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About The Word Nerd
I came across an article listing the 100 novels everyone should read and got an idea to just read them all. I'm going to start at the bottom and work my way up, and I'll write about each book as I go along... Wow, I am officially the biggest nerd ever!
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100 novels everyone should read
- 100 The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein
- 99 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- 98 The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
- 97 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- 96 One Thousand and One Nights Anon
- 95 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 94 Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
- 93 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
- 92 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
- 91 The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki
- 90 Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
- 89 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
- 88 Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
- 87 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- 86 Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
- 85 The Red and the Black by Stendhal
- 84 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- 83 Germinal by Emile Zola
- 82 The Stranger by Albert Camus
- 81 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- 80 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
- 79 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- 78 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- 77 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- 76 The Trial by Franz Kafka
- 75 Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
- 74 Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan
- 73 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
- 72 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
- 71 The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
- 70 The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- 69 If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
- 68 Crash by JG Ballard
- 67 A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul
- 66 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- 65 Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
- 64 The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
- 63 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- 62 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- 61 My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
- 60 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- 59 London Fields by Martin Amis
- 58 The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
- 57 The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
- 56 The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
- 55 Austerlitz by WG Sebald
- 54 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- 53 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- 52 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
- 51 Underworld by Don DeLillo
- 50 Beloved by Toni Morrison
- 49 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- 48 Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
- 47 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- 46 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- 45 The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet
- 44 Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
- 43 The Rabbit books by John Updike
- 42 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- 41 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
- 40 The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- 39 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- 38 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
- 37 The Warden by Anthony Trollope
- 36 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- 35 Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
- 34 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
- 33 Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
- 32 A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
- 31 Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky
- 30 Atonement by Ian McEwan
- 29 Life: a User’s Manual by Georges Perec
- 28 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
- 27 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- 26 Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
- 25 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
- 24 Ulysses by James Joyce
- 23 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- 22 A Passage to India by EM Forster
- 21 1984 by George Orwell
- 20 Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
- 19 The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
- 18 Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
- 17 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- 16 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
- 15 The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse
- 14 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- 13 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- 12 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- 11 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- 10 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- 9 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- 8 Disgrace by JM Coetzee
- 7 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- 6 In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
- 5 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- 4 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- 3 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- 2 Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- 1 Middlemarch by George Eliot