No idea what to read? Haven’t found any books that are tempting in a while? Then why don’t you take a cue from the Americans. Here is a list of the 100 novels that the Americans love the most, according to Quartzy. And I challenge you to read them all!
- 1984 by George Orwell
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Alex Cross Mysteries by James Patterson
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- And then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Another Country by James Baldwin
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
- The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
- The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
- The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Dona Barbara by Romulo Gallegos
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
- Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Ghost by Jason Reynolds
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
- The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- Mind Invaders by Dave Hunt
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- The Shack by William P. Young
- Siddharta by Hermann Hesse
- The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Stand by Stephen King
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
- Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- This Present Darkness by Frank E. Peretti
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Watchers by Dean Koontz
- The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Happy reading,
Loes M.