30 Must-Read Fiction Books of All Time 1. To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee 2. The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald 3. 1984 — George Orwell 4. Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen 5. The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger 6. Beloved — Toni Morrison 7. Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë 8. Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë 9. The Lord of the Rings — J.R.R. Tolkien 10. Brave New World — Aldous Huxley 11. One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel Márquez 12. The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini 13. Crime and P