r/classicliterature's Top 100 Favourite Books 2025 - WordSea Booklist

r/classicliterature's Top 100 Favourite Books 2025

r/classicliterature's Top 100 Favourite Books 2025

By @mikael·100 books·

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1

The Odyssey

The Odyssey

Homer

2

Cat's Cradle

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut

3

Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

4

Animal Farm

Animal Farm

George Orwell

5

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Victor Hugo

6

Memoirs of Hadrian (FSG Classics)

Memoirs of Hadrian (FSG Classics)

Marguerite Yourcenar

7

All the Demons Are Here A Thriller

All the Demons Are Here A Thriller

Jake Tapper

8

The Red and the Black

The Red and the Black

Stendhal, Marie De Stendhal

9

The Aeneid

The Aeneid

Virgil

10

Song of Solomon

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

11

Dubliners

Dubliners

James Joyce

12

King Lear

King Lear

William Shakespeare

13

Watership Down

Watership Down

Richard Adams

14

The Secret History

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

15

A Game of Thrones

A Game of Thrones

George R. R. Martin

16

2666

2666

Roberto Bolaño

17

The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux

18

The Road

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

19

The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

20

Dead Souls

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol

21

Persuasion Jane Austen's Historical Classic Romance Novel

Persuasion Jane Austen's Historical Classic Romance Novel

Jane Austen

22

The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas, Alan Weissman, John Green

23

Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses

Ovid

24

Septology

Septology

Jon Fosse

25

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

26

Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons

Choderlos de Laclos

27

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

28

The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

29

Macbeth

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

30

A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

31

The Name Of The Rose

The Name Of The Rose

Umberto Eco

32

All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque

33

The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

34

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

35

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

36

To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

37

The Leopard Introduction by David Gilmour

The Leopard Introduction by David Gilmour

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

38

Pale Fire

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

39

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

40

David Copperfield

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

41

Giovanni's Room

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

42

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

43

Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)

Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)

Frank Herbert

44

Siddhartha

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

45

Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

46

The Plague

The Plague

Albert Camus

47

Emma

Emma

Austen Jane

48

The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

49

The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

50

Candide

Candide

Voltaire

51

Ficciones

Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges

52

Brave New World

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

53

Rebecca

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

54

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

55

As I Lay Dying

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

56

Notes from the Underground

Notes from the Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky

57

Great Expectations

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

58

Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

59

Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

60

The Trial A New Translation Based on the Restored Text

The Trial A New Translation Based on the Restored Text

Franz Kafka

61

The Idiot

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky

62

Absalom, Absalom!

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner

63

Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost

John Milton

64

Middlemarch

Middlemarch

George Eliot

65

The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

66

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

67

Mrs. Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

68

The Stranger

The Stranger

Albert Camus

69

To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

70

The Magic Mountain

The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann

71

The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger

72

Dracula

Dracula

Bram Stoker

73

Hamlet

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

74

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

75

The Iliad

The Iliad

Homer

76

Catch-22

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

77

In Search of Lost Time

In Search of Lost Time

Marcel Proust

78

Lolita

Lolita

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov

79

Stoner Coloring Book: Trippy Psychedelic Stoner 420 Coloring Pages For Adults With Many Favorite Characters For Stress Relief And Relaxation (German Edition)

Stoner Coloring Book: Trippy Psychedelic Stoner 420 Coloring Pages For Adults With Many Favorite Characters For Stress Relief And Relaxation (German Edition)

consandra mccallum

80

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

81

Les Miserables

Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

82

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

83

Ulysses

Ulysses

James Joyce

84

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte

85

Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

86

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

87

War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

Leo Tolstoy

88

Don Quixote

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman

89

The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

J.R.R. Tolkien

90

The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

91

One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

92

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

93

1984

1984

George Orwell

94

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

graf Leo Tolstoy

95

Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

96

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

97

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

98

East of Eden

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

99

The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

100

Moby Dick

Moby Dick

Herman Melville

Last updated 28 Apr 2026