- #1Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- #2Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- #3The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- #4The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- #5Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- #6Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- #7Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- #8Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- #9Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- #10The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- #11Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- #12The Pilgrim’s Progressby John Bunyan
- #13A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- #14David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- #15A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- #16Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- #17Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- #18The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
- #19Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
- #20Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- #21Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- #22Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- #23Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life by Gustave Flaubert
- #24The Return of the Kingby J.R.R. Tolkien
- #25Dracula by Bram Stoker
- #26The Three Musketeersby Alexandre Dumas
- #27Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- #28War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- #29To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- #30The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- #31Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- #32The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- #33Animal Farm by George Orwell
- #34The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- #35The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- #36The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- #3720,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- #38Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- #39The Wind in the Willowsby Kenneth Grahame
- #40The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- #41The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- #42Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- #43The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
- #44Tess of the d’Urbervillesby Thomas Hardy
- #45Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
- #46Heidi by Johanna Spyri
- #47Ulysses by James Joyce
- #48The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- #49The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- #50The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- #51The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- #52The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
- #53Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
- #54One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquee
- #55Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
- #56The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- #57Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. Montgomery
- #58Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- #59Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
- #60A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- #61The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- #62Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- #63The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
- #64A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- #65Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
- #66Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- #67The Red & the Black by Stendhal
- #68The Stranger by Albert Camus
- #69The Trial by Franz Kafka
- #70Lady Chatterley’s Loverby D.H. Lawrence
- #71Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour by Robert Louis Stevenson
- #72The Catcher in the Ryeby J.D. Salinger
- #73Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- #74A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
- #75Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- #76All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- #77Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- #78My Ántonia by Willa Cather
- #79Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- #80The Vicar of Wakefieldby Oliver Goldsmith
- #81A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
- #82White Fang by Jack London
- #83Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
- #84Doctor Zhivago by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
- #85The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
- #86Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
- #87The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- #88The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- #89Persuasion by Jane Austen
- #90Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- #91Candide by Voltaire
- #92For Whom the Bell Tollsby Ernest Hemingway
- #93Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- #94The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
- #95The Return of the Nativeby Thomas Hardy
- #96Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
- #97Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
- #98The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
- #99Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- #100Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
What makes a novel “great”? At OCLC, we believe literary greatness can be measured by how many libraries have a copy on their shelves.
Yes, libraries offer access to trendy and popular books. But, they don’t keep them on the shelf if they’re not repeatedly requested by their communities over the years. We’ve identified 100 timeless, top novels—those found in thousands of libraries around the world—using WorldCat, the world’s largest database of library materials.
So, check out The Library 100, head to your nearest library, and enjoy the read!
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