December 13th, 2010

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Jean Sinclair
Jean Sinclair

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:

  1. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
  2. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
  3. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
  4. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  5. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
  6. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
  7. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  8. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  9. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  10. The Trial - Franz Kafka
  11. The Great Gatsby – F.Scott Fitzgerald
  12. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  13. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
  14. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
  15. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
  16. Under the Volcano- Malcolm Lowryl
  17. I, Claudius – Robert Graves
  18. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
  19. An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
  20. The Heart is A Lonely Hunter – Graham Greene
  21. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
  22. Native Son – Richard Wright
  23. Appointment in Samarra – John O'Hara
  24. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
  25. Animal Farm – George Orwell
  26. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
  27. As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
  28. All The King's Men – Robert Penn Warren
  29. The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thorton Wilder
  30. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
  31. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
  32. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  33. Deliverance – James Dickey
  34. A Dance to The Music of Time (series) – Anthony Powell
  35. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
  36. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
  37. Portnoy's Complaint – Philip Roth
  38. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
  39. Light in August – William Faulkner
  40. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
  41. The Moviegoer – Walker Percy
  42. Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather
  43. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
  44. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
  45. A House for Mr. Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
  46. The Day of the Locust – Nathanael West
  47. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
  48. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
  49. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
  50. The Death of the Heart – Elizabeth Bowen
  51. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
  52. Loving – Henry Green
  53. Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
  54. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
  55. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
  56. The Sheltering Sky – Paul Bowles
  57. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
  58. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
  59. Zuleika Dobson – Max Beerbom
  60. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
  61. The Tale of Genji – Lady Murasaki
  62. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
  63. Dr. Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
  64. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
  65. Waiting for Mahatma – RK Narayan
  66. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
  67. One Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
  68. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
  69. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
  70. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
  71. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
  72. The War of the Worlds – HG Wells
  73. Tess of the D'Ubervilles – Thomas Hardy
  74. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
  75. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
  76. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
  77. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
  78. Middlemarch – George Eliot
  79. Silas Marner – George Eliot
  80. The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde
  81. The Color Purple – Alice Walker (04.01.07)
  82. Call It Sleep – Henry Roth
  83. Middle Passage – Charles Johnson
  84. Passing – Nella Larson
  85. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neal Hurston
  86. Cane – Jean Toomer
  87. Jubilee – Margaret Walker
  88. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  89. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
  90. Ulysses – James Joyce
  91. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  92. Women in Love – D.H. Lawerence
  93. The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
  94. The Wapshot Chronicles – John Cheever
  95. From Here to Eternity – James Jones
  96. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
  97. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
  98. Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham
  99. Finnegan's Wake – James Joyce
  100. A Room With A View – E.M. Forster
  101. The Magnificent Ambersons – Booth Tarkington

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