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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
352 The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith 1766 British English
318 If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino 1979 Italian Italian
381 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis 1950 British English
7995 Black Rain Masuji Ibuse 1965 Japanese Japanese
443 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013 Nigerian English
826 Voss Patrick White 1957 Australian English
1017 Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban J. K. Rowling 1999 British English
237 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 2001 American English
582 Man's Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl 1946 Austrian German
2565 The Family Of Pascual Duarte Camilo José Cela 1942 Spanish Spanish
4365 Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain 2000 American English
15737 The Bridal Canopy Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1931 Israeli Hebrew
732 A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul 1979 Trinidadian English
920 The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Heinrich Böll 1974 German German
1289 A Game of Thrones George R. R. Martin 1996 American English
1167 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Anita Loos 1925 American English
2903 Waverley Sir Walter Scott 1814 British English
204 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro 1989 British English
205 The Complete Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1927 British English
127 Paradise Lost John Milton 1667 British English
320 Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak 1963 American English
1024 Some Prefer Nettles Junichiro Tanizaki 1929 Japanese Japanese
1043 Danny The Champion Of The World Roald Dahl 1975 British English
349 The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy 1886 Russian Russian
1006 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Alan Sillitoe 1958 British English
149 All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren 1946 American English
153 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 1962 British English
217 The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1905 American English
1158 Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2006 Nigerian English
4517 When The Wind Blows Raymond Briggs 1982 British English
1142 Life of Pi Yann Martel 2001 Canadian English
271 The Awakening Kate Chopin 1899 American English
1585 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke 2004 British English
14771 My Friend Maigret Georges Simenon, Shaun Whiteside 1949 French French
1020 Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion 1968 American English
2229 A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles 2016 American English
585 Tao Te Ching Lao Tsu -300 Chinese Classical chinese
2529 The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen Alan Garner 1960 British English
244 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith 1943 American English
2852 A Bullet In The Ballet Caryl Brahms &S. J. Simon 1937 British English
953 Trent's Last Case E. C. Bentley 1913 British English
119 The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
1338 Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury 1962 American English
1597 Snow Crash Neal Stephenson 1992 American English
152 The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli 1532 Italian Italian
174 Rabbit, Run John Updike 1960 American English
5817 René François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1802 French French
571 And Quiet Flows The Don Mikhail Sholokhov 1928 Russian Russian
148 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1962 Russian Russian
88 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1916 Irish English
523 Fortunata and Jacinta Benito Pérez Galdós 1887 Spanish Spanish
254 Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon 1973 American English
2800 Delta Wedding Eudora Welty 1946 American English
260 Song of Solomon Toni Morrison 1977 American English
730 Petersburg Andrei Bely 1913 Russian Russian
1671 The Ordeal Of Richard Feverel George Meredith 1859 British English
57 The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869 Russian Russian
290 The Road Cormac McCarthy 2006 American English
1332 One, No One and One Hundred Thousand Luigi Pirandello 1926 Italian Italian
407 The World According to Garp John Irving 1978 American English
14666 The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson 2010 British English
85 The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 1915 British English
1115 The Cairo Trilogy Naguib Mahfouz 1956 Egyptian Arabic
1665 The House of Ulloa Emilia Pardo Bazán 1886 Spanish Spanish
299 Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset 1920 Norwegian Norwegian
621 Analects Confucius -479 Chinese Classical chinese
782 Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome 1889 British English
461 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand 1957 American English
359 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy 1997 Indian English
1800 The Deptford Trilogy Robertson Davies 1970 Canadian English
676 The Princess Bride William Goldman 1973 American English
1676 Time and Again Jack Finney 1970 American English
264 The Epic Of Gilgamesh Unknown -2100 Multiple Akkadian
225 Fairy Tales and Stories Hans Christian Andersen 1835 Danish Danish
1110 The Overstory Richard Powers 2018 American English
1310 Our Man In Havana Graham Greene 1958 British English
70 The Aeneid Virgil -19 Roman Latin
907 Hyperion Friedrich Holderlin 1797 German German
241 Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth 1969 American English
15750 My Father's Life (Continental Classics) Restif de La Bretonne 1779 French French
630 The Swindler Francisco de Quevedo 1626 Spanish Spanish
521 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 1969 American English
162 Silent Spring Rachel Carson 1962 American English
185 U.S.A. Trilogy John Dos Passos 1930 American English
2399 The Blazing World Margaret Cavendish 1666 British English
702 Vathek William Beckford 1786 British French
7082 The Scholars Wu Ching-tzu 1750 Chinese Chinese
588 The Pillars Of The Earth Ken Follett 1989 British English
1151 The Water Margin Shi Naian 1370 Chinese Chinese
14778 Monsieur Teste Paul Valéry 1896 French French
156 Poems of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson 1890 American English
310 Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe 1987 American English
5314 Abu Telfan, Return from the Mountains of the Moon Wilhelm Karl Raabe 1867 German German
1645 Shogun James Clavell 1975 British English
212 Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler 1940 British German
400 The Shining Stephen King 1977 American English
3550 The Improvement of Human Reason Ibn Tufayl 1170 Arabic Arabic
424 A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen 1879 Norwegian Norwegian
1495 Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo 2012 American English
703 The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope 1875 British English
1071 The Midwich Cuckoos John Wyndham 1957 British English
183 The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1906 American English
565 Amerika Franz Kafka 1927 Czech German
340 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum 1900 American English
206 The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 Russian Russian
239 Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller 1934 American English
182 The Moviegoer Walker Percy 1961 American English
2256 Correction Thomas Bernhard 1975 Austrian German
406 Ragtime E. L. Doctorow 1975 American English
452 A Heart So White Javier Marias 1992 Spanish Spanish
221 White Teeth Zadie Smith 2000 British English
307 Medea Euripides -431 Greek Ancient greek
3809 A Pale View of Hills Kazuo Ishiguro 1982 British English
207 Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis 1946 Greek Greek
210 Dangerous Liaison Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 1782 French French
3236 The Radiant Way Margaret Drabble 1987 British English
1807 Beware Of Pity Stefan Zweig 1939 Austrian German
150 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 1953 American English
2929 Unless Carol Shields 2002 Canadian English
358 The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1886 British English