Our Users' Top 100 Favorite Books of All Time

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The Top 100 Greatest Books determined by the users of this web site. If you would like to contribute add your favorite books to your "My Favorite Books" user list.

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This list was originally published in 2024 and was added to this site almost 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
6 Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell 1949 British English
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombian Spanish
11 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 Russian Russian
3 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 American English
18 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880 Russian Russian
8 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605 Spanish Spanish
17 The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1959 English English
16 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 American English
10 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1877 Russian Russian
7 Moby-Dick Herman Melville 1851 American English
14 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1955 American English
13 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813 British English
33 Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961 American English
12 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869 Russian Russian
4 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951 American English
26 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939 American English
29 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 1847 British English
22 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884 American English
39 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818 British English
1 Ulysses James Joyce 1922 Irish English
84 Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 1969 American English
87 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
15 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847 British English
38 Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1860 British English
23 The Stranger Albert Camus 1942 French French
20 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1857 French French
24 The Odyssey Homer -740 Greek Ancient greek
35 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
89 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1890 Irish English
21 The Trial Franz Kafka 1925 Czech German
50 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
55 Animal Farm George Orwell 1945 British English
146 The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien 1937 British English
54 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway 1952 American English
190 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 1979 British English
9 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 1929 American English
28 Middlemarch George Eliot 1871 British English
2 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust 1913 French French
37 The Iliad Homer -750 Greek Ancient greek
197 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy 1985 American English
71 Hamlet William Shakespeare 1600 British English
62 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway 1926 American English
49 Beloved Toni Morrison 1987 American English
30 The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
100 Dune Frank Herbert 1965 American English
45 Fictions Jorge Luis Borges 1944 Argentinian Spanish
52 Lord of the Flies William Golding 1954 British English
34 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 Russian Russian
36 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 1952 American English
31 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1899 British English
59 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier 1938 British English
27 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 1927 British English
109 In Cold Blood Truman Capote 1966 American English
40 Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1862 French French
102 Charlotte's Web E. B. White 1952 American English
93 Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1868 American English
64 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981 Indian English
53 Dracula Bram Stoker 1897 British English
67 A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway 1929 American English
150 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 1953 American English
66 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka 1915 Czech German
170 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 1937 American English
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
43 Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 1936 American English
68 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 1937 American English
58 Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1936 American English
74 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850 American English
155 Macbeth William Shakespeare 1606 British English
92 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 1920 American English
25 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann 1924 German German
44 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 French French
60 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 1958 Nigerian English
79 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 1930 American English
106 Oedipus the King Sophocles -429 Greek Ancient greek
80 Candide Voltaire 1759 French French
115 Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1883 British English
290 The Road Cormac McCarthy 2006 American English
98 The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1902 American English
57 The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869 Russian Russian
188 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1859 British English
205 The Complete Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1927 British English
86 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 1928 German German
157 The Color Purple Alice Walker 1982 American English
83 Emma Jane Austen 1815 British English
230 The Call of the Wild Jack London 1903 American English
41 On the Road Jack Kerouac 1957 American English
279 The Secret History Donna Tartt 1992 American English
153 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 1962 British English
97 For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway 1940 American English
114 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco 1980 Italian Italian
32 Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf 1925 British English
99 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera 1984 Czech Czech
108 Walden Henry David Thoreau 1854 American English
224 Watership Down Richard Adams 1972 British English
216 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1843 British English
314 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon 2000 American English
236 Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling 1997 British English
76 The Plague Albert Camus 1947 French French
473 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami 1994 Japanese Japanese
110 The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 British Middle english