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Everyone loves a classic fresh, but where to offse? From Jane Austen to Charles Dickens, Chloe Anthony Wofford to Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, the fable canon is indeed Brobdingnagian you can easily get lost in it.

So we asked our readers to tell us about their favourite standard books. The resultant list of must-reads is a perfect way to find inspiration to take up your classics adventure. There's something for everyone, from family sagas and state fiction to romances and historical fiction.

And if you revel this, you can besides acquire about our proofreader's favourite books by female authors, most loved children's books and the world-class memoirs they've ever show.

Start at the get-go of our tilt (books are hierarchic in no particular gild) and tick them bump off as you go on this handy downloadable list, or you can jump to:

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1. Superbia and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)

We aforesaid: It is a truth universally acknowledged that when most multitude think of Jane Jane Austen they think of this charming and humorous story of love, difficult families and the tricky task of finding a big husband with a good fortune.

You said: Philosophy, history, wit, and the nearly passionate love news report.

Francesca, Twitter

2. To Kill a Mocker by Harpist Shelton Jackson Lee (1960)

We said: A novel ahead its time, Harpist Leeward's Pulitzer-prize winner addresses issues of race, inequality and separatism with some levity and compassionateness. Told direct the eyes of loveable rogues Scout and Jem, it too created matchless of lit's most beloved heroes – Atticus Finch, a man determined to right the group wrongs of the Deep South.

You said: A jarring & poignantly pleasing story about how humans regale each other.

Greygardens, Chirrup

3. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

We said: Jay Gatsby, the enigmatic millionaire who throws decadent parties just doesn't attend them, is one of the zealous characters of American lit. This is F. Scott Fitzgerald at his most starry and devastating.

You said: The greatest, most critical dissection of the hollowness at the heart of the American Dream. Hypnotic, tragic, both of its time and completely relevant.

Joe T, Twitter

4. Cardinal Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)

We said: Gabriel García Márquez's multi-people spanning magnum opus was a landmark in Spanish literature.

You said: Thaumaturgy realism at its best. Some funny and moving, this book made me reflect for weeks on the adamantine march of time.

Andre C, Twitter

5. Coldly by Truman Hooded coat (1965)

We said: The 'true crime' TV program / podcast you'atomic number 75 obsessed with credibly owes a debt to this masterpiece of reportage aside Harry Truman Capote. Chilling and smart as a whip.

You said: In this original novel, completed after six arduous years of research, Capote invented a new genre - the 'Nonfiction Fresh' - applying prose techniques to fact. It spawned the cultivate of New Journalism & invented verity crime genre as we know it.

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6. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1966)

We said: JeanRhys wrote this campaign and opposing-body prequel to Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre which chronicles the events of Mr Rochester's disastrous marriage to Antoinette Conway or Bertha as we make out to have sex her.

You same: Rhys took a character from a classic refreshing and breathed revolutionary life into the "madwoman in the garret" based happening her ain experiences/Weltanschauung. She beautifully showed how the stories we read fold into our lives to make new stories.

Eric A, Chitter

7. Desperate New World by Aldous Leonard Huxley (1932)

We said: One of the greatest and most prescient state novels ever written, this should get on everyone's must-read list.

You said: Inclined the exponential function growth of AI, Machine Learning & Robotics, Huxley's vision acts as a warning. Will we turn out and challenge those who assay to shape our future or somnambulate toward conditioning by technology?

David G, Twitter

8. I Entrance The Palace by Dodie Smith (1948)

We said: Cassandra Mortmain's upbringing in a crumbling castle with her oddball family may not be everyone's experience, but we can guarantee her coming-of-age story with altogether its enchanting and disenchanting moments testament resonate for more.

You said: A 'children's book' that speaks volumes (ha) about unanswered love and dysfunctional families. Timeless. And funny. (and we need some laughs on the 100 Classics list!)

Helen Y, Twitter

9. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847)

We said: One of literature's steeliest heroines, in her short spirit Jane Eyre has defeat a health problem puerility only to be challenged by secrets, strange noises and orphic fires in her new base of Thornfield Charles Martin Hall. All while falling smitten with her employer, Mr Rochester. A Gothic chef-d'oeuvre which was innovative in its cozy use of the first-somebody narrative.

You said:Because Jane is a model: she stands up for herself, others and what she believes in, but isn't too proud to give way second chances to those whose time is running out.

Sarah F, Twitter

10. Crime and Punishment away Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)

We said: This novel is a masterful and completely captivating word picture of a man experiencing a profound mental unravelling. No amount of ethical bargaining on Raskolnikov's part can free him from the being guilt nested in his soul. A brilliant read if you loved Breaking Disobedient.

You aforementioned:Zero strange original has made me feel so much for the main characters, thusly profoundly pictured by the author. I felt like an orphan when I finished it and it's the only novel I've atomic number 75-read various times.

Angie V, Chitter

11. The Secret Chronicle by Donna Tartt (1992)

We said: Donna Tartt's record follows a inner circle of fashionable, attractive students at an elite group university, and an foreigner who finds himself forced to conceal a dark hush-hush. A gripping and tense read.

You said: A modern classic - so well-articulated and written (something that's operose to seed by these days). Also, EXCELLENT PLOT!

AnamiAndBooks, Chirrup

12. The Call of the Unsubdued by Jack London (1903)

We said: Jack London was a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and ill-used his experiences to write on a dog named Dollar who becomes a drawing card of the wild. With themes exploring nature and the skin for existence in the frozen Alaskan landscape.

You aforementioned: Because everyone who loves the earth knows it's trusty.

Helen D, Twitter

13. The Chrysalids away John Wyndham (1955)

We same:An allegoric dystopia written in the wake of the Second Universe Warfare, The Chrysalids smartly strives to grass acts of the past while including a profound supplication for tolerance.

You said: A post-prophetic novel, about intolerance, loneliness, friendly relationship, and what it means to be human. A fantastic sci-fi novel, as applicable today as it was in the 50s.

Hollie B, Chirrup

14. Persuasion by Jane Austen (1818)

We said: Jane Austen's last completed novel ahead her inopportune death was ane tinged with heartache and regret. Anne Elliot's feelings for the handsome Maitre d' Wentworth are re-lighted when helium returns from sea. Will they get a second chance at happiness?

You said: This continues to be my favourite refreshing. IT is a more mature love story, full of humourous, delightful observations of hominid doings. It offers us a glance of redemption. We change A we farm, and the mistakes ready-made in our young person can personify overcome.

Dartmouth_Diva, Twitter

15. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)

We said: Every American author since 1851 has been chasing the same whale: to somehow write a novel Eastern Samoa epic and influential arsenic Melville's.

You aforesaid: The great American refreshing: bully characters, wonderful spoken language, thick with the Good Book and Doubting Thomas Browne, and has the best opening sentence of all time. What's not to corresponding?

David H, Chitter

 16. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (1950)

We said: C.S. Lewis's timeless fib captured the hearts of children everywhere with its fantastical mankind through the wardrobe, good of fauns, dwarves and anthropomorphised animals. Whether you were Peter, Edmund, Susan or Lucy, we all wanted to put on a fur coat and go happening a snow-laden adventure with Mister Tumnus.

You said: A fine-looking timeless tale of innocence, wonder and sacrifice for young and old alike. It was ace of the first books that I read from continue to extend without putting downwardly!

Adisha K, Twitter

17. To the Lighthouse by VA Woolf (1927)

We said: To the Lighthouse is a daring original with little consider for rules. There's no consistent teller, scant dialogue and almost no plat. With everything stripped away, we're left with a breathtaking and lyrical meditation on relationships, nature and the madness of perceptual experience.

You same: You feel for like you're stood happening top of a cliff with the sea breeze blowing right through your bones.

‏Halcyonbookdays, Chirrup

18. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen (1938)

We said:Considered Elizabeth I Bowen's masterpiece novel, this is the story of 16-twelvemonth senior Portia World Health Organization is sent to hold ou with her Aunty in London, after her mother's death. There, she falls for the cunning cad Eddie. A devastating exploration of adolescent know and innocence betrayed.

You said: This book captures the awkward tension and anxieties of the interwar period through with a deeply ruminative, merely oddly naive, unloved girl. ‏

Heather O, Twitter

19. Tess of the d'Urbervilles aside Dylan Thomas Hardy (1891)

We said: It received assorted reviews it was first published, in part because it challenged Victorian ideals of purity and sexual morals. Simply Thomas Hardy's unafraid account of Tess's bid for salvation in a society ready to condemn her is a harrowing and compelling read.

You said: This novel teaches us active the spot of women in the past and their moments of frailty versus moments of strength. Basically, an important insight for everyone to have!

Abbie H, Twitter

20. Frankenstein by Blessed Virgin Shelley (1823)

We aforesaid: Written when Mary Percy Bysshe Shelley was just 18 years patched, merely put on't let that depress you. Frankenstein is a Nonmodern masterpiece with diverting coiffe pieces aplenty.

You aforesaid: Chosen for all the questions it raises nearly consequences and taking responsibility for your actions; nature versus nurture; the prise of friendship. I could go on.

Julie A, Twitter

21.The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (1966)

We said:This spine-chilling story was censored by Joseph Stalin and sadly only published after Mikhail Bulgakov's death.

You said: This novel has got the Devil mooching just about Moscow with a massive black sick. Buckeye State, and in that respect's a naked fast lady.

Eggfrieddog, Twitter

22. The Mediator by L. P. Hartley (1953)

We said:A moving exploration by L. P. Hartley of a young boy's loss of innocence and a critical catch of fellowship at the close of the Nonmodern era.

You said: As a 17-year-old, I was completely wrapped by this story, wishing Leo was my brother so that I could protect him from the dashing hopes that awaited him.

Rapsodiafestiva, Twitter

23. One Flew Over the Jackass's Nest by Kesey (1962)

We said: A psychiatric Mary Augusta Arnold Ward in Oregon is ruled by a tyrannical matron, but when a rebellious patient arrives her regimen is thrown into disarray. A story of the imprisoned battling the establishment.

You said: A story that shows there is Sir Thomas More to life than following rules. Having joy and being spontaneous are as important as anything other in life.

Darren B, Twitter

24. Nineteen Cardinal-Four aside George Eric Arthur Blai (1949)

We said: The definitive state novel, George Orwell's vision of a gamy surveillance society is gripping from the first page to the last.

You said: I first read this book years ago, and was glad I would never have to constitute a part of that rather society. Yet, Hera I am in 2018, and so much of that novel has come true.

Donna J, Chitter

25. Buddenbrooks by Thomas the doubting Apostle Thomas Mann (1901)

We said:In Thomas Mann's semi-life history crime syndicate epic, He portrays the slow decline of a rich and highly esteemed merchant-family in northern Federal Republic of Germany over four generations, as they grapple with the modernism of the 20th century.

You said: IT's a extraordinary novel about the rise and fall of a family, the relationship between fathers and sons, and the difference 'tween art and business. Well, and I have to enunciat I get along love family sagas.

Simon Peter L, Twitter

26. The Grapes of Wrath aside John Steinbeck (1939)

We aforementioned: Possibly St. John the Apostle Steinbeck's finest original, this is a attractively evocative and, past the end, devastating read.

You said: Migration in search of work and a better future. A contemporary-day story. Still makes my skin tingle.

Morven, Twitter

27. Dearest by Toni Morrison (1987)

We aforementioned: Toni Morrison's novel tells the narrative of a previous Kentucky slave haunted by the trauma of her past spirit, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fable in 1988.

You said: This book is amazing. Beautifully written, haunting and the even of detail of the lengths people went to protect their families from bondage is fantastic.

LittleReigate, Twitter

28. The Cipher of the Woosters by P. G. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1938)

We said: This is the third unabridged original featuring P. G. P. G. Wodehouse's best-notable creations, the bumbling fool Bertie Wooster and his quick-thinking gentleman Jeeves. In that outing, the duo hatches a audacious and uproarious scheme to steal an 18th-C moo-cow-creamer. What could go misguided?

You said: The best of the Bertie and Jeeves novels aside Wodehouse, the 20th century master of the buoyant comic novel. Intricate plotting and brilliant command of West Germanic language prose.

Matt F, Twitter

29. Dracula by Bram Bram Stoker (1897)

We said: Bram Stoker's novel is told by triple narrators in a series of diary entries, letters, newspaper articles and ships' logs; an old folklore tale becomes a direful world for solicitor Jonathan Harker and his friends later on atomic number 2 visits Count Dracula. And the Matter to is not a hero equivalent our redbrick vampires aka Edward III Cullen.

You said: A Gothic tale of fright and dear. Would one desire immortality at the cost of ane's morality and soul? Solitude beckons down such a life-threatening and fearful path.

Rob K, Twitter

30. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)

We said: Perhaps the greatest story ever told, J. R. R. Tolkien's incredible trilogy of otherworldliness brought a world of hobbits, dwarves, elves and orcs to life in a room ne'er register before. Ultimately a tale of companionship and the battle between good and evil, the fictional world of Middle Earth has endured to become far greater than the sum of its parts.

You said: IT's got the great wide story, dally, heroism, self-sacrifice, social commentary... it's not fair magic and elves!

Anne O, Twitter

31. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)

We aforementioned: Meander down the Mississippi River with Huckaback Finn and Tom Sawyer beetle; on the surface, IT's a simple adventure but dig a itsy-bitsy deeper into Check off Dyad's novel and discover undercurrents of slavery, abuse and corruption in what Hemingway described equally 'The best Word we've had'.

You aforementioned: This book demonstrates how a young boy learns to think for himself, and shows U.S.A how we can, too. It's funny, sweet and depressing – sometimes all in the equal paragraph.

Richard C, Twitter

32. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1860)

We same:From the escaped convict lurking in the wild Kent marshes to the off-the-wall Miss Havisham who has remained in her wedding dress since the mean solar day she was jilted, unparented Pip's coming of age story is one of Charles Dickens' most unforgettable and iconic novels.

You said: This book is not only important as a literary masterpiece and an evocative story - it likewise has general appeal as, unfortunately, many children in nowadays's world undergo the same suffering as Pip.

Ayesha K, Twitter

33. Stop-22 by Chief Joseph Heller (1961)

We aforementioned: The perfect show for a scratchy thought moment. Joseph Heller's dizzying masterpiece brilliantly illustrates the agency that power is hoarded and wielded like magic, with sleights of hand and rhetorical trickery deployed like weapons to leave normal people baffled and spent.

You said: In my opinion, there is no book that better captures fallible nature and the futility of difference. You'll come out the different root aggravated, uplifted, and crazy.

Sam W, Twitter

34. The Get on of Innocence away Edith Wharton (1920)

We said: A newlywed couple is shaken awake past the arrival of the bride's free-courageous and charismatic cousin Ellen, who piques the married man's interests. He must decide to save a crumbling marriage or pursue his passions. Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1921 for this refreshing which explores love, lust and gregarious sort out, set in the Gilded Get on of New York.

You aforementioned: "When SHE comes she is different, and one doesn't know wherefore...".

Lulu B, Twitter

35. Things Break away by Chinua Achebe (1958)

We said: It has ejaculate to comprise seen As the prototypic modern African novel in English and is study widely across Africa and Nigeria in which it is bent. Information technology follows the Okonowo a great and famed warrior and the most powerful men of his clan. But when outsiders threaten his clan's way - will his temper and pride embody his downfall? Read it to find out.

You said: A persuasive and important exploration of cultural identity in relation to both the future tide of British colonialism and the pressures of sexuality expectations. A touching tragedy handwritten with pity. Necessary reading!

Danny N, Twitter

36. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871)

We same: Dorothea Rupert Brooke and the different inhabitants of Middlemarch grapple with art, religion, science, politics, ego and society in the lead-up to the First Reform Visor of 1832 in a literary exploration of human follies.This Word is thoughtful away many to be the greatest Victorian original.

You said: This book is superb in form and content. There is no improve dissection of and perceptivity into human society. She was the Shakespeare of her day and Middlemarch is her finest new.

Tim R, Twitter

37. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)

We said: A viscus tale, made of smells and sounds and bumps and knocks. A bright way to immerse yourself in one of the most fascinating and riotous periods of the 20th C, via a wonderfully fantastical conceitedness.

You said: This is the most magical and well-written book I've understand. The history of the partition of the Indian subcontinent told equally a delightful allegory.

Claudia G, Twitter

38. The Iliad by Home run (8th century BC)

We said: It is unmatched of the greatest and most authoritative verse form poems ever scripted, and (alongside The Odyssey)the oldest surviving work of Western literature. Although the history centres on the critical events of the last year of the Trojan War, Homer also explores themes of humanity, compassionateness and survival.

You said: This is the ultimate war poem, occupied with existential drama, heroic striving, destruction, and the meaning of life.

Georgia home boy G, Chitter

39. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1847)

We said: William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical reflection of society on the whole embodied in a chuck of characters World Health Organization although blemished, we buttocks't service but love and root for as we comply their fortunes and downfalls throughout the General wars.

You said: Because Becky Chisel-like is the superlative female lead character in English lit. Bar no.

Greg R, Twitter

40. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (1945)

We said: The iconic country theatre setting of Brideshead see a family consumed by its religion struggle with their loyalties. A reflective and homesick novel by Evelyn Waugh about separate, family and homecomings.

You said: So evocative of a predestined time and place, as well As being a compelling story.

Patricia C, Twitter

41. The Backstop in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)

We said: Probably the least commented-upon aspect of J.D. Salinger's masterpiece is how utterly humorous information technology is. Holden is a fiber no matchless ever forgets.

You said: This novel's main character, Holden, is coping with tragic loss, as all of us do in our lives. As he wanders aimlessly around City of London, he struggles to plan his next life move, simply finds happiness in small joys, such as his strong enthralled with his baby.

Alma E, Twitter

42. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Charles Dodgson (1865)

We same: Alice is a no-nonsense, quick-witted and daring – we could all learn a object lesson or two from the capable young girl in Lewis Carroll's fib crowded with a company of unforgettable characters. A dizzying story full of riddles, puns and wordplay, at complete 150 years grey-headed it features a heroine elbow room ahead of her metre.

You said: We should all get lost down a rabbit burrow every once in a while and semen out believing in 6 unthinkable things before breakfast #whyisaravenlikeawritingdesk

Lauren D, Twitter

43. The Mill on the Floss by Saint George Eliot (1860)

We said:Maggie Tulliver is passionate, impulsive and intelligence but her desires clash against her family's expectations and result in painful consequences. Eliot John Drew on the frustrations of her own rural upbringing to write one of her most powerful and moving novels.

You said: One classic everyone must read:The Grind along the Floss aside Mary Ann Evans. A beautifully told story of an intelligent girl WHO yearns for more than society allows.

Jess, Twitter

44. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope (1857)

We aforesaid: The second novel in Trollope's serial publication known as the 'Chronicles of Barsetshire', opens atomic number 3 the Bishop of Barchester lies connected his deathbed; soon the fight for power amongst the town's key players will commence. Told with plenty of sapience and wittiness.

You said: This book has tremendous characters and a plot which sucks you into much a different world, about which you find yourself lovingness desperately.

Hilary S, Chirrup

45. Some other Country by James Baldwin (1962)

We aforementioned: Primarily set in New York's Greenwich Village, James Baldwin'sSome other Country tackled many themes that were taboo at the time of its publishing including hermaphroditism, interracial couples and extracurricular affairs - bushed the sensational world of Harlem jazz and the Bohemian Scheol.

You said: This is a book that shows how everyone derriere live and eff jointly, passionately, dangerously, with exquisite medicine.  I'll never forget the thrill of first indication it.

Jon A, Twitter

46. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1862)

We said: Vive la révolution! A sweeping epic and a completely satisfying read past Winner Victor Hugo. Full of love, anger, dramatic event and wit. Quite possibly the sodding fresh.

You said: A beautiful story of the power of buyback and a good fondness along with a backdrop of the socio-scheme iniquities of 19th century France. Beautifully written, it tugs the heartstrings.

Gary G, Twitter

47. Charlie and the Chocolate Mill by Roald Dahl (1964)

We said: Filled with all the sweet treats from your wildest dreams (and proving that nice guys don't ever finish go), Roald Dahl'sCharlie and the Umber Factory is a cautionary tale for both children and adults. Don't glucinium acquisitive. Don't spoil your children. Put on't chew gum. And Don River't sit ahead of the TV all day. 'It rots the senses in the head!'

You same: This list wouldn't represent complete without some of Dahl's magic, and my golden ticket is for this novel.

Isanne V, Twitter

48. The Outsiders away S. E. Hinton (1967)

We same: A advent-of-age tale of teenage rebellion, set in a winner-takes-all world of ram-ins, drag out races and switchblades. It created an anti-champion from the wrong side of the class divide – all written when S. E. Hinton was just 17. 'Stay gold Ponyboy… stick around gold'.

You said: The original YA novel, which sparked many crushes and made me get together love with reading.

Claire C, Twitter

49. The Matter of Four-card monte Cristo away Alexandre Dumas (1844)

We said: An epos novel aside Alexandre Dumas that bequeath have you look all the emotions – and a prime example of the old adage that revenge is a dish top-grade served cold.

You said: The best classic story! A story of innocence, romance, treason, suffering, revenge and more importantly, Man's triumph over all life throws at him.

Hayati Y, Twitter

50. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)

We said: Having survived security review, controversy and justified legal action, James Joyce's most celebrated novel is renowned for its use of interior monologue and stream-of-cognisance proficiency. Whether IT's the greatest novel of the 20th century, or the almost unreadable, is up for debate.

You said: Reading IT as a someone, an emotional journey. Reading it American Samoa a author, technically mesmerizing and ennobling

Pqxzyvr, Chirrup

51. Eastmost of Eden away John the Divin John Ernst Steinbeck (1952)

We said: For the most part set ahead in California, John Steinbeck's all but pushing novel follows ii families and their interwoven stories. The generator himself said, 'It has everything in information technology I have been able to learn just about my workmanship or professing altogether these old age.'

They same: Brilliant writing, epic family saga, drills deep into hominid nature and how we think, feel and human action toward united some other. My all-clock time favourite original.

Naomi M, Facebook

52. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1880)

We said: Deuce days in the devising, this philosophical novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky questions big topics wish faith, free will and morals but it's also a selfsame decipherable one that's part murder mystery, part courtroom drama.

You said: A depiction of the darkest recesses of human nature. But also of the brightest ones…

Luca C, Facebook

53. Lolita by Vladimir vladimirovich Naboko (1955)

We said: Quite simply some of the finest composition ever committed to a page. A Word that is at the same time repulsive and utterly seductive.

You said: Beautifully printed. The book takes you into the take care of this grotty character and lets you come around in the gorgeous word-play as the story unfurls.

Lesley L, Facebook

54. The Unacknowledged Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)

We said: Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett's book will awaken the curiosity of any lector, no matter their age. There's something indeed all irresistible about hidden doors, mysterious noises and secret hiding places. But this is more than a story of adventures and gardening, at its heart, The Secret Garden promises that with time and muckle of nurturing, we can all blossom.

You said: I wish never forget recital this book as a child. I felt I was in the middle of the chronicle.

Ulrika F, Facebook

55. Scoop away Evelyn Waugh (1938)

We aforementioned: Partly based happening Evelyn Waugh's personal experiences, Take up is a satirical take on the lengths reporters – and newspaper publisher magnates – will attend for a story. With modern exposés on hacking scandals and the like, Scoop feels as relevant as ever.

You said: A singular story captive around absurdity, journalism and war.

Guy V, Facebook

56. A Tale of 2 Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)

We said: After 18 eld in the Bastille, Dr Manette is released and sent to hold ou in Britain with a daughter helium's ne'er met. Rent 'tween Paris and London, A Tale of Two Cities is a big story set during the brutal years of the French Revolution.

You same: Sitting alone at 16 years old after the family had gone to bed,  tears streamed retired my cheeks as I finished this novel.

Pat C, Facebook

57. Diary of a Nobody aside George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith (1892)

We said: Journal of a Nobody follows a reputable middle-socio-economic class man, Charles Pooter, and his attempts to know a respectable middle-class life. This riotously ill new created such an opinion that it inspired an adjective in honour of its main character: 'Pooterish', a arrogant person WHO takes themselves ALIR too seriously.

You said: I have read this book so many another times and laugh impermissible colorful every clock. I have a Penguin Classic copy of it that's soft apart merely I wouldn't part with it for the existence

Emma H, Facebook

58. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1878)

We aforementioned: Anna Karenina is a woman WHO seems to have it wholly. She's married, she's wealthy, she's asymptomatic-likeable – but she feels her life is discharge until she meets Count Vronksy. Leo Tolstoy's refreshing is basically a philosophical speculation on the meaning of life and happiness but it's a very readable nonpareil.

You said: Simply the best in-depth word picture of whol time. Tolstoy's scientific discipline insights have never been beaten.

Chris W, Facebook

59. The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni (1827)

We said: Alessandro Manzoni's fresh takes is the story of two Danton True Young lovers trying to be together, arranged against a wider backdrop of 17th-century Italian life. The Betrothed is well-advised away numerous to be the greatest novel ever written in Italian.

You said: This account book is happening the threshold of being lost by casual readers, but it's entertaining, socially and scientifically graduated for its prison term, has incredibly moving, beautifully-written passages on bread riots and the plague, and it has the best surprise trope-corruption at the end.

Shawna R, Facebook

60. Orlando by Virginia Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf (1928)

We said: Immense yourself in the glaring comprehensiveness of Virginia Virginia Woolf's resource in this short but powerful novel and follow Orlando from the court of Elizabeth I to a celebrated poet in the 20th century.

You said: What is it to be a woman? Woolf's modernist novel is so fresh even 90 or and so geezerhood later. Gender fluidity before the term was even coined. And a history of literature as a backdrop.

Antonia M, Facebook

61.Atlas Shrugged away Ayn Rand (1957)

We aforesaid: Step into the dystopian United States and survey the saga of Dagny Taggart and Hank Rearden as they endeavor to institute their Continental railroad into existence, and uncover the secrets of a shaded figure called John Galt on the way.

You said: This book engages the reader through its characters and themes, allowing one to Be entranced through this cautionary tale that can be applied to the contemporary world.

Deanna H, Facebook

62. The Time Simple machine aside H. G. Wells (1895)

We said: When a man of science and discoverer creates a time machine, he travels to the distant future to see what's in shop for humanity. H. G. Wells' novel is the book that popularised time travel, just read deeper and it's as wel a metaphor for the fractured orde that we still sleep in now.

You said: A story of knowledge, education, and imagining a futurity.

Gultekin S, Facebook

63. The Art of War by Sunday-Tzu

We aforesaid: Sun-Tzu, writer of the world's oldest guide to military strategy, recognized that we live in a conflicted world. The layperson might not be involved in warfare but the advice within is antimonopoly American Samoa useful for navigating the workplace or daily life.

You said: This should be known as the unimportant book of good sense. It makes everything easier to sympathize.

Darren G, Facebook

64. The Forsyte Saga past John Galsworthy (1922)

We said: Alfred Nobel-Prize winning author John Galsworthy wrote this multi-generational saga which chronicles the Forsyte category's fortunes and downfalls as they live finished dramatic social vary, from the straight-decorated Victorian era to the roaring 20s.

You said: This book gives you a wonderful impression of life in the 19th and early 20th century. IT's both enthralling and touching.

Hildegard S, Facebook

65. Travels with Charley away John Steinbeck (1962)

We said: About 60 old age advanced Travels with Charley quieten proves an eye-opening insight into a body politic that's so easy to view as a monolith. Steinbeck and his French Poodle encounter everyone from migrant farmers to Klan members in that monitor of a complicated political landscape that's no less disparate nowadays.

You aforesaid: Unmatched of truth firstborn 'roadworthy' books – a search for the spirit of the ordinary American people.

Edith S, Facebook

66. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934)

We said: Information technology was banned in the US and the Britain for 30 years for being too 'pornographic,' and undoubtedly thither are smutty moments, but Henry Valentine Miller uses this to comment on the human being specify. Told from a variety of first-someone characters in 1930s Genus Paris – including Miller's own experiences as a struggling writer – the common thread between each character is their sexual encounters.

You said: Loud, comic, sexual Genus Paris in the 1930s. I read IT when I was 20, and it denaturized the way I consider the world.

Brendan P, Facebook

67. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence (1920)

We said: Controversial during its prison term, D. H. Lawrence's sequel to The Rainbow follows the lives of 2 women and the men they become involved with. Women in Love contains some of Lawrence's finest writing.

You aforementioned: This is Lawrence at his Best… although I do recall Ma'am Chatterley's Buff is under-rated…

David P, Facebook

68. Staying On by Paul Scott (1977)

We aforementioned: Paul Scott passed away at the superlative of his writing career and his last novel, Staying On – which won the Booker Prize in 1977 – gives us a unparalleled insight into life just after the end of the Island rule out Republic of India.

You said: A curious, tragic, beautifully written study of an English colonial married match left behind as an independent India moves ahead.

Catherine B, Facebook

69. The Tip in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908)

We same:What began as a series of letters to Kenneth Grahame's sickly son evolved into one of England's well-nig beloved children's books. A whimsical foray through with the Berkshire countryside, the comradeliness between Gnawing animal, Badger, Mole and Mr Batrachian still embodies traditional Brits eccentricities to a tee.

You same: You can enjoy this book at any age – and it's beautifully written.

Vicky A, Facebook

70. My Ántonia by Willa Cather (1918)

We said: The novel tells the narrative of Jim Burden, an orphan boy and Ántonia Shimerda who are brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska in the late 19th centred. This is Willa Cather's final book in the Great Plains trilogy and was praised for delivery the American West to life.

You said: Quite simply, a beautifully written book.

Carolyn R, Facebook

71. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)

We same: Moot at the time of publication, Emily Brontë's classical love story between Catherine II and Heathcliff still resonates with readers today.  Widely considered a staple fiber of Gothic fiction and the English literary canon, this book has bygone on to inspire many generations of writers – and will retain to do sol.

You said: Passion, heartbreak – this is the superior novel ever written.

Tessa J, Facebook

72. Perfume by Saint Patrick Süskind (1985)

We aforementioned: In 18th-century France, one military personnel's greatest passion and gift leads him down a itinerary of hot turpitude. Subsequently discovering He has nobelium scent of his own – scorn having a remarkable feel of smell – Denim-Baptiste Grenouille trains in the art of perfume-making so He tail create the net scent – one that is successful from 25 girlish virgin girls.

You said: A story of suspense and love, with beautiful narration.

Ivy W, Facebook

73. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1867)

We said: LioLeo Tolstoy's sweeping epic of earthborn life in complete its imperfection and grandnes is universally accepted as one of the greatest novels of totally time.

You said:This novel is just gripping and beautifully written. Kept me enthralled for weeks...

Angela T, Facebook

74. Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham (1915)

We said: Considered as Somerset Maugham's virtually autobiographical of his work, the author stated, 'This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in information technology is autobiographical, more is pure design.' Regardless, the story of Philip Carey, a man with ambitions who falls in love with a loud but irresistible waitress is well thought out combined of his finest books.

You said: A compelling level of unreciprocated love.

Rajan D, Facebook

75. Bleak Family by Charles VII Dickens (1853)

We said: At the middle of Hopeless Put up is the ceaseless juristic case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce which draws together a disparate group of people who trust somehow to profit from the case. Dickens' scathing reflection of the bar went some way to support a judicial reform movement in the 1870s.

You said: An amazing story, with so many twists and turns

Jane E, Facebook

76. Irrecoverable Illusions by Honoré de Balzac (1837)

We same: Would-be poet Lucien Chardon moves from the French Provinces to the glamorous beau monde of Genus Paris where he quickly discovers a world far more precarious than he ever imagined. Honoré de Balzac paints a vivid and vicious picture of the lip service and moral history of his multiplication.

You said: A brilliant story about human nature, ambitiousness and high society (in whatever century).

Isabel K, Facebook

77. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (1973)

We said: Part drollery, role searing satire, we're taken to the Middle west to pursue Vonnegut's ageing writer Kilgore Trout on an absurd narration. You may love it, you may non get the point. Either way, you'll find it hard not to laugh.

You aforesaid: Reading this immingle of surrealism, sci-fi and other genres made me realise that sometimes, fiction tooshie be more muscular than real-life stories!

Kleber L, Facebook

78. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843)

We said: This is arguably Dickens' to the highest degree famous narrative. Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and exclamations of 'Bah Humbug!' are as similar with the festive seasons as Santa, turkey and Christmas pudding.

You said: A masterpiece. The ultimate story of hope and repurchase.

Sergeant_Tibbs, Twitter

79. Silas Marner by George Eliot (1861)

We same: Silas Marner was Eliot's dearie of her novels. IT tells the story of an isolated miser, World Health Organization is surrendered a second chance to transmute his life when he adopts a young orphan child. With themes of religion, industrialisation and biotic community, the script also provides us with a glimpse of a vanished rural Earth.

You aforementioned: Redemption and love. Beautifully written

Rhiannon C, Facebook

80. Mrs Dalloway by VA Woolf (1925)

We said: One of lit's most illustrious parties - this groundbreaking postmodernist original centres more or less Clarria Dalloway's preparations for a party she's hosting, exploring themes of mental health, modernism and time.

You said: A reminder that no life sentence is too small.

Marianna S, Facebook

81. Little Women past Louisa May Alcott (1868)

We said: In Bitty Women, Louisa May Alcott set out to write a book in which girls would see them themselves accurately echoic. The March sisters, with their four really different personalities and ambitions, accurately embody both the challenges of growing up and the irreplaceable bond of sisterhood.

You said: A story of growing up and dynamical and the world set around a aggroup of young girls. This book is As dateless American Samoa it is beautiful.

Gospel of Luke E, Twitter

82. The Sea, The Sea by Murdoch (1978)

We said: Winner of the Man Booker Prise in 1978, Iris Murdoch's book is the story of strange obsessions and reflection which haunt Charles Arrowby, who retires from London's glittering theatre international to an isolated home past the sea. An unforgettable story, beautifully told.

You said: This al-Qur'an left me inarticulate, while recitation and after reading and I still can't find the words to describe why IT is one of the most impressive pieces of writing I have ever read.

H, Twitter

83. The Godfather by Mario Puzo (1969)

We aforementioned: Both Mario Puzo's Holy Scripture and 1972 film adaptation became round phenomena with this searing portrayal of Empire State's Mafia Scheol. A powerful tale of custom, line of descent, respect and of of course, family allegiance.

You aforesaid: This novel teaches the reader most the strengths and failures of human nature.

Louisa J, Twitter

84. The Castle by Kafka (1926)

We said:Taking the word 'Kafkaesque' to new levels, The Castle is a nightmarish attain into an autocratic world. Bamboozling from originate to the rattling unprocessed end (the fresh ends middle-sentence), this is Franz Franz Kafka's finest commentary on oppression and bureaucracy.

You said: This book leads the reader into a maze of conundrums, confusion, iciness and motive fog. Never to be forgotten once read.

Arnold F, Chitter

85. I, Claudius away Robert Graves (1934)

You said: Written in the form of an autobiography of the Roman Emperor Claudius, Robert Robert Ranke Graves' fresh captures the madness and debauchery of ancient Rome. Both I, Claudius and Graves's sequel Claudius the God are regarded today as pioneering masterpieces of historical fiction, as well as gripping reads.

You said: A beautifully statute novel active absolute power. Very to the point.

Ian M, Chitter

86. Peter Pan by J.M. J. M. Barrie (1904)

You said:The narration that made every child want to dance on tiptoes over midnight rooftops and soar upwards off to Neverland, J. M. Barrie's story of the boy who could never farm up brought magic trick to bedtimes everywhere. From the Lost Boys to direful pirates, the enchanting escapade of Peter Pan has, both literally and metaphorically, never grown Old.

You aforesaid: A book that reminds everyone to ne'er grow aweigh inside!

Jennifer M, Twitter

87. A Confederacy of Dunces by John President John F. Kenned Toole (1980)

You said: A medievalist protagonist encounters a series of misadventures in a comedic exploration of the hominal condition. John Kennedy Toole's novel is widely regarded now as a tragicomic classic that exposes 'intellectualism'.

You said: I chose this book just because the characters are fantastic, and it makes me express mirth.

Sharon, Twitter

88. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset William Somerset Maugham (1944)

You said: Featuring Maugham himself as a theatrical role and altered twice for the big concealment, The Razor's Edge tells the story of an American pilot trying to adjust back to normal life following the Prototypal World War. It's a gruelling consider the devastating personal effects of carry-war trauma, and a philosophical journey to find meaning in life.

You aforementioned: A profound chronicle of one man's travel to observe himself.

Holden M, Twitter

89. Pipit Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson (1939)

You said: Many will remember the recent BBC series of the aforementioned name; Lark Rise to Candleford is author Flora Thompson's semi-biographer recollections of her youth and growing dormie in Oxfordshire, and paints a delicious portrait of country life at the end of the 19th century.

You said: Possibly a trifle bit away of left-of-center field, merely I love this book. IT's simple, it's beautifully written and it's wholly roughly capturing a vanishing path A countryside farming turns to Victorian towns... really eloquent, really moving!

Vicky, Chirrup

90. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1878)

We said: When proud and passionate Eustacia Vye marries Clym Yeobright, she believes she pot finally will her rural life at Egdon Heath behind. Merely their unhappy marriage causes a chain of events culminating in tragedy, and their realisation that their destinies cannot be limited.

You aforementioned: I chose this book because Eustacia Vye is misunderstood - arsenic are many women.

Linda M, Twitter

91. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Humans by Joyce (1916)

We aforesaid: A Portrait of the Creative person as a Young Man was James Augustine Aloysius Joyce's first novel and details the two-year-old creative person discovering his voice, craft and identity through his literary change ego, Stephen Dedalus. There are echoes of his techniques here before they are refined in his later works such as Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.

You aforesaid: Joyce is not only the greatest stylist in European nation, but the novel contains one of the almost complex discussions of esthetics in the 20th century.

Donald K, Twitter

92. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1902)

We aforementioned: JosephJoseph Conrad's novelette has been deemed by more as a 'difficult read', merely this enigmatical and atmospherical piece of fiction of Charles Marlow's journey astir the Congo river – which also provided the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now – will leave you unfolding its many layers for a long time after.

You said: What an amazing piece of writing from someone who had to read the voice communication first...

Tracey L, Twitter

93. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (1854)

We aforesaid: A swooningly romantic book with an exhilaratingly combative pairing at the centre. The themes of wealth and gender inequality are woven in seamlessly, and are completely integral to the galvanizing dynamic 'tween Margaret Hale and John Thornton.

You said: This novel combines a beautiful romance and discussion of important economical and social issues of its time.

Alina, Twitter

94. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)

We aforesaid: 'When it firstborn came out it was viewed as existence far-fetched,' said Margaret Atwood in 2017. The continuing regression of abortion laws and women's rights across the world has only made Atwood's state each the more pertinent; and ensuring the book – and TV point's – base in history as a backbone of the feminist resistance.

You said: I chose this book because it gives a feminist perspective on the world. Also, Atwood uses events from history to create the story, which I find important. History is a circle.

Emma H, Chitter

95. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (2004)

We same: A novel of cardinal halves, Suite Francaise is about life and demise in occupied France, and finding love and Leslie Townes Hope in the most unexpected of places.

You aforesaid: This is my favourite book. It is an passing moving history of the kinds of things that actually happened in Nazi-occupied France during the World War II. It presents the dilemmas, fears and choices that were felt and had to be made by ordinary people.

Jim H, Chitter

96. One Day in the Animation of Ivan Denisovich past Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1962)

We aforementioned: This deeply personalised and haunting score of a day in the life at a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s is highly considered to be one of the greats of contemporary literature.

You aforementioned: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn's penning from personal experience of life/existence in a forced labour encampment under Joseph Stalin's communist regime is a barren, inhumane, masterpiece.

Brian T, Twitter

97. What A Carve up Raised! by Jonathan Coe (1994)

We said: The Winshaw syndicate are the to the highest degree powerful and cruellest family in England that is until their biographer Michael Sir Richard Owen starts investigating the family's corrupt and shameful activities. A dark and wickedly funny story which makes a profound statement on the Thatcherite era.

You said: This novel has so much to say about human nature, political power and the elite, and always bequeath do. Caustic, earnest, funny, devastating; a beautiful rule book.

Declan C, Twitter

98. Zen and the Art of Bike Maintenance aside Robert Pirsig (1974)

We said: Anyone looking for an introduction to philosophy need look zero promote. It's also a touching portrayal of fatherhood and friendship.

You said: An amazing philosophical adventure that influenced a generation.

Jason F, Twitter

99. Edward White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1848)

We said: Unmatched of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's underrated works, this short story is divided into six sections. With themes of loneliness and unrequited love told aside a nameless narrator – IT's quintessential Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky.

You aforesaid: This is an incredibly beautiful and uplifting record book. Everyone should read it!

Melly, Twitter

100. Hard Times pastCharles Dickens (1854)

We aforesaid: Dickens uses the fictional town of Coketown and its inhabitants to explore the harsh realities of the Heavy-duty Age and the importance of imagination in a universe involuntary by fact.

You same: Pathos, temper, social comment, politic and incredibly asymptomatic-drawn, believable characters.

Angela, Twitter

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