What Are The Best Books?

Ever have a craving to read a classic or just a really good book, but don’t know where to go for a list of the best of the best books?

Ever have someone—a teacher, friend, parent—suggest a novel from their best of lists that they tell you you must read before you die and wonder what the deal is about that particular title, anyway?

Here's a short list which I doubt you could better - but please pass on your selections by using the comments area below. If they are worthy - we might even publish the list.

The Crown Crime Companion: The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time

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Well, I can’t tell you all the specifics of all the best of the best books in my opinion, but I can give you a few suggestions, name a few more titles that you might want to read if you are stuck for ideas or are one who wants to catch up with all the most popular and most-read (besides The Bible, that is) books of all time.

You can find them here...

• Best of the Best Books by Title

1984 (Signet Classics)

Price: $3.94

1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four), by George Orwell

Brave New World

Price: $47.46

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

The Catcher in the Rye

Price: $5.99

The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger

Fahrenheit 451

Price: $2.76

Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury

The French Lieutenant's Woman (Vintage Classics)

Price: $10.47

The French Lieutenant’s Woman, by John Fowles

No list is complete without this...

Gone with the Wind

Price: $10.28

Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

Great Gatsby

Price: $20.72

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel

Price: $6.99

The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood

Such Fun which never ceases to amuse me every time I re-read it.

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Price: $9.70

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

What a fuss and scandal this caused.

The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

Price: $9.50

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov

I studied this in school - but it was so much better when I re-read it again many years later.

Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

Price: $8.17

Lord of the Flies, by William Golding

Native Son (Perennial Classics)

Price: $5.60

Native Son, by Richard Wright

On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

Price: $9.03

On the Road, by Jack Kerouac

Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)

Price: $7.35

Seize the Day, by Saul Bellow

Stranger in a Strange Land

Price: $9.00

Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein

Finally - my personal favorite...

To Kill a Mockingbird (slipcased edition)

Price: $19.58

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

If you only read some of these wonderful books in your lifetime - it will NOT be a waste of time.