The Greatest Books of All Time on Novela

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
78 A Passage to India E. M. Forster 1924 British English
242 The Godfather Mario Puzo 1969 American English
244 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith 1943 American English
251 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie 1926 British English
320 Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak 1963 American English
500 Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O'Connor 1965 American English
520 Mansfield Park Jane Austen 1814 British English
641 Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding 1996 British English
661 Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice 1976 American English
711 Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes 1959 American English
733 Arrow of God Chinua Achebe 1964 Nigerian English
738 The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan 1989 American English
983 A Study In Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle 1887 British English
1055 Story of Ferdinand Munro Leaf 1936 American English
1074 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 2003 American English
1129 The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri 2003 American English
1388 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins 2008 American English
1688 Carrie Stephen King 1974 American English
1710 The Club Dumas Arturo Pérez-Reverte 1993 Spanish Spanish
1812 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon 2003 British English
1912 World's End T. C. Boyle 1987 American English
1935 Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernières 1994 British English
2011 The Notebook Nicholas Sparks 1996 American English
2189 No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy 2005 American English
2427 Soul Mountain Xingjian Gao 1990 Chinese Chinese
2683 Twilight Stephenie Meyer 2005 American English
3317 The Kiss Quotient Helen Hoang 2018 Vietnamese English
4369 The Moor's Last Sigh Salman Rushdie 1995 British English
4766 The Abc Murders Agatha Christie 1936 British English
6418 The Bonesetter's Daughter Amy Tan 2001 American English
6462 Air Geoff Ryman 2005 British English
14985 The Enchantress of Florence Salman Rushdie 2008 British English