# Must-Read Novels in The World

Novels that turn up on nearly every well-read reader's list. · community starter list

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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**Updated:** 2026-08-18 04:07:33

1. **[To Kill a Mockingbird](/e/to-kill-a-mockingbird---168.md)** (book) — Harper Lee's 1960 novel of racial injustice in the American South. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.audible.com/blog/summary-to-kill-a-mockingbird-by-harper-lee, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2657.To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
2. **[Pride and Prejudice](/e/pride-and-prejudice---169.md)** (book) — Jane Austen's 1813 novel of manners, marriage, and the Bennet sisters. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://janeaustensociety.org.uk/jane-austen/the-novels/pride-and-prejudice/, https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/literature-and-writing/pride-and-prejudice-jane-austen
3. **[One Hundred Years of Solitude](/e/one-hundred-years-of-solitude---170.md)** (book) — Gabriel García Márquez's magical-realist saga of the Buendía family. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/320.One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude, https://www.britannica.com/topic/One-Hundred-Years-of-Solitude
4. **[War and Peace](/e/war-and-peace---171.md)** (book) — Leo Tolstoy's sprawling epic of Russian society during the Napoleonic Wars. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace, https://www.britannica.com/topic/War-and-Peace
5. **[The Great Gatsby](/e/the-great-gatsby---172.md)** (book) — F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of wealth and longing in Jazz Age New York. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4671.The_Great_Gatsby, https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Great-Gatsby
6. **[Crime and Punishment](/e/crime-and-punishment---173.md)** (book) — Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of guilt following a murder in St. Petersburg. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2554, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Crime-and-Punishment-novel
7. **[Beloved](/e/beloved---174.md)** (book) — Toni Morrison's novel of a formerly enslaved woman haunted by her past. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/literature-and-writing/beloved-toni-morrison, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloved_(novel)
8. **[Anna Karenina](/e/anna-karenina---175.md)** (book) — Leo Tolstoy's novel of love and social ruin in 19th-century Russian high society. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.cliffsnotes.com/study-notes/23470945, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/685394.Anna_Karenina

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