Great Books

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"Great Books is an hour-long documentary and biography program that aired on The Learning Channel. The series was a project co-created by Walter Cronkite and former child actor Jonathan Ward under a deal they had with their company Cronkite-Ward, the The Discovery Channel, and The Learning Channel. Premiering on September 8, 1993, to coincide with International Literacy Day, the series took in-depth looks into some of literature's greatest fictional and nonfictional books and the authors who created them. The series is mostly narrated by Donald Sutherland." - Wikipedia

This list was originally published in 2006 and was added to this site over 11 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
548 Le Morte d'Arthur Thomas Malory 1485 British Middle english
39 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818 British English
180 On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin 1859 British English
35 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
372 War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1898 British English
835 The Art of War Sun Tzu -500 Chinese Classical chinese
22 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884 American English
24 The Odyssey Homer -740 Greek Ancient greek
220 The Republic Plato -379 Greek Ancient greek
74 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850 American English
7 Moby-Dick Herman Melville 1851 American English
152 The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli 1532 Italian Italian
107 Native Son Richard Wright 1940 American English
65 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1726 British English
33 Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961 American English
177 The Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud 1899 Austrian German
8 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605 Spanish Spanish
38 Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1860 British English
3 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 American English
108 Walden Henry David Thoreau 1854 American English
863 Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems Galileo 1632 Italian Italian
154 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey 1962 American English
413 The Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer 1948 American English
52 Lord of the Flies William Golding 1954 British English
552 The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1895 American English
86 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 1928 German German
31 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1899 British English
53 Dracula Bram Stoker 1897 British English
13 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813 British English
20 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1857 French French
11 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 Russian Russian
306 The Autobiography of Malcolm X Alex Haley 1965 American English
26 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939 American English
6 Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell 1949 British English
40 Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1862 French French
183 The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1906 American English
3618 The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe 1979 American English
673 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne 1870 French French
98 The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1902 American English
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
30 The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
15 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847 British English
66 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka 1915 Czech German
340 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum 1900 American English
218 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 British English
46 One Thousand and One Nights Unknown 800 Multiple Arabic
1004 2001 Arthur C. Clarke 1968 British English