Our Users' Favorite Books of All Time

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
3083 Under the Skin Michel Faber 2000 British English
4458 The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman 2008 British English
5099 Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese 2009 American English
742 The Crime of Father Amaro Eça de Queirós 1875 Portuguese Portuguese
17131 Love Her Wild Atticus 2017 Canadian English
876 Lysistrata Aristophanes -411 Greek Ancient greek
17131 I Am Charlotte Simmons Tom Wolfe 2004 American English
4948 Dark Money Jane Mayer 2016 American English
16994 Domnisoara Christina. Sarpele Mircea Eliade 1936 Romanian Romanian
16990 For My Legionaries Corneliu Zelea Codreanu 1936 Romanian Romanian
1987 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks 1985 British English
17131 Permafrost Eva Baltasar 2018 Spanish Catalan
17131 The Mongol Empire Peter Ludwig Brent 1976 British English
14984 A Walk To Remember Nicholas Sparks 1999 American English
8190 The Fisherman John Langan 2016 American English
6675 Uzumaki Junji Ito 1998 Japanese Japanese
2189 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson 2005 Swedish Swedish
1490 The Garden Party And Other Stories Katherine Mansfield 1922 New Zealand English
8100 How Not To Die Michael Greger, Gene Stone 2015 American English
988 Flaubert's Parrot Julian Barnes 1984 British English
3238 The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 2000 American English
9817 The Forty Rules of Love Elif Shafak 2009 Turkish Turkish
17131 Hollywood Park Mikel Jollett 2020 American English
1941 From The Mixed Up Files Of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler EL Konigsburg 1967 American English
4735 Shadow and ACT Ralph Ellison 1964 American English
14232 The Boys In The Boat Daniel James Brown 2013 American English
2145 Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson 1999 American English
6983 Project Hail Mary Andy Weir 2021 American English
14984 Ship Of Magic Robin Hobb 1998 American English
16983 The Woman Destroyed Simone de Beauvoir 1967 French French
5911 Poems Of Fernando Pessoa Fernando Pessoa 1942 Portuguese Portuguese
16608 Badjelly The Witch Spike Milligan 1973 New Zealander English
14984 The Rainmaker John Grisham 1995 American English
17131 Her Last Flight Beatriz Williams 2020 American English
5481 The Inferno Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
603 Barabbas Par Lagerkvist 1950 Swedish Swedish
3148 All the President's Men Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein 1974 American English
3163 Fierce Attachments Vivian Gornick 1987 American English
6318 The Artist's Way Julia Cameron 1992 American English
1038 Cosmos Carl Sagan 1980 American English
14984 Tales from Ovid Ted Hughes 1997 British English
2005 Baltasar and Blimunda José Saramago 1982 Portuguese Portuguese
5990 Bloodchild Octavia E. Butler 1984 American English
1757 Books of Blood Clive Barker 1984 British English
7099 The Dutch House Ann Patchett 2019 American English
942 Cannery Row John Steinbeck 1945 American English
8957 Stardust Neil Gaiman 1999 British English
1919 The Dying Earth Jack Vance 1950 American English
594 Growth of the Soil Knut Hamsun 1917 Norwegian Norwegian
660 The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett 1934 American English
17131 The Sound Of A Wild Snail Eating Renee Raudman, Elisabeth Tova Bailey 2010 American English
7670 The Letters Of Vincent Van Gogh Vincent van Gogh 1914 Dutch Dutch
634 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig 1974 American English
14953 The Tain Thomas Kinsella 1969 Irish English
925 Deliverance James Dickey 1970 American English
2730 Overcoat Nikolai Gogol 1842 Russian Russian
14232 The Damned Utd David Peace 2006 British English
6605 Hillbilly Elegy J. D. Vance 2016 American English
2557 Keep the Aspidistra Flying George Orwell 1936 British English
6280 Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark Alvin Schwartz 1981 American English
17131 The Social Conquest Of Earth E. O. Wilson 2012 American English
5391 The Horse Whisperer Nicholas Evans 1995 British English
17131 5150 One Who Flew Into The Cuckoo's Nest Kathi Stringer 2007 American Unknown
1259 The Female Eunuch Germaine Greer 1970 Australian English
525 Family Sayings Natalia Ginzburg 1963 Italian Italian
2859 Jamila Chinghiz Aitmatov 1958 Kyrgyz Kyrgyz
17131 My Life On The Road Gloria Steinem 2015 American English
5330 The Perks Of Being A Wallflower Stephen Chbosky 1999 American English
14984 Freedom Orlando Patterson 1991 Jamaican English
15858 The Setting Sun Osamu Dazai 1947 Japanese Japanese
2534 A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman 2012 Swedish Swedish
17024 The Islandman Tomás Ó Crohan 1929 Irish Irish
10076 Habibi Craig Thompson 2011 American English
743 On Liberty John Stuart Mill 1859 British English
2882 Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One Rick Riordan 2005 American English
7020 Albert Murray Albert Murray 2016 American Unknown
17131 The Purpose Driven Life Rick Warren 2002 American English
5528 The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee Jared Diamond 1991 American English
9369 Leviathan Wakes James S. A. Corey 2011 American English
1621 Good-Bye to All That Robert Graves 1929 British English
713 The Killer Angels Michael Shaara 1974 American English
17131 Eternal Treblinka Charles Patterson 2002 American English
5119 Baudolino Umberto Eco 2000 Italian Italian
1211 Normal People Sally Rooney 2018 Irish English
10821 Salt To The Sea Ruta Sepetys 2016 American English
1172 My Family And Other Animals Gerald Durrell 1956 British English
5410 The Prince of Tides Pat Conroy 1986 American English
822 I, Robot Isaac Asimov 1950 American English
17068 Dulce Ca Mierea E Glonțul Patriei Petru Popescu 1974 Romanian Romanian
17131 The Darkness That Comes Before R. Scott Bakker 2003 Canadian English
17131 Vagabond Volume 1 Takehiko Inoue 1998 Japanese Japanese
1161 The Twelve Chairs Ilya Ilf, Evgeniy Petrov 1928 Russian Russian
17131 The Looking Glass Wars Frank Beddor 2004 American English
6531 Born A Crime Trevor Noah 2016 South African English
5028 The City & the City China Miéville 2009 British English
5913 The Cossacks Leo Tolstoy 1863 Russian Russian
14232 Noises Off Michael Frayn 1982 British English
14968 Strange Interlude Eugene O'Neill 1928 American English
3580 Call Me By Your Name André Aciman 2007 Italian English
3859 This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920 American English
2932 Martian Time Slip Philip K. Dick 1964 American English
1271 Extinction Thomas Bernhard 1986 Austrian German
3272 The Luminaries Eleanor Catton 2013 New Zealand English
1217 Foucault's Pendulum Umberto Eco 1988 Italian Italian
17131 Gorgias/Gorgias Coleen P. Zoller, Jurgen R. Gatt, S. Montgomery Ewegen 2023 Unknown Unknown
17131 Die Wise Stephen Jenkinson 2015 Canadian English
17131 Delirium Laura Restrepo 2004 Colombian Spanish
13594 The Book Of Joe Jonathan Tropper 2004 American English
516 Season of Migration to the North Al-Tayyib Salih 1966 Sudanese Arabic
17131 Black Bolshevik Harry Haywood 1978 American English
15876 The Richest Man In Babylon GEORGE S. CLASON 1926 American English
17131 The Dictionary Of Fashionable Nonsense Ophelia Benson, Jeremy Stangroom 2004 British English
17131 Beyond The Story BTS, Myeongseok Kang 2021 South Korean Korean
17131 Young Mungo Douglas Stuart 2022 British English
14110 Enneads Plotinus -270 Greek Greek
367 Journey to the West Wu Cheng'en 1592 Chinese Chinese
1607 Pan Knut Hamsun 1894 Norwegian Norwegian
1817 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot 2010 American English
14974 The Fire Raisers Max Frisch 1953 Swiss German
1418 The Path to the Nest of Spiders Italo Calvino 1947 Italian Italian