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Top 100 books of all time

The greatest books ever written, ranked by everyone, one head-to-head pick at a time.

  1. Odyssey Homer · 8th century BC
  2. Iliad Homer · 8th century BC
  3. The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien · 1954
  4. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell · 1948
  5. Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare · 1590
  6. One Thousand and One Nights various authors · 9th century
  7. Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes · 1605
  8. Beowulf Anonymous · c. 1000
  9. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll · 1862
  10. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen · 1813
  11. The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri · 1320
  12. The Little Mermaid Hans Christian Andersen · 1837
  13. Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1865
  14. Dream of the Red Chamber Cao Xueqin · 1791
  15. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling · 1997
  16. Hamlet William Shakespeare · 1602
  17. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley · 1818
  18. The Prince Niccolò Machiavelli · 1532
  19. Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë · 1847
  20. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov · 1955
  21. Animal Farm George Orwell · 1945
  22. The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien · 1937
  23. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez · 1967
  24. The Art of War Sun Tzu · 5th century BC
  25. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Karl Marx · 1867
  26. Aeneid Virgil · 29–19 BC
  27. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde · 1890
  28. Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883
  29. The Alchemist Paulo Coelho · 1988
  30. Ulysses James Joyce · 1922
  31. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1878
  32. The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx · 1848
  33. Dune Frank Herbert · 1965
  34. The Stand Stephen King · 1978
  35. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925
  36. The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 1943
  37. King Lear William Shakespeare · 1606
  38. A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens · 1859
  39. The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer · 1387
  40. The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger · 1951
  41. Moby-Dick Herman Melville · 1850
  42. Encyclopædia Britannica Andrew Bell · 1768
  43. Othello William Shakespeare · 1604
  44. Julius Caesar William Shakespeare · 1599
  45. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas · 1844
  46. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J. K. Rowling · 1998
  47. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee · 1960
  48. Paradise Lost John Milton · 1667
  49. East of Eden John Steinbeck · 1952
  50. The Silmarillion J. R. R. Tolkien · 1977
  51. A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens · 1843
  52. Les Misérables Victor Hugo · 1862
  53. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne · 1869
  54. The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio · 1351
  55. Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë · 1847
  56. The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas · 1844
  57. Shahnameh Ferdowsi · 1000
  58. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J. K. Rowling · 2005
  59. The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu · 1010
  60. Kalevala Elias Lönnrot · 1835
  61. The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini · 2003
  62. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. K. Rowling · 2007
  63. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis · 1950
  64. The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka · 1912
  65. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe · 1719
  66. The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1867
  67. Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler · 1924
  68. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson · 2005
  69. Macbeth William Shakespeare · 1606
  70. The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1973
  71. Aesop's Fables Aesop · 6th century BC
  72. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury · 1951
  73. Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank · 1947
  74. The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway · 1952
  75. Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes · 1959
  76. Charlotte's Web E. B. White · 1952
  77. The Trial Franz Kafka · 1925
  78. The Stranger Albert Camus · 1940
  79. Leviathan Thomas Hobbes · 1651
  80. Metamorphoses Ovid · 8 AD
  81. Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche · 1883
  82. Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808
  83. In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust · 2000
  84. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson · 1885
  85. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy · 1873
  86. Brave New World Aldous Huxley · 1932
  87. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert · 1856
  88. Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell · 1936
  89. Man's Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl · 1946
  90. Poetic Edda Sæmundr fróði · 1260
  91. War and Peace Leo Tolstoy · 1869
  92. A Game of Thrones George R. R. Martin · 1996
  93. Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen · 1811
  94. The Republic Plato · c. 375 BC
  95. A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare · 1595
  96. Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett · 1949
  97. Candide Voltaire · 1759
  98. Lord of the Flies William Golding · 1954
  99. Project Hail Mary Andy Weir · 2021
  100. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Pearl poet · 1301

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