Our Users' Favorite Books of All Time

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
9905 The Demon Haunted World Carl Sagan 1995 American English
806 The Story of Art Ernest H. Gombrich 1950 British English
1910 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling 2003 British English
825 In Our Time Ernest Hemingway 1925 American English
2709 The Help Kathryn Stockett 2009 American English
6319 The Power Of Habit Charles Duhigg 2012 American English
17131 Sacred And Secular Ronald Inglehart, Pippa Norris 2004 American English
507 The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper 1826 American English
279 The Secret History Donna Tartt 1992 American English
1936 Ask The Dust John Fante 1939 American English
7105 Brother, I'm Dying Edwidge Danticat 2007 Haitian English
379 The Second World War Winston Churchill 1948 British English
2070 The Age of Reform Richard Hofstadter 1955 American English
228 Father Goriot Honoré de Balzac 1835 French French
511 Perfume Patrick Suskind 1985 German German
2731 The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer 1979 American English
4851 The American Political Tradition Richard Hofstadter 1948 American English
16490 The Iron Giant Ted Hughes 1968 British English
17131 War Before Civilization Lawrence H. Keeley 1996 American English
476 The Monk Matthew Lewis 1796 British English
7882 Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2020 Mexican English
991 Macunaíma Mario de Andrade 1928 Brazilian Portuguese
5988 Twelfth Night William Shakespeare 1602 British English
2476 The Last Battle C. S. Lewis 1956 British English
9594 The Gospel According To Jesus Christ José Saramago 1991 Portuguese Portuguese
514 Speak, Memory Vladimir Nabokov 1951 American English
1819 Carry On, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse 1925 British English
3807 Rousseau and Revolution Will Durant, Ariel Durant 1967 American English
893 Neuromancer William Gibson 1984 American, Canadian English
14984 Number The Stars Lois Lowry 1989 American English
2384 Don Segundo Sombra Ricardo Güiraldes 1926 Argentinian Spanish
748 Howl and Other Poems Allen Ginsberg 1956 American English
15825 A History Of Political Theory George Holland Sabine 1937 American English
17131 An Unfinished History Of The World Hugh Thomas 1979 British English
1265 On Writing Stephen King 2000 American English
147 Confessions of Zeno Italo Svevo 1923 Italian Italian
1377 Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 1964 British English
460 Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville 1853 American English
505 The Quran Unknown 610 Arabic Arabic
2006 The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter Unknown 900 Japanese Japanese
17131 The Social Construction Of What? Ian Hacking 1999 Canadian English
1174 As A Man Grows Older Italo Svevo 1898 Italian Italian
8224 The Lincoln Highway Amor Towles 2021 American English
2837 Facing Mount Kenya Jomo Kenyatta 1938 Kenyan English
2109 Oxford English Dictionary Oxford University Press 1884 British English
267 Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren 1945 Swedish Swedish
17131 The Shock Of The Old David Edgerton 2006 British English
169 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark 1961 British, Scottish English
2535 Into the Wild Jon Krakauer 1996 American English
17131 Doughnut Economics Kate Raworth 2017 British English
8715 Dark Star Safari Paul Theroux 2002 American English
705 Oroonoko Aphra Behn 1688 British English
786 The Far Pavilions Mary Margaret Kaye 1978 British English
2872 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Richard P. Feynman 1985 American English
240 Death in Venice Thomas Mann 1912 German German
129 First Folio William Shakespeare 1623 British English
2025 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden 1997 American English
17131 Persian Fire Tom Holland 2005 British English
794 The Royal Game Stefan Zweig 1941 Austrian German
1765 A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara 2015 American English
1035 Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov 1897 Russian Russian
793 The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut 1959 American English
2326 What a Carve Up! Jonathan Coe 1994 British English
17131 The Fall Of Rome Bryan Ward-Perkins 2005 British English
506 The Affluent Society John Kenneth Galbraith 1958 American English
1267 Billy Budd Herman Melville 1924 American English
2268 The Jewel In The Crown Paul Scott 1966 British English
14781 Return Of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1905 British English
1755 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J. K. Rowling 2005 British English
171 Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse 1927 German German
184 Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 American English
1925 The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Olaudah Equiano 1789 African English
911 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Max Weber 1905 German German
2974 Tuesdays With Morrie Mitch Albom 1997 American English
14204 High-Rise J. G. Ballard 1975 British English
5888 House With The Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1901 Scottish English
15889 Winds Of Doctrine George Santayana 1913 American English
2372 The Man Who Planted Trees Jean Giono 1953 French French
2666 The Mismeasure of Man Stephen Jay Gould 1981 American English
14984 Power Of Now Eckhart Tolle 1997 Canadian English
8547 Down Under Bill Bryson 2000 American English
2973 The White Tiger Aravind Adiga 2008 Indian English
357 At Swim Two-Birds Flann O'Brien 1939 Irish English
278 A Wizard Of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin 1968 American English
558 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Alexander Brown 1970 American English
641 Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding 1996 British English
17131 Stillness Speaks Eckhart Tolle 2003 German English
1445 Faceless Killers Henning Mankell 1991 Swedish Swedish
1201 Kafka On The Shore Haruki Murakami 2002 Japanese Japanese
17131 Ultrasociety Peter Turchin 2016 American English
2615 The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare 1600 British English
2586 A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn 1980 American English
1368 Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward 2011 American English
14984 Cash Johnny Cash 1997 American English
11159 The Dark Forest Cixin Liu 2008 Chinese Chinese
17131 The View From Nowhere Thomas Nagel 1986 American English
5890 Sartor Resartus Thomas Carlyle 1836 British English
650 The Flanders Road Claude Simon 1960 French French
3421 The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein 2007 Canadian English
1109 Othello William Shakespeare 1603 British English
432 Lost Illusions Honoré de Balzac 1837 French French
339 The Adventures of Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1837 British English
1118 Germany, a Winter Tale Heinrich Heine 1844 German German
2124 True Grit Charles Portis 1968 American English
11545 Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral Gabriela Mistral 1922 Chilean Spanish
2427 The Tiger Who Came to Tea Judith Kerr 1968 British English
1754 Changing Places David Lodge 1975 British English
1464 Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1855 British English
15878 Summer Lightning (Csa Word Classic) P. G. Wodehouse 1929 British English
674 Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1874 British English
9261 From Beirut to Jerusalem Thomas L. Friedman 1989 American English
17131 The Wise Heart Jack Kornfield 2008 American English
17131 Realism And Truth Michael Devitt 1991 American English
7005 The Girl With The Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier 1999 British English
1636 The Collector John Fowles 1963 British English
378 Melmoth the Wanderer Charles Robert Maturin 1820 British English
7733 Despair Vladimir Nabokov 1934 Russian Russian
14122 The Choice Dr. Edith Eva Eger 2017 American English
178 The Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire 1857 French French
1877 Cold Mountain Charles Frazier 1997 American English