Classic Books Bucket List

Experience the dystopian classic by George Orwell

Read the Old Testament, the first major division of the Christian Bible and a foundational text in Judaism, comprising books like Genesis, Exodus, and Psalms.

Read the New Testament, the second part of the Christian Bible covering the life and teachings of Jesus Christ and the early church.

Read the classic novella The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Experience the Jazz Age tale by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Explore themes of racial injustice by Harper Lee

Read The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth

Read the first modern novel by Miguel de Cervantes

Read The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the final volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy series, and also read Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth, a collection of stories and essays expanding on Middle-earth lore.

Read The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the second volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy series, and also read Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth, a collection of stories and essays expanding on the lore of Middle-earth.

Read the Analects of Confucius, a collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius

Read the Quran, the central religious text of Islam, to understand its teachings and significance.

Read the Bhagavad Gita, a 700-verse Hindu scripture that is part of the Mahabharata epic

Read the Torah, the central religious text of Judaism consisting of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible

Read the Tao Te Ching, an ancient Chinese text of Taoist philosophy

Read the Upanishads, ancient Sanskrit texts that form the philosophical foundation of Hinduism

Read Solaris, a classic science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem exploring themes of human psychology and alien contact

Explore magical realism by Gabriel García Márquez

Sun Tzu's thirteen chapters on winning without fighting, quoted in every boardroom.

Clarke's novel written alongside Kubrick's film, and it explains the ending.

Ten years of Odysseus getting home: the Cyclops, the Sirens, and the bow only he can string.

Paul Atreides on Arrakis: spice, sandworms and the most imitated world in science fiction.

Huxley's chilling vision of an engineered utopia (1932).

Dumas's grand tale of revenge and escape (1844).

Dostoevsky's tense moral descent of a guilty student (1866).

An officer demonstrates the machine that writes a condemned man's sentence into his back over twelve hours.