1,001 books you must read before you die. compiled by over one hundred literary critics worldwide and is made up of novels, short stories, and short story collections.

the list | tracking since 2025.

• the secret history by donna tartt
• the master and margarita by mikhail bulgakov
• lolita by vladimir nabokov
• the catcher in the rye by j.d. salinger
• i, robot by isaac asimov
• nineteen eighty-four by george orwell
• the plague by albert camus
• animal farm by george orwell
• the little prince by antoine de saint-exupéry
• the sun also rises by ernest hemingway
• the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald
• ulysses by james joyce
• dracula by bram stoker
• the adventures of sherlock holmes by sir arthur conan doyle
• the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde
• the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevsky
• anna karenina by leo tolstoy
• war and peace by leo tolstoy
• little women by louisa may alcott
• journey to the centre of the earth by jules verne
• crime and punishment by fyodor dostoevsky
• alice’s adventures in wonderland by lewis carroll
• notes from the underground by fyodor dostoevsky
• les misérables by victor hugo
• great expectations by charles dickens
• moby-dick by herman melville
• wuthering heights by emily brontë
• agnes grey by anne brontë
• jane eyre by charlotte brontë
• the count of monte-cristo by alexandre dumas
• the three musketeers by alexandre dumas
• a christmas carol by charles dickens
• the fall of the house of usher by edgar allan poe
• oliver twist by charles dickens
• the hunchback of notre dame by victor hugo
• northanger abbey by jane austen
• persuasion by jane austen
• emma by jane austen
• mansfield park by jane austen
• pride and prejudice by jane austen
• sense and sensibility by jane austen
• dangerous liaisons by pierre choderlos de laclos
• gulliver’s travels by jonathan swift
• don quixote by miguel de cervantes