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Top 100 classics & literature books of all time

The top 100 classics & literature books of all time, ranked by everyone, one head-to-head pick at a time.

  1. Odyssey Homer · 8th century BC
  2. Iliad Homer · 8th century BC
  3. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell · 1948
  4. Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare · 1590
  5. One Thousand and One Nights various authors · 9th century
  6. Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes · 1605
  7. Beowulf Anonymous · c. 1000
  8. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll · 1862
  9. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen · 1813
  10. The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri · 1320
  11. The Little Mermaid Hans Christian Andersen · 1837
  12. Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1865
  13. Dream of the Red Chamber Cao Xueqin · 1791
  14. Hamlet William Shakespeare · 1602
  15. Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë · 1847
  16. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov · 1955
  17. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez · 1967
  18. Aeneid Virgil · 29–19 BC
  19. Ulysses James Joyce · 1922
  20. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1878
  21. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925
  22. The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 1943
  23. King Lear William Shakespeare · 1606
  24. A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens · 1859
  25. The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer · 1387
  26. The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger · 1951
  27. Moby-Dick Herman Melville · 1850
  28. Othello William Shakespeare · 1604
  29. Julius Caesar William Shakespeare · 1599
  30. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas · 1844
  31. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee · 1960
  32. Paradise Lost John Milton · 1667
  33. East of Eden John Steinbeck · 1952
  34. A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens · 1843
  35. Les Misérables Victor Hugo · 1862
  36. The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio · 1351
  37. Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë · 1847
  38. The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas · 1844
  39. Shahnameh Ferdowsi · 1000
  40. The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu · 1010
  41. Kalevala Elias Lönnrot · 1835
  42. The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini · 2003
  43. The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka · 1912
  44. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe · 1719
  45. The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1867
  46. Macbeth William Shakespeare · 1606
  47. Aesop's Fables Aesop · 6th century BC
  48. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury · 1951
  49. The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway · 1952
  50. The Trial Franz Kafka · 1925
  51. The Stranger Albert Camus · 1940
  52. Metamorphoses Ovid · 8 AD
  53. Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808
  54. In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust · 2000
  55. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy · 1873
  56. Brave New World Aldous Huxley · 1932
  57. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert · 1856
  58. Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell · 1936
  59. Poetic Edda Sæmundr fróði · 1260
  60. War and Peace Leo Tolstoy · 1869
  61. Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen · 1811
  62. The Republic Plato · c. 375 BC
  63. A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare · 1595
  64. Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett · 1949
  65. Candide Voltaire · 1759
  66. Lord of the Flies William Golding · 1954
  67. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Pearl poet · 1301
  68. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck · 1939
  69. Great Expectations Charles Dickens · 1860
  70. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick · 1968
  71. White Nights Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1848
  72. The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper · 1824
  73. Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare · 1599
  74. Analects anonymous · 5th century BC
  75. The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare · 1596
  76. I Ching Fuxi · 9th century BC
  77. Catch-22 Joseph Heller · 1961
  78. Les Fleurs du mal Charles Baudelaire · 1857
  79. David Copperfield Charles Dickens · 1849
  80. As You Like It William Shakespeare · 1599
  81. The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath · 1963
  82. The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway · 1926
  83. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe · 1958
  84. Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez · 1985
  85. A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams · 1947
  86. Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse · 1927
  87. Meditations Marcus Aurelius · 200
  88. The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov · 1928
  89. Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck · 1937
  90. Water Margin Shi Nai'an · 1400
  91. Inferno Dante Alighieri · 1304
  92. Mansfield Park Jane Austen · 1814
  93. Demian Hermann Hesse · 1919
  94. Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1852
  95. The Fountainhead Ayn Rand · 1943
  96. Nibelungenlied Anonymous · 1200
  97. Enûma Eliš Anonymous · c. 1100 BC
  98. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms Luo Guanzhong · 1350
  99. A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway · 1929
  100. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Anonymous · 9th century

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