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Best books of all time
631 books ranked according to 242 lists from 108 publishers
1.
Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes1605
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The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri1320
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Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen1813
4.
Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert1857
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War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy1869
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Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë1847
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Moby-DickHerman Melville1851
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Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky1866
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The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky1880
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The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald1925
11.
One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez1967
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The OdysseyHomer800BCE
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Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain1884
14.
In Search of Lost TimeMarcel Proust1913
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UlyssesJames Joyce1922
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Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë1847
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The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck1939
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Nineteen Eighty FourGeorge Orwell1949
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Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy1877
20.
The Bible~100
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The IliadHomer750BCE
22.
The StrangerAlbert Camus1942
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Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad1899
24.
BelovedToni Morrison1987
25.
The Catcher in the RyeJ. D. Salinger1951
26.
Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens1861
27.
LolitaVladimir Nabokov1955
28.
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee1960
29.
Invisible ManRalph Ellison1953
30.
The TrialFranz Kafka1925
31.
Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll1865
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MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot1871
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The Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner1929
34.
Catch-22Joseph Heller1961
35.
The Red and the BlackStendhal1830
36.
One Thousand and One Nights850
37.
Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift1726
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Absalom, Absalom!William Faulkner1936
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FrankensteinMary Shelley1818
40.
The Magic MountainThomas Mann1924
41.
The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne1850
42.
Leaves of GrassWalt Whitman1855
43.
The Lord of the RingsJ. R. R. Tolkien1954
44.
EssaysMichel de Montaigne1580
45.
Oedipus the KingSophocles429BCE
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The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway1952
47.
EmmaJane Austen1815
48.
Tom JonesHenry Fielding1749
49.
FaustJohann Wolfgang von Goethe1832
50.
The Portrait of a LadyHenry James1881
51.
Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe1719
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CandideVoltaire1759
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Mrs. DallowayVirginia Woolf1925
54.
Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe1958
55.
The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer1392
56.
First FolioWilliam Shakespeare1623
57.
The Tale of GenjiMurasaki Shikibu1010
58.
The Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov1967
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Les MisérablesVictor Hugo1862
60.
The AeneidVirgil19BCE
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As I Lay DyingWilliam Faulkner1930
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To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf1927
63.
The Three MusketeersAlexandre Dumas1844
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Brave New WorldAldous Huxley1932
65.
Animal FarmGeorge Orwell1945
66.
WaldenHenry David Thoreau1854
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The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas1844
68.
ConfessionsAugustine397
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The IdiotFyodor Dostoevsky1869
70.
HamletWilliam Shakespeare1603
71.
Lord of the FliesWilliam Golding1954
72.
A Farewell to ArmsErnest Hemingway1929
73.
Their Eyes Were Watching GodZora Neale Hurston1937
74.
David CopperfieldCharles Dickens1850
75.
A Passage to IndiaE. M. Forster1924
76.
Uncle Tom's CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe1853
77.
DecameronGiovanni Boccaccio1353
78.
On the Origin of SpeciesCharles Darwin1859
79.
Poems of Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson1890
80.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames Joyce1916
81.
Gone With the WindMargaret Mitchell1936
82.
Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut1969
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Father GoriotHonoré de Balzac1835
84.
The Tin DrumGünter Grass1959
85.
The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka1915
86.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesThomas Hardy1891
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Paradise LostJohn Milton1667
88.
My AntoniaWilla Cather1918
89.
Waiting for GodotSamuel Beckett1952
90.
The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund Freud1900
91.
Midnight's ChildrenSalman Rushdie1981
92.
The Little PrinceAntoine de Saint-Exupéry1943
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All Quiet on the Western FrontErich Maria Remarque1928
94.
The Color PurpleAlice Walker1982
95.
Native SonRichard Wright1940
96.
Charlotte's WebE. B. White1952
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Doctor ZhivagoBoris Pasternak1957
98.
Dead SoulsNikolai Gogol1842
99.
The Life And Opinions Of Tristram ShandyLaurence Sterne1759
100.
The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper1824
101.
The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane1895
102.
AntigoneSophocles441BCE
103.
The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway1926
104.
For Whom the Bell TollsErnest Hemingway1940
105.
The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame1908
106.
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's StoneJ. K. Rowling1997
107.
The Charterhouse of ParmaStendhal1839
108.
The LeopardGiuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa1958
109.
Journey to the End of The NightLouis-Ferdinand Céline1932
110.
Gargantua and PantagruelFrancois Rabelais1532
111.
MacbethWilliam Shakespeare1623
112.
Vanity FairWilliam Makepeace Thackeray1848
113.
The PrinceNiccolo Machiavelli1532
114.
The Stories of Anton ChekhovAnton Chekhov1899
115.
Fathers and SonsIvan Turgenev1862
116.
BuddenbrooksThomas Mann1901
117.
The Handmaid's TaleMargaret Atwood1985
118.
The Golden NotebookDoris May Lessing1962
119.
King LearWilliam Shakespeare1608
120.
The Adventures of Augie MarchSaul Bellow1953
121.
Little WomenLouisa May Alcott1861
122.
On the RoadJack Kerouac1957
123.
The PlagueAlbert Camus1947
124.
A Good Man Is Hard to FindFlannery O'Connor1953
125.
The RoadCormac McCarthy2006
126.
The Good SoldierFord Madox Ford1915
127.
The Second SexSimone de Beauvoir1952
128.
Under the VolcanoMalcolm Lowry1947
129.
The CorrectionsJonathan Franzen2001
130.
The Pickwick PapersCharles Dickens1836
131.
Fairy Tales and StoriesHans Christian Andersen1835
132.
Rabbit, RunJohn Updike1960
133.
DuneFrank Herbert1965
134.
Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson1883
135.
The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde1891
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MahabharataVyasa300BCE
137.
The Bell JarSylvia Plath1963
138.
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe1845
139.
DemonsFyodor Dostoevsky1872
140.
The CastleFranz Kafka1926
141.
Finnegans WakeJames Joyce1939
142.
An American TragedyTheodore Dreiser1925
143.
The Age of InnocenceEdith Wharton1920
144.
FictionsJorge Luis Borges1944
145.
The Wonderful Wizard of OzL. Frank Baum1900
146.
The Call of the WildJack London1903
147.
Wide Sargasso SeaJean Rhys1966
148.
Of Mice and MenJohn Steinbeck1937
149.
OresteiaAeschylus458BCE
150.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka1971
151.
The Complete Works of PlatoPlato~380BCE
152.
MetamorphosesOvid8
153.
Oedipus at ColonusSophocles401BCE
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Collected Poems of W. B. YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats1933
155.
Bleak HouseCharles Dickens1853
156.
Lady Chatterley's LoverD. H. Lawrence1928
157.
All the King's MenRobert Penn Warren1946
158.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestKen Kesey1962
159.
AtonementIan McEwan2001
160.
AusterlitzW. G. Sebald2001
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Silent SpringRachel Carson1962
162.
Gravity's RainbowThomas Pynchon1973
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The Complete Stories of Flannery O'ConnorFlannery O'Connor1971
164.
SteppenwolfHermann Hesse1927
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoJunot Diaz2007
166.
The House of the SpiritsIsabel Allende1982
167.
A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens1859
168.
The Complete Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle1930
169.
Household TalesBrothers Grimm1812
170.
Communist ManifestoFriedrich Engels1848
171.
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson
172.
A Confederacy of DuncesJohn Kennedy Toole1980
173.
A Sentimental EducationGustave Flaubert1869
174.
The House of MirthEdith Wharton1905
175.
DraculaBram Stoker1897
176.
The Hunchback of Notre-DameVictor Hugo1831
177.
The Name of the RoseUmberto Eco1980
178.
The Unbearable Lightness of BeingMilan Kundera1984
179.
In Cold BloodTruman Capote1966
180.
The Structure of Scientific RevolutionsThomas Kuhn1962
181.
The Man Without QualitiesRobert Musil1932
182.
MedeaEuripides431BCE
183.
Pedro PáramoJuan Rulfo1955
184.
Winnie the PoohA. A Milne1926
185.
Life, a User's ManualGeorges Perec1978
186.
The JungleUpton Sinclair1906
187.
Epic of Gilgamesh~1200BCE
188.
A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens1843
189.
The RepublicPlato375BCE
190.
LysistrataAristophanes411BCE
191.
The Art of WarSun Tzu500BCE
192.
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William BlakeWilliam Blake
193.
A Clockwork OrangeAnthony Burgess1962
194.
The Autobiography of Malcolm XAlex Haley1965
195.
Pale FireVladimir Nabokov1962
196.
Fahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury1953
197.
The Prime of Miss Jean BrodieMuriel Spark1961
198.
Never Let Me GoKazuo Ishiguro2005
199.
Rabbit Is RichJohn Updike1981
200.
Go Tell it on the MountainJames Baldwin1953