Our Users' Favorite Books of All Time

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
2809 Jacob Have I Loved Katherine Paterson 1980 American English
1505 The Famished Road Ben Okri 1991 Nigerian English
145 Gargantua and Pantagruel Francois Rabelais 1532 French French
1438 Masnavi Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi 1258 Persian Persian
2503 Homegoing Yaa Gyasi 2016 Ghanaian English
404 The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay 1787 American English
1565 A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again David Foster Wallace 1997 American English
175 Metamorphoses Ovid 8 Roman Latin
1638 Postwar Tony Judt 2005 British English
4077 Children Of Blood And Bone Tomi Adeyemi 2018 Nigerian English
9850 Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim David Sedaris 2004 American English
536 Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett 1929 American English
14232 A Walk In The Woods Bill Bryson 1998 American English
731 The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe 1794 British English
10274 Death's End Cixin Liu 2010 Chinese Chinese
646 The Varieties of Religious Experience William James 1902 American English
317 The Poems of Robert Frost Robert Frost 1913 American English
753 Henderson The Rain King Saul Bellow 1959 American English
1884 The Looming Tower Lawrence Wright 2006 American English
11628 Everyman Philip Roth 2006 American English
561 The Recognitions William Gaddis 1955 American English
179 Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev 1862 Russian Russian
3945 The Arrival Shaun Tan 2006 Australian English
1879 Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbitt 1975 American English
4980 I Want My Hat Back Jon Klassen 2011 Canadian English
2523 The Passage Of Power Robert Caro 2012 American English
1663 The Making of the English Working Class E. P. Thompson 1963 British English
6676 Three Apples Fell From The Sky Narine Abgaryan 2015 Armenian Russian
6622 Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2003 Nigerian English
1651 The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892 American English
425 Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1811 British English
1319 The Story Of An African Farm Olive Schreiner 1883 South African English
534 Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie 1988 British English
629 Titus Groan Mervyn Peake 1946 British English
2051 Palace Walk Naguib Mahfouz 1956 Egyptian Arabic
686 Rabbit Is Rich John Updike 1981 American English
6241 The Chaneysville Incident David Bradley 1981 American English
2498 Room Emma Donoghue 2010 Irish English
4977 Klara And The Sun Kazuo Ishiguro 2021 British English
669 Beowulf Unknown 1000 Unknown Old english
1193 Double Indemnity James M. Cain 1943 American English
549 A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry 1995 Indian English
522 The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster 1961 American English
483 The Civil War Shelby Foote 1958 American English
771 God's Bits of Wood Ousmane Sembène 1960 Senegalese French
304 The Double Helix James D. Watson 1968 American English
2105 Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel García Márquez 1981 Colombian Spanish
294 The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1895 British English
5852 Chatterton Alfred de Vigny 1835 French French
17131 The Inescapable Self Timothy Chappell 2006 British English
292 Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham 1915 British English
238 A Season in Hell Arthur Rimbaud 1873 French French
293 A Wrinkle In Time Madeleine L'Engle 1962 American English
574 The Known World Edward P. Jones 2003 American English
482 Jakob Von Gunten Robert Walser 1909 Swiss German
557 The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois 1903 American English
799 Kaputt Curzio Malaparte 1944 Italian Italian
441 The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon 1966 American English
855 A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1964 American English
164 The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle 1902 British English
3306 Henry IV, Part I William Shakespeare 1597 British English
2206 Dreams from My Father Barack Obama 1995 American English
1376 Tales of the South Pacific James A. Michener 1947 American English
17131 Paradigms Lost John L. Casti 1989 American English
17131 The Great Leveler Walter Scheidel 2017 American English
760 Decline and Fall Evelyn Waugh 1928 British English
3182 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard 1966 British English
5250 The Strange Career of Jim Crow C. Vann Woodward 1955 American English
6920 The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid 2007 Pakistani English
6485 Common Ground J. Anthony Lukas 1985 American English
1081 The War of the End of the World Mario Vargas Llosa 1981 Peruvian Spanish
17131 From Dawn To Decadence Jacques Barzun 2000 American English
312 Labyrinths Jorge Luis Borges 1962 Argentinian Spanish
854 Cane Jean Toomer 1923 American English
1753 The Long Ships Frans G. Bengtsson 1941 Swedish Swedish
14776 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson 1912 American English
69 Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1719 British English
17131 The Cult Of Emptiness The Western Discovery Of Buddhist Thought And The Invention Of Oriental Philosophy Urs App 2012 Swiss English
5420 In the Heart of the Heart of the Country William H. Gass 1968 American English
8566 Slavery by Another Name Douglas A. Blackmon 2008 American English
980 News from Nowhere William Morris 1890 British English
324 Communist Manifesto Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels 1848 German German
117 Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1891 British English
6349 A Wild Sheep Chase Haruki Murakami 1982 Japanese Japanese
2207 Waiting Ha Jin 1999 Chinese English
1599 The Unfortunate Traveller Thomas Nashe 1594 British English
17131 The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750 1900 Michael J. Crowe 1986 American English
784 Rabbit at Rest John Updike 1990 American English
2192 American Gods Neil Gaiman 2001 British English
7094 The Color Of Law Richard Rothstein 2017 American English
973 The Burning Plain and Other Stories Juan Rulfo 1953 Mexican Spanish
970 The Maias Eça de Queirós 1888 Portuguese Portuguese
423 Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie 1934 British English
3079 Paradise of the Blind Dương Thu Hương 1988 Vietnamese Vietnamese
14984 A Clash Of Kings George R. R. Martin 1998 American English
15792 Critique Of Religion And Philosophy Walter A. Kaufmann 1958 American English
17131 If The Universe Is Teeming With Aliens ... Where Is Everybody? Second Edition Stephen Webb 2015 British English
17131 The Fate Of Reason Frederick C. Beiser 1987 American English
801 The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie 1920 British English
370 The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2005 American English
14984 A Feast For Crows George R. R. Martin 2005 American English
390 The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett 1908 British English
1444 James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl 1961 British English
2057 Sixty Stories Donald Barthelme 1981 American English
82 The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil 1930 Austrian German
11838 In Bluebeard's Castle George Steiner 1971 British English
984 Tartuffe Molière 1664 French French
1346 Matilda Roald Dahl 1988 British English
856 Conversation in the Cathedral Mario Vargas Llosa 1969 Peruvian Spanish
2354 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Dai Sijie 2000 Chinese French
14984 A Dance With Dragons George R. R. Martin 2011 American English
5755 Blue Highways William Least Heat-Moon 1982 American English
1309 Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand 1897 French French
2052 The Misanthrope Molière 1666 French French
2639 Fatherland Robert Harris 1992 British English
17131 Evil In Modern Thought Susan Neiman 2002 American English
191 And Then There Were None Agatha Christie 1939 British English
454 The Sea, The Sea Iris Murdoch 1978 British English
3617 The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe 1979 American English
10164 A River Sutra Gita Mehta 1993 Indian English