Literature allows us to discover different versions of ourselves and nourishes our otherness. We unearth new realities, new truths and lies, and we are capable of deciphering hidden meanings. Throughout the life of most avid book lovers, we see there are many transcendental works waiting to be read, but these 72 literary masterpieces are a must before reaching 30.
This decade is when momentous decisions take place, and having these 72 companions will ease the way.
100 Years of Solitude (1967) -Gabriel García Márquez
The Sound and the Fury (1929) – William Faulkner
Le Petit Prince (1943) – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) – J.D. Salinger
Our Lady of the Assassins (1994) – Fernando Vallejo
1984 (1949) – George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) – Ray Bradbury
The Prince (1513) – Niccolò Machiavelli
The Savage Detectives (1998) – Roberto Bolaño
Guardian Devil (1964) – Xavier Velasco
Fictions (1944) – Jorge Luis Borges
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (1883) – Friedrich Nietzsche
Rayuela (1963) – Julio Cortázar
The Doors of Perception (1954) – Aldous Huxley
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) – Milan Kundera
Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds (2005) – Zygmunt Bauman
On the Road (1957) – Jack Kerouac
In Cold Blood (1965) – Truman Capote
Pedro Páramo (1955) – Juan Rulfo
Mist (1907) – Miguel de Unamuno
The Road (2006) – Cormac McCarthy
For Whom The Bell Tolls (1940) – Ernest Hemingway
No One Writes to the Colonel (1961) – Gabriel García Márquez
The Baron in the Trees (1957) – Italo Calvino
The Red and The Black (1830) Stendhal
Metamorphosis (1915) – Franz Kafka
The Stranger (1942) – Albert Camus
Lolita (1955) – Vladimir Nabokov
Ana Karenina (1877) – León Tolstói
Blue (1888) – Ruben Darío
Deserted Cities (1982) – José Agustín
The Divine Comedy (1313) – Dante Alighieri
The Iliad and the Odyssey – Homer
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) – Julio Verne
The Tin Drum (1959) – Günter Grass
Macbeth (1611) – William Shakespeare
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities (1554) – Anonymous
The Picture of Dorian Grey (1890) – Oscar Wilde
Steppenwolf (1927) – Hermann Hesse
Animal Farm (1945) – George Orwell
Dracula (1897) – Bram Stoker
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979) – Douglas Adams
Ham on Rye (1982) – Charles Bukowski
Siddhartha (1922) – Hermann Hesse
Tom Sawyer (1876) – Mark Twain
Lord of the Flies (1954) – William Golding
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) – Junot Díaz
City of Glass (1985) – Paul Auster
The Pillars of the Earth (1989) – Ken Follett
The Magic Mountain (1924) – Thomas Mann
Blindness (1995) – José Saramago
At the Mountains of Madness (1936) – H. P. Lovecraft
The Witness (2004) – Juan Villoro
Mirrors (2008) – Eduardo Galeano
Crime and Punishment (1866) – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
High Fidelity (1995) – Nick Hornby
Naked Lunch (1962) – William Burroughs
Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795) – Marquis de Sade
Madame Bovary (1856) – Gustave Flaubert
The Perfume (1985) – Patrick Süskind
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994) – Haruki Murakami
Mrs. Dalloway (1925) – Virginia Woolf
The Old Man and the Sea (1952) – Ernest Hemingway
The Night Trilogy (1955) – Elie Wiesel
The Name of the Rose (1980) – Umberto Eco
Oliver Twist (1837) – Charles Dickens
Alice in Wonderland (1865) – Lewis Carroll
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) – Tom Wolfe
The Emperor (2002) – Ryszard Kapuściński
Atonement (2001) – Ian McEwan
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Lord of the Rings (1954) – J. R. R. Tolkien
