladies. The story is set in the 18th century. Publication 1813. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1775 - 1817; English) - Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are two very different sisters. Elinor is sensible, while Marianne is sensitive and emotional. After the death of their father, the girls, their mother, and younger sister are forced to move to a small cottage in the country. The sisters fall in love with eligible bachelors, but problems arise. Publication 1811. Emma by Jane Austen (1775 - 1817; English) - Emma Woodhouse is a young lady who is intent on matchmaking. After many complications Emma finds that her scheming has served to confuse matters and hurt other people's feelings. Publication 1815. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (1775 - 1817; English) Publication 1814. Persuasion by Jane Austen (1775 - 1817; English)Publication 1817. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1775 - 1817; English) Publication 1817. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942; Canadian) - Orphaned red head Anne Shirley goes to live with an elderly brother and sister, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert on Prince Edward Island. Anne is a bookish dreamer who needs to be loved. Publication 1908. Sequels include: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's House of Dreams, and Anne of Ingleside. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989; English) - Wealthy Max de Winter remarries and his new bride quickly realizes something is wrong at Manderley. In the opinion of the housekeeper, who was devoted to Rebecca, the last mistress of Manderly, the new Mrs. de Winter is timid and nervous, nothing like Rebecca. The housekeeper becomes the new bride's enemy as a horrible mystery about Rebecca unfolds. Publication 1940. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emma Orczy (1865 - 1947; Hungarian) Publication 1903. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864; American) - A young woman, Hester Prynne, is shunned in her community of New England Puritans and forced to wear a red "A" on her chest because of her sins with the local minister, Arthur Dimmesdale. Hester's husband, Roger Chillingworth, is jealous and full of vengeance. Publication 1850. The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864; American) Publication 1851. My Antonia by Willa Cather (1873 - 1947; American) - Antonia Shimerda moves from Bohemia to a pioneer town in Nebraska. Mr. Shimerda is homesick and cannot make a living, so he commits suicide. Antonia is strong and determined. She makes friends with Jim Burden, who lives on a neighboring farm. They grow up on the Nebraska prairie along with wolves, brown earth-owls, and rattlesnakes, and gradually Jim learns to love Antonia. Publication 1918. O, Pioneers! by Willa Cather (1873 - 1947; American) Publication 1913. The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather (1873 - 1947; American) - Publication 1915. The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry (1862 - 1910; American) - A young couple want to make Christmas special despite lack of funds. Each does what is necessary to buy just the right present for the other. The results are quite ironic. Publication 1906. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (1810 - 1865; English) Publication 1854. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (1810 - 1865; English) Publication 1865. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863; English) Publication 1848. The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope (1863 - 1933; English) Publication 1894. Old Yeller by Fred Gipson (1908 - 1973; American) - The old stray dog certainly is ugly and a thieving rascal, but out here on the Texas frontier a dog is a good companion, especially with Dad away on a cattle drive. Publication 1956. The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1876 - 1916; American) - A domesticated dog, Buck, is kidnapped and sold to gold hunters. To survive he has to learn to listen to the call of the wild and learn the ways of his wolf ancestors. Eventually, he falls into the ownership of John Thornton, whose life Buck saves twice. Publication 1903. White Fang by Jack London (1876 - 1916; American) - A half wolf - half dog is nearly destroyed by the vicious cruelty of men. Publication 1906. The Sea Wolf by Jack London (1876 - 1916; American) Publication 1904. Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (1891 - 1968; American) - Johnny is an apprentice to a silversmith in Boston (not Paul Revere) in the days just prior to the American Revolution. An accident ends his apprenticeship. In the days following his accident he meets Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and many other men of history. Publication 1944. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745; Anglo-Irish) - Lemuel Gulliver travels to a series of very unusual and heretofore unknown lands. In one place he is a giant compared to the Lilliputians. In another, he is the size of a mouse compared to the people he finds. He also finds a floating island and a place where intelligent horses are served by humanoids. Publication 1726. This was made into a movie starring Ted Danson. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731; English) - Crusoe finds himself stranded on an uncharted island off the coast of South America for nearly 30 years. He must find food, shelter, and clothing. He survives because of his faith in God. Many years after landing on the island, he saves a man named, Friday, who is about to be eaten by cannibals and Friday becomes Crusoe's faithful servant. Publication 1719. Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss (1743 - 1848; Swiss) - Fritz, Ernest, Jack, Franz, Mother, and Father survive a shipwreck and find themselves stranded on a deserted island near New Guinea. Being a religious family they offer thanks to God for all that he has provided. They salvage all that they can from the ship. They build a tree house for protection from wild animals, find food, make candles from berries, bread from roots, and a canoe from a tree. They face snakes, wolves, bears, and a lion, but are doing quite well until they discover a way to leave the island. Who will go? Who will stay? This was made into a movie a very long time ago. Publication 1812. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894; Scot) - Young Jim Hawkins, an innkeeper's son, finds a treasure map among the belongings of a dead seaman. Pirates seek that very map and Jim finds himself in quite a predicament. On board ship, Jim overhears Long John Silver's plans for mutiny. This has also been made into a movie. Publication 1883. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (1828 - 1905; French) - Phineas Fogg tries to make his way around the globe in 80 days in order to win a bet of 20,000 pounds. He is accompanied on his journey by a servant and they implore all sorts of modes of travel (elephant, sled, balloon, etc.). Publication 1873. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1828 - 1905; French) - Professor Aronnax leads an expedition attempting to destroy a giant sea monster. Their efforts with harpoons are futile and the men find themselves in the water. Later, they are captured by the enigmatic Captain Nemo on his underwater vessel, the Nautilus. Publication 1870. The movie starred a rather young Kirk Douglas. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936; English). - A boy, Mowgli, is lost in the jungle of India and adopted by a family of wolves. Publication 1894. Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936; English) This has many wonderful tales including How the Leopard Got His Spots. Publication 1902. Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936; English) - Harvey Cheyne is a spo
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Ultimate Teen Reading List! http://www.teenreads.com/features/2006-reading-list.asp
Here's a List: http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html Here's mine--- I can give you a head start.... 1. Catch-22 2. Stranger in a Strange Land 3. Ulysses 4. Finnegan's Wake 5. Don Quixote 6. Great Expectations 7. David Copperfield 8. A Tale of Two Cities 9. The Sound and the Fury 10. Dubliners 11. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 12. Cat's Cradle 13. Pride and Prejudice 14. Lolita 15. Invisible Man 16. The Origin of Species 17. Dune 18. A Clockwork Orange 19. The Count of Monte Cristo 20. The Three Musketeers 21. I, Claudius 22. The Odyssey 23. The Iliad 24. Gulliver's Travels 25. Moby Dick 26. Middlemarch 27. Anna Karenina 28. Crime and Punishment 29. The Brothers Karamazov 30. Dracula 31. Frankenstein 32. Oliver Twist 33. The Scarlett Letter 34. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 35. Madame Bovary 36. Walden 37. Hamlet 38. Romeo and Juliet 39. King Lear 40. The Canterbury Tales 41. Paradise Lost 42. The Arabian Nights 43. The War of the Worlds 44. Ringworld 45. Farenheit 451 Books I've read already 46. To Kill a Mockingbird 47. Of Mice and Men 48. The Grapes of Wrath 49. East of Eden 50. 1984 51. Animal Farm 52. Brave New World 53. Journey to the Center of the Earth 54. Flowers for Algernon 55. War and Peace ...and more that I forget...
Here's two links (with even more links in them) of lists of books to read before you die: http://www.google.com.mx/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=es&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIC_esMX221MX222&q=top+100+novels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Read The MLA list http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html is a good one, but some of those books are kind of hard to read. And it's only U.S. American books from the 1900s. In the google link there's more lists with best books of all times, that aren't only of the U.S.
i have a book (edited by Peter Boxall published by Cassell) called 1001 books to read before you die - which might be a starting point
There are some I'd like to read one day but I can't find the energy to walk around Waterstones lol I might one day though ;)
i cant tell u a hundred but dont miss out the kite runner and a thousand splendid suns both by khaled hosseini..
This is the list from the BBC's Big Read vote. It's a pretty fair mix and includes adult and children's fiction. Enjoy! 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis 10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë 13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks 14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger 16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame 17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres 20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy 21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling 23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling 24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling 25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien 26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy 27. Middlemarch, George Eliot 28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving 29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson 32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez 33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett 34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute 38. Persuasion, Jane Austen 39. Dune, Frank Herbert 40. Emma, Jane Austen 41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery 42. Watership Down, Richard Adams 43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald 44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh 46. Animal Farm, George Orwell 47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy 49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian 50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher 51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett 52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck 53. The Stand, Stephen King 54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 56. The BFG, Roald Dahl 57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome 58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell 59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer 60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman 62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden 63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough 65. Mort, Terry Pratchett 66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton 67. The Magus, John Fowles 68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett 70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding 71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind 72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell 73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett 74. Matilda, Roald Dahl 75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding 76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt 77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins 78. Ulysses, James Joyce 79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson 81. The Twits, Roald Dahl 82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith 83. Holes, Louis Sachar 84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake 85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson 87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons 89. Magician, Raymond E Feist 90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac 91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo 92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel 93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett 94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho 95. Katherine, Anya Seton 96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer 97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez 98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson 99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes The story of the gentle knight and his servant Sancho Panza has entranced readers for centuries. Buy Don Quixote at Amazon.co.uk 2. Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan The one with the Slough of Despond and Vanity Fair. Buy Pilgrim's Progress at Amazon.co.uk 3. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe The first English novel. Buy Robinson Crusoe at Amazon.co.uk 4. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift A wonderful satire that still works for all ages, despite the savagery of Swift's vision. Buy Gulliver's Travels at Amazon.co.uk 5. Tom Jones Henry Fielding The adventures of a high-spirited orphan boy: an unbeatable plot and a lot of sex ending in a blissful marriage. Buy Tom Jones at Amazon.co.uk 6. Clarissa Samuel Richardson One of the longest novels in the English language, but unputdownable. Buy Clarissa at Amazon.co.uk 7. Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne One of the first bestsellers, dismissed by Dr Johnson as too fashionable for its own good. Buy Tristram Shandy at Amazon.co.uk 8. Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos De Laclos An epistolary novel and a handbook for seducers: foppish, French, and ferocious. Buy Les Liaisons Dangereuses at Amazon.co.uk 9. Emma Jane Austen Near impossible choice between this and Pride and Prejudice. But Emma never fails to fascinate and annoy. Buy Emma at Amazon.co.uk 10. Frankenstein Mary Shelley Inspired by spending too much time with Shelley and Byron. Buy Frankenstein at Amazon.co.uk Article continues -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11. Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock A classic miniature: a brilliant satire on the Romantic novel. Buy Nightmare Abbey at Amazon.co.uk 12. The Black Sheep Honore De Balzac Two rivals fight for the love of a femme fatale. Wrongly overlooked. Buy The Black Sheep at Amazon.co.uk 13. The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal Penetrating and compelling chronicle of life in an Italian court in post-Napoleonic France. Buy The Charterhouse of Parma at Amazon.co.uk 14. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas A revenge thriller also set in France after Bonaparte: a masterpiece of adventure writing. Buy The Count of Monte Cristo at Amazon.co.uk 15. Sybil Benjamin Disraeli Apart from Churchill, no other British political figure shows literary genius. Buy Sybil at Amazon.co.uk 16. David Copperfield Charles Dickens This highly autobiographical novel is the one its author liked best. Buy David Copperfield at Amazon.co.uk 17. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff have passed into the language. Impossible to ignore. Buy Wuthering Heights at Amazon.co.uk 18. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Obsessive emotional grip and haunting narrative. Buy Jane Eyre at Amazon.co.uk 19. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray The improving tale of Becky Sharp. Buy Vanity Fair at Amazon.co.uk 20. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne A classic investigation of the American mind. Buy The Scarlet Letter at Amazon.co.uk 21. Moby-Dick Herman Melville 'Call me Ishmael' is one of the most famous opening sentences of any novel. Buy Moby-Dick at Amazon.co.uk 22. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert You could summarise this as a story of adultery in provincial France, and miss the point entirely. Buy Madame Bovary at Amazon.co.uk 23. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins Gripping mystery novel of concealed identity, abduction, fraud and mental cruelty. Buy The Woman in White at Amazon.co.uk 24. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll A story written for the nine-year-old daughter of an Oxford don that still baffles most kids. Buy Alice's Adventures in Wonderland at Amazon.co.uk 25. Little Women Louisa M. Alcott Victorian bestseller about a New England family of girls. Buy Little Women at Amazon.co.uk 26. The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope A majestic assault on the corruption of late Victorian England. Buy The Way We Live Now at Amazon.co.uk 27. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy The supreme novel of the married woman's passion for a younger man. Buy Anna Karenina at Amazon.co.uk 28. Daniel Deronda George Eliot A passion and an exotic grandeur that is strange and unsettling. Buy Daniel Deronda at Amazon.co.uk 29. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky Mystical tragedy by the author of Crime and Punishment. Buy The Brothers Karamazov at Amazon.co.uk 30. The Portrait of a Lady Henry James The story of Isabel Archer shows James at his witty and polished best. Buy The Portrait of a Lady at Amazon.co.uk 31. Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Twain was a humorist, but this picture of Mississippi life is profoundly moral and still incredibly influential. Buy Huckleberry Finn at Amazon.co.uk 32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson A brilliantly suggestive, resonant study of human duality by a natural storyteller. Buy Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at Amazon.co.uk 33. Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome One of the funniest English books ever written. Buy Three Men in a Boat at Amazon.co.uk 34. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde A coded and epigrammatic melodrama inspired by his own tortured homosexuality. Buy The Picture of Dorian Gray at Amazon.co.uk 35. The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith This classic of Victorian suburbia will always be renowned for the character of Mr Pooter. Buy The Diary of a Nobody at Amazon.co.uk 36. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy Its savage bleakness makes it one of the first twentieth-century novels. Buy Jude the Obscure at Amazon.co.uk 37. The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers A prewar invasion-scare spy thriller by a writer later shot for his part in the Irish republican rising. Buy The Riddle of the Sands at Amazon.co.uk 38. The Call of the Wild Jack London The story of a dog who joins a pack of wolves after his master's death. Buy The Call of the Wild at Amazon.co.uk 39. Nostromo Joseph Conrad Conrad's masterpiece: a tale of money, love and revolutionary politics. Buy Nostromo at Amazon.co.uk 40. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame This children's classic was inspired by bedtime stories for Grahame's son. Buy The Wind in the Willows at Amazon.co.uk 41. In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust An unforgettable portrait of Paris in the belle epoque. Probably the longest novel on this list. Buy In Search of Lost Time at Amazon.co.uk 42. The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence Novels seized by the police, like this one, have a special afterlife. Buy The Rainbow at Amazon.co.uk 43. The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford This account of the adulterous lives of two Edwardian couples is a classic of unreliable narration. Buy The Good Soldier at Amazon.co.uk 44. The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan A classic adventure story for boys, jammed with action, violence and suspense. Buy The Thirty-Nine Steps at Amazon.co.uk 45. Ulysses James Joyce Also pursued by the British police, this is a novel more discussed than read. Buy Ulysses at Amazon.co.uk 46. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf Secures Woolf's position as one of the great twentieth-century English novelists. Buy Mrs Dalloway at Amazon.co.uk 47. A Passage to India E. M. Forster The great novel of the British Raj, it remains a brilliant study of empire. Buy A Passage to India at Amazon.co.uk 48. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald The quintessential Jazz Age novel. Buy The Great Gatsby at Amazon.co.uk 49. The Trial Franz Kafka The enigmatic story of Joseph K. Buy The Trial at Amazon.co.uk 50. Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway He is remembered for his novels, but it was the short stories that first attracted notice. Buy Men Without Women at Amazon.co.uk 51. Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine The experiences of an unattractive slum doctor during the Great War: a masterpiece of linguistic innovation. Buy Journey to the End of the Night at Amazon.co.uk 52. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner A strange black comedy by an American master. Buy As I Lay Dying at Amazon.co.uk 53. Brave New World Aldous Huxley Dystopian fantasy about the world of the seventh century AF (after Ford). Buy Brave New World at Amazon.co.uk 54. Scoop Evelyn Waugh The supreme Fleet Street novel. Buy Scoop at Amazon.co.uk 55. USA John Dos Passos An extraordinary trilogy that uses a variety of narrative devices to express the story of America. Buy USA at Amazon.co.uk 56. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler Introducing Philip Marlowe: cool, sharp, handsome - and bitterly alone. Buy The Big Sleep at Amazon.co.uk 57. The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford An exquisite comedy of manners with countless fans. Buy The Pursuit of Love at Amazon.co.uk 58. The Plague Albert Camus A mysterious plague sweeps through the Algerian town of Oran. Buy The Plague at Amazon.co.uk 59. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell This tale of one man's struggle against totalitarianism has been appropriated the world over. Buy Nineteen Eighty-Four at Amazon.co.uk 60. Malone Dies Samuel Beckett Part of a trilogy of astonishing monologues in the black comic voice of the author of Waiting for Godot. Buy Malone Dies at Amazon.co.uk 61. Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger A week in the life of Holden Caulfield. A cult novel that still mesmerises. Buy Catcher in the Rye at Amazon.co.uk 62. Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor A disturbing novel of religious extremism set in the Deep South. Buy Wise Blood at Amazon.co.uk 63. Charlotte's Web E. B. White How Wilbur the pig was saved by the literary genius of a friendly spider. Buy Charlotte's Web at Amazon.co.uk 64. The