Must-Read Novels in The World
A community-ranked list of the 8 best must-read novels, currently topped by To Kill a Mockingbird. Rankings move as members vote — last updated Aug 13, 2026.
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Harper Lee's 1960 novel of racial injustice in the American South.
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Jane Austen's 1813 novel of manners, marriage, and the Bennet sisters.
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Gabriel García Márquez's magical-realist saga of the Buendía family.
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War and Peace
bookLeo Tolstoy's sprawling epic of Russian society during the Napoleonic Wars.
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The Great Gatsby
bookF. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of wealth and longing in Jazz Age New York.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of guilt following a murder in St. Petersburg.
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Beloved
bookToni Morrison's novel of a formerly enslaved woman haunted by her past.
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Anna Karenina
bookLeo Tolstoy's novel of love and social ruin in 19th-century Russian high society.
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Frequently asked questions
- What are the best must-read novels?
- To Kill a Mockingbird is currently ranked #1, according to community ranking.
- How many must-read novels are on this list?
- There are currently 8 must-read novels on this list.
- How is this list ranked?
- Entries are ranked by community votes — upvotes move an entry up, downvotes move it down. Anyone can add an entry, edit its blurb, or cast a vote, and this list is a wiki: rankings update live as votes come in, with no editorial gatekeeping.