First I googled top 100 and classic book lists. Then I put 7 lists together, sorted them, and chose the ones that were on every list. I removed books that I KNEW I had read, but left in ones that I was unsure of or had only seen the movie of. Here’s my list:

Lolita- by Vladimir Nabokov
On The Road – by Jack Kerouac
The Sound And The Fury- by William Faulkner
To The Lighthouse- by Virginia Woolf
A Clockwork Orange- by Anthony Burgess
A Passage To India- by E.M. Forster
A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man – by James Joyce
As I Lay Dying- by William Faulkner
Brave New World- by Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited- by Evelyn Waugh
Gravity’s Rainbow – by Thomas Pynchon
Invisible Man- by Ralph Ellison
Heart Of Darkness – by Joseph Conrad
Herzog – by Saul Bellow
I, Claudius- by Robert Graves
Light In August- by William Faulkner
Midnight’s Children- by Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick- by Herman Melville
Nostromo- by Joseph Conrad
Slaughterhouse-Five- by Kurt Vonnegut
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter- by Carson Mccullers
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie- by Muriel Spark
The Sheltering Sky- by Paul Bowles
The Sun Also Rises- by Ernest Hemingway
Under The Volcano- by Malcolm Lowry
A Dance To The Music Of Time- by Anthony Powell
Blood Meridian- by Cormac Mccarthy
Sons And Lovers- by D.H. Lawrence
Ragtime- by E.L. Doctorow
The Death Of The Heart- by Elizabeth Bowen
A Handful Of Dust- by Evelyn Waugh
Wise Blood – by Flannery O’connor
The Good Soldier- by Ford Madox Ford
The Heart Of The Matter- by Graham Greene
Tropic Of Cancer- by Henry Miller
Under The Net- by Iris Murdoch
Go Tell It On The Mountain- by James Baldwin
Deliverance- by James Dickey
Ulysses- by James Joyce
Wide Sargasso Sea- by Jean Rhys
The Magus- by John Fowles
Appointment In Samarra- by John O’hara
The Day Of The Locust- by Nathanael West
Native Son- by Richard Wright
All The King’s Men- by Robert Penn Warren
The Adventures Of Augie March- by Saul Bellow
Winesburg, Ohio- by Sherwood Anderson
An American Tragedy- by Theodore Dreiser
The Bridge Of San Luis Rey- by Thornton Wilder
A Bend In The River- by V.S. Naipaul
Pale Fire- by Vladimir Nabokov
Of Human Bondage- by W. Somerset Maugham
The Moviegoer- by Walker Percy
Death Comes For The Archbishop- by Willa Cather
Absalom, Absalom- by William Faulkner
The Recognitions- by William Gaddis
Naked Lunch- by William S. Burroughs
Housekeeping- by Marilynne Robinson
Medea- by Euripides
Leaves Of Grass – by Walt Whitman
Things Fall Apart- by Chinua Achebe
The Rainbow – by D.H. Lawrence
The Golden Notebook- by Doris Lessing
The House Of Mirth – by Edith Wharton
The Brothers Karamazov- by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
One Hundred Years Of Solitude- by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Power And The Glory – by Graham Greene
Scoop- by Evelyn Waugh
The Tin Drum- by Gunther Grass
Madame Bovary- by Gustave Flaubert
A Doll’s House- by Henrik Ibsen
A House For Mr Biswas- by V.S. Naipaul
Atonement- by Ian Mcewan
Journey To The End Of The Night- by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Money- by Martin Amis
Don Quixote- by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
American Pastoral- by Philip Roth
Loving – by Henry Green
The Big Sleep- by Raymond Chandler
Henderson The Rain King – by Saul Bellow
Sister Carrie – by Theodore Dreiser
Mrs. Dalloway- by Virginia Woolf
My Antonia – by Willa Cather
Candide – by Francois Voltaire (Author); John Butt (Translator)
Dubliners – by James Joyce
Faust- by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Fountainhead- by Ayn Rand
The Pearl – by John Steinbeck
Portnoy’s Complaint- by Philip Roth
The Quiet American – by Graham Greene
The Winter Of Our Discontent – by John Steinbeck
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance- by Robert Pirsig
Finnegans Wake- by James Joyce
Love In The Time Of Cholera- by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Northanger Abbey – by Jane Austen
Rabbit, Run- by John Updike
Red Harvest- by Dashiell Hammett
Something Wicked This Way Comes- by Ray Bradbury
Seize The Day – by Saul Bellow
The Log From The Sea Of Cortez – by John Steinbeck