The canon
The essential shelf — works that earned their place.
Crime and Punishment
1941
The Brothers Karamazov
2015
War and Peace
1928
Anna Karenina
2014
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1971
In Search of Lost Time
Ulysses
1914
Don Quixote
2017
Moby-Dick
1851
Hamlet
1603
The Odyssey
1946
The Iliad
2023
The Divine Comedy
1947
Pride and Prejudice
1813
Wuthering Heights
1846
Jane Eyre
1847
Great Expectations
1861
A Tale of Two Cities
1800
Madame Bovary
1856
The Great Gatsby
1920
To Kill a Mockingbird
1960
1984
2021
Animal Farm
1945
Brave New World
1932
Fahrenheit 451
1953
The Catcher in the Rye
The Grapes of Wrath
1939
East of Eden
1952
Of Mice and Men
1937
The Old Man and the Sea
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1940
The Sun Also Rises
1926
Lolita
1777
The Master and Margarita
1967
Doctor Zhivago
1958
The Idiot
1916
Notes from Underground
1961
Demons
2022
Dead Souls
1942
Fathers and Sons
The Trial
1925
The Metamorphosis
1996
The Castle
The Stranger
1980
The Plague
2004
The Myth of Sisyphus
1955
Nausea
1949
Steppenwolf
1929
Siddhartha
1922
The Glass Bead Game
1991
The Magic Mountain
1927
Buddenbrooks
1909
Faust
The Sorrows of Young Werther
2006
Les Miserables
1862
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
1924
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
1933
The Red and the Black
2011
Pere Goriot
2016
Candide
1746
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1890
Frankenstein
Dracula
1897
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Heart of Darkness
1899
Lord of the Flies
1954
Catch-22
Slaughterhouse-Five
1956
Cat's Cradle
1963
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1962
A Clockwork Orange
On the Road
1957
Beloved
1987
Song of Solomon
1634
Invisible Man
Native Son
The Color Purple
1976
Things Fall Apart
Midnight's Children
1981
The God of Small Things
1997
Love in the Time of Cholera
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Pedro Paramo
Ficciones
The Aleph
Hopscotch
2666
The Savage Detectives
1998
Blindness
1999
The Book of Disquiet
1982
The Name of the Rose
1983
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Invisible Cities
The Leopard
My Name Is Red
Snow
2002
The Museum of Innocence
2009
Memed, My Hawk
Madonna in a Fur Coat
The Time Regulation Institute
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Norwegian Wood
Kafka on the Shore
2001
Snow Country
1972
Kokoro
No Longer Human
2024
The Remains of the Day
1989
Never Let Me Go
2005
Mrs Dalloway
To the Lighthouse
The Sound and the Fury
As I Lay Dying
1915
Blood Meridian
1985
The Road
No Country for Old Men
1900
The Handmaid's Tale
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The War of the End of the World
2008
The Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
Dune
1969
Foundation
1951
The Master of Go
1974
The Little Prince
2013
