31 Best Classic Books
Goal: Find the best Classic books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).
Method:
- Search for "best classic books" and study the top 5+ pages.
- Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
- Rank the results neatly here.
31 Best Classic Books
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Little Women
Little Women, Book 1
by Louisa May Alcott
Also recommended by:
J.K. Rowling, Hillary Clinton, Kathie Lee Gifford, Maya Angelou, Shonda Rhimes
1984
by George Orwell
Also recommended by:
Tristan Harris, Jordan Peterson, J. Cole, Emma Watson, Noam Chomsky, Richard Branson, Matt Mullenweg, Christopher Hitchens, Sahil Lavingia, Jenn Im, Winston Churchill, Diane Rehm, Brad Delong, Anna Akana
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Also recommended by:
Taylor Swift, Bill Gates, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Daniel Pink, Ev Williams, Ryan Holiday, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Christopher Hitchens, Jim Carrey
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird, Book 1
by Harper Lee
Also recommended by:
Jordan Peterson, Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey, Kathie Lee Gifford, James Clear
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
Also recommended by:
Bill Gates, Jennifer Lawrence, Gretchen Rubin, Ev Williams, Larry King, Tim Draper, Kathie Lee Gifford, Sarah Jessica Parker
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
Also recommended by:
Hillary Clinton, Emma Watson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Shonda Rhimes
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Also recommended by:
Oprah Winfrey, Jordan Peterson, Chelsea Handler, Jennifer Lawrence, Sam Altman, Laura R Walker, Peter Thiel, Austen Allred, Jen Wilkin, Ernest Hemingway, Bret Easton Ellis
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Also recommended by:
Jordan Peterson, Yuval Noah Harari, Tristan Harris, Matt Mullenweg, Stewart Brand, Sam Altman, PewDiePie, Christopher Hitchens, Sahil Lavingia, Winston Churchill
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Also recommended by:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Neil Strauss, Richard Branson, Oprah Winfrey, Cal Fussman, Christopher Hitchens, Fred Wilson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Shashi Tharoor
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland, Book 1
by Lewis Carroll
Also recommended by:
Naval Ravikant, Richa Chadha, Russell Brand, Sahil Lavingia, Salman Rushdie
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
Also recommended by:
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Also recommended by:
Things Fall Apart
African Trilogy, Book 1
by Chinua Achebe
Also recommended by:
Barack Obama, Jacqueline Novogratz, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sarah Jessica Parker
No-No Boy
by John Okada
Orlando
A Biography
by Virginia Woolf
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
by James Weldon Johnson
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Sources
- 1
21 Best Classic Books of All Time — Classic Literature Everyone Will Love
rd.com
- 2
The 22 Best Classic Books to Read in Your Lifetime
businessinsider.com
- 3
29 Best Classic Books actually worth reading for Adults and why read them
mrusbooksnreviews.com
- 4
100 must-read classics, as chosen by our readers
penguin.co.uk
- 5
Classic books to read at least once in your lifetime - Pan Macmillan
panmacmillan.com
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