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Best books of all time
261 books ranked according to 189 lists from 83 publishers
1.
In Search of Lost TimeMarcel Proust2000
2.
Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes1605
3.
One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez1967
4.
War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy1869
5.
The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald1925
6.
Moby-DickHerman Melville1851
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Nineteen Eighty FourGeorge Orwell1977
8.
The Bible
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The OdysseyHomer
10.
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen1813
11.
Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë1847
12.
UlyssesJames Joyce1922
13.
The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri
14.
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky1866
15.
Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy1877
16.
Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain
17.
Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert1857
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LolitaVladimir Nabokov1955
19.
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee1960
20.
The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky1880
21.
BelovedToni Morrison1987
22.
The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck1939
23.
Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë1847
24.
The TrialFranz Kafka
25.
The Catcher in the RyeJ. D. Salinger1951
26.
Mrs. DallowayVirginia Woolf1925
27.
Invisible ManRalph Ellison1953
28.
Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad1899
29.
The Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner1929
30.
The IliadHomer1804
31.
MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot1871
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Absalom, Absalom!William Faulkner1936
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The Red and the BlackStendhal1830
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The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne1850
35.
EssaysMichel de Montaigne
36.
Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll1865
37.
EmmaJane Austen1815
38.
The Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov1967
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The IdiotFyodor Dostoevsky1869
40.
One Thousand and One Nights
41.
Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe1719
42.
The Portrait of a LadyHenry James1881
43.
Catch-22Joseph Heller
44.
The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway1952
45.
HamletWilliam Shakespeare
46.
Leaves of GrassWalt Whitman1855
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The AeneidVirgil
48.
The Magic MountainThomas Mann1924
49.
Oedipus the KingSophocles1865
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FaustJohann Wolfgang von Goethe1832
51.
First FolioWilliam Shakespeare1623
52.
Les MisérablesVictor Hugo1862
53.
The Three MusketeersAlexandre Dumas1848
54.
Uncle Tom's CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe1853
55.
BuddenbrooksThomas Mann
56.
The Life And Opinions Of Tristram ShandyLaurence Sterne
57.
Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe1958
58.
Tom JonesHenry Fielding
59.
The Charterhouse of ParmaStendhal1839
60.
Rabbit, RunJohn Updike
61.
The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway1926
62.
Their Eyes Were Watching GodZora Neale Hurston
63.
To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf1927
64.
Midnight's ChildrenSalman Rushdie1981
65.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka
66.
Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift1726
67.
The StrangerAlbert Camus1942
68.
DecameronGiovanni Boccaccio1414
69.
Dead SoulsNikolai Gogol1842
70.
FictionsJorge Luis Borges
71.
Fairy Tales and StoriesHans Christian Andersen
72.
The Stories of Anton ChekhovAnton Chekhov
73.
Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens1861
74.
Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut1969
75.
As I Lay DyingWilliam Faulkner1930
76.
The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer
77.
ConfessionsAugustine
78.
The Golden NotebookDoris Lessing1962
79.
CandideVoltaire1759
80.
AtonementIan McEwan2001
81.
Blood MeridianCormac McCarthy1985
82.
Journey to the End of The NightLouis-Ferdinand Céline1932
83.
FrankensteinMary Shelley
84.
Wide Sargasso SeaJean Rhys1966
85.
The Good SoldierFord Madox Ford1915
86.
The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas1844
87.
The Little PrinceAntoine de Saint-Exupéry1943
88.
A Good Man Is Hard to FindFlannery O'Connor1953
89.
The Handmaid's TaleMargaret Atwood1985
90.
Charlotte's WebE. B. White1952
91.
MacbethWilliam Shakespeare1623
92.
The Bell JarSylvia Plath1963
93.
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's StoneJ. K. Rowling
94.
The RoadCormac McCarthy2006
95.
Never Let Me GoKazuo Ishiguro2005
96.
The LeopardGiuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa1958
97.
AusterlitzW. G. Sebald2001
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The Prime of Miss Jean BrodieMuriel Spark1961
99.
David CopperfieldCharles Dickens1850
100.
Brighton RockGraham Greene1938
101.
DemonsFyodor Dostoevsky1872
102.
The Tale of GenjiMurasaki Shikibu
103.
The House of the SpiritsIsabel Allende
104.
Under the VolcanoMalcolm Lowry1947
105.
For Whom the Bell TollsErnest Hemingway1940
106.
King LearWilliam Shakespeare1608
107.
Doctor ZhivagoBoris Pasternak1957
108.
Little WomenLouisa May Alcott1861
109.
Pale FireVladimir Nabokov1962
110.
The Tin DrumGünter Grass1959
111.
The CorrectionsJonathan Franzen2001
112.
Giovanni's RoomJames Baldwin
113.
Gargantua and PantagruelFrancois Rabelais
114.
Poems of Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson
115.
The CastleFranz Kafka1926
116.
A Passage to IndiaE. M. Forster1924
117.
The Flowers of EvilCharles Baudelaire
118.
The Diary of a Young GirlAnne Frank
119.
All the King's MenRobert Penn Warren1946
120.
The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka
121.
Wolf HallHilary Mantel2009
122.
An American TragedyTheodore Dreiser1925
123.
A Sentimental EducationGustave Flaubert1869
124.
Rabbit Is RichJohn Updike1981
125.
So Long, See You TomorrowWilliam Maxwell
126.
Gone With the WindMargaret Mitchell1936
127.
Vanity FairWilliam Makepeace Thackeray1848
128.
DisgraceJ. M. Coetzee1999
129.
The Color PurpleAlice Walker1982
130.
The Lord of the RingsJ. R. R. Tolkien1954
131.
The Wind-Up Bird ChronicleHaruki Murakami1994
132.
The Second SexSimone de Beauvoir1952
133.
Bleak HouseCharles Dickens1853
134.
All Quiet on the Western FrontErich Maria Remarque
135.
The Autobiography of Malcolm XAlex Haley
136.
The Known WorldEdward P. Jones2003
137.
The Power and the GloryGraham Greene1940
138.
My AntoniaWilla Cather1918
139.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoJunot Diaz2007
140.
The Year of Magical ThinkingJoan Didion2005
141.
2666Roberto Bolaño2004
142.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesThomas Hardy1891
143.
Independent PeopleHalldor Laxness1934
144.
The Stories of John CheeverJohn Cheever1978
145.
AntigoneSophocles1888
146.
The Secret HistoryDonna Tartt1992
147.
The Adventures of Augie MarchSaul Bellow1953
148.
The Hound of the BaskervillesArthur Conan Doyle1902
149.
The Long GoodbyeRaymond Chandler1954
150.
Waiting for GodotSamuel Beckett
151.
The Good EarthPearl S. Buck
152.
WaldenHenry David Thoreau1854
153.
Pedro PáramoJuan Rulfo1990
154.
The Pickwick PapersCharles Dickens1836
155.
Life, a User's ManualGeorges Perec1978
156.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames Joyce
157.
SteppenwolfHermann Hesse1927
158.
Silent SpringRachel Carson
159.
The Talented Mr. RipleyPatricia Highsmith1955
160.
The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund Freud1900
161.
Paradise LostJohn Milton1667
162.
The Unbearable Lightness of BeingMilan Kundera1984
163.
DuneFrank Herbert1965
164.
The StrangerAlbert Camus1942
165.
The Vicar of WakefieldOliver Goldsmith1845
166.
The Collected Stories of Eudora WeltyEudora Welty1980
167.
In Cold BloodTruman Capote1966
168.
The TempestWilliam Shakespeare1926
169.
The Confusions of Young TörlessRobert Musil1906
170.
The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy
171.
Love in the Time of CholeraGabriel García Márquez
172.
One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichAleksandr Solzhenitsyn
173.
Dangerous LiaisonPierre Choderlos de Laclos
174.
Native SonRichard Wright
175.
Lucky JimKingsley Amis1954
176.
A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens1909
177.
Memoirs From Beyond the GraveFrançois-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand
178.
The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame1908
179.
The Call of the WildJack London1903
180.
OrlandoVirginia Woolf
181.
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'ConnorFlannery O'Connor
182.
Tender Is the NightF. Scott Fitzgerald
183.
A Confederacy of DuncesJohn Kennedy Toole1980
184.
Father GoriotHonoré de Balzac
185.
A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens1859
186.
MetamorphosesOvid1
187.
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe
188.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and ClayMichael Chabon2000
189.
White TeethZadie Smith2001
190.
The Remains of the DayKazuo Ishiguro1989
191.
The Waste LandT. S. Eliot
192.
Fahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury1953
193.
Household TalesBrothers Grimm
194.
IvanhoeSir Walter Scott1820
195.
On the RoadJack Kerouac2003
196.
A Season in HellArthur Rimbaud1873
197.
Stories of Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway
198.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood PrinceJ. K. Rowling
199.
Lady Chatterley's LoverD. H. Lawrence1928
200.
The MoviegoerWalker Percy1961