1. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
2. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
3. The Bible
4. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
5. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
6. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
7. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
8. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
9. 1984 by George Orwell
10. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
11. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
12. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
13. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
14. The Odyssey by Homer
15. Ulysses by James Joyce
16. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
17. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
18. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
19. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
20. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
21. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
22. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Correction: This article original stated that Madame Bovary is set in Russia, but it actually takes place in France.