22 Greatest Novels Everyone should Read – We have put together the list of 22 Greatest Novels everyone should read, in which not all are the most famous ones, but all of them have one outstanding merit: they are highly inspiring to rediscover the pleasure of reading.
So have a look at our list of top Greatest Novels everyone should read. The list is not in any particular order. agen bola
1) A TALE OF TWO CITIES
A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature. https://morrowpacific.com/
2) THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL
On her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank�s parents give her a diary. She�s excited because she wants someone, or something, in which to confide all of her secret thoughts but fate has different plans. The Diary of a Young Girl Or The Diary of Anne Frank is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. https://www.mustangcontracting.com/
3) DON QUIXOTE
Sold more than 500 million copies. Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
4) FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
According to Telegraph 50 Shades of Grey is best-selling book of all time. Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic romance novel by British author E. L. James. It is the first installment in the Fifty Shades trilogy that traces the deepening relationship between a college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and a young business magnate, Christian Grey.
5) MOBY-DICK (THE WHALE)
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) is the sixth book by American writer Herman Melville. The work is an epic sea story of Captain Ahab’s voyage in pursuit of Moby Dick, a great white whale. It initially received mixed reviews and at Melville’s death in 1891 was remembered, if at all, as a children’s sea adventure, but now is considered one of the Great American Novels and a leading work of American Romanticism.
6) MRS DALLOWAY
Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional
high-society woman in post-World War I England. It is one of Woolf’s best-known novels. (via – GoodRead)
7) PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England
8) A PASSAGE TO INDIA
A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of English literature by the Modern Library and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Time magazine included the novel in its “100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005”.
9) THE GREAT GATSBY
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald�s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted �gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,� it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s. (via – Amazon)
10) THE GODFATHER
The Godfather is a crime novel written by Mario Puzo, originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam’s Sons. It details the story of a fictitious Sicilian Mafia family based in New York City and headed by Don Vito Corleone, who became synonymous with the Italian Mafia.
11) BRIDGE ACROSS FOREVER
The bridge across forever is best-selling Book by Richard Bach. The author of “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” recounts his search for his dreamed-of soulmate, his detour into wealth and success, and his ultimate meeting with the woman with whom he has found new and intense love and enchantment
12) LES MIS�RABLES
Les Mis�rables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.
13) THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger. Originally published for adults, it has since
become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage angst and alienation. It has been translated into almost all of the world’s major languages. Around 250,000 copies are sold each year with total sales of more than 65 million books. The novel’s protagonist, Holden Caulfield, has become an icon for teenage rebellion.
14) LOLITA
Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, written in English and published in 1955 in Paris and 1958 in New York. It was later translated by its Russian-native author into Russian.
Scholar�s sexual obsession with a prepubescent �nymphet� is complicated by her mother�s passion for him.
15) FRANKENSTEIN
Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by British author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley’ appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823.
16) IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME
In Search of Lost Time, is a novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust (1871�1922). His most prominent work, it is known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the “episode of the madeleine.”
17) THE FOUNTAINHEAD
The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand, and her first major literary success. More than 6.5 million copies of the book have been sold worldwide. The Fountainhead’s protagonist, Howard Roark, is an individualistic young architect who chooses to struggle in obscurity rather than compromise his artistic and personal vision.
18) MIDNIGHT�S CHILDREN
Midnight’s Children is a 1980 book by Salman Rushdie that deals with India’s transition from British
colonialism to independence and the partition of British India.
19) DANGEROUS LIAISONS
Dangerous Liaisons or Les Liaisons dangereuses is a French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, first published in four volumes by Durand Neveu from March 23, 1782.
It is the story of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two rivals (and ex-lovers) who use seduction as a weapon to humiliate and degrade others, all the while enjoying their cruel games and boasting about their manipulative talents.
20) THE WOMAN IN WHITE
The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins’ fifth published novel, written in 1859. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first in the genre of “sensation novels”.
21) THREE MEN IN A BOAT
One of the funniest English book ever written. Three Men in a Boat, published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.
22) THE TRAVELER
The Traveler is a 2005 novel by John Twelve Hawks. The Dark River, book two of The Fourth Realm Trilogy, was published in July 2007. The final part in the trilogy, The Golden City, was released September 8, 2009.