Books To Read (For Writers)

1.
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises 3.79 avg rating — 482,029 ratings
2.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,069,986 ratings
3.
Big Book of Unique Names for Characters: A Writer's Guide to Exotic, Rare, and Unique Baby Names Inspired by Old Kings, Queens, Rulers, and Monarchs from Around the World
Big Book of Unique Names for Characters: A Writer's Guide to Exotic, Rare, and Unique Baby Names Inspired by Old Kings, Queens, Rulers, and Monarchs from Around the World 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
4.
King Lear
King Lear 3.91 avg rating — 232,688 ratings
5.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,633,217 ratings
6.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,190 ratings
7.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,653 ratings
8.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,262 ratings
9.
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 66,161 ratings
10.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,318,916 ratings
11.
Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings 4.27 avg rating — 1,319 ratings
12.
The Complete Poems
The Complete Poems 4.43 avg rating — 5,286 ratings
13.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,025 ratings
13.
Platform
Platform 3.81 avg rating — 25,020 ratings
15.
Jesus’ Son
Jesus’ Son 4.13 avg rating — 39,235 ratings
16.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 3.95 avg rating — 53,058 ratings
17.
The Song of Roland
The Song of Roland
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 18,739 ratings
17.
Emma
Emma 4.05 avg rating — 950,108 ratings
19.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility 4.09 avg rating — 1,266,153 ratings
20.
Cousin Bette
Cousin Bette 3.85 avg rating — 10,503 ratings
21.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,582 ratings
22.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 356,980 ratings
23.
Dubliners
Dubliners 3.84 avg rating — 170,143 ratings
24.
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories 3.90 avg rating — 1,338,323 ratings
25.
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Little Women (Little Women, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,393,056 ratings
26.
A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast 4.02 avg rating — 162,852 ratings
27.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,731,375 ratings
28.
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 165,232 ratings
29.
The Birds Fall Down
The Birds Fall Down 3.61 avg rating — 406 ratings
30.
The House in Paris
The House in Paris 3.72 avg rating — 2,626 ratings
31.
Paris Stories
Paris Stories 3.95 avg rating — 1,686 ratings
32.
Desperate Characters
Desperate Characters
by: Paula Fox
3.52 avg rating — 9,440 ratings
33.
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories 4.17 avg rating — 48,600 ratings
34.
Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road 3.93 avg rating — 92,051 ratings
35.
Le Divorce
Le Divorce 2.96 avg rating — 4,893 ratings
36.
Persian Nights
Persian Nights 3.38 avg rating — 444 ratings
37.
Escapes
Escapes 4.23 avg rating — 442 ratings
38.
The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried 4.14 avg rating — 337,466 ratings
39.
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by: Sophocles
3.72 avg rating — 232,007 ratings
39.
Twisted Tears
Twisted Tears 4.06 avg rating — 31 ratings
39.
Closest to the Fire: A Writer's Guide to Law and Lawyers
Closest to the Fire: A Writer's Guide to Law and Lawyers 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
39.
The 10 Secrets to Organizing a Nonfiction Book
The 10 Secrets to Organizing a Nonfiction Book 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
39.
How to Write Fiction: Tools and Techniques
How to Write Fiction: Tools and Techniques 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
44.
Solan
Solan 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
45.
Death with Interruptions
Death with Interruptions really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 70,611 ratings
46.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost 3.85 avg rating — 177,950 ratings
46.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,732 ratings
48.
Pamela
Pamela 2.76 avg rating — 13,354 ratings
48.
Sleepwalker in a Fog
Sleepwalker in a Fog 3.94 avg rating — 249 ratings
48.
Sobre héroes y tumbas
Sobre héroes y tumbas 4.27 avg rating — 13,733 ratings
51.
Life of Savage;
Life of Savage; 3.25 avg rating — 118 ratings
51.
The Rebellion of the Hanged
The Rebellion of the Hanged
by: B. Traven
4.14 avg rating — 804 ratings
53.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 4.02 avg rating — 15,256 ratings
53.
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,800,454 ratings
55.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,304 ratings
56.
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Notes of a Dirty Old Man 3.91 avg rating — 25,583 ratings
57.
The Marquise of O— and Other Stories
The Marquise of O— and Other Stories 3.48 avg rating — 4,568 ratings
57.
Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night 4.19 avg rating — 46,248 ratings
59.
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
by: Stendhal
3.86 avg rating — 81,051 ratings
59.
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead 4.19 avg rating — 78,034 ratings
61.
Disgrace
Disgrace 3.86 avg rating — 114,206 ratings
62.
Dead Souls
Dead Souls 3.98 avg rating — 93,262 ratings
62.
Jitterbug Perfume
Jitterbug Perfume 4.23 avg rating — 79,705 ratings
64.
Dombey and Son
Dombey and Son 3.96 avg rating — 16,456 ratings
65.
Bleak House
Bleak House 4.02 avg rating — 112,456 ratings
66.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,225 ratings
67.
First Love
First Love 3.76 avg rating — 23,180 ratings
68.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,974 ratings
69.
Bartleby the Scrivener
Bartleby the Scrivener 3.93 avg rating — 72,175 ratings
70.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,789 ratings
71.
Benito Cereno
Benito Cereno 3.53 avg rating — 9,676 ratings
72.
Sentimental Education
Sentimental Education 3.81 avg rating — 24,079 ratings
73.
The Kreutzer Sonata
The Kreutzer Sonata 3.86 avg rating — 34,039 ratings
74.
Resurrection
Resurrection 4.17 avg rating — 27,225 ratings
75.
Vintage Baldwin
Vintage Baldwin 4.38 avg rating — 278 ratings
76.
The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady 3.80 avg rating — 84,057 ratings
77.
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw 3.38 avg rating — 172,361 ratings
78.
Tales of Chekhov (13 Volume Set)
Tales of Chekhov (13 Volume Set) 4.19 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
79.
A Life in Letters
A Life in Letters 4.30 avg rating — 361 ratings
80.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 3.54 avg rating — 13,202 ratings
81.
The Judgment and other stories
The Judgment and other stories 3.84 avg rating — 8,045 ratings
82.
In the Penal Colony
In the Penal Colony 3.93 avg rating — 31,035 ratings
83.
Plot it Yourself (Nero Wolfe, #32)
Plot it Yourself (Nero Wolfe, #32)
by: Rex Stout
4.18 avg rating — 2,897 ratings
84.
Rashomon
Rashomon 4.01 avg rating — 11,727 ratings
85.
The Story of a Life
The Story of a Life 4.45 avg rating — 683 ratings
86.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon 4.22 avg rating — 2,622 ratings
87.
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel 4.21 avg rating — 2,622 ratings
88.
The Go-Between
The Go-Between really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13,858 ratings
89.
Tender Is the Night
Tender Is the Night 3.77 avg rating — 146,420 ratings
90.
Lectures on Russian Literature
Lectures on Russian Literature 4.25 avg rating — 2,055 ratings
91.
Hope Against Hope
Hope Against Hope 4.37 avg rating — 1,219 ratings
92.
The Man Who Loved Children
The Man Who Loved Children 3.57 avg rating — 4,610 ratings
93.
Doting
Doting 3.79 avg rating — 237 ratings
94.
Loving
Loving 3.52 avg rating — 3,806 ratings
95.
The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 4.27 avg rating — 2,095 ratings
96.
Flaubert and Madame Bovary
Flaubert and Madame Bovary 4.02 avg rating — 217 ratings
97.
Collected Stories and Later Writings
Collected Stories and Later Writings 4.40 avg rating — 144 ratings
98.
Pedro Páramo
Pedro Páramo 4.06 avg rating — 92,516 ratings
99.
A Summons to Memphis
A Summons to Memphis 3.63 avg rating — 6,770 ratings
100.
Franny and Zooey
Franny and Zooey 3.96 avg rating — 235,157 ratings
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