Must-Read Novels in The World
A list of the 8 best must-read novels, including To Kill a Mockingbird. The order here is where we started — no votes have been cast yet, so voting decides it from here.
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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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