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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
419 The Daughter of Time Josephine Tey 1951 British English
295 Franz Kafka Franz Kafka 1971 Czech Unknown
670 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi 2000 French French
632 Dom Casmurro Machado de Assis 1899 Brazilian Portuguese
25 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann 1924 German German
805 Gaudy Night Dorothy L. Sayers 1935 British English
1022 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders 2017 American English
192 Persuasion Jane Austen 1817 British English
114 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco 1980 Italian Italian
214 Life and Fate Vasily Grossman 1980 Russian Russian
235 The Ambassadors Henry James 1903 American English
750 Money Martin Amis 1984 British English
393 The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1868 British English
46 One Thousand and One Nights Unknown 800 Multiple Arabic
1626 The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett 1983 British English
551 Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan 1678 British English
1028 Schindler's List Thomas Keneally 1982 Australian English
372 War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1898 British English
332 Clarissa Samuel Richardson 1748 British English
113 The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank 1947 Dutch Dutch
2541 Pilgrimage Dorothy Richardson 1915 British English
475 Gilead Marilynne Robinson 2004 American English
781 Simplicius Simplicissimus Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen 1668 German German
83 Emma Jane Austen 1815 British English
249 A Hero of Our Time Mikhail Lermontov 1840 Russian Russian
213 The Counterfeiters André Gide 1925 French French
6272 Cold Nights Ba Jin 1947 Chinese Chinese
4632 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle 1993 Irish English
41 On the Road Jack Kerouac 1957 American English
2267 A Grain Of Wheat Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1967 Kenyan English
430 The Bridge on the Drina Ivo Andrić 1945 Bosnian Serbo-croatian
683 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson 1971 American English
380 American Pastoral Philip Roth 1997 American English
354 Hopscotch Julio Cortazar 1963 Argentinian Spanish
202 Invisible Cities Italo Calvino 1972 Italian Italian
807 The Book of the City of Ladies Christine De Pizan 1405 French French
5812 The City Of The Sun Tommaso Campanella 1623 Italian Latin
302 The Lost Estate Henri Alain-Fournier 1913 French French
1225 Untouchable Mulk Raj Anand 1935 Indian English
277 The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1836 British English
524 A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving 1989 American English
2132 The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick 1962 American English
15728 Passionate Journey Frans Masereel 1919 Belgian German
44 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 French French
3884 Mother London Michael Moorcock 1988 British English
220 The Republic Plato -379 Greek Ancient greek
833 The Lost Steps Alejo Carpentier 1953 Cuban Spanish
480 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons 1932 British English
218 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 British English
73 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James 1881 American English
170 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 1937 American English
14718 Monsieur Lecoq Émile Gaboriau 1869 French French
364 White Noise Don DeLillo 1985 American English
1561 Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey 1988 Australian English
143 The Talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith 1955 American English
47 David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1849 British English
355 The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño 1998 Chilean Spanish
468 Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1876 British English
314 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon 2000 American English
420 The Human Stain Philip Roth 2000 American English
65 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1726 British English
473 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami 1994 Japanese Japanese
2146 The Night Land William Hope Hodgson 1912 British English
444 The Man Who Was Thursday G. K. Chesterton 1908 British English
1741 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 Sue Townsend 1982 British English
327 Solaris Stanislaw Lem 1961 Polish Polish
15729 Altneuland Theodor Herzl 1902 German German
15730 Infortunios De Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes Of Alonso Ramirez José F. Buscaglia-Salgado, Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora 1690 Mexican Spanish
821 Castle Rackrent Maria Edgeworth 1800 British English
7019 Corinne Madame de Staël 1807 French French
797 The Manuscript Found in Saragossa Jan Potocki 1805 Polish French
648 The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien 1990 American English
14713 The Iron Heel Jack London 1908 American English
78 A Passage to India E. M. Forster 1924 British English
655 Stories of Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway 1987 American English
1476 Flatland Edwin A. Abbott 1884 British English
168 Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald 1934 American English
200 The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa 1982 Portuguese Portuguese
195 An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser 1925 American English
107 Native Son Richard Wright 1940 American English
128 The Stories of Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov 1900 Russian Russian
262 Austerlitz W. G. Sebald 2001 German German
336 Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser 1900 American English
1606 White Fang Jack London 1906 American English
120 The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 1939 American English
96 Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808 German German
216 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1843 British English
282 The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1774 German German
9248 Cities Of Salt Abd al-Rahman Munif 1984 Arabic Arabic
1232 Children of Gebelawi Naguib Mahfouz 1959 Egyptian Arabic
388 The Complete Works of Plato Plato -387 Greek Ancient greek
126 If This Is a Man Primo Levi 1947 Italian Italian
165 Winnie the Pooh A. A. Milne 1926 British English
401 Celestina Or The Tragic-Comedy Of Calisto And Melibea Fernando de Rojas 1499 Spanish Spanish
487 Rainbow D.H. Lawrence 1915 British English
76 The Plague Albert Camus 1947 French French
2437 The Railway Children Edith Nesbit 1906 British English
269 Nightwood Djuna Barnes 1936 American English
11301 A Raisin In The Sun Lorraine Hansberry 1959 American English
1230 The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington 1918 American English
161 The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler 1953 American English
606 New Grub Street George Gissing 1891 British English
199 The Radetzky March Joseph Roth 1932 Austrian German
197 Howards End E. M. Forster 1910 British English
569 The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen 1938 British, Irish English
101 Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett 1953 Irish French
1299 My Name is Red Orhan Pamuk 1998 Turkish Turkish
816 The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia Samuel Johnson, Abraham Raimbach, Robert Smirke 1759 British English
110 The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 British Middle english
680 The Stories of John Cheever John Cheever 1978 American English
330 Dubliners James Joyce 1914 Irish English
1534 The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr E. T. A. Hoffmann 1819 German German
384 Ferdydurke Witold Gombrowicz 1937 Polish Polish
878 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver 1998 American English
619 The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles 1949 American English
135 Doctor Faustus Thomas Mann 1947 German German
1145 The Bone People Keri Hulme 1984 New Zealand English
418 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides 2002 American English
94 Demons Fyodor Dostoevsky 1872 Russian Russian
1166 Lanark Alasdair Gray 1981 Scottish English