Alexandre Dumas
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:
- Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
- Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- The Trial - Franz Kafka
- The Great Gatsby – F.Scott Fitzgerald
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
- The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
- Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
- The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
- Under the Volcano- Malcolm Lowryl
- I, Claudius – Robert Graves
- To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
- An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
- The Heart is A Lonely Hunter – Graham Greene
- Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
- Native Son – Richard Wright
- Appointment in Samarra – John O’Hara
- A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
- Animal Farm – George Orwell
- A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
- As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
- All The King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thorton Wilder
- Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
- The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- Deliverance – James Dickey
- A Dance to The Music of Time (series) – Anthony Powell
- The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
- Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
- Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
- Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
- Light in August – William Faulkner
- On the Road – Jack Kerouac
- The Moviegoer – Walker Percy
- Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather
- The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
- A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
- A House for Mr. Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
- The Day of the Locust – Nathanael West
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
- Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
- The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
- The Death of the Heart – Elizabeth Bowen
- Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
- Loving – Henry Green
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
- Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
- Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
- The Sheltering Sky – Paul Bowles
- The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- Zuleika Dobson – Max Beerbom
- Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
- The Tale of Genji – Lady Murasaki
- The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
- Dr. Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Waiting for Mahatma – RK Narayan
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
- One Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
- Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
- Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
- Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
- The War of the Worlds – HG Wells
- Tess of the D’Ubervilles – Thomas Hardy
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
- Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
- Middlemarch – George Eliot
- Silas Marner – George Eliot
- The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde
- The Color Purple – Alice Walker (04.01.07)
- Call It Sleep – Henry Roth
- Middle Passage – Charles Johnson
- Passing – Nella Larson
- Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neal Hurston
- Cane – Jean Toomer
- Jubilee – Margaret Walker
- To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
- Ulysses – James Joyce
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- Women in Love – D.H. Lawerence
- The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
- The Wapshot Chronicles – John Cheever
- From Here to Eternity – James Jones
- Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
- The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
- Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham
- Finnegan’s Wake – James Joyce
- A Room With A View – E.M. Forster
- The Magnificent Ambersons – Booth Tarkington
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