Must-Read Books Across Genres: Literature, Science, History, and More

1-10: Classic Literature

1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
4. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
6. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
7. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
8. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
9. Dracula – Bram Stoker
10. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo

11-20: Modern Literature

11. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
12. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
13. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. 1984 – George Orwell
15. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
16. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
17. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
18. Beloved – Toni Morrison
19. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
20. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

21-30: Indian Literature

21. Godan – Munshi Premchand
22. Malgudi Days – R.K. Narayan
23. Train to Pakistan – Khushwant Singh
24. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
25. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
26. Shadow Lines – Amitav Ghosh
27. The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
28. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
29. Raag Darbari – Shrilal Shukla
30. Gaban – Munshi Premchand

31-40: Science & Technology

31. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
32. Cosmos – Carl Sagan
33. The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
34. The Gene: An Intimate History – Siddhartha Mukherjee
35. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
36. Homo Deus – Yuval Noah Harari
37. Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
38. The Innovators – Walter Isaacson
39. The Code Breaker – Walter Isaacson
40. Superintelligence – Nick Bostrom

41-50: Philosophy & Psychology

41. Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
42. The Republic – Plato
43. Beyond Good and Evil – Friedrich Nietzsche
44. Being and Time – Martin Heidegger
45. The Art of War – Sun Tzu
46. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
47. The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
48. Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
49. The Psychology of Money – Morgan Housel
50. Atomic Habits – James Clear

51-60: History & Political Science

51. The Discovery of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
52. India After Gandhi – Ramachandra Guha
53. The Anarchy – William Dalrymple
54. Why Nations Fail – Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson
55. Guns, Germs, and Steel – Jared Diamond
56. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – William L. Shirer
57. The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
58. Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith
59. The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli
60. The Road to Serfdom – Friedrich Hayek

61-70: Biographies & Autobiographies

61. Wings of Fire – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
62. Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
63. The Story of My Experiments with Truth – Mahatma Gandhi
64. I Am Malala – Malala Yousafzai
65. My Life in Full – Indra Nooyi
66. Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
67. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future – Ashlee Vance
68. The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
69. Einstein: His Life and Universe – Walter Isaacson
70. Becoming – Michelle Obama

71-80: Business & Self-Help

71. Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
72. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey
73. The Lean Startup – Eric Ries
74. Zero to One – Peter Thiel
75. Good to Great – Jim Collins
76. The 5 AM Club – Robin Sharma
77. You Can Win – Shiv Khera
78. Dare to Lead – Brené Brown
79. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson
80. How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie

Conclusion:

This list covers a diverse range of topics, making it perfect for students, educators, and knowledge seekers.