100 Useful Books to Read Before You Die

From the best science books to the best fiction books, there are so many excellent titles collected in libraries and bookstores around the world.

So how do you know when one belongs among the best books to read of all time? Well, we believe the best books open our minds to new characters, points of view, and worlds. They stay with us long after the last page is read. They make us want to share them with everyone.

Not sure what to read and what to buy? Consider our collection of books to read before you die for your literary bucket list.

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The greatest books are not called classics for nothing. Written by the best literary minds, these below listed books have a universal theme, interesting characters, experiences, perspective, and emotions that are still relevant until today. Some of the ultimate and best interesting books to read have inspired modern fiction in many ways.

From prize-winning books to controversial classics that got everyone talking – these are the top 100 books to read at least once in your life.

1. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
2. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
3. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4. Das Capital – Karl Mark
5. Animal Farm – George Orwell
6. Dialogues – Plato
7. Tempest – William Shakespeare
8. Main Kemp – Ad loaf Hitler
9. Mother – Maxim Gorky
10. As You Like it – William Shakespeare
11. Paradise Lost – John Milton
12. The Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
13. The Merchant of Venice – William Shakespeare
14. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
15. All’s Well that Ends Well – William Shakespeare
16. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
17. Origin of Species – Charles Darwin
18. Discovery of India – Jawahar Lal Nehru
19. Asian Drama – Gunner Myrdal
20. The Old Man and The Sea – Earnest Hemingway
21. Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare
22. Man and Superman – George Bernard Shaw
23. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
24. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
25. Heaven and Earth – Lord Byron
26. Blue Bird – Lord Alfred Tennyson
27. Othello – William Shakespeare
28. India Wins Freedom – Abul Kalam Azad
29. Marriage and Moral – Bertrand Russell
30. God of the Small Things – Arundhuty Roy
31. Caesar and Cleopatra – George Bernard
32. Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
33. Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
34. Lycidas – John Milton
35. Emma – Jane Austen
36. A pair of Blue Eyes – Thomas Hardy
37. Odyssey – Homer
38. Memories of the Second World War – Winston Churchill
39. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Earnest Hemingway
40. Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith
41. West Land – T.S Eliot
42. Vanity Fair – W.M Thackeray
43. Prince – Machiavelli
44. Republic – Plato
45. Freedom – Bertrand Russell
46. A Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
47. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
48. Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow – D.H Lawrence
49. Ulysses – Lord Alfred Tennyson
50. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
51. Roots – Alex Haley
52. To Skylark – P. B Shelly
53. Time Machine – H. W Wells
54. Try and Try Again – W.E Hick son
55. Seven Seas – Rudyard Kipling
56. Around the World in Eighty Days- Jules Verne
57. Waiting For Goddot – Samuel Becket
58. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
59. Silent Women – Ben Johnson
60. Wuthering Heights – Emile Bronte
61. The Way of the World – William Congreve
62. Voyage of Lilliput – Jonathon Swift
63. Top Secret – Henry Fielding
64. Twelfth Night – William Shakespeare
65. Utopia – Sir Thomas Moore
66. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
67. The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
68. The Alchemist – Ben Jonson
69. Tess of t D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
70. Scholar Gipsy – Matthew Arnold
71. The Rape of the Lock – Alexander Pope
72. Prelude – William Wordsworth
73. Ode to the West Wind – P.B Shelly
74. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
75. King Lear – William Shakespeare
76. Kublai Khan – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
77. Isabella – John Keats
78. Measure and Measure – William Shakespeare
79. In Memoriam – Lord Alfred Tennyson
80. Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
81. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
82. Paradise Regained – John Milton
83. Iliad – Homer
84. Divine Comedy – Dante
85. Crime and Punishment – Dostoevsky
86. A Brief History Of Time – Stephen Hawking
87. A Farewell to Arms – Earnest Hemingway
88. A Midsummer’s Nights Dream – William Shakespeare
89. Adonis – P. B Shelly
90. Akbar Nama – Abul Fazal
91. Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
92. Comedy of Errors – William Shakespeare
93. Don Juan – Lord Byron
94. Dr. Faustus – Christopher Marlowe
95. Politics – Aristotle
96. Volpone – Ben Jonson
97. Dictionary – Samuel Johnson
98. A Passage to India – E. M. Forster
99. Macbeth – William Shakespeare
100. Samson Agonists – John Milton

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