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The Serenity 100

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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The Serenity 100

  

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

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