Must-Read Novels

Must-Read Novels across every place and thing on Third Platz — 1 list so far.

• To Kill a MockingbirdThe World · On 1 list

  Harper Lee's 1960 novel of racial injustice in the American South.
• Pride and PrejudiceThe World · On 1 list

  Jane Austen's 1813 novel of manners, marriage, and the Bennet sisters.
• One Hundred Years of SolitudeThe World · On 1 list

  Gabriel García Márquez's magical-realist saga of the Buendía family.
• War and PeaceThe World · On 1 list

  Leo Tolstoy's sprawling epic of Russian society during the Napoleonic Wars.
• The Great GatsbyThe World · On 1 list

  F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of wealth and longing in Jazz Age New York.
• Crime and PunishmentThe World · On 1 list

  Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of guilt following a murder in St. Petersburg.
• BelovedThe World · On 1 list

  Toni Morrison's novel of a formerly enslaved woman haunted by her past.
• Anna KareninaThe World · On 1 list

  Leo Tolstoy's novel of love and social ruin in 19th-century Russian high society.