With so many fabulous books out there it can be difficult to remember just which ones you’ve read. But with this awesome literary poster you’ll be able to keep track of the novels you’ve read by scratching off each one as you go.
The chart features 100 Essential Novels, each with a foil book cover image. After you’ve read one of the books you scratch off the image, revealing the fully detailed book cover. You’re literally unveiling the mysterious detail behind the foil, as a treat for finishing one of the world’s best literary works.
With classic novels dating from 1605 to present day, this fabulous poster will help launch you into the wonderful world of literature, letting you explore the most important periods in literary history.
This is a fantastic poster for both the classroom and at home, allowing you to see your terrific progress in true style. The scratch-off design means it’ll even fuel your desire to read more – just the tool you need for encouraging students!
The list of 100 essential books included in the poster can be seen below.
| Title of Book | Author |
|---|---|
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Moby-Dick | Herman Melville |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Middlemarch | George Eliot |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton |
| The Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford |
| The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce |
| A Passage to India | E. M. Forster |
| An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Mrs Dalloway | Virginia Woolf |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Thornton Wilder |
| Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather |
| To The Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf |
| The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammett |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
| Appointment in Samarra | John O’Hara |
| I, Claudius | Robert Graves |
| Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston |
| The Death of the Heart | Elizabeth Bowen |
| At Swim-Two-Birds | Brian O’Nolan |
| The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| The Day of the Locust | Nathanael West |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers |
| Native Son | Richard Wright |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| All the King’s Men | Robert Penn Warren |
| Under the Volcano | Malcolm Lowry |
| The Heart of the Matter | Graham Greene |
| 1984 | George Orwell |
| The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | C. S. Lewis |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger |
| A Dance to the Music of Time | Anthony Powell |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow |
| Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| The Lord of the Rings | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Under the Net | Iris Murdoch |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| The Recognitions | William Gaddis |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
| A Death in the Family | James Agee |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe |
| Naked Lunch | William S. Burroughs |
| Rabbit, Run | John Updike |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| A House for Mr Biswas | V.S. Naipaul |
| The Golden Notebook | Doris Lessing |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey |
| Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov |
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess |
| The Painted Bird | Jerzy Kosiński |
| The Crying of Lot 49 | Thomas Pynchon |
| Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Deliverance | James Dickey |
| Dog Soldiers | Robert Stone |
| Ragtime | E. L. Doctorow |
| Falconer | John Cheever |
| Play It as It Lays | Joan Didion |
| If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler | Italo Calvino |
| Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie |
| Money | Martin Amis |
| Neuromancer | William Gibson |
| White Noise | Don DeLillo |
| Blood Meridian | Cormac McCarthy |
| The Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood |
| The Sportswriter | Richard Ford |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Wittgenstein’s Mistress | David Markson |
| The Shipping News | Annie Proulx |
| Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace |
| American Pastoral | Philip Roth |
| The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy |
| White Teeth | Zadie Smith |
| Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides |
| 2666 | Roberto Bolaño |
| Gilead | Marilynne Robinson |
| The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Díaz |
| Tree of Smoke | Denis Johnson |