When in doubt, the classics are always a great place to start. Here are 25 of the greatest classics of all time, compiled from several lists with a few of my personal favorites thrown in:
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Call of the Wild, Jack London
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , Robert Louis Stevenson
The Iliad, Homer
1984, George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
