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
344 The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1915 British English
6 Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell 1949 British English
713 The Killer Angels Michael Shaara 1974 American English
2501 Popol Vuh Dennis Tedlock 1985 Mayan K'iche'
425 Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1811 British English
73 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James 1881 American English
2568 The Idea Of A University John Henry Newman 1852 British English
39 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818 British English
299 Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset 1920 Norwegian Norwegian
4899 King John William Shakespeare 1700 British English
16 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 American English
3174 My Early Life Winston Churchill 1930 British English
203 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 1980 American English
40 Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1862 French French
712 A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1889 American English
4899 The Theory Of Moral Sentiments Adam Smith 1759 Scottish English
8 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605 Spanish Spanish
1453 The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury 1950 American English
601 The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1851 American English
2014 A Journal Of The Plague Year Daniel Defoe 1722 British English
208 A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor 1953 American English
1041 On War Carl Von Clausewitz 1832 German German
391 Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather 1927 American English
30 The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
346 The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole 1764 British English
983 A Study In Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle 1887 British English
1528 The Consolation of Philosophy Boethius 524 Roman Latin
2612 Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant U. S. Grant 1885 American English
297 Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott 1819 British English
932 The Clouds Aristophanes -423 Greek Ancient greek
156 Poems of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson 1890 American English
149 All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren 1946 American English
218 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 British English
7011 Green Tea Sheridan Le Fanu 2004 Irish English
93 Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1868 American English
515 Lives of the Artists Giorgio Vasari 1550 Italian Italian
1248 The Conservative Mind Russell Kirk 1953 American English
1109 Othello William Shakespeare 1603 British English
182 The Moviegoer Walker Percy 1961 American English
740 Silence Shūsaku Endō 1966 Japanese Japanese
50 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
142 The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett 1930 American English
313 Meditations Marcus Aurelius 161 Roman Greek
377 The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams 1907 American English
133 Confessions Augustine 397 Roman Latin
596 The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides -410 Greek Ancient greek
1143 Tevye The Dairyman And The Railroad Stories Sholem Aleichem 1894 Jewish Yiddish
3 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 American English
693 Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder 1935 American English
24 The Odyssey Homer -740 Greek Ancient greek
111 The Waste Land T. S. Eliot 1922 British English
46 One Thousand and One Nights Unknown 800 Multiple Arabic
689 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin 1791 American English
28 Middlemarch George Eliot 1871 British English
150 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 1953 American English
108 Walden Henry David Thoreau 1854 American English
3298 The Gallic War And Other Writings Gaius Julius Caesar -58 Roman Latin
1290 Lilith George MacDonald 1895 Scottish English
590 Northanger Abbey Jane Austen 1817 British English
627 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe 1604 British English
2449 Henry V William Shakespeare 1600 British English
119 The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
639 Reflections on the Revolution in France Edmund Burke 1790 British English
1150 Witness Whittaker Chambers 1952 American English
1402 The Seagull Anton Chekhov 1896 Russian Russian
184 Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 American English
70 The Aeneid Virgil -19 Roman Latin
404 The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay 1787 American English
160 My Antonia Willa Cather 1918 American English
2614 The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare 1600 British English
29 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 1847 British English
216 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1843 British English
290 The Road Cormac McCarthy 2006 American English
18 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880 Russian Russian
913 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1845 American English
65 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1726 British English
22 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884 American English
1459 The City of God Augustine 413 Roman Latin
285 Oresteia Aeschylus -458 Greek Ancient greek
206 The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 Russian Russian
2121 Julius Caesar William Shakespeare 1623 British English
669 Beowulf Unknown 1000 Unknown Old english
127 Paradise Lost John Milton 1667 British English
1642 Song Of Myself Walt Whitman 1855 American English
783 Anabasis Xenophon -390 Greek Ancient greek
13 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813 British English
155 Macbeth William Shakespeare 1606 British English