Millennium Masterworks

This is one of the 759 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.

About this list

Over 1,300 people submitted nominations for the greatest works of art of the millennium. This was followed up with leading writers/experts assessing each nomination and explaining why they deserve to be considered masterpieces. The 50 works chosen were selected by the general public, but they seemed to also have been "confirmed" or validated by experts. This list only includes the books that are on the larger list.

This list was originally published in 2000 and was added to this site about 1 year ago.

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Rank	Book	Authors	Year	Country	Language
71	Hamlet	William Shakespeare	1600	British	English
131	King Lear	William Shakespeare	1608	British	English
180	On the Origin of Species	Charles Darwin	1859	British	English
19	The Bible	Unknown	-1400	Jewish	Hebrew, aramaic, greek
155	Macbeth	William Shakespeare	1606	British	English
12	War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy	1869	Russian	Russian
129	First Folio	William Shakespeare	1623	British	English
343	The Sonnets	William Shakespeare	1609	British	English
110	The Canterbury Tales	Geoffrey Chaucer	1400	British	Middle english
17	The Lord Of The Rings	J. R. R. Tolkien	1959	English	English
337	Romeo and Juliet	William Shakespeare	1597	British	English
127	Paradise Lost	John Milton	1667	British	English
30	The Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri	1308	Italian	Italian
13	Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	1813	British	English
111	The Waste Land	T. S. Eliot	1922	British	English
1	Ulysses	James Joyce	1922	Irish	English