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

Harry Potter

Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling

Dune

Dune

Frank Herbert

1984

1984

George Orwell

Snow Crash

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien

Siddhartha

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

The Three-Body Problem

The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu

The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand

The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Brave New World

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Animal Farm

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

Ender's Game

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card

The Martian

The Martian

Andy Weir

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Foundation

Foundation

Isaac Asimov

Ready Player One

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

The Road (Vintage International)

The Road (Vintage International)

Cormac McCarthy

The Hobbit

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Little Women

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

The Road

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Normal People

Normal People

Sally Rooney

The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

Conversations with Friends

Conversations with Friends

Sally Rooney

Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

The Overstory

The Overstory

Richard Powers

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

Lolita

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Cloud Atlas

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell

Stories of Your Life and Others

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

His Dark Materials

His Dark Materials

Philip Pullman

A Little Life

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

East of Eden

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

Shantaram

Shantaram

Gregory David Roberts

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Richard Bach

The Diamond Age

The Diamond Age

Neal Stephenson

Song of Solomon

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

Stranger in a Strange Land

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein

Seveneves

Seveneves

Neal Stephenson

A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

Little Fires Everywhere

Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng

Exhalation

Exhalation

Ted Chiang

Tenth of December

Tenth of December

George Saunders

A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

The Little Prince

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Consider Phlebas

Consider Phlebas

Iain M. Banks

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera

All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

War and Peace

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

The Stranger

The Stranger

Albert Camus

The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid

On the Road

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

Pachinko

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

The Color Purple

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

The Prophet

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

The Player of Games

The Player of Games

Iain M. Banks

Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami

An American Marriage

An American Marriage

Tayari Jones

Such a Fun Age

Such a Fun Age

Kiley ReidI

The Stand

The Stand

Stephen King

The Girl on the Train

The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins

Exit West

Exit West

Mohsin Hamid

The Last Days of Night

The Last Days of Night

Graham Moore

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

Mohsin Hamid

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

Einstein's Dreams

Einstein's Dreams

Alan Lightman

Cat's Cradle

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut

Sula

Sula

Toni Morrison

Dark Matter

Dark Matter

Blake Crouch

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

Gone Girl

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Robert A. Heinlein

A Game of Thrones

A Game of Thrones

George R.R. Martin

The Goldfinch

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

Fight Club

Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk

Don Quixote

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

The Power

The Power

Naomi Alderman

The Art of Fielding

The Art of Fielding

Chad Harbach

Goodnight Moon

Goodnight Moon

Margaret Wise Brown

The Circle

The Circle

Dave Eggers

The Prince

The Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Mitch Albom

The Godfather

The Godfather

Mario Puzo

A Gentleman in Moscow

A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles

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