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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
8972 A Short History Of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson 2003 American English
3824 Outliers Malcolm Gladwell 2008 Canadian English
351 Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe 1722 British English
1375 The Sea of Fertility Yukio Mishima 1965 Japanese Japanese
116 A Sentimental Education Gustave Flaubert 1869 French French
248 Atonement Ian McEwan 2001 British English
1216 Billy Liar Keith Waterhouse 1959 British English
1055 Story of Ferdinand Munro Leaf 1936 American English
779 The Outsiders S. E. Hinton 1967 American English
14984 Practical Magic Alice Hoffman 1995 American English
1382 The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde 1895 Irish English
943 The Bacchae Euripides -405 Greek Ancient greek
1589 Tarka the Otter Henry Williamson 1927 British English
711 Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes 1959 American English
1707 The House at Pooh Corner A. A. Milne 1928 British English
1247 The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1894 British English
289 A Room With a View E. M. Forster 1908 British English
1972 The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides 1993 American English
268 Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats William Butler Yeats 1933 Irish English
4995 Persepolis Two Marjane Satrapi 2004 Iranian French
14984 Wild at Heart Barry Gifford 1990 American English
598 Night Elie Wiesel 1958 French French
7042 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Simon Armitage 2007 British Middle english
840 Confessions of a Mask Yukio Mishima 1949 Japanese Japanese
494 The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien 1967 Irish English
1253 Absolute Beginners Colin MacInnes 1959 British English
3171 The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell 2000 American English
811 The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux 1909 French French
547 Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll 1871 British English
2213 Closely Watched Trains Bohumil Hrabal 1965 Czech Czech
6159 The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle 1883 American English
2242 Milkman Anna Burns 2018 Irish English
137 Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1900 British English
181 Light in August William Faulkner 1932 American English
1487 Kokoro Natsume Sōseki 1914 Japanese Japanese
1089 Suttree Cormac McCarthy 1979 American English
5101 Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster 1905 British English
14817 Dona Flor And Her Two Husbands Jorge Amado, Harriet de Onís 1966 Brazilian Portuguese
325 A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell 1951 British English
5015 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Morris 1979 American English
111 The Waste Land T. S. Eliot 1922 British English
735 A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth 1993 Indian English
341 The Human Comedy Honoré de Balzac 1830 French French
421 A Visit From The Goon Squad Jennifer Egan 2010 American English
4785 Sarah, Plain and Tall Patricia MacLachlan 1985 American English
1386 Six Characters in Search of an Author Luigi Pirandello 1921 Italian Italian
823 The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats 1962 American English
9886 Novel With Cocaine M. Ageyev 1934 Russian Russian
3108 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams 1987 British English
298 Herzog Saul Bellow 1964 American English
233 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carré 1963 British English
368 Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein 1961 American English
7838 The Invisible Life Of Addie La Rue V. E. Schwab 2020 American English
835 The Art of War Sun Tzu -500 Chinese Classical chinese
1277 A High Wind in Jamaica Richard Hughes 1929 British English
231 Death of Virgil Hermann Broch 1945 Austrian German
643 Silas Marner George Eliot 1861 British English
1473 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver 1981 American English
2670 This Boy's Life Tobias Wolff 1989 American English
250 Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery 1908 Canadian English
1050 The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif Kureishi 1990 British English
693 Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder 1935 American English
81 The Castle Franz Kafka 1926 Czech German
427 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell 2004 British English
796 The Fall Albert Camus 1956 French French
2002 Freedom Jonathan Franzen 2010 American English
180 On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin 1859 British English
1165 The Horse's Mouth Joyce Cary 1944 British English
2985 The Vampire Lestat Anne Rice 1985 American English
15799 Collected Poems Of T. S. Eliot 1909 1935 T. S. Eliot 1936 American English
1432 A Woman's Life Guy de Maupassant 1883 French French
453 I, Claudius Robert Graves 1934 British English
13941 Notes from a Small Island Bill Bryson 1995 American English
1688 Carrie Stephen King 1974 American English
209 Hunger Knut Hamsun 1890 Norwegian Norwegian
918 The Plot Against America Philip Roth 2004 American English
1252 Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari 2011 Israeli Hebrew
447 Gypsy Ballads Federico García Lorca 1928 Spanish Spanish
3115 Affinity Sarah Waters 1999 British English
2987 Tipping The Velvet Sarah Waters 1998 British English
2275 Long Walk To Freedom Nelson Mandela 1994 South African English
1400 The Great Railway Bazaar Paul Theroux 1975 American English
2327 The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu 2006 Chinese Chinese
15806 Paul And Virginie Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 1788 French French
245 Nausea Jean Paul Sartre 1938 French French
7578 The Mosquito Coast Paul Theroux 1981 American English
1567 To Build A Fire Jack London 1902 American English
1112 The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake William Blake 1827 British English
5267 A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah 2007 Sierra Leonean English
226 The Alexandria Quartet Lawrence Durrell 1957 British English
873 Call to Arms Lu Xun 1922 Chinese Chinese
681 Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut 1963 American English
232 2666 Roberto Bolaño 2004 Chilean Spanish
1129 The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri 2003 American English
974 The Poems of John Keats John Keats 1817 British English
396 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz 2007 Dominican English
1318 Love Medicine Louise Erdrich 1984 American English
1405 The Twits Roald Dahl 1980 British English
1245 Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell 1933 British English
9908 Women Charles Bukowski 1978 American English
265 Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948 South African English
751 All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy 1992 American English
740 Silence Shūsaku Endō 1966 Japanese Japanese
620 The Elements of Style E. B. White, William Strunk Jr. 1918 American English
139 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 1860 British English
912 The Making of Americans Gertrude Stein 1925 American English
5005 The Magic Pudding Norman Lindsay 1918 Australian English
1413 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr 2014 American English
1869 The Recognition of Sakuntala Kālidāsa -400 Indian Sanskrit
253 Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe 1929 American English
105 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1847 British English
909 The Warmth Of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson 2010 American English
440 The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt 1951 German English
2605 The Conservationist Nadine Gordimer 1974 South African English
342 Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 Russian Russian
158 Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys 1966 British English
1392 Evicted Matthew Desmond 2016 American English
2424 Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer 1997 American English
61 The Golden Notebook Doris May Lessing 1962 British English
1550 Njal's Saga Iceland 1280 Icelandic Old norse