Our Users' Favorite Books of All Time

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombian Spanish
18 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880 Russian Russian
8 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605 Spanish Spanish
3 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 American English
7 Moby-Dick Herman Melville 1851 American English
11 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 Russian Russian
6 Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell 1949 British English
14 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1955 American English
17 The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1959 English English
26 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939 American English
198 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy 1985 American English
62 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway 1926 American English
4 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951 American English
33 Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961 American English
10 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1877 Russian Russian
39 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818 British English
16 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 American English
22 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884 American English
36 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 1952 American English
12 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869 Russian Russian
15 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847 British English
89 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1890 Irish English
9 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 1929 American English
24 The Odyssey Homer -740 Greek Ancient greek
20 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1857 French French
1 Ulysses James Joyce 1922 Irish English
84 Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 1969 American English
29 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 1847 British English
190 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 1979 British English
13 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813 British English
28 Middlemarch George Eliot 1871 British English
37 The Iliad Homer -750 Greek Ancient greek
23 The Stranger Albert Camus 1942 French French
35 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
102 Charlotte's Web E. B. White 1952 American English
42 The Red and the Black Stendhal 1830 French French
72 Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov 1962 American English
54 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway 1952 American English
121 Bleak House Charles Dickens 1852 British English
43 Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 1936 American English
64 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981 Indian English
67 A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway 1929 American English
38 Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1860 British English
157 The Color Purple Alice Walker 1982 American English
87 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
52 Lord of the Flies William Golding 1954 British English
155 Macbeth William Shakespeare 1606 British English
97 For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway 1940 American English
74 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850 American English
203 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 1980 American English
108 Walden Henry David Thoreau 1854 American English
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
49 Beloved Toni Morrison 1987 American English
136 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1908 British English
51 The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne 1759 British English
91 The Tin Drum Günter Grass 1959 German German
59 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier 1938 British English
333 Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace 1996 American English
92 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 1920 American English
132 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood 1985 Canadian English
55 Animal Farm George Orwell 1945 British English
99 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera 1984 Czech Czech
27 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 1927 British English
115 Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1883 British English
86 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 1928 German German
40 Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1862 French French
30 The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
160 My Antonia Willa Cather 1918 American English
34 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 Russian Russian
53 Dracula Bram Stoker 1897 British English
274 The Stand Stephen King 1978 American English
60 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 1958 Nigerian English
255 Disgrace J. M. Coetzee 1999 South African English
224 Watership Down Richard Adams 1972 British English
21 The Trial Franz Kafka 1925 Czech German
1104 Maus Art Spiegelman 1980 American English
68 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 1937 American English
45 Fictions Jorge Luis Borges 1944 Argentinian Spanish
222 Thus Spake Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche 1883 German German
2 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust 1913 French French
151 Molloy Samuel Beckett 1951 Irish French
77 Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855 American English
814 The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 1911 British English
306 The Autobiography of Malcolm X Alex Haley 1965 American English
31 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1899 British English
32 Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf 1925 British English
286 The Once and Future King T. H. White 1958 British English
154 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey 1962 American English
166 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez 1985 Colombian Spanish
79 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 1930 American English
130 The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu 1001 Japanese Classical japanese
484 Dream of the Red Chamber Cao Xueqin 1754 Chinese Chinese
146 The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien 1937 British English
93 Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1868 American English
236 Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling 1997 British English
56 The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 1958 Italian Italian
230 The Call of the Wild Jack London 1903 American English
71 Hamlet William Shakespeare 1600 British English
103 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath 1963 American English
109 In Cold Blood Truman Capote 1966 American English
98 The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1902 American English
287 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy 1895 British English
66 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka 1915 Czech German
95 Orlando Virginia Woolf 1928 British English
100 Dune Frank Herbert 1965 American English
193 East of Eden John Steinbeck 1952 American English
808 Watchmen Alan Moore 1986 American, British English
58 Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1936 American English
387 Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1864 British English
106 Oedipus the King Sophocles -429 Greek Ancient greek
247 Kim Rudyard Kipling 1901 British English
50 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
350 The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor Flannery O'Connor 1971 American English
802 Romance of the Three Kingdoms Guanzhong Luo 1400 Chinese Chinese
80 Candide Voltaire 1759 French French
188 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1859 British English
1092 Snow Country Yasunari Kawabata 1937 Japanese Japanese
363 The Left Hand Of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin 1969 American English
48 Journey to the End of The Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1932 French French
663 The Siege of Krishnapur J. G. Farrell 1973 British English