Our Users' Favorite Books of All Time

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
2792 Dog Years Günter Grass 1963 German German
1117 The Fifth Season N. K. Jemisin 2015 American English
5916 Our Lord Don Quixote Miguel de Unamuno 1935 Spanish Spanish
8422 The Green Mile Stephen King 1996 American English
13941 London Peter Ackroyd 2000 British English
3455 Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy 1956 American English
2284 Smiley's People John le Carré 1979 British English
638 Being and Nothingness Jean Paul Sartre 1943 French French
8534 Tehanu Ursula K. Le Guin 1990 American English
527 The Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1762 French French
17131 My Year Abroad Chang-rae Lee 2021 American English
14232 The Life Changing Magic Of Tidying Up Marie Kondo 2011 Japanese Japanese
583 Against Nature J. K. Huysmans 1884 French French
6697 The Tattooist Of Auschwitz Heather Morris 2018 Australian English
10837 Bleeding Edge Thomas Pynchon 2013 American English
14984 In Search Of Schrodinger's Cat John Gribbin 1984 British English
17131 United As One (Lorien Legacies Book 7) Pittacus Lore 2016 American English
898 My Struggle Karl Ove Knausgård 2009 Norwegian Norwegian
2717 The Great War and Modern Memory Paul Fussell 1975 American English
2003 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Jacobs 1861 American English
8776 State And Revolution Vladimir Il’ich Lenin 1917 Russian Russian
8919 A River Runs Through It Norman Maclean 1976 American English
11411 Barrayar Lois McMaster Bujold 1991 American English
14894 The Collected Works Kahlil Gibran 1920 Lebanese Arabic
259 Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs 1959 American English
Murasaki Shikibu Nikki ; Murasaki Shikibu Shū Murasaki Shikibu 1008 Japanese Japanese
17131 War And Peace And War Peter Turchin 2005 American English
17131 Charlottes Buzzybeez PUBLICATIONS Unknown Unknown
1465 Narcissus And Goldmund Hermann Hesse 1930 German German
987 Harriet the Spy Louise Fitzhugh 1964 American English
3875 We Need To Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver 2003 American English
14170 A Child's Garden Of Verses Robert Louis Stevenson 1885 American English
17131 Think Like A Monk Jay Shetty 2020 British English
6415 My Forbidden Face Latifa 2001 Afghan French
17131 The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog Bruce D. Perry, Danny Campbell, Maia Szalavita 2006 American English
3578 Mercy Of A Rude Stream Henry Roth 1994 American English
17131 Thomas Mann Heinrich Mann Helmut Koopmann 2005 German German
613 The Persians Aeschylus -471 Greek Ancient greek
745 Memed, My Hawk Yashar Kemal 1955 Turkish Turkish
1772 Hard Times Charles Dickens 1854 British English
592 The Sleepwalkers Hermann Broch 1932 Austrian German
6525 The Mars Room Rachel Kushner 2018 American English
14984 The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck Mark Manson 2016 American English
1354 Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout 2008 American English
1159 Eichmann in Jerusalem Hannah Arendt 1963 German English
17131 House Of Sky And Breath Sarah J. Maas 2022 American English
7572 The House of Morgan Ron Chernow 1990 American English
17131 The Reading List Sara Nisha Adams 2021 British English
17131 These Violent Delights Micah Nemerever 2020 American English
17131 Tales From Margaritaville Jimmy Buffett 1989 American English
8700 Millennium People J. G. Ballard 2003 British English
6817 Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid 2017 American English
5915 The Caucasian Chalk Circle Bertolt Brecht 1944 German German
17131 The Running Man Stephen King 1982 American English
3139 Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Ben Fountain 2012 American English
14172 The Human Comedy William Saroyan 1943 American English
17131 Desiring God John Piper 1986 American English
9546 The Man Who Laughs Victor Hugo 1869 French French
17131 Universal Consciousness alexis karpouzos 2016 Greek Unknown
9274 Invisible Reality Juan Ramón Jiménez 1983 Spanish Unknown
1435 Life After Life Kate Atkinson 2013 British English
14984 Nightfall Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg 1990 American English
1715 The Clay Machine-gun Victor Pelevin 1996 Russian Russian
17131 Be Here To Love Me At The End Of The World Sasha Fletcher 2021 American English
1774 The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne Brian Moore 1955 Irish English
3844 The Stone Raft José Saramago 1986 Portuguese Portuguese
11648 Dead Poets Society N. H. Kleinbaum 1989 American English
17131 The Book Of Longings Sue Monk Kidd 2020 American English
722 Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy Allison 1992 American English
9239 The Sword Of Shannara Terry Brooks 1977 American English
710 At the Mountains of Madness H. P. Lovecraft 1936 American English
14984 Understanding Comics Scott McCloud 1993 American English
2084 Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk 1996 American English
7671 The One And Only Ivan Katherine Applegate 2012 American English
14232 The Lies Of Locke Lamora Scott Lynch 2006 American English
1682 Asterix the Gaul Rene Goscinny 1959 French French
1726 Spring Awakening Frank Wedekind 1891 German German
3873 The Alienist Caleb Carr 1994 American English
17087 The Fairy Faith In Celtic Countries W. Y. Evans-Wentz 1911 American English
334 Parallel Lives Plutarch 100 Greek Greek
17131 Schismatrix Plus Bruce Sterling 1996 American English
17131 Keep Moving, Keep Shooting Clay E. Novak 2022 American Unknown
17131 The Truth, The Whole Truth & Nothing But The Truth Barry Zalma 2010 American Unknown
4088 Silk Alessandro Baricco 1996 Italian Italian
16710 Diary Of A Seducer Soren Kierkegaard 1843 Danish Danish
3134 Daddy Long Legs Jean Webster 1912 American English
17131 Wings Of Fire APJ Abdul Kalam 1999 Indian English
17131 My Favourite Wife Tony Parsons 2008 British English
4793 Yvain Chrétien de Troyes 1177 French Old french
17131 Social Satire And The Modern Novel Paul Rich 1984 Unknown Unknown
17131 Marked (House Of Night) Unknown 2007 American English
17131 The Luxe (Luxe Series, Book 1) Anna Godbersen 2007 American English
7073 Augustus John Williams 1972 American English
11329 White Oleander Fitch, Janet 1999 American English