Top Classics in Order of Favor
1. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
2. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
3. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
5. The Razor’s Edge – W. Somerset Maugham
6. The Brave New World – Aldus Huxley
7. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
8. The Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut
9. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
10. Galapagos – Kurt Vonnegut
11. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
12. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
13. Elmer Gantry – Sinclair Lewis
14. Basil and Josephine Stories – F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
16. Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham
17. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
18. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
19. The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
20. The Good Earth – Pearl Buck
21. Germinal – Emil Zola
22. Steppenwolf – Hermann Hesse
23. Narcissus and Goldmund – Hermann Hesse
24. A Clockwork Orange
25. A Hero of Our Time – Mikhail Lermontov
26. Tess of the D’Ubervilles – Thomas Hardy
27. The Financier – Theodore Dreiser
28. Looking Backward – Edward Bellamy
29. The Autobiography of Malcom X – Alex Haley
30. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
31. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
32. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
33. Native Son – Richard Wright
34. The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
35. A Burnt Out Case – Graham Greene
36. Resurrection – Leo Tolstoy
37. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
38. Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
39. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
40. Darkness at Noon – Arthur Koestler
41. Nana – Emil Zola
42. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
43. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
44. Luck Jim – Kingsley Amis
45. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
46. Then & Now – W. Somerset Maugham
47. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
48. It Can’t Happen Here – Sinclair Lewis
49. The Moon and the Sixpence – W. Somerset Maugham
50. Dodsworth – Sinclair Lewis
51. The Young Lions – Irwin Shaw
52. Watership Down – Richard Adams
53. The Code of the Woosters – P. G. Wodehouse
54. Scoop – Evelyn Waugh
55. The Winds of War – Herman Wouk
56. War and Remembrance – Herman Wouk
57. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
58. Kingsblood Royal – Sinclair Lewis
59. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
60. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
61. The Ladies Delight – Emile Zola
62. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Dafoe
63. A Separate Peace – John Knowles
64. Our Man in Havana – Graham Greene
65. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
66. Old Goriot – Honore de Balzac
67. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
68. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
69. Oil – Upton Sinclair
70. Deliverance – James Dickey
71. Ham on Rye – Charles Bukowski
72. The Stranger – Albert Camus
73. White Noise – Don DeLillo
74. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
75. Appointment in Samarra – John O’hare
76. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
77. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
78. Anna Karenin – Leo Tolstoy
79. 1984 – George Orwell
80. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thachary
81. Bridehead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
82. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
83. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
84. To Kill a Mocking Bird – Harper Lee
85. Animal Farm – George Orwell
86. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
87. Black Boy – Richard Wright
88. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
89. The Monkey Wrench Gang – Edward Abbey
90. Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol
91. The Rise of Silas Lapham – William Dean Howells
92. Don Quixote – Cervantes
93. An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
94. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austin
95. Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee
96. Cass Timberlane – Sinclair Lewis
97. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
98. God Bless You Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
99. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
100. On the Road – Jack Kerouac