The Great Books Podcast from John J. Miller

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

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The National Review , 327 Books

A wide variety of literary experts join John J. Miller to discuss some of the greatest books ever written (Miller's guests include scholars, literary critics, translators, and more!).

Since this is a podcast and there are 327 books mentioned and each episode has different guests, I am going to go with 327 total voters

This list was originally published in 2025 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
507 The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper 1826 American English
1050 Treatise on Radioactivity Marie Curie 1910 French French
79 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 1930 American English
811 The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux 1909 French French
866 The Black Spider Jeremias Gotthelf 1842 Swiss German
871 Wieland Charles Brockden Brown 1798 American English
3298 Personal Recollections Of Joan Of Arc Mark Twain 1896 American English
897 The Poems of Sappho Sappho -569 Greek Ancient greek
4890 Leaf By Niggle J. R. R. Tolkien 1945 British English
385 Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz 1895 Polish Polish
2392 The Blazing World Margaret Cavendish 1666 British English
4976 The Campaigns Of Alexander Arrian 1976 Greek Greek
495 Casino Royale Ian Fleming 1953 British English
1924 Stories of Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Gogol 1831 Russian Russian
1651 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1798 British English
1936 The Marble Faun Nathaniel Hawthorne 1860 American English
648 Summa Theologica Thomas Aquinas 1274 Italian Latin
4890 The Tragedy Of Mariam Elizabeth Cary 1613 British English
3292 The Dead Sea Scrolls Unknown -150 Multiple Hebrew, aramaic, greek
180 On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin 1859 British English
67 A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway 1929 American English
229 Watership Down Richard Adams 1972 British English
847 Der Judenstaat Theodor Herzl 1896 Austro-Hungarian German
1690 Till We Have Faces C. S. Lewis 1956 British English
218 The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1905 American English
1343 Matilda Roald Dahl 1988 British English
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
424 The Razor's Edge W. Somerset Maugham 1944 British English
4890 The Last Man Mary Shelley 1826 British English
26 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939 American English
819 Burmese Days George Orwell 1934 British English
3297 The Cocktail Party T. S. Eliot 1950 British English
2229 A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume 1739 British English
4890 The Redeemed Captive John Williams 1707 American English
3294 The Works Of Philodemus Philodemus -50 Greek Greek
105 Oedipus the King Sophocles -429 Greek Ancient greek
204 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro 1989 British English
816 The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia Samuel Johnson, Abraham Raimbach, Robert Smirke 1759 British English
5254 The Golden Key George MacDonald 1980 British English
88 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1890 Irish English
4890 On Occult Philosophy Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1531 German Latin
37 The Iliad Homer -750 Greek Ancient greek
2720 A Man For All Seasons Robert Bolt 1960 American English
1685 The Hearing Trumpet Leonora Carrington 1974 British English
2469 On Obligations Marcus Tullius Cicero -44 Roman Latin
984 Mythology Edith Hamilton 1942 American English
4890 The Poetry Of Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet 1867 American English
1318 God and Man at Yale William F. Buckley, Jr 1951 American English
4890 The Teachings Of Ptahhotep Ptahhotep -2400 Unknown Ancient egyptian
215 The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson 1959 American English
772 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym Edgar Allan Poe 1838 American English
644 Villette Charlotte Brontë 1853 British English
466 Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1876 British English
531 The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith 1776 Scottish English
853 Cane Jean Toomer 1923 American English
442 The Man Who Was Thursday G. K. Chesterton 1908 British English
241 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain 1876 American English
69 Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1719 British English
233 The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis 1950 British English
129 First Folio William Shakespeare 1623 British English
1242 The Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo 1300 Italian Old french
2688 The Book Of Margery Kempe Margery Kempe 1436 British Middle english
4890 Enūma Eliš Unknown -1100 Unknown Akkadian
4890 Titus Andronicus William Shakespeare 1594 British English
4890 The Poetry Of Enheduanna Enheduanna -2300 Unknown Sumerian
4890 The Discovery Of Freedom Rose Wilder Lane 1943 American English
2566 Apologia Pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1864 British English
199 The Radetzky March Joseph Roth 1932 Austrian German
930 Deliverance James Dickey 1970 American English
4890 Lord Of The World Robert Hugh Benson 1907 British English
682 The Adventures Of Pinocchio Carlo Collodi 1883 Italian Italian
4890 The Foxes Of Harrow Frank Yerby 1946 American English
260 Wings of the Dove Henry James 1902 American English
508 Black Beauty Anna Sewell 1877 British English
92 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 1920 American English
327 Household Tales Brothers Grimm 1812 German German
950 A Princess Of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912 American English
971 The Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1516 Italian Italian
4890 Rules Of Civility And Decent Behavior In Company And Conversation George Washington 1748 American English
1186 The Quest for Community Robert Nisbet 1953 American English
4890 Winter In Moscow Malcolm Muggeridge 1934 British English
10606 Collected Stories Constance Fenimore Woolson American English
109 The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 British Middle english
481 The Lusiad Luís Vaz Camões 1572 Portuguese Portuguese
2342 Bulfinch's Mythology Thomas Bulfinch 1855 British English
553 The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois 1903 American English
828 Lost Horizon James Hilton 1933 British English
1936 The Spectator Joseph Addison 1711 British English
806 The Book of the City of Ladies Christine De Pizan 1405 French French
317 The Poems of Robert Frost Robert Frost 1913 American English
335 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare 1597 British English
7000 Ancestral Shadows Russell Kirk 2004 American English
5272 Declare Tim Powers 2000 American English
1388 On The Orator Marcus Tullius Cicero -55 Roman Latin
719 The Professor's House Willa Cather 1925 American English
3295 Baburnama Zahir Uddin Muhammad Babur 1530 Baburnama Chagatai turkish
167 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark 1961 British, Scottish English
581 The Innocence of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1911 British English
344 Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1651 British English
157 Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys 1966 British English
118 Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1891 British English
309 Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe 1987 American English
63 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway 1926 American English
4890 Judith Unknown -150 Unknown Hebrew
9674 The Wordhord Hana Videen 2021 Unknown English
775 War with the Newts Karel Čapek 1936 Czech Czech
188 The Turn of the Screw Henry James 1898 American English
1349 William Tell Friedrich Schiller 1804 German German
392 Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis 1954 British English
6596 The Collected Strange Stories Of Robert Aickman Robert Aickman 1999 British English
1089 Shahnameh Ferdowsi 1010 Iranian Persian
2343 The Inheritors William Golding 1955 British English
459 Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville 1853 American English
138 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 1860 British English
657 Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner 1971 American English
2184 That Hideous Strength C. S. Lewis 1945 British English
2719 Perelandra C. S. Lewis 1943 British English
2598 Out Of The Silent Planet C. S. Lewis 1938 British English
4890 The Gates Ajar Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 1868 American English
2610 Book of Common Prayer Thomas Cranmer 1549 British English