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101 Must Read Novels to Improve Intelligence

Read brain stimulating books

Many people like to read popular novels, and unfortunately, these books are quite stimulating. If you want to improve the ability to think or write, then read books that make you to concentrate. Reading classic literature can change your view of the world, you learn to express your thoughts beautiful and in a literary language. Don’t hesitate to look in a dictionary for an unknown word; do not be afraid of large sections. If necessary, reread the paragraph, and you’ll soon learn the author’s style.

Reading smart books, you will find that you are no longer interested in reading popular literature, like nowadays bestsellers. Learning something new is more interesting than just turning the pages.

So here is a list of the best classicc novels, you should read to improve your mood:

1. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
2. Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
3. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
4. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
5. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
6. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
7. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
8. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
9. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
10. The Trial - Franz Kafka
11. The Great Gatsby – F.Scott Fitzgerald
12. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
13. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
14. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
15. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
16. Under the Volcano- Malcolm Lowryl
17. I, Claudius – Robert Graves
18. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
19. An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
20. The Heart is A Lonely Hunter – Graham Greene
21. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
22. Native Son – Richard Wright
23. Appointment in Samarra – John O’Hara
24. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
25. Animal Farm – George Orwell
26. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
27. As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
28. All The King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren
29. The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thorton Wilder
30. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
31. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
32. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
33. Deliverance – James Dickey
34. A Dance to The Music of Time (series) – Anthony Powell
35. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
36. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
37. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
38. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
39. Light in August – William Faulkner
40. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
41. The Moviegoer – Walker Percy
42. Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather
43. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
44. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
45. A House for Mr. Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
46. The Day of the Locust – Nathanael West
47. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
48. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
49. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
50. The Death of the Heart – Elizabeth Bowen
51. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
52. Loving – Henry Green
53. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
54. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
55. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
56. The Sheltering Sky – Paul Bowles
57. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
58. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
59. Zuleika Dobson – Max Beerbom
60. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
61. The Tale of Genji – Lady Murasaki
62. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
63. Dr. Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
64. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
65. Waiting for Mahatma – RK Narayan
66. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
67. One Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
68. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
69. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
70. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
71. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
72. The War of the Worlds – HG Wells
73. Tess of the D’Ubervilles – Thomas Hardy
74. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
75. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
76. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
77. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
78. Middlemarch – George Eliot
79. Silas Marner – George Eliot
80. The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde
81. The Color Purple – Alice Walker (04.01.07)
82. Call It Sleep – Henry Roth
83. Middle Passage – Charles Johnson
84. Passing – Nella Larson
85. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neal Hurston
86. Cane – Jean Toomer
87. Jubilee – Margaret Walker
88. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
89. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
90. Ulysses – James Joyce
91. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
92. Women in Love – D.H. Lawerence
93. The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
94. The Wapshot Chronicles – John Cheever
95. From Here to Eternity – James Jones
96. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
97. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
98. Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham
99. Finnegan’s Wake – James Joyce
100. A Room With A View – E.M. Forster
101. The Magnificent Ambersons – Booth Tarkington

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