The Great Books Podcast from John J. Miller

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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
1052 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
3304 Personal Recollections Of Joan Of Arc Mark Twain 1896 American English
900 The Poems of Sappho Sappho -569 Greek Ancient greek
4899 Leaf By Niggle J. R. R. Tolkien 1945 British English
385 Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz 1895 Polish Polish
2399 The Blazing World Margaret Cavendish 1666 British English
4986 The Campaigns Of Alexander Arrian 1976 Greek Greek
495 Casino Royale Ian Fleming 1953 British English
1927 Stories of Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Gogol 1831 Russian Russian
1652 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1798 British English
1939 The Marble Faun Nathaniel Hawthorne 1860 American English
653 Summa Theologica Thomas Aquinas 1274 Italian Latin
4899 The Tragedy Of Mariam Elizabeth Cary 1613 British English
3298 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
224 Watership Down Richard Adams 1972 British English
848 Der Judenstaat Theodor Herzl 1896 Austro-Hungarian German
1692 Till We Have Faces C. S. Lewis 1956 British English
217 The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1905 American English
1346 Matilda Roald Dahl 1988 British English
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
410 The Razor's Edge W. Somerset Maugham 1944 British English
4899 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
3303 The Cocktail Party T. S. Eliot 1950 British English
2239 A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume 1739 British English
4899 The Redeemed Captive John Williams 1707 American English
3300 The Works Of Philodemus Philodemus -50 Greek Greek
106 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
5263 The Golden Key George MacDonald 1980 British English
89 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1890 Irish English
4899 On Occult Philosophy Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1531 German Latin
37 The Iliad Homer -750 Greek Ancient greek
2724 A Man For All Seasons Robert Bolt 1960 American English
1687 The Hearing Trumpet Leonora Carrington 1974 British English
2474 On Obligations Marcus Tullius Cicero -44 Roman Latin
985 Mythology Edith Hamilton 1942 American English
4899 The Poetry Of Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet 1867 American English
1320 God and Man at Yale William F. Buckley, Jr 1951 American English
4899 The Teachings Of Ptahhotep Ptahhotep -2400 Unknown Ancient egyptian
215 The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson 1959 American English
773 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym Edgar Allan Poe 1838 American English
649 Villette Charlotte Brontë 1853 British English
468 Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1876 British English
531 The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith 1776 Scottish English
854 Cane Jean Toomer 1923 American English
444 The Man Who Was Thursday G. K. Chesterton 1908 British English
243 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain 1876 American English
69 Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1719 British English
234 The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis 1950 British English
129 First Folio William Shakespeare 1623 British English
1244 The Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo 1300 Italian Old french
2692 The Book Of Margery Kempe Margery Kempe 1436 British Middle english
4899 Enūma Eliš Unknown -1100 Unknown Akkadian
4899 Titus Andronicus William Shakespeare 1594 British English
4899 The Poetry Of Enheduanna Enheduanna -2300 Unknown Sumerian
4899 The Discovery Of Freedom Rose Wilder Lane 1943 American English
2569 Apologia Pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1864 British English
199 The Radetzky March Joseph Roth 1932 Austrian German
925 Deliverance James Dickey 1970 American English
4899 Lord Of The World Robert Hugh Benson 1907 British English
684 The Adventures Of Pinocchio Carlo Collodi 1883 Italian Italian
4899 The Foxes Of Harrow Frank Yerby 1946 American English
261 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
322 Household Tales Brothers Grimm 1812 German German
951 A Princess Of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912 American English
972 The Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1516 Italian Italian
4899 Rules Of Civility And Decent Behavior In Company And Conversation George Washington 1748 American English
1188 The Quest for Community Robert Nisbet 1953 American English
4899 Winter In Moscow Malcolm Muggeridge 1934 British English
10633 Collected Stories Constance Fenimore Woolson American English
110 The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 British Middle english
481 The Lusiad Luís Vaz Camões 1572 Portuguese Portuguese
2349 Bulfinch's Mythology Thomas Bulfinch 1855 British English
557 The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois 1903 American English
828 Lost Horizon James Hilton 1933 British English
1926 The Spectator Joseph Addison 1711 British English
807 The Book of the City of Ladies Christine De Pizan 1405 French French
317 The Poems of Robert Frost Robert Frost 1913 American English
337 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare 1597 British English
7011 Ancestral Shadows Russell Kirk 2004 American English
5281 Declare Tim Powers 2000 American English
1389 On The Orator Marcus Tullius Cicero -55 Roman Latin
720 The Professor's House Willa Cather 1925 American English
3301 Baburnama Zahir Uddin Muhammad Babur 1530 Baburnama Chagatai turkish
169 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark 1961 British, Scottish English
581 The Innocence of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1911 British English
345 Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1651 British English
158 Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys 1966 British English
117 Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1891 British English
310 Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe 1987 American English
62 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway 1926 American English
4899 Judith Unknown -150 Unknown Hebrew
9693 The Wordhord Hana Videen 2021 Unknown English
776 War with the Newts Karel Čapek 1936 Czech Czech
189 The Turn of the Screw Henry James 1898 American English
1353 William Tell Friedrich Schiller 1804 German German
392 Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis 1954 British English
6610 The Collected Strange Stories Of Robert Aickman Robert Aickman 1999 British English
1091 Shahnameh Ferdowsi 1010 Iranian Persian
2350 The Inheritors William Golding 1955 British English
460 Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville 1853 American English
139 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 1860 British English
658 Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner 1971 American English
2196 That Hideous Strength C. S. Lewis 1945 British English
2723 Perelandra C. S. Lewis 1943 British English
2601 Out Of The Silent Planet C. S. Lewis 1938 British English
4899 The Gates Ajar Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 1868 American English
2613 Book of Common Prayer Thomas Cranmer 1549 British English