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669 books ranked according to 229 lists from 95 publishers

669 books

Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes1605

The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri1320

Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen1813

Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë1847

Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert1857

Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky1866

War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy1869

The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald1925

One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez1967

The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky1880

Moby-DickHerman Melville1851

The OdysseyHomer800BCE

In Search of Lost TimeMarcel Proust1913

UlyssesJames Joyce1922

Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë1847

Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy1877

Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain1884

Nineteen Eighty FourGeorge Orwell1949

The Catcher in the RyeJ. D. Salinger1951

MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot1871

The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck1939

Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll1865

BelovedToni Morrison1987

The StrangerAlbert Camus1942

The IliadHomer750BCE

Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad1899

To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee1960

LolitaVladimir Nabokov1955

FrankensteinMary Shelley1818

Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens1861

Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift1726

The Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner1929

Catch-22Joseph Heller1961

The Portrait of a LadyHenry James1881

The Red and the BlackStendhal1830

One Thousand and One Nights850

Invisible ManRalph Ellison1953

The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne1850

Tom JonesHenry Fielding1749

The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer1392

Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe1719

David CopperfieldCharles Dickens1850

The Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov1967

The TrialFranz Kafka1925

The Lord of the RingsJ. R. R. Tolkien1954

EmmaJane Austen1815

Mrs. DallowayVirginia Woolf1925

Absalom, Absalom!William Faulkner1936

Les MisérablesVictor Hugo1862

Leaves of GrassWalt Whitman1855

CandideVoltaire1759

The Magic MountainThomas Mann1924

EssaysMichel de Montaigne1580

The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas1844

The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway1952

Oedipus the KingSophocles429BCE

Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe1958

The Three MusketeersAlexandre Dumas1844

Gone With the WindMargaret Mitchell1936

FaustJohann Wolfgang von Goethe1832

ConfessionsAugustine397

Tess of the d'UrbervillesThomas Hardy1891

The Tale of GenjiMurasaki Shikibu1010

The IdiotFyodor Dostoevsky1869

The AeneidVirgil19BCE

First FolioWilliam Shakespeare1623

As I Lay DyingWilliam Faulkner1930

DecameronGiovanni Boccaccio1353

Brave New WorldAldous Huxley1932

Vanity FairWilliam Makepeace Thackeray1848

Poems of Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson1890

Their Eyes Were Watching GodZora Neale Hurston1937

Animal FarmGeorge Orwell1945

A Farewell to ArmsErnest Hemingway1929

WaldenHenry David Thoreau1854

All Quiet on the Western FrontErich Maria Remarque1928

The Tin DrumGünter Grass1959

Paradise LostJohn Milton1667

Midnight's ChildrenSalman Rushdie1981

HamletWilliam Shakespeare1603

The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde1891

The Little PrinceAntoine de Saint-Exupéry1943

To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf1927

Dead SoulsNikolai Gogol1842

The PrinceNiccolo Machiavelli1532

Uncle Tom's CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe1853

Fathers and SonsIvan Turgenev1862

Native SonRichard Wright1940

Lord of the FliesWilliam Golding1954

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames Joyce1916

My AntoniaWilla Cather1918

Doctor ZhivagoBoris Pasternak1957

The Life And Opinions Of Tristram ShandyLaurence Sterne1759

On the Origin of SpeciesCharles Darwin1859

Father GoriotHonoré de Balzac1835

A Passage to IndiaE. M. Forster1924

The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka1915

Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson1883

The Color PurpleAlice Walker1982

For Whom the Bell TollsErnest Hemingway1940

On the RoadJack Kerouac1957

The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame1908

Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut1969

Waiting for GodotSamuel Beckett1952

The LeopardGiuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa1958

The Handmaid's TaleMargaret Atwood1985

Harry Potter And The Philosopher's StoneJ. K. Rowling1997

BuddenbrooksThomas Mann1901

The Golden NotebookDoris May Lessing1962

The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund Freud1900

Little WomenLouisa May Alcott1861

The Age of InnocenceEdith Wharton1920

The Stories of Anton ChekhovAnton Chekhov1899

The Pickwick PapersCharles Dickens1836

The Unbearable Lightness of BeingMilan Kundera1984

Fairy Tales and StoriesHans Christian Andersen1835

The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane1895

The Charterhouse of ParmaStendhal1839

Under the VolcanoMalcolm Lowry1947

MacbethWilliam Shakespeare1623

The Good SoldierFord Madox Ford1915

Gargantua and PantagruelFrancois Rabelais1532

Journey to the End of The NightLouis-Ferdinand Céline1932

The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper1824

AntigoneSophocles441BCE

Household TalesBrothers Grimm1812

The Hunchback of Notre-DameVictor Hugo1831

DemonsFyodor Dostoevsky1872

The Name of the RoseUmberto Eco1980

The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway1926

Rabbit, RunJohn Updike1960

Charlotte's WebE. B. White1952

King LearWilliam Shakespeare1608

The Complete Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle1930

Of Mice and MenJohn Steinbeck1937

The CastleFranz Kafka1926

The PlagueAlbert Camus1947

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestKen Kesey1962

The House of the SpiritsIsabel Allende1982

The RoadCormac McCarthy2006

Wide Sargasso SeaJean Rhys1966

Winnie the PoohA. A Milne1926

DraculaBram Stoker1897

Dangerous LiaisonPierre Choderlos de Laclos1782

Communist ManifestoFriedrich Engels1848

Collected Poems of W. B. YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats1933

A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens1859

The Waste LandT. S. Eliot1922

DuneFrank Herbert1965

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyDouglas Adams1979

My Brilliant FriendElena Ferrante2011

In Cold BloodTruman Capote1966

White TeethZadie Smith2001

MahabharataVyasa300BCE

A Good Man Is Hard to FindFlannery O'Connor1953

Finnegans WakeJames Joyce1939

The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe1845

Democracy in AmericaAlexis de Tocqueville1830

The House of MirthEdith Wharton1905

The Autobiography of Malcolm XAlex Haley1965

The Adventures of Augie MarchSaul Bellow1953

A Clockwork OrangeAnthony Burgess1962

An American TragedyTheodore Dreiser1925

Life, a User's ManualGeorges Perec1978

FictionsJorge Luis Borges1944

Franz KafkaFranz Kafka1971

OresteiaAeschylus458BCE

Bleak HouseCharles Dickens1853

The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson

Lady Chatterley's LoverD. H. Lawrence1928

The Woman in WhiteWilkie Collins1860

Memoirs of HadrianMarguerite Yourcenar1951

HungerKnut Hamsun1899

The Good Soldier SvejkJaroslav Hašek1921

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Tristram ShandyLaurence Sterne

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Jacques the Fatalist and His MasterDenis Diderot1796

The Call of the WildJack London1903

The Wonderful Wizard of OzL. Frank Baum1900

The Big SleepRaymond Chandler1939

The CorrectionsJonathan Franzen2001

Fahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury1953

AtonementIan McEwan2001

SteppenwolfHermann Hesse1927

Silent SpringRachel Carson1962

The AlchemistPaulo Coelho1988

The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy1997

AusterlitzW. G. Sebald2001

AmericanahChimamanda Ngozi Adichie2013

The Prime of Miss Jean BrodieMuriel Spark1961

The Complete Works of PlatoPlato~380BCE

A Confederacy of DuncesJohn Kennedy Toole1980

The Sorrows of Young WertherJohann Wolfgang von Goethe1774

The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain1876

A Sentimental EducationGustave Flaubert1869

Oedipus at ColonusSophocles401BCE

MetamorphosesOvid8

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeaJules Verne1869

Life and FateVasily Grossman1980

Love in the Time of CholeraGabriel García Márquez1985