The Best Books of All Time, as Chosen by the Good Housekeeping Team

This is one of the 743 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.

About this list

The Good Housekeeping team have all the picked their top read - the one they would happily read, again and again.

This list was originally published in 2020 and was added to this site over 2 years ago.

Rank	Book	Authors	Year	Country	Language
1789	A Little Life	Hanya Yanagihara	2015	American	English
12	Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	1813	British	English
7025	Bright Shiny Morning	James Frey	2008	American	English
3	The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1925	American	English
8371	Our Souls At Night	Kent Haruf	2015	American	English
4	The Catcher in the Rye	J. D. Salinger	1951	American	English
5248	Tiny Beautiful Things	Cheryl Strayed	2012	American	English
1209	Normal People	Sally Rooney	2018	Irish	English
397	His Dark Materials	Philip Pullman	1995	British	English
2119	Restoration	Rose Tremain	1989	British	English
2185	Veronika Decides to Die	Paulo Coelho	1998	Brazilian	Portuguese
7854	The Life Changing Magic Of Numbers	Bobby Seagull	2019	British	English
4877	The Crimson Petal And The White	Michel Faber	2002	British	English
15	Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë	1847	British	English
2676	Generation X	Douglas Coupland	1991	Canadian	English
1243	Down and Out in Paris and London	George Orwell	1933	British	English
2967	Tuesdays With Morrie	Mitch Albom	1997	American	English
138	The Woman in White	Wilkie Collins	1860	British	English
3312	Shantaram	Gregory David Roberts	2003	Australian	English
233	The Chronicles of Narnia	C. S. Lewis	1950	British	English