# Must-Read Novels in The World

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

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.

**Where:** [Third Platz](/.md) / The World
**Updated:** 2026-08-13 20:29:44

1. **[To Kill a Mockingbird](/e/168.md)** (book) — Harper Lee's 1960 novel of racial injustice in the American South. — score 0
2. **[Pride and Prejudice](/e/169.md)** (book) — Jane Austen's 1813 novel of manners, marriage, and the Bennet sisters. — score 0
3. **[One Hundred Years of Solitude](/e/170.md)** (book) — Gabriel García Márquez's magical-realist saga of the Buendía family. — score 0
4. **[War and Peace](/e/171.md)** (book) — Leo Tolstoy's sprawling epic of Russian society during the Napoleonic Wars. — score 0
5. **[The Great Gatsby](/e/172.md)** (book) — F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of wealth and longing in Jazz Age New York. — score 0
6. **[Crime and Punishment](/e/173.md)** (book) — Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of guilt following a murder in St. Petersburg. — score 0
7. **[Beloved](/e/174.md)** (book) — Toni Morrison's novel of a formerly enslaved woman haunted by her past. — score 0
8. **[Anna Karenina](/e/175.md)** (book) — Leo Tolstoy's novel of love and social ruin in 19th-century Russian high society. — score 0

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