No matter who you are, when it comes to reading there’s nothing better than reading some of the best classic novels that are available today. The following are just some of the best classic novels that you should read in your lifetime.

Must Read Classic Novels

1. The Lord Of The Rings – JRR Tolkein
2. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
3. The Home and The World – Rabindranath Tagore
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – Douglas Adams
5. One Thousand and One Nights – Anon
6. The Sorrows Of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
7. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
8. Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy – John le Carre
9. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
10. The Tale of Genji – Lady Murasaki
11. Under The Net – Iris Murdoch
12. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
13. Eugene Onegin – Alexander Pushkin
14. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
15. Old Goriot – Honore’ de Balzac
16. The Red and the Black – Stendhal
17. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
18. Germinal – Emile Zola
19. The Stranger – Albert Camus
20. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
21. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
22. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
23. Alice Adventures In Wonderland – Lewis Carrol
24. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
25. The Trial – Franz Kalka
26. Cider With Rosie – Laure Lee
27. Waiting For The Mahatma – RK Naravan
28. All Quiet On The Western Front – Erich Remarque
29. Dinner At The Homesick Resaurant – Anne Tyler
30. The Dream Of The Red Chamber – Cao Xueqin
31. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
32. If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller – Italo Calvino
33. Crash – JG Ballard
34. A Bend In The River – VS Naipaul
35. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
36. The Cairo Trilogy – Naguib Mahfouz
37. Dr Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
38. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
39. My Name Is Red – Orhan Pamuk
40. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

Reading is a great way to relax, unwind and get away for a while in your own little world. Why not read some of the classics and see what you have been missing out on.