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The Serenity 100 are the essential titles to read, as voted by our wonderful community. Created to inspire readers when you just don't know what to choose next, these are the books that continually top bestseller lists, books that inspire you and books that you love.
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1. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
2. Beartown - Fredrik Backman
3. Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
4. Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
5. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
6. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
7. The Lord of The Rings Trilogy - J.R.R Tolkien
8. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
9. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
10. Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
11. The Heart’s Invisible Furies - John Boyne
12. A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
13. The Puppet Show - M.W. Craven
14. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
15. Still Life - Sarah Winman
16. Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
17. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
18. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
19. And Away... - Bob Mortimer
20. The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune
21. Mort - Terry Pratchett
22. Dune - Frank Herbert
23. Dissolution - C.J. Sansom
24. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
25. The Garden of Evening Mists - Tan Twan Eng
26. A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
27. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
28. 1984 - George Orwell
29. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
30. Middlemarch - George Eliot
31. Slow Horses – Mick Herron
32. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson
33. The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
34. The God of Small Things - Roy Arundhati
35. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
36. The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah
37. Everything is Everything - Clive Myrie
38. Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
39. Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
40. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre
41. The Square of Sevens - Laura Shepherd Robinson
42. James - Percival Everett
43. The Night She Disappeared - Lisa Jewell
44. We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
45. Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
46. All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
47. Atonement - Ian McEwan
48. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
49. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
50. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton
51. Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield
52. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
53. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
54. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
55. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King
56. The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
57. Wild Swans - Jung Chang
58. The Inimitable Jeeves - P.G Wodehouse
59. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
60. Assassin’s Apprentice - Robin Hobb
61. 84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
62. Of Human Bondage - W Somerset Maugham
63. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulkes
64. The Island - Victoria Hislop
65. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
66. Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
67. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
68. The Salt Path - Raynor Wynn
69. The Seven Sisters Series - Lucinda Riley/Harry Whittaker
70. A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin
71. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
72. These are the Words - Nikita Gill
73. The Iliad - Homer
74. Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
75. Ultra-Processed People - Chris van Tulleken
76. Wild Hope - Donna Ashworth
77. Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt
78. Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
79. Small Island - Andrea Levy
80. Atomic habits - James Clear
81. Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
82. Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
83. Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros
84. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
85. Grimms' Fairy Tales - Brothers Grimm
86. Glorious Exploits - Ferdia Lennon
87. HHhH - Laurent Binet
88. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
89. Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence - R.F. Kuang
90. Uprooted - Naomi Novik
91. Unruly - David Mitchell
92. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
93. The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
94. A Woman of No Importance - Sonia Purnell
95. Contact - Carl Sagan
96. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
97. This is Going to Hurt - Adam Kay
98. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
99. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
100. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolfe