501 Must-Read books

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From fellow BookCrosser n8an

If I've read them, I'll bold them (or link them to reviews if I've read them recently enough for LJ or Bookcrossing entries).

Section I: Children's Books

1. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
   
2. Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen
   
3. Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie
   
4. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum


5. The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
   
6. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
   
7. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
   
8. Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi (Carlo Lorenzini)
   
9. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
   
10. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
    
11. The Wierdstone of Brisingamen, Alan Garner
    
12. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
    
13. Children's and Household Tales, Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
    
14. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
    
15. Emil and the Detectives, Erich Kastner
    
16. Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
    
17. The Complete Nonsense Books, Edward Lear
    
18. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
    
19. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
    
20. Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren
    
21. Dr. Dolittle, Hugh Lofting


22. At the Back of the North Wind, George MacDonald
    
23. Nobody's Boy, Hector Malot
    
24. Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne
    
25. Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
    
26. Five Children and It, E. Nesbit
    
27. Tom's Midnight Garden, Philippa Pearce
    
28. The War of the Buttons, Louis Pergaud
    
29. Fairy Tales, Charles Perrault
    
30. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter
    
31. The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett
    
32. Northern Lights, Philip Pullman <- released in US/Canada as The Golden Compass
    
33. Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome
    
34. Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang, Mordecai Richler
    
35. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling <- released in the US as Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone
    
36. The King of the Golden River, John Ruskin
    
37. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
    
38. The Human Comedy, William Saroyan
    
39. The Misfortunes of Sophie, Comtesse de Segur
    
40. Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
    
41. And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
    
42. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
    
43. The Golem, Isaac Bashevis Singer
    
44. Heidi, Johana Spyri
    
45. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
    
46. The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien (I believe this is a poor choice for a "must-read" children's list. The Hobbit by the same author would be a better choice for this list.)
    
47. Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers
    
48. Charlotte's Web, E.B. White
    
49. The Sword in the Stone, T.H. White


50. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Wiggin
    
51. The Happy Prince and Other Tales, Oscar Wilde
    
    Classic Fiction
    
    
52. The Epic of Gilgamesh, Anonymous
    
53. The Thousand and One Nights, Anonymous
    
54. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
    
55. Old Goriot, Honore De Balzac
    
56. Vathek: an Arabian Tale, William Beckford
    
57. Lady Audley's Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
    
58. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
    
59. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
    
60. The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
    
61. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer


62. The Collected Stories, Anton Chekhov
    
63. The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton
    
64. Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, John Cleland
    
65. The Moonstone: a Romance, Wilkie Collins
    
66. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    
67. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
    
68. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
    
69. The Christmas Books, Charles Dickens
    
70. Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
    
71. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    
72. Middlemarch: A Study in Provincial Life, George Eliot
    
73. Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
    
74. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
    
75. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
    
76. Howards End, E.M. Forster
    
77. North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
    
78. The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    
79. The Vicar of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith
    
80. The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
    
81. King Solomon's Mines, H. Rider Haggard
    
82. Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
    
83. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
    
84. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
    
85. The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
    
86. The Iliad, Homer
    
87. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
    
88. Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of The Dog), Jerome K. Jerome
    
89. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
    
90. Bliss and Other Stories, Katherine Mansfield
    
91. Utopia, Sir Thomas More
    
92. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, Edgar Alan Poe
    
93. In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
    
94. A Sicilian Romance, Ann Radcliffe
    
95. Clarissa, Samuel Richardson
    
96. Waverley, Walter Scott
    
97. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
    
98. The Red and the Black, Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)
    
99. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
    
100. Dracula, Bram Stoker
     
101. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift


102. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
     
103. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
     
104. Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope
     
105. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
     
106. Candide, Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet)
     
107. The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole
     
108. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
     
109. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
     
110. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
     
111. La Bete Humaine, Emile Zola