Top 100 fiction books

These are the top 100 most recommended fiction books from the world's most successful and interesting people.

Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand

The Alchemist

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

Dune

Dune

Frank Herbert

Harry Potter

Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling

1984

1984

George Orwell

Snow Crash

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

Siddhartha

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand

The Three-Body Problem

The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

Brave New World

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Animal Farm

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Foundation

Foundation

Isaac Asimov

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

The Martian

The Martian

Andy Weir

Ender's Game

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card

The Road (Vintage International)

The Road (Vintage International)

Cormac McCarthy

Ready Player One

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

The Hobbit

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

Conversations with Friends

Conversations with Friends

Sally Rooney

The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

Normal People

Normal People

Sally Rooney

The Road

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Little Women

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

The Diamond Age

The Diamond Age

Neal Stephenson

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Richard Bach

Shantaram

Shantaram

Gregory David Roberts

East of Eden

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

A Little Life

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

His Dark Materials

His Dark Materials

Philip Pullman

Stories of Your Life and Others

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

Cloud Atlas

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell

One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Lolita

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

The Overstory

The Overstory

Richard Powers

Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami

The Player of Games

The Player of Games

Iain M. Banks

The Prophet

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

The Color Purple

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

Pachinko

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

On the Road

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

The Stranger

The Stranger

Albert Camus

War and Peace

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera

Consider Phlebas

Consider Phlebas

Iain M. Banks

The Little Prince

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

Tenth of December

Tenth of December

George Saunders

Exhalation

Exhalation

Ted Chiang

Little Fires Everywhere

Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng

A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

Seveneves

Seveneves

Neal Stephenson

Stranger in a Strange Land

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein

Song of Solomon

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

Middlemarch

Middlemarch

George Eliot

Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

Shōgun

Shōgun

James Clavell

The Iliad

The Iliad

Homer

Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian

Cormac Mccarthy

The Idiot

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Trial

The Trial

Franz Kafka

For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

A Fine Balance

A Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry

The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

A Gentleman in Moscow

A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles

The Godfather

The Godfather

Mario Puzo

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Mitch Albom

The Prince

The Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli

The Circle

The Circle

Dave Eggers

Goodnight Moon

Goodnight Moon

Margaret Wise Brown

The Art of Fielding

The Art of Fielding

Chad Harbach

The Power

The Power

Naomi Alderman

The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

Don Quixote

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Fight Club

Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk

The Goldfinch

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

A Game of Thrones

A Game of Thrones

George R.R. Martin

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Robert A. Heinlein

Gone Girl

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

Dark Matter

Dark Matter

Blake Crouch

Sula

Sula

Toni Morrison

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