I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books then a king who did not love reading. ― J.B Macaulay The best companion you can ever ask for is a book. They provide you with knowledge and entertainment at the same time. You can spend hours devouring book upon book, and never be able to satisfy your hunger for more. There may be millions written and published by various authors around the world and among them are the best of the best. Some become an instant best seller, and some find very few takers. However, each opens up a different world and each page takes you on an interesting journey. Some of them not only enrich you with the wealth of knowledge but also entertain you in the most unusual way. It's like a teacher, forever by your side, guiding you when you need enlightenment the most. There are many greatest books of all time that are a must read. But of these many, we have compiled a list of best ones ever written. This list may seem biased to you. The ones mentioned in this list are based on our personal preferences. Just go through it with a pinch of salt. You may find your favorites listed or missed in the following list. Books That You Should Read Some of the classic books everyone should read from authors, like Jane Austen to Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens to William Makepeace Thackeray have been covered in the following list. Go through the list (in alphabetical order) and find your favorite ones making an entry in the list. Maybe you find a few that you have still not relished and need to go through them soon.

1. 1984 ― George Orwell
2. Atonement ― Ian McEwan
3. A Bend in the River ― V. S. Naipaul
4. A Clockwork Orange ― Anthony Burgess
5. A Handful of Dust ― Evelyn Waugh
6. A House for Mr. Biswas ― V.S. Naipaul
7. A Passage to India ― E.M. Forster
8. A Tale of Two Cities ― Charles Dickens
9. Absalom, Absalom! ― William Faulkner
10. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ― Mark Twain
11. All Quiet on the Western Front ― Erich Maria Remarque
12. Animal Farm ― George Orwell
13. Anna Karenina ― Leo Tolstoy
14. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl ― Anne Frank
15. Battlefeild Earth ― L. Ron Hubbard
16. Beloved ― Toni Morrison
17. Birdsong ― Sebastian Faulks
18. Bone ― Jeff Smith
19. Bridget Jones's Diary ― Helen Fielding
20. Catch-22 ― Joseph Heller
21. Charlotte's Web ― E. B. White
22. Cold Mountain ― Charles Frazier
23. Dangerous Liaisons ― Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
24. David Copperfield ― Charles Dickens
25. Dead Souls ― Nikolai Gogol
26. Don Quixote ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
27. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ― Robert Louis Stevenson
28. Dracula ― Bram Stoker
29. East of Eden ― John Steinbeck
30. Emma ― Jane Austen
31. Fahrenheit 451 ― Ray Bradbury
32. Falconer ― John Cheever
33. Fight Club ― Chuck Palahniuk
34. Frankenstein ― Mary Shelley /li>
35. Go Tell it on the Mountain ― James Baldwinist
36. Gone With the Wind ― Margaret Mitchell
37. Hamlet ― William Shakespeare
38. Haroun and the Sea of Stories ― Salman Rushdie
39. Housekeeping ― Marilynne Robinson
40. I, Claudius ― Robert Graves
41. Invisible Man ― Ralph Ellison
42. La Confidential ― James Ellroy
43. Les Miserables ― Victor Hugo
44. Lolita ― Vladimir Nabokov
45. Lord of the Flies ― William Golding
46. Love in the Time of Cholera ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
47. Lucky Jim ― Kingsley Amis
48. Madame Bovary ― Gustave Flaubert
49. Memoirs of a Geisha ― Arthur Golden
50. Men Without Women ― Ernest Hemingway
51. Midnight's Children ― Salman Rushdie
52. Moby Dick ― Herman Melville
53. Money ― Martin Amis
54. Oblomov ― Ivan Goncharov
55. Of Mice and Men ― John Steinbeck
56. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ― Ken Kesey
57. One Hundred Years of Solitude ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
58. Pilgrim's Progress ― John Bunyan
59. Pride and Prejudice ― Jane Austen,
60. Robinson Crusoe ― Daniel Defoe
61. Romeo and Juliet ― William Shakespeare
62. Sense and Sensibility ― Jane Austen
63. Siddhartha ― Hermann Hesse
64. Slaughterhouse Five ― Kurt Vonnegut
65. Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
66. The Alchemist ― Paulo Coelho
67. The Brothers Karamazov ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
68. The Catcher in the Rye ― J.D. Salinger
69. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time ― Mark Haddon
70. The Da Vinci Code ― Dan Brown
71. The Fountainhead ― Ayn Rand
72. The French Lieutenant's Woman ― John Fowles
73. The Grapes of Wrath ― John Steinbeck
74. The Great Gatsby ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
75. The Heart is A Lonely Hunter ― Carson McCullers
76. The Heart of the Matter ― Graham Greene
77. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ― Douglas Adams
78. The Hobbit ― J.R.R. Tolkien
79. The Idiot ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
80. The Iliad ― Homer
81. The Kite Runner ― Khaled Hosseini
82. The Odyssey ― Homer
83. The Old Man and the Sea ― Ernest Hemingway
84. The Picture of Dorian Gray ― Oscar Wilde
85. The Pillars Of The Earth ― Ken Follett
86. The Poisonwood Bible ― Barbara Kingsolver
87. The Riddle of the Sands ― Erskine Childers
88. The Three Musketeers ― Alexandre Dumas
89. The Time Traveler's Wife ― Audrey Niffenegger
90. The Trial ― Franz Kafka
91. The Twilight Saga ― Stephenie Meyer
92. The Wind in the Willows― Kenneth Grahame
93. To Kill A Mockingbird ― Harper Lee
94. To The Lighthouse ― Virginia Woolf
95. Tropic of Cancer― Henry Miller
96. USA ― John Dos Passos
97. Vanity Fair ― William Makepeace Thackeray
98. War and Peace ― Leo Tolstoy
99. White Noise ― Don DeLillo
100. Wuthering Heights ― Emily Brontë

Books That Children Should Read We have all enjoyed some of the following books for children at some point or the other in our lives. These classic books for kids are enjoyed not only by kids, but there parents as well.

1. Alvin Ho: Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters ― Lenore Look
2. A Light in the Attic ― Shel Silverstein
3. A Wrinkle in Time ― Madeleine L'Engle
4. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day ― Judith Viorst
5. Amazing Grace ― Mary Hoffman
6. Amelia Bedelia ― Peggy Parish
7. Anne of Green Gables ― Lucy Maud Montgomery
8. Are You My Mother? ― Philip D. Eastman
9. Arthur series ― Marc Tolon Brown
10. Basil of Baker Street ― Eve Titus
11. Bridge to Terabithia ― Katherine Paterson
12. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? ― Bill Martin, Jr.
13. Caps for Sale ― Esphyr Slobodkina
14. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ― Roald Dahl
15. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom ― John Archambault
16. Clifford, the Big Red Dog ― Norman Bridwell
17. Corduroy ― Don Freeman
18. Curious George ― Hans Augusto Rey
19. Diary of a Wimpy Kid ― Jeff Kinney
20. Goodnight Moon ― Margaret Wise Brown
21. Green Eggs and Ham ― Dr. Seuss
22. Guess How Much I Love You ― Sam McBratney
23. Harriet the Spy ― Louise Fitzhugh
24. Hatchet ― Gary Paulsen
25. Heidi ― Johanna Spyri
26. Horton Hatches the Egg ― Dr. Seuss
27. How the Grinch Stole Christmas ― Dr. Seuss
28. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie ― Laura Joffe Numeroff
29. Island of the Blue Dolphins ― Scott O'Dell
30. James and the Giant Peach: A Children's Story ― Roald Dahl
31. Jumanji ― Chris Van Allsburg
32. Harry Potter Series ― J.K Rowling
33. Lionboy ― Zizou Corde
34. Little House books ― Laura Ingalls Wilder - Laura Ingalls Wilder Webquest
35. Little House in the Big Woods ― Laura Ingalls Wilder
36. Little House on the Prairie ― Laura Ingalls Wilder
37. Little Women ― Louisa May Alcott
38. Love You Forever ― Robert N. Munsch
39. Maniac Magee ― Jerry Spinelli
40. Math Curse ― Jon Scieszka
41. Matilda ― Roald Dahl
42. Mr. Popper's Penguins ― Richard Atwater
43. Mrs. Fris― and the Rats of Nimh ― Robert C. O'Brien
44. My Family and Other Animals ― Gerald Durrell
45. My Father's Dragon ― Ruth Stiles Gannett
46. Number the Stars ― Lois Lowry
47. Oh, The Places You'll Go ― Dr. Seuss
48. Ramona Quim―, Age 8 ― Beverly Cleary
49. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry ― Mildred D. Taylor
50. Sarah, Plain and Tall ― Patricia MacLachlan
51. Shiloh ― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
52. Sideways Stories from Wayside School ― Louis Sachar
53. Spy Dog ― Andrew Cope
54. Stellaluna ― Janell Cannon
55. Stone Fox ― John Reynolds Gardiner
56. Strega Nona ― Tomie De Paola
57. Stuart Little ― E. B. White
58. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble ― William Steig
59. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing ― Judy Blume
60. The Art Lesson ― Tomie De Paola
61. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever ― Barbara Robinson
62. The BFG ― Roald Dahl
63. The Boxcar Children ― Gertrude Chandler Warner
64. The Cat in the Hat ― Dr. Seuss
65. The Chronicles of Narnia ― C. S. Lewis
66. The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh ― A. A. Milne
67. The Family From One End Street ― Eve Garnett The Giver ― Lois Lowry
68. The Giving Tree ― Shel Silverstein
69. The Great Gilly Hopkins ― Katherine Paterson
70. The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog ― Jeremy Strong
71. The Indian in the Cupboard ― Lynne Reid Banks
72. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe ― C. S. Lewis
73. The Little Engine That Could ― Watty Piper
74. The Little House ― Virginia Lee Burton
75. The Lorax ― Dr. Seuss
76. The Magician's Elephant ― Kate DiCamillo
77. The Mitten ― Jan Brett
78. The Napping House ― Audrey Wood
79. The Paper Bag Princess ― Robert N. Munsch
80. The Polar Express ― Chris Van Allsburg
81. The Rainbow Fish ― Marcus Pfister
82. The Runaway Bunny ― Margaret Wise
83. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole ― Sue Townsend
84. The Secret Garden ― Frances Hodgson Burnett
85. The Sheep-Pig ― Dick King-Smith
86. The Snowy Day ― Ezra Jack Keats
87. The Tale of Peter Rabbit ― Beatrix Potter
88. The True Story of the Three Little Pigs ― Jon Scieszka
89. The Trumpet of the Swan ― E. B. White
90. The Twits ― Roald Dahl
91. The Velveteen Rabbit ― Margery Williams
92. The Very Hungry Caterpillar ― Eric Carle
93. The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 ― Christopher Paul Curtis
94. The Witch of Blackbird Pond ― Elizabeth George Speare
95. The Wizard of Oz ― L. Frank Baum
96. Tuck Everlasting ― Natalie Babbitt
97. Walk Two Moons ― Sharon Creech
98. Where the Sidewalk Ends: the Poems and Drawing of Shel Silverstein ― Shel Silverstein
99. Where the Wild Things Are ― Maurice Sendak
100. Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge ― Mem Fox

Books are a very thoughtful gift for someone you truly care about. They are treasure troves of knowledge, fun, entertainment, emotions, guidance, and many more things. They are our never-failing friends and everyone will find one that is suits ones needs. The ones mentioned above are some of the gems of the rich world of books. You may find some missing from the list. As we have already mentioned this is our personal view. You may keep adding some more, that you feel need to be mentioned as the best books of all time. My never failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day, With them I take delight in weal, And seek relief in woe.