Top 50 Books To Read Before You Die

Top Books To Read Before You Die: As multimedia advances, books are being slowly forgotten, but they shouldn’t. Literature is not only cultivating, but also fascinating; it feeds imagination, it allows you to travel without moving (although traveling is amazing too, so don’t miss our Top 15 Places To Visit Before You Die list), it presents unknown and very different realities…

Before you go to sleep, when you’re on the bus (or a plane to one of the The Top 10 Places to Visit Before You Die), relaxing on the beach, waiting for the doctor to see you, in line at the bank, drinking wine on the countryside, enjoying the sun in the park… almost every relaxing occasion (and most of your down time) is the perfect time for a book.

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As an avid reader, I’ve come across some books that one should not die without having read, including almost all of Plato’s dialogues or A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Tool; a comedic jewel. Of course, this is a highly personal selection based on taste, although many of the books you’ll find here are already considered to be classics of literature both old and modern.

So, which are the books that need to be read? Does every English-speaking person need to read Shakespeare? Are there other authors that are a must? Find out in this list of the top 50 books to read before you die.

Naturally, this list is open to suggestions. In fact, I’d love it if you readers could recommend other books that are not in this list but should definitely be read.

1. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking

2. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess

3. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

4. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

5. Animal Farm – George Orwell

6. Before the End – Ernesto Sabato

7. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

8. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

9. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

10. Chronicle of a Death Foretold – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

11. Complete Works of William Shakespeare

12. Cronopios and Famas – Julio Cortazar

13. Crime and Punishment – Fydor Dostoevsky

14. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

15. Demian – Herman Hesse

16. Before the End – Ernesto Sabato

17. Every Dialogue Ever Written by Plato

18. Existentialism is a Humanism – Jean-Paul Sartre

19. Fictions – Jorge Luis Borges

20. Hopscotch – Julio Cortazar

21. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

22. Inferno – Dante Alighieri (The first part of Dante’s epic poem, The Divine Comedy)

23. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino

24. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

25. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

26. Lord of the Flies – William Golding

Keep reading the following pages to find out which are the remaining 24 books to read before you die.

27. Maus – Art Spiegelman

28. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

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29. Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami

30. Siddartha – Herman Hesse

31. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse

32. The Aleph – Jorge Luis Borges

33. The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X with Alex Haley

34. The Baron in the Trees – Italo Calvino

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35. The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx

36. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

37. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

38. The Lost Steps – Alejo Carpentier

39. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka

40. The Odyssey – Homer

41. The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli

42. The Savage Detectives – Roberto Bolaño

43. The Social Contract – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

44. The Stranger – Albert Camus

45. The Trial – Franz Kafka

46. The Tunnel – Ernesto Sabato

47. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami

48. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

49. War and Peace – Leon Tolstoy

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50. The Bible

Needless to say, there is one book that has had a special impact on our culture: the Bible. This book closes our list of top books to read before you die. Any other suggestions? We would love to read them.