Our Users' Favorite Books of All Time

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
600 Nine Stories J. D. Salinger 1953 American English
725 The Kingdom of This World Alejo Carpentier 1949 Cuban Spanish
734 Loving Henry Green 1945 British English
311 Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson 1919 American English
492 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell, Peter Miles 1914 British English
575 I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith 1948 British English
6104 A Storm Of Swords George R. R. Martin 2000 American English
2543 Camilla Fanny Burney 1796 British English
1155 Three Lives Gertrude Stein 1909 American English
75 Essays Michel de Montaigne 1580 French French
266 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 2005 British English
661 Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice 1976 American English
671 The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe 1839 American English
4472 Alias Grace Margaret Atwood 1996 Canadian English
2542 The Artamonov Business Maxim Gorky 1925 Russian Russian
448 Homage to Catalonia George Orwell 1938 British English
789 The Piano Teacher Elfriede Jelinek 1983 Austrian German
2158 The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel 1980 American English
322 Household Tales Brothers Grimm 1812 German German
904 Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut 1973 American English
1010 Fingersmith Sarah Waters 2002 British English
14984 A Disaffection James Kelman 1989 Scottish English
124 Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo 1955 Mexican Spanish
6730 Saturday Ian McEwan 2005 British English
994 Blindness José Saramago 1995 Portuguese Portuguese
261 Wings of the Dove Henry James 1902 American English
2339 Master of the Senate Robert Caro 2002 American English
1812 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon 2003 British English
5103 Abel Sánchez Miguel de Unamuno 1917 Spanish Spanish
6295 Dream Story Arthur Schnitzler 1926 Austrian German
15754 The Tree Of Knowledge Pío Baroja 1911 Spanish Spanish
604 The Blind Owl Ṣādiq Hidāyat 1937 Iranian Persian
343 The Sonnets William Shakespeare 1609 British English
252 The Waves Virginia Woolf 1931 British English
167 Giovanni's Room James Baldwin 1956 American English
1106 The Passion Jeanette Winterson 1987 British English
229 Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville 1835 French French
122 Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio 1353 Italian Italian
187 The Power and the Glory Graham Greene 1940 British English
921 Master and Commander Patrick O'Brian 1969 British English
337 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare 1597 British English
125 Antigone Sophocles -441 Greek Ancient greek
899 Stoner John Williams 1965 American English
417 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn 1962 American English
3427 The Great Transformation Karl Polanyi 1944 Canadian English
950 Richard III William Shakespeare 1592 British English
2169 My Cousin Rachel Daphne du Maurier 1951 British English
10450 Empire Of Cotton Sven Beckert 2014 American English
303 Peter And Wendy J. M. Barrie 1911 Scottish English
1986 The Sound of the Mountain Yasunari Kawabata 1954 Japanese Japanese
15760 Dodsworth Sinclair Lewis 1929 American English
4641 Memoirs Of A Midget Walter de la Mare 1921 British English
962 The Diary of a Country Priest Georges Bernanos 1936 French French
176 The End of the Affair Graham Greene 1951 British English
10450 We Don’t Know Ourselves Fintan O'Toole 2021 Irish English
1886 Poems, New And Collected, 1957 1997 Wislawa Szymborska 1998 Polish Polish
763 The Case of Comrade Tulayev Victor Serge 1949 French French
628 Nights At The Circus Angela Carter 1984 British English
131 King Lear William Shakespeare 1608 British English
291 The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende 1982 Chilean Spanish
2388 Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler 1988 American English
469 The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain 1934 American English
1348 Sandman Neil Gaiman 1989 British English
5358 Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin 2005 American English
399 His Dark Materials Philip Pullman 1995 British English
14984 Arthur And George Julian Barnes 2005 British English
502 Another Country James Baldwin 1962 American English
281 The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck 1931 American English
163 Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 1922 German German
243 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain 1876 American English
118 The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers 1940 American English
17131 The River Of Doubt Candice Millard 2005 American English
6275 American Tabloid James Ellroy 1995 American English
2058 A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini 2007 Afghan English
14984 Death Without Weeping Nancy Scheper-Hughes 1992 American English
389 The Alchemist Paulo Coelho 1988 Brazilian Portuguese
6763 Citizen And Subject Mahmood Mamdani 1996 Ugandan English
1686 The Lorax Dr. Seuss 1971 American English
562 Aesop's Fables Aesop -560 Greek Ancient greek
17131 When Victims Become Killers Mahmood Mamdani 2001 American English
280 The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow 1953 American English
1014 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter 1902 British English
778 The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss 1957 American English
1085 The Book Thief Markus Zusak 2005 Australian English
17131 Super Cannes J. G. Ballard 2000 British English
3084 Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome 1930 British English
1694 Cassandra Christa Wolf 1983 German German
1821 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle 1969 American English
104 Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol 1842 Russian Russian
15771 Xala Ousmane Sembène 1973 Senegalese French
623 Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985 American English
2697 Wise Children Angela Carter 1991 British English
7669 Julián Is A Mermaid Jessica Love 2018 American English
17131 Last Kingdom Series Bernard Cornwell 2004 British English
1853 The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams 1922 British English
968 Jesus' Son Denis Johnson 1992 American English
849 Regeneration Pat Barker 1991 British English
257 Finnegans Wake James Joyce 1939 Irish English
17131 The Lambs Of London Peter Ackroyd 2004 British English
3546 Five Children And It Edith Nesbit 1902 British English
14984 Naked David Sedaris 1997 American English
1384 Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond 1997 American English
1049 Works and Days Hesiod -700 Greek Ancient greek
189 The Turn of the Screw Henry James 1898 American English
2841 The Magician's Nephew C. S. Lewis 1955 British English
1002 Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko 1977 American English
3256 The Theogony Hesiod -700 Greek Ancient greek
1790 The Master Colm Toibin 2004 Irish English
4682 Green Eggs and Ham Dr. Seuss 1960 American English
2889 Hadji Murat Leo Tolstoy 1912 Russian Russian
1594 The Imaginary Invalid Molière 1673 French French
947 Bel Canto Ann Patchett 2001 American English
173 A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf 1929 British English
774 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft 1792 British English
704 Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote 1958 American English
1669 The Underdogs Mariano Azuela 1915 Mexican Spanish
1895 Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris 2000 American English
142 The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett 1930 American English
668 Rabbit Redux John Updike 1971 American English
144 Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence 1913 British English