Rank	Cover	Novel	Author	Published	Pages	Summary	ETEXT
1		The Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger	1951	288	Two days in the life of a confused and disillusioned 16-year-old as he rails against the phoniness of the adult world.
2		1984	George Orwell	1949	268	Follows the life of a seemingly insignificant bureaucrat under a repressive, totalitarian regime.
3		The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1925	180	Social satire set in Long Island during the roaring twenties, a "rags-to-riches" story culminating in shattered dreams.
4		Ulysses	James Joyce	1922	816	Chronicles an ordinary day in the life of two Dubliners in a Modernist reconstruction of Homer's epic The Odyssey.
5		Catch-22	Joseph Heller	1961	464	Bureaucratic absurdities affect the lives of World War II fighter pilots, culminating in unspeakable horrors.
6		The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	1939	464	A family's struggle to survive the Great Depression as they journey from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California.
7		The Lord of the Rings	J.R.R. Tolkien	1955	1216	Epic story of good versus evil, where the people of mythical Middle Earth team up to defeat the forces of Evil.
8		One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	1967	448	Chronicles a family's struggle and the history of ficitional Columbian town across several generations.
9		To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	1960	336	Coming of age story amid the backdrop of racial injustice in Depression-era Alabama.
10		Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	1955	336	A portrait of a middle-aged man's amorous obssession with a young girl, and its disastrous consequences.
11		Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte	1847	448	A plain and abused English orphan rises above her meager situation in this Victorian-Age novel.
12		On the Road	Jack Kerouac	1957	304	The anthem of the "Beat Generation", chronicling spontaneous road trips by aimless young adults in post-War America.
13		Animal Farm	George Orwell	1945	113	Animals play the role of Bolshevik-like revolutionaries, as social ideologies are corrupted by political powers.
14		Gone with the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	1936	960	Following the life and romance of a daughter of a Southern plantation owner during the Civil War.
15		Lord of the Flies	William Golding	1954	192	British school boys stranded on a deserted island try to govern themselves with disasterous results.
16		Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte	1847	336	Set on the Yorkshire moors, a tragic tale of obsessive yet thwarted passion, resulting in a lifetime of cruelty and misery.
17		Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	1813	352	Romance, drama and intrigue prevail as five daughters of a country gentleman seek suiters in 19th century England.
18		Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes	1617	1072	A retired country gentleman, obssessed with books of chivalry, pursues a series of farcical quests.
19		Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	1932	288	Describes a frightening future society defined by brainwashing, hullucinogens, scientific reproduction, and social conditioning.
20		Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy	1877	864	Classic tale of love and adultry set against the backdrop of Russian high society, politics and religion.
21		Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1866	560	The mental anguish and moral dilemmas of a Russian ex-student who murders an unscrupulous pawnbroker.
22		To the Lighthouse	Virginia Woolf	1927	312	Psychological exploration and philosophical introspection surrounding a family's visits to the Isle of Skye in the 1910s.
23		The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1880	736	Moral struggles in 19th Century Russia provide the backdrop for a patricide in which the sons share varying degrees of complicity.
24		The Sound and the Fury	William Faulkner	1929	336	The downfall of a prominent Mississippi family, surrounding three brothers' obssessions with their sister.
25		Beloved	Toni Morrison	1987	352	A haunting story about a murdered child and the tribulations of a family emerging from slavery.