Books You Should Read Before You Die

Discover the ultimate must-read book list! From timeless classics to life-changing novels, these are the essential books you should read before you die. Expand your mind and soul today.

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Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and …
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The Satanic Verses

by Salman Rushdie

Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star …
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East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

The biblical account of Cain and Abel is echoed in the history of two generations of the Trask family in California.
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The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

Originally published: Dana Point, Calif.: Ardis, 1995.
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The Lord of the Rings

by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Presents the epic depicting the Great War of the Ring, a struggle between good and evil in Middle-earth, following the odyssey of Frodo the hobbit …
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In Cold Blood

by Truman Capote

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and …
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A Prayer for Owen Meany

by John Irving

A story of friendship through adversity, faith and destiny, and the search for God.
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Animal Farm

by George Orwell

75th Anniversary Edition—Includes a New Introduction by Téa Obreht George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards …
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To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both …
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One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The rise and fall, birth and death, of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the BuendĂ­a family.
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Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Nicola Bradbury.
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Moby-Dick

by Herman Melville

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read First published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, …
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The Great Gatsby

by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Tells the tragic love story of Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan.
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Geek Love

by Katherine Dunn

National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit …
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Don Quixote

by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he …
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The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus

by Henry Miller

The first book of a trilogy of novels known collectively as "The Rosy Crucifixion." It is autobiographical and tells the story of Miller's first tempestuous …
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Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

The notorious and celebrated novel that established modern realism For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically …
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The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the …
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All the Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer …
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The Last Temptation of Christ

by Nikos Kazantzakis

In this story, Jesus is presented as both fully human and fully divine, free of sin but subject to all temptations.
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Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

The classic novel of a quest for knowledge that has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers—a perennial favorite for graduation gifts. …
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A Night to Remember

by Walter Lord

A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title.