50 Books Everyone Should Read

Today’s post is very simply a list of 50 books everyone should read at least once in their lives. Let’s just jump right in!

Here are 50 books everyone should read at least once.

1. Emma by Jane Austen
2. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
3. Atonement by Ian McEwan
4. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
5. A Midsummer’s Nights Dream by William Shakespeare
6. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
7. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
8. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
9. Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
10. Apache by Tanya Landman
11. Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
12. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
13. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
14. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
15. A Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
16. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
17. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
18. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
19. Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
20. The Reader by Bernard Schlink
21. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
22. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
23. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
24. Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
25. In Paris with You by Clementine Beauvais
26. The Friendship Cure by Kate Leaver
27. The Multi-Hyphen Method by Emma Gannon
28. Room by Emma Donoghue
29. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
30. Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
31. Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
32. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
33. The Bees by Laline Paull
34. One by Sarah Crossan
35. The History Boys by Alan Bennet
36. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
37. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
38. Watership Down by Richard Adams
39. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graeme
40. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
41. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
42. Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
43. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
44. Eragon by Christopher Paolini
45. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
46. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
47. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
48. Perfume by Patrick Süskind
49. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
50. A Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessha Moshfegh

How many have you read? Let me know in the comments below. Happy reading!

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