Good Books for Teenage Boys Whonhate Reading
1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1678)
A story of a man in search of truth told with the simple clarity and dazzler of Bunyan's prose brand this the ultimate English classic.
2. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
By the end of the 19th century, no book in English literary history had enjoyed more editions, spin-offs and translations. Crusoe's globe-famous novel is a complex literary confection, and it's irresistible.
3. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)
A satirical masterpiece that'southward never been out of print, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels comes 3rd in our list of the all-time novels written in English
4. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (1748)
Clarissa is a tragic heroine, pressured by her unscrupulous nouveau-riche family to marry a wealthy man she detests, in the book that Samuel Johnson described equally "the first volume in the world for the knowledge it displays of the human middle."
5. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (1749)
Tom Jones is a classic English language novel that captures the spirit of its age and whose famous characters have come up to represent Augustan gild in all its loquacious, turbulent, comic diverseness.
vi. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman past Laurence Sterne (1759)
Laurence Sterne's vivid novel caused delight and consternation when it first appeared and has lost piffling of its original seize with teeth.
7. Emma by Jane Austen (1816)
Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility.
8. Frankenstein past Mary Shelley (1818)
Mary Shelley's first novel has been hailed as a masterpiece of horror and the macabre.
9. Nightmare Abbey past Thomas Honey Peacock (1818)
The great pleasance of Nightmare Abbey, which was inspired past Thomas Love Peacock'due south friendship with Shelley, lies in the delight the author takes in poking fun at the romantic move.
ten. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe (1838)
Edgar Allan Poe'southward but novel – a classic take chances story with supernatural elements – has fascinated and influenced generations of writers.
xi. Sybil past Benjamin Disraeli (1845)
The hereafter prime government minister displayed flashes of brilliance that equalled the greatest Victorian novelists.
12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
Charlotte Brontë's erotic, gothic masterpiece became the sensation of Victorian England. Its great breakthrough was its intimate dialogue with the reader.
13. Wuthering Heights past Emily Brontë (1847)
Emily Brontë's windswept masterpiece is notable not merely for its wild dazzler but for its daring reinvention of the novel course itself.
xiv. Vanity Fair past William Thackeray (1848)
William Thackeray's masterpiece, set in Regency England, is a bravura performance by a author at the elevation of his game.
15. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850)
David Copperfield marked the point at which Dickens became the keen entertainer and too laid the foundations for his afterwards, darker masterpieces.
16. The Reddish Alphabetic character by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
Nathaniel Hawthorne's astounding volume is full of intense symbolism and as haunting as annihilation by Edgar Allan Poe.
17. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
Wise, funny and gripping, Melville's epic work continues to cast a long shadow over American literature.
18. Alice'due south Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
Lewis Carroll's brilliant nonsense tale is 1 of the nearly influential and best loved in the English canon.
19. The Moonstone past Wilkie Collins (1868)
Wilkie Collins's masterpiece, hailed by many as the greatest English language detective novel, is a brilliant marriage of the sensational and the realistic.
20. Picayune Women past Louisa May Alcott (1868-ix)
Louisa May Alcott's highly original tale aimed at a immature female market has iconic status in America and never been out of print.
21. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871-two)
This cathedral of words stands today every bit maybe the greatest of the peachy Victorian fictions.
22. The Style Nosotros Live Now past Anthony Trollope (1875)
Inspired past the author'due south fury at the corrupt country of England, and dismissed by critics at the time, The Way We Live Now is recognised as Trollope's masterpiece.
23. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884/5)
Mark Twain'southward tale of a rebel boy and a runaway slave seeking liberation upon the waters of the Mississippi remains a defining classic of American literature.
24. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
A thrilling adventure story, gripping history and fascinating study of the Scottish character, Kidnapped has lost none of its ability.
25. 3 Men in a Boat by Jerome G Jerome (1889)
Jerome One thousand Jerome'south accidental classic about messing about on the Thames remains a comic precious stone.
26. The Sign of 4 by Arthur Conan Doyle (1890)
Sherlock Holmes's 2nd outing sees Conan Doyle's brilliant sleuth – and his barefaced sidekick Watson – come into their own.
27. The Motion-picture show of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1891)
Wilde'southward brilliantly allusive moral tale of youth, beauty and abuse was greeted with howls of protest on publication.
28. New Chow Street past George Gissing (1891)
George Gissing's portrayal of the hard facts of a literary life remains as relevant today as it was in the tardily 19th century.
29. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895)
Hardy exposed his deepest feelings in this dour, angry novel and, stung past the hostile response, he never wrote another.
30. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1895)
Stephen Crane's business relationship of a young human's passage to manhood through soldiery is a blueprint for the corking American war novel.
31. Dracula past Bram Stoker (1897)
Bram Stoker'due south classic vampire story was very much of its time just yet resonates more than a century later.
32. Heart of Darkness past Joseph Conrad (1899)
Joseph Conrad'due south masterpiece near a life-irresolute journey in search of Mr Kurtz has the simplicity of great myth.
33. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (1900)
Theodore Dreiser was no stylist, but there's a terrific momentum to his unflinching novel nearly a country girl's American dream.
34. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1901)
In Kipling's archetype boy's own spy story, an orphan in British India must make a choice between east and due west.
35. The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)
Jack London's bright adventures of a pet domestic dog that goes back to nature reveal an boggling style and consummate storytelling.
36. The Gilt Bowl by Henry James (1904)
American literature contains nothing else quite like Henry James'due south astonishing, labyrinthine and claustrophobic novel.
37. Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe (1904)
This entertaining if contrived story of a hack writer and priest who becomes pope sheds bright light on its eccentric author – described by DH Lawrence as a "man-demon".
38. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908)
The evergreen tale from the riverbank and a powerful contribution to the mythology of Edwardian England.
39. The History of Mr Polly past HG Wells (1910)
The choice is dandy, but Wells's ironic portrait of a man very similar himself is the novel that stands out.
twoscore. Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm (1911)
The passage of fourth dimension has conferred a dark power upon Beerbohm'southward ostensibly light and witty Edwardian satire.
41. The Good Soldier past Ford Madox Ford (1915)
Ford's masterpiece is a searing report of moral dissolution behind the facade of an English language admirer – and its stylistic influence lingers to this solar day.
42. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (1915)
John Buchan's espionage thriller, with its thin, gimmicky prose, is difficult to put downward.
43. The Rainbow by DH Lawrence (1915)
The Rainbow is perhaps DH Lawrence's finest work, showing him for the radical, protean, thoroughly modernistic writer he was.
44. Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Maugham (1915)
Somerset Maugham'due south semi-autobiographical novel shows the writer's vicious honesty and souvenir for storytelling at their best.
45. The Historic period of Innocence past Edith Wharton (1920)
The story of a blighted New York marriage stands every bit a fierce indictment of a society estranged from culture.
46. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)
This portrait of a mean solar day in the lives of three Dubliners remains a towering work, in its word play surpassing even Shakespeare.
47. Babbitt past Sinclair Lewis (1922)
What it lacks in structure and guile, this enthralling have on 20s America makes upward for in vivid satire and characterisation.
48. A Passage to India by EM Forster (1924)
EM Forster's most successful work is eerily prescient on the subject of empire.
49. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (1925)
A guilty pleasance it may be, but information technology is impossible to overlook the enduring influence of a tale that helped to define the jazz age.
50. Mrs Dalloway past Virginia Woolf (1925)
Woolf's great novel makes a day of political party preparations the canvass for themes of lost love, life choices and mental illness.
51. The Great Gatsby past F Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
Fitzgerald'southward jazz age masterpiece has get a tantalising metaphor for the eternal mystery of art.
52. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1926)
A young woman escapes convention by condign a witch in this original satire about England after the starting time world war.
53. The Sun Also Rises past Ernest Hemingway (1926)
Hemingway's first and all-time novel makes an escape to 1920s Spain to explore courage, cowardice and manly authenticity.
54. The Maltese Falcon past Dashiell Hammett (1929)
Dashiell Hammett'south law-breaking thriller and its difficult-boiled hero Sam Spade influenced anybody from Chandler to Le Carré.
55. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930)
The influence of William Faulkner's immersive tale of raw Mississippi rural life can exist felt to this day.
56. Brave New Earth by Aldous Huxley (1932)
Aldous Huxley's vision of a future human race controlled by global capitalism is every bit every bit prescient every bit Orwell'south more famous dystopia.
57. Cold Condolement Farm by Stella Gibbons (1932)
The book for which Gibbons is best remembered was a satire of late-Victorian pastoral fiction but went on to influence many subsequent generations.
58. Nineteen Nineteen by John Dos Passos (1932)
The centre volume of John Dos Passos's U.s. trilogy is revolutionary in its intent, techniques and lasting impact.
59. Tropic of Cancer past Henry Miller (1934)
The US novelist's debut revelled in a Paris underworld of seedy sex activity and changed the course of the novel – though non without a fight with the censors.
60. Scoop past Evelyn Waugh (1938)
Evelyn Waugh'south Fleet Street satire remains sharp, pertinent and memorable.
61. Murphy past Samuel Beckett (1938)
Samuel Beckett'southward starting time published novel is an absurdist masterpiece, a showcase for his uniquely comic voice.
62. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939)
Raymond Chandler's hardboiled debut brings to life the seedy LA underworld – and Philip Marlowe, the archetypal fictional detective.
63. Party Going by Henry Light-green (1939)
Set on the eve of war, this neglected modernist masterpiece centres on a group of bright immature revellers delayed by fog.
64. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (1939)
Labyrinthine and multilayered, Flann O'Brien's humorous debut is both a reflection on, and an exemplar of, the Irish novel.
65. The Grapes of Wrath past John Steinbeck (1939)
One of the greatest of great American novels, this written report of a family torn apart by poverty and desperation in the Great Depression shocked US club.
66. Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse (1946)
PG Wodehouse'due south elegiac Jeeves novel, written during his disastrous years in wartime Federal republic of germany, remains his masterpiece.
67. All the Male monarch'southward Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946)
A compelling story of personal and political corruption, set in the 1930s in the American south.
68. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry (1947)
Malcolm Lowry's masterpiece nearly the last hours of an alcoholic ex-diplomat in Mexico is set to the drumbeat of coming conflict.
69. The Oestrus of the Day past Elizabeth Bowen (1948)
Elizabeth Bowen's 1948 novel perfectly captures the atmosphere of London during the blitz while providing brilliant insights into the human heart.
70. Nineteen 80-Four by George Orwell (1949)
George Orwell's dystopian classic price its writer dear just is arguably the all-time-known novel in English language of the 20th century.
71. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1951)
Graham Greene's moving tale of adultery and its aftermath ties together several vital strands in his work.
72. The Catcher in the Rye past JD Salinger (1951)
JD Salinger's study of teenage rebellion remains one of the about controversial and best-loved American novels of the 20th century.
73. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1953)
In the long-running hunt to identify the great American novel, Saul Bellow's picaresque third book frequently hits the mark.
74. Lord of the Flies past William Golding (1954)
Dismissed at first every bit "rubbish & tedious", Golding's brilliantly observed dystopian desert island tale has since go a classic.
75. Lolita past Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
Nabokov's tragicomic tour de force crosses the boundaries of adept gustatory modality with glee.
76. On the Route past Jack Kerouac (1957)
The artistic history of Kerouac'due south beat-generation classic, fuelled by pea soup and benzedrine, has become equally famous as the novel itself.
77. Voss by Patrick White (1957)
A honey story set confronting the disappearance of an explorer in the outback, Voss paved the way for a generation of Australian writers to shrug off the colonial past.
78. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
Her second novel finally arrived this summer, merely Harper Lee's offset did enough alone to secure her lasting fame, and remains a truly popular classic.
79. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie past Muriel Spark (1960)
Short and bloodshot, Muriel Spark'southward tale of the downfall of a Scottish schoolmistress is a masterpiece of narrative fiction.
eighty. Grab-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
This acerbic anti-war novel was slow to fire the public imagination, but is rightly regarded as a groundbreaking critique of military madness.
81. The Golden Notebook past Doris Lessing (1962)
Hailed as one of the primal texts of the women'south motion of the 1960s, this study of a divorced single mother's search for personal and political identity remains a defiant, aggressive tour de force.
82. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)
Anthony Burgess'south dystopian classic still continues to startle and provoke, refusing to be outshone by Stanley Kubrick's brilliant moving-picture show adaptation.
83. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964)
Christopher Isherwood'due south story of a gay Englishman struggling with bereavement in LA is a piece of work of compressed brilliance.
84. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966)
Truman Capote's non-fiction novel, a true story of encarmine murder in rural Kansas, opens a window on the dark underbelly of postwar America.
85. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1966)
Sylvia Plath's painfully graphic roman à clef, in which a woman struggles with her identity in the confront of social pressure, is a key text of Anglo-American feminism.
86. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (1969)
This wickedly funny novel about a young Jewish American'southward obsession with masturbation caused outrage on publication, but remains his most dazzling work.
87. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (1971)
Elizabeth Taylor's exquisitely drawn character report of eccentricity in old historic period is a precipitous and witty portrait of genteel postwar English language life facing the changes taking shape in the 60s.
88. Rabbit Redux by John Updike (1971)
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, Updike's lovably mediocre alter ego, is one of America'south bully literary protoganists, up there with Huck Finn and Jay Gatsby.
89. Song of Solomon past Toni Morrison (1977)
The novel with which the Nobel prize-winning writer established her proper name is a kaleidoscopic evocation of the African-American experience in the 20th century.
90. A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul (1979)
VS Naipaul'due south hellish vision of an African nation's path to independence saw him accused of racism, just remains his masterpiece.
91. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)
The personal and the historical merge in Salman Rushdie'south dazzling, game-irresolute Indian English language novel of a immature man born at the very moment of Indian independence.
92. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1981)
Marilynne Robinson'southward tale of orphaned sisters and their oddball aunt in a remote Idaho town is admired by everyone from Barack Obama to Bret Easton Ellis.
93. Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis (1984)
Martin Amis's era-defining ode to excess unleashed one of literature's greatest modern monsters in self-destructive antihero John Cocky.
94. An Artist of the Floating Globe by Kazuo Ishiguro (1986)
Kazuo Ishiguro'south novel about a retired artist in postwar Nippon, reflecting on his career during the land's dark years, is a tour de force of unreliable narration.
95. The Beginning of Jump by Penelope Fitzgerald (1988)
Fitzgerald's story, set in Russian federation just before the Bolshevik revolution, is her masterpiece: a brilliant miniature whose peculiar magic nearly defies assay.
96. Animate Lessons by Anne Tyler (1988)
Anne Tyler's portrayal of a heart-aged, mid-American spousal relationship displays her narrative clarity, comic timing and ear for American spoken communication to perfection.
97. Among Women by John McGahern (1990)
This modern Irish masterpiece is both a study of the faultlines of Irish patriarchy and an elegy for a lost world.
98. Underworld past Don DeLillo (1997)
A author of "frightening perception", Don DeLillo guides the reader in an epic journeying through America's history and popular culture.
99. Disgrace by JM Coetzee (1999)
In his Booker-winning masterpiece, Coetzee's intensely human vision infuses a fictional world that both invites and confounds political interpretation.
100. True History of the Kelly Gang past Peter Carey (2000)
Peter Carey rounds off our list of literary milestones with a Booker prize-winning tour-de-force examining the life and times of Australia's infamous antihero, Ned Kelly.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/17/the-100-best-novels-written-in-english-the-full-list
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