The 500 best books of all time from Culture Café users

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Culture Café, 498 Books

In October 2008, the Culture Café site asked Internet users to vote for their ten favorite books. After collecting 5,000 votes and listing more than 3,000 titles, here are the results of the 500 best chosen by Internet users of the site

Details on the method and classification

- A list of ten books was requested from Internet users, in order of preference of their favorite works (all genres, nationalities, and dates of publication). The votes were anonymous.
- Only the rankings containing the ten titles were counted. The votes containing fewer were automatically deleted by the software.
- The book arriving first in each ranking was awarded ten points, the second nine points, etc.
- The series of novels (Harry Potter, Dune, etc.) have been counted under the generic name of the complete series"

This list was originally published in 2008 and was added to this site over 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
1521 Cancer Ward Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1967 Russian Russian
9867 Novel With Cocaine M. Ageyev 1934 Russian Russian
11222 Éthiopiques Léopold Sédar Senghor 1956 Senegalese French
241 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain 1876 American English
184 Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 American English
3931 All The World's Mornings Pascal Quignard 1991 French French
1821 Small Lives Pierre Michon 1984 French French
10771 I'm Gone Jean Echenoz 1999 French French
9870 A Woman In Berlin Marta Hillers 1954 German German
166 Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald 1934 American English
153 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey 1962 American English
646 Manhattan Transfer John Dos Passos 1925 American English
293 The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1895 British English
510 Eugenie Grandet Honoré de Balzac 1833 French French
476 The Monk Matthew Lewis 1796 British English
30 Middlemarch George Eliot 1871 British English
204 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro 1989 British English
3800 The Miser Molière 1668 French French