100 Buku yang Perlu Dibaca Sebelum Mati

Naviri Magazine - Buku adalah benda ajaib yang mampu membawa kita ke dunia lain, dan kita benar-benar tenggelam di dalamnya. Karenanya, membaca buku bisa menjadi hiburan menyenangkan, sekaligus menambah wawasan dan pengetahuan, bahkan kearifan.

BBC pernah merilis daftar 100 buku yang sangat penting dibaca, yang menurut mereka “perlu dibaca sebelum mati”. Bagi para kutu buku, daftar berikut ini mungkin penting untuk diingat:

1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien 
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 
4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling 
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee 
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare 
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger 
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger 
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 
22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
27. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
28. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 
29. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
30. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 
31. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
32. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 
33. Emma – Jane Austen
34. Persuasion – Jane Austen
35. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 
36. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini 
37. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
38. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 
39. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 
40. Animal Farm – George Orwell
41. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
44. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
45. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 
46. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
47. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
48. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
49. Atonement – Ian McEwan
50. Life of Pi – Yann Martel 
51. Dune – Frank Herbert
52. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
54. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
55. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
57. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
61. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 
62. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
63. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold 
64. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
65. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
66. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 
68. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
69. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
70. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
71. Dracula – Bram Stoker
72. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
73. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
74. Ulysses – James Joyce
75. The Inferno – Dante
76. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal – Emile Zola
78. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession – AS Byatt
80. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
81. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell 
82. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
83. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 
85. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
86. Charlotte’s Web – EB White
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
89. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
90. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
91. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
92. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
93. Watership Down – Richard Adams
94. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
95. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
97. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
98. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
99. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
100. Origin – Dan Brown