Our Users' Favorite Books of All Time

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This list was originally published in 2024 and was added to this site 11 months ago.

Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
4 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombian Spanish
22 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880 Russian Russian
13 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605 Spanish Spanish
1 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 American English
9 Moby-Dick Herman Melville 1851 American English
14 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 Russian Russian
7 Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell 1949 British English
6 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1955 American English
15 The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1954 British English
20 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939 American English
209 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy 1985 American English
44 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway 1926 American English
5 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951 American English
30 Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961 American English
8 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1877 Russian Russian
37 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818 British English
12 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 American English
32 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884 American English
35 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 1952 American English
17 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869 Russian Russian
10 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847 British English
87 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1890 British English
18 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 1929 American English
23 The Odyssey Homer -740 Greek Ancient greek
19 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1857 French French
2 Ulysses James Joyce 1922 Irish English
60 Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 1969 American English
25 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 1847 British English
127 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 1979 British English
11 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813 British English
26 Middlemarch George Eliot 1871 British English
38 The Iliad Homer -750 Greek Ancient greek
16 The Stranger Albert Camus 1942 French French
21 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
85 Charlotte's Web E. B. White 1952 American English
41 The Red and the Black Stendhal 1830 French French
105 Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov 1962 American English
59 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway 1952 American English
117 Bleak House Charles Dickens 1852 British English
48 Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 1936 American English
42 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981 British, Indian English
125 A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway 1929 American English
31 Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1860 British English
108 The Color Purple Alice Walker 1982 American English
91 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
69 Lord of the Flies William Golding 1954 British English
155 Macbeth William Shakespeare 1606 British English
104 For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway 1940 American English
92 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850 American English
203 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 1980 American English
97 Walden Henry David Thoreau 1854 American English
29 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
46 Beloved Toni Morrison 1987 American English
111 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1908 British English
54 The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne 1759 British English
98 The Tin Drum Günter Grass 1959 German German
58 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier 1938 British English
310 Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace 1996 American English
77 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 1920 American English
89 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood 1985 Canadian English
68 Animal Farm George Orwell 1945 British English
124 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera 1984 Czech Czech
28 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 1927 British English
128 Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1883 British English
76 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 1928 German German
39 Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1862 French French
27 The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
150 My Antonia Willa Cather 1918 American English
40 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 Russian Russian
74 Dracula Bram Stoker 1897 British English
229 The Stand Stephen King 1978 American English
49 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 1958 Nigerian English
258 Disgrace J. M. Coetzee 1999 South African English
208 Watership Down Richard Adams 1972 British English
33 The Trial Franz Kafka 1925 Czech German
506 Maus Art Spiegelman 1980 American English
50 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 1937 American English
51 Fictions Jorge Luis Borges 1944 Argentinian Spanish
283 Thus Spake Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche 1883 German German
3 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust 1913 French French
219 Molloy Samuel Beckett 1951 Irish French
73 Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855 American English
371 The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 1911 British English
190 The Autobiography of Malcolm X Alex Haley 1965 American English
24 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1899 British English
36 Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf 1925 British English
183 The Once and Future King T. H. White 1958 British English
134 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey 1962 American English
151 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez 1985 Colombian Spanish
95 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 1930 American English
122 The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu 1001 Japanese Japanese
1011 Dream of the Red Chamber Cao Xueqin 1754 Chinese Chinese
185 The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien 1937 British English
81 Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1868 American English
171 Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling 1997 British English
84 The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 1958 Italian Italian
225 The Call of the Wild Jack London 1903 American English
66 Hamlet William Shakespeare 1600 British English
113 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath 1963 American English
63 In Cold Blood Truman Capote 1966 American English
103 The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1902 American English
342 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy 1895 British English
88 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka 1915 Czech German
90 Orlando Virginia Woolf 1928 British English
70 Dune Frank Herbert 1965 American English
213 East of Eden John Steinbeck 1952 American English
607 Watchmen Alan Moore 1986 American, British English
65 Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1936 American English
333 Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1864 British English
79 Oedipus the King Sophocles -429 Greek Ancient greek
286 Kim Rudyard Kipling 1901 British English
52 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
253 The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor Flannery O'Connor 1971 American English
765 Romance of the Three Kingdoms Guanzhong Luo 1400 Chinese Chinese
64 Candide Voltaire 1759 French French
206 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1859 British English
1893 Snow Country Yasunari Kawabata 1937 Japanese Japanese
218 The Left Hand Of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin 1969 American English
53 Journey to the End of The Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1932 French French
697 The Siege of Krishnapur J. G. Farrell 1973 British English