1. “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  2. “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee
  3. “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger
  4. “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck
  5. “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut
  6. “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov
  7. “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
  8. “1984” by George Orwell
  9. “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker
  10. “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath
  11. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez
  12. “To Kill a Kingdom” by Alexandra Christo
  13. “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde
  14. “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  15. “The Satanic Verses” by Salman Rushdie
  16. “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho
  17. “The Prince” by Niccolò Machiavelli
  18. “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri
  19. “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” by Jesse Andrew
  20. “Looking for Alaska” by John Green
  21. “The Book of Mormon”
  22. “The Talmud”
  23. “The Bhagavad Gita”
  24. “The Analects of Confucius”
  25. “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu
  26. “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler
  27. “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe
  28. “The Feminine Mystique” by Betty Friedan
  29. “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir
  30. “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
  31. “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan
  32. “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros
  33. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain
  34. “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London
  35. “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  36. “The Red Badge of Courage” by Stephen Crane
  37. “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain
  38. “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller
  39. “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams
  40. “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by Leo Tolstoy
  41. “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy
  42. “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy
  43. “The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  44. “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  45. “The Idiot” by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  46. “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad
  47. “The Invisible Man” by H.G. Wells
  48. “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells
  49. “The War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells
  50. “Dracula” by Bram Stoker