Our Users' Favorite Books of All Time

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
631 The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder 1927 American English
837 The Sellout Paul Beatty 2015 American English
3293 The Subterraneans Jack Kerouac 1958 American English
11567 The Sickness Unto Death Soren Kierkegaard 1849 Danish Danish
3591 Legends of The Fall Jim Harrison 1979 American English
17131 Summer Sisters Judy Blume 1998 American English
3450 Mistborn Brandon Sanderson 2006 American English
1462 An American Dilemma Gunnar Myrdal 1944 Swedish English
1029 Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon Jorge Amado 1958 Brazilian Portuguese
12129 The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell 1996 American English
17131 The Nature Of Blood Caryl Phillips 1997 British English
17131 Our Final Century Martin Rees 2003 British English
323 Mahabharata Vyasa -400 Indian Sanskrit
8321 The Truth Terry Pratchett 2000 British English
14984 Scar Tissue Anthony Kiedis 2004 American English
14984 The Skystone (The Camulod Chronicles, Book 1) Jack Whyte 1992 Canadian English
7579 Speaker for the Dead Orson Scott Card 1986 American English
6896 Doomsday Book Connie Willis 1992 American English
17131 Wizard And Glass Stephen King 1997 American English
347 The Day of the Locust Nathanael West 1939 American English
2468 On Beauty Zadie Smith 2005 British English
510 Eugenie Grandet Honoré de Balzac 1833 French French
297 Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott 1819 British English
8097 The Hotel New Hampshire John Irving 1981 American English
1743 Life & Times of Michael K J. M. Coetzee 1983 South African English
2175 Paris Spleen Charles Baudelaire 1869 French French
13941 Saga Vol. 1 Brian K. Vaughan 2012 American English
2724 A Man For All Seasons Robert Bolt 1960 American English
5456 Ballad of the Salt Sea Hugo Pratt 1967 Italian Italian
1206 Pachinko Min Jin Lee 2017 American English
815 Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne 1872 French French
8181 Timescape Gregory Benford 1980 American English
17131 Our Posthuman Future Francis Fukuyama 2002 American English
1966 Truth And Method Hans-Georg Gadamer 1960 German German
2808 Summertime J. M. Coetzee 2009 South African English
14984 12 Rules For Life Jordan B. Peterson 2018 Canadian English
14232 A Year in Provence Peter Mayle 1989 British English
1391 A Separate Peace John Knowles 1959 American English
1531 Jurassic Park Michael Crichton 1990 American English
2337 There There Tommy Orange 2018 American English
14232 Catherine The Great Robert K. Massie 2011 American English
14750 Musashi Eiji Yoshikawa 1935 Japanese Japanese
353 Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin 1953 American English
1652 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1798 British English
462 The Prophet Kahlil Gibran 1923 Lebanese English
8545 Whipping Girl Julia Serano 2007 American English
17131 The Anthropic Cosmological Principle John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler 1986 British English
2796 The Silver Chair C. S. Lewis 1953 British English
8624 Stargirl Jerry Spinelli 2000 American English
14202 Tau Zero Poul Anderson 1970 American English
777 I Am Legend Richard Matheson 1954 American English
4579 Papillon Henri Charrière 1969 French French
5717 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami 1985 Japanese Japanese
8593 The Wise Man's Fear Patrick Rothfuss 2011 American English
556 The Code of the Woosters P. G. Wodehouse 1938 British English
3213 Neverwhere Neil Gaiman 1996 British English
16657 The Seven Who Were Hanged Leonid Andreyev 1908 Russian Russian
2223 Good Omens Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman 1990 British English
13357 Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein 1974 American English
526 Gormenghast Mervyn Peake 1950 British English
1302 Poems Paul Celan 1952 German German
617 Pnin Vladimir Nabokov 1957 Russian English
2919 Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel 2012 British English
7028 Going Clear Lawrence Wright 2013 American English
14192 Pax Britannica James Morris 1968 British English
17131 Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2000 American English
591 Stories of Guy de Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1880 French French
545 The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie Agota Kristof 1986 Hungarian French
3190 The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern 2011 American English
2298 Poems Of George Seferis George Seferis 1931 Greek Greek
580 Black Lamb and Grey Falcon Rebecca West 1941 British English
2904 What I Loved Siri Hustvedt 2003 American English
17131 A Light In The Attic (20th Anniversary Edition Book & Cd) Shel Silverstein 1981 American English
1775 Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri 1999 American English
13923 Dangerous Visions Harlan Ellison 1967 American English
2687 Prince Caspian C. S. Lewis 1951 British English
17131 Street Level Bureaucracy (Publications Of Russell Sage Foundation) Michael Lipsky 1980 American English
17131 Words Of Radiance Brandon Sanderson, Kate Reading, Michael Kramer 2014 American English
3245 Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau 1849 American English
17131 Lighter Than My Shadow Katie Green 2013 British English
2417 Bright Lights, Big City Jay McInerney 1984 American English
3585 A Single Man Christopher Isherwood 1964 British English
2163 A Personal Matter Kenzaburō Ōe 1964 Japanese Japanese
11537 Benito Cereno Herman Melville 1855 American English
17131 How To Dunk A Doughnut Len Fisher 2002 British English
410 The Razor's Edge W. Somerset Maugham 1944 British English
813 Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell 1851 British English
7902 The House in the Cerulean Sea Tj Klune 2020 American English
14872 Father And Son E. O. Plauen 1934 German German
134 Tom Jones Henry Fielding 1749 British English
227 Women in Love D. H. Lawrence 1920 British English
17131 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey 1989 American English
3952 Mythistorema George Seferis 1935 Greek Greek
3431 The Stories of Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury 1980 American English
7663 Against Interpretation Susan Sontag 1966 American English
16752 Tournament Shelby Foote 1949 American English
717 A Sport and a Pastime James Salter 1967 American English
923 The World Of Yesterday Stefan Zweig 1942 Austrian German
5094 Sartoris William Faulkner 1929 American English
10450 A Peace To End All Peace David Fromkin 1989 American English
1643 Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt 1996 American English
577 Anniversaries Uwe Johnson 1970 German German
17131 Solo Leveling 02 Dubu, CHUGONG 2020 Korean Korean
2307 The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins 1976 British English
498 The Immoralist André Gide 1902 French French
17131 The Courtier And The Heretic Matthew Stewart 2006 American English
16667 I Am Fifteen--and I Don't Want To Die Arnothy Christine 1955 French French
63 Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry 1947 British English
1958 Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann 2009 Irish English
1610 The Hours Michael Cunningham 1998 American English
442 The Magus John Fowles 1965 British English
15840 The Fellowship Of The Ring J. R. R. Tolkien 1981 British English
1387 Gödel, Escher, Bach Douglas Hofstadter 1979 American English
16769 Dragonwyck Anya Seton 1944 American English
1729 Requiem for a Dream Hubert Selby 1978 American English
6179 The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1828 British English
17131 The Beauty And The Sorrow Peter Englund 2011 Swedish Swedish
17131 Ttfn Lauren Myracle 2006 American English
17131 L8r, G8r Lauren Myracle 2007 American English
1724 Logbook George Seferis 1940 Greek Greek