Top 100 best fiction books

Fiction literature allows us to escape the real world and experience unusual events, exploring new ideas and emotions. From historical classics to post-World War II 20th-century and contemporary novels, here’s a list of the best books of all time in the fiction category.

100 fiction books you must read

1. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
4. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
5. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
6. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
7. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
8. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
10. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
11. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
12. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
13. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
14. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
15. Atonement by Ian McEwan
16. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
17. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
18. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
19. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
20. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
21. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
22. The Stranger by Albert Camus
23. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
24. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
25. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
26. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
27. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
28. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
29. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
30. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
31. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
32. Ulysses by James Joyce
33. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
34. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
35. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
36. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
37. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
38. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
39. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
40. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
41. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
42. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
43. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
44. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
45. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
46. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
47. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
48. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
49. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
50. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
51. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
52. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
53. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
54. Disgrace by J M Coetzee
55. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
56. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
57. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
58. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
59. War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
60. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
61. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
62. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
63. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
64. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
65. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
66. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
67. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
68. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
69. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
70. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
71. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
72. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
73. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
74. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
75. Life, a User’s Manual by Georges Perec
76. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
77. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
78. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
79. Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli
80. Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
81. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
82. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
83. Native Son by Richard Wright
84. The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
85. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
86. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
87. The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley
88. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
89. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
90. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
91. The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
92. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
93. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
94. New Grub Street by George Gissing
95. Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre
96. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
97. The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
98. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
99. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
100. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

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FAQ

Who are some of the best fiction authors?

Fiction includes numerous genres and spans millennia, so determining the best authors is practically impossible. Famous fiction writers throughout history include Sophocles, Dante Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare, Voltaire, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jorge Luis Borges, Agatha Christie, Stephen King, J. K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, and many others.

How are fiction and non-fiction different?

In the broadest definition, fiction doesn’t describe actual events, while nonfiction details real-life accounts. Fiction includes genres like mystery, drama, action, suspense, romance, and horror. Nonfiction titles may be biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs.

What are some good movies based on fiction books?

There are many popular movie adaptations of fiction books like the Oscar-winning The Lord of the Rings, The Godfather, and The Shawshank Redemption. However, it would be interesting to list some motion pictures that fewer people know are based on books:

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Room
• Jurassic Park
• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• The Devil Wears Prada
• Forest Gump
• The Social Network
• Shutter Island
• The Soloist
• Public Enemies