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50 Books Everyone Should Read *Fiction* by YouTube Channel Thestudytube Project

50 fictional books that Jack Edwards would recommend to help you broaden your mind.
This list follows Jack Edwards' recommendation of 50 books to put at the top of your reading list, make your top priority.
There are different categories such as classics, books that have had huge cultural impact, have different perspectives, a post-colonial perspective, decolonised literature, and others.
This list presents all of the books mentioned in the video, in the same order as they are mentioned.
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Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
1
Daniel Defoe
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
2
Jane Austen
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
3
Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre
4
Charlotte Brontë
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway
5
Virginia Woolf
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
6
Homer
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
7
Oscar Wilde
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
8
Harper Lee
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
9
J.D. Salinger
Tess of the D'ubervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'ubervilles
10
Thomas Hardy
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
11
Herman Melville
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
12
Vladimir Nabokov
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
13
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
14
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
15
William Golding
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
16
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
Romeo and Juliet
17
William Shakespeare
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
18
Mary Shelley
A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
A Study in Scarlet
19
Arthur Conan Doyle
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula
20
Bram Stoker
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
21
George Orwell
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
22
George Orwell
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale
23
Margaret Atwood
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fahrenheit 451
24
Ray Bradbury
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
25
Aldous Huxley
Home Fire (Kamila Shamsie)
Home Fire
26
Kamila Shamsie
North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell)
North and South
27
Elizabeth Gaskell
Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Grapes of Wrath
28
John Steinbeck
We
We
29
Harvest (Jim Crace)
Harvest
30
Jim Crace
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
31
Joseph Conrad
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
Wide Sargasso Sea
32
Jean Rhys
The Hungry Tide (Amitav Ghosh)
The Hungry Tide
33
Amitav Ghosh
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
The God of Small Things
34
Arundhati Roy
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
35
Salman Rushdie
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
A Thousand Splendid Suns
36
Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
The Kite Runner
37
Khaled Hosseini
The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai)
The Inheritance of Loss
38
Kiran Desai
Disgrace (J.M. Coetzee)
Disgrace
39
J.M. Coetzee
Small Island (Andrea Levy)
Small Island
40
Andrea Levy
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