GREATEST BOOKS OF ALL TIME

1984

1984
ByGeorge Orwell

1949 • 5,483 Readers • 352 pages 4.2

Absalom, Absalom!

Absalom, Absalom!
ByWilliam Faulkner

1936 • 193 Readers • 305 pages 4

A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange
ByAnthony Burgess

1962 • 1,360 Readers • 149 pages 3.9

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1864 • 875 Readers • 132 pages 3.9

All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front
ByErich Maria Remarque,Arthur Wesley Wheen(Translator)

1928 • 812 Readers • 295 pages 4.1

Animal Farm

Animal Farm
ByGeorge Orwell,Boris Grabnar(Translator),+2 more

1945 • 3,892 Readers • 122 pages 4

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina
ByLeo Tolstoy,Richard Pevear(Translator),+1 more

1877 • 1,331 Readers • 1,480 pages 4

Antigone

Antigone
BySophocles,Don Taylor(Translator)

-441 • 227 Readers • 128 pages 3.6

A Passage to India

A Passage to India
ByE.M. Forster

1901 • 185 Readers • 376 pages 3.4

A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

198 • 428 Readers • 490 pages 3.6

As I Lay Dying

As I Lay Dying
ByWilliam Faulkner

1930 • 413 Readers • 231 pages 3.6

Beloved

Beloved
ByToni Morrison

1987 • 839 Readers • 362 pages 3.9

Bleak House

Bleak House
ByCharles Dickens

1852 • 244 Readers • 682 pages 4

Brave New World

Brave New World
ByAldous Huxley

1930 • 2,888 Readers • 332 pages 3.9

Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited
ByEvelyn Waugh

1930 • 296 Readers • 351 pages 3.8

Buddenbrooks

Buddenbrooks
ByThomas Mann

1901 • 94 Readers • 768 pages 4.1

Candide

Candide
ByVoltaire

1738 • 533 Readers • 208 pages 3.8

Catch-22

Catch-22
ByJoseph Heller

1961 • 1,543 Readers • 466 pages 4

Charlotte's Web

Charlotte's Web
ByE.B. White

874 Readers 3.9

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment
ByFyodor Dostoevsky,Richard Pevear(Translator),+1 more

19 • 1,952 Readers • 602 pages 4.3

David Copperfield

David Copperfield
ByCharles Dickens

1849 • 476 Readers • 68 pages 3.9

Dead Souls

Dead Souls
ByNikolai Gogol,Bernard Guilbert Guerney(Translator)

1842 • 244 Readers • 520 pages 3.8

Demons

Demons
ByFyodor Dostoevsky,Richard Pevear(Translator),+1 more

195 • 296 Readers • 768 pages 4.1

Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus
ByThomas Mann,H.T. Lowe-Porter(translator)

73 Readers 4.2

Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago
ByBoris Pasternak,Max Hayward(Translator),+1 more

1957 • 245 Readers • 594 pages 3.4

Don Quixote

Don Quixote
ByMiguel de Cervantes,Edith Grossman

1605 • 58 Readers • 996 pages 4.1

Dracula

Dracula
ByBram Stoker

1897 • 2,055 Readers • 410 pages 3.8

Dune

Dune
ByFrank Herbert

1965 • 4,471 Readers • 704 pages 4.3

Emma

Emma
ByJane Austen,Therezinha Monteiro Deutsch(Translator)

1815 • 1,050 Readers • 334 pages 4

Faust; translated into English verse, by Sir G. Lefevre

1841 • 228 pages

Ficciones

Ficciones
ByJorge Luis Borges,John Sturrock(Translator),+1 more

1944 • 307 Readers • 192 pages 4.2

For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls
ByErnest Hemingway

1940 • 519 Readers • 484 pages 3.8

Frankenstein

Frankenstein
ByMary Shelley

181 • 2,480 Readers • 353 pages 3.8

Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind
ByMargaret Mitchell

196 • 691 Readers • 976 pages 4

Great Expectations

Great Expectations
ByCharles Dickens

1860 • 926 Readers • 548 pages 3.5

Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels
ByJonathan Swift

198 • 427 Readers • 462 pages 3.5

Hamlet

Hamlet
ByWilliam Shakespeare,Millôr Fernandes(Translator)

1600 • 1,169 Readers • 508 pages 4

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness
ByJoseph Conrad

1899 • 955 Readers • 132 pages 3.3

In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood
ByTruman Capote

1959 • 833 Readers • 370 pages 4.1

Invisible Man

Invisible Man
ByRalph Ellison

503 Readers 3.8

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre
ByCharlotte Brontë

1847 • 1,864 Readers • 580 pages 4

Journey to the End of the Night

Journey to the End of the Night
ByLouis-Ferdinand Céline,Ralph Manheim(Translator)

1932 • 157 Readers • 509 pages 4.2

King Lear

King Lear
ByWilliam Shakespeare

1605 • 345 Readers • 284 pages 3.8

Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass
ByWalt Whitman

19 • 296 Readers • 1,008 pages 3.9

Le Rouge et le Noir

1830 • 163 Readers • 576 pages 3.3

Les Miserables

Les Miserables
ByVictor Hugo

1862 • 55 Readers • 1,468 pages 4.3

Little Women

Little Women
ByLouisa May Alcott

1848 • 1,478 Readers • 449 pages 3.9

Lolita

Lolita
ByVladimir Nabokov,Giulia Arborio Mella(Translator)

1954 • 1,506 Readers • 395 pages 3.9

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies
ByWilliam Golding

1854 • 2,607 Readers • 208 pages 3.6

Macbeth

Macbeth
ByWilliam Shakespeare

1606 • 1,008 Readers • 160 pages 3.9

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary
ByGustave Flaubert,Alan Russell(Translator)

1856 • 562 Readers • 368 pages 3.6

Memoirs of Hadrian

Memoirs of Hadrian
ByMarguerite Yourcenar

1951 • 119 Readers • 313 pages 4.1

Middlemarch

Middlemarch
ByGeorge Eliot

18 • 456 Readers • 810 pages 4.2

Midnight's Children

Midnight's Children
BySalman Rushdie

1981 • 428 Readers • 640 pages 4

Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick
ByHerman Melville

1851 • 1,037 Readers • 24h 50m 3.6

Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway
ByVirginia Woolf

1925 • 578 Readers • 282 pages 3.8

Native Son

Native Son
ByRichard Wright

1940 • 204 Readers • 624 pages 4

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

1962 • 233 Readers • 104 pages 3.9

One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude
ByGabriel García Márquez,Gregory Rabassa(Translator)

1967 • 1,685 Readers • 422 pages 4.1

On the Road

On the Road
ByJack Kerouac

1955 • 747 Readers • 254 pages 3.3

Orlando: A Biography

Orlando: A Biography
ByVirginia Woolf

1919 • 333 Readers • 350 pages 3.8

Pale Fire

Pale Fire
ByVladimir Nabokov

1945 • 354 Readers • 282 pages 4.3

Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost
ByJohn Milton

1667 • 501 Readers • 512 pages 3.6

Pedro Páramo

Pedro Páramo
ByJuan Rulfo,Douglas J. Weatherford(translator)

1955 • 240 Readers • 144 pages 3.9

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice
ByJane Austen

1811 • 2,629 Readers • 342 pages 4.2

Rabbit, Run

Rabbit, Run
ByJohn Updike

1960 • 125 Readers • 337 pages 3.6

Rābinsana Krūso dā britānta

Rābinsana Krūso dā britānta
ByDaniel Defoe,George Stade

19 • 417 Readers 3.4

Rebecca

Rebecca
ByDaphne du Maurier

1938 • 816 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe
ByDaniel Defoe

1719 • 61 Readers • 656 pages 3.3

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
ByRichard Pevear(Translator),Anton Chekhov,+1 more

1903 • 97 Readers • 496 pages 4.2

Sentimental Education

Sentimental Education
ByGustave Flaubert,Robert Baldick

1869 • 64 Readers • 436 pages 4.2

Silent Spring

Silent Spring
ByRachel Carson

1962 • 192 Readers • 347 pages 3.8

Slaughterhouse 5

Slaughterhouse 5
ByKurt Vonnegut

1968 • 2,282 Readers • 292 pages 4.1

Swann's Way - Remembrance of Things Past (À la recherche du temps perdu) - Book 1

1913 • 380 Readers • 444 pages 4.2

Tender is the Night

Tender is the Night
ByF. Scott Fitzgerald

1934 • 266 Readers • 336 pages 3.5

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

1891 • 391 Readers • 360 pages 3.7

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1876 • 1,235 Readers • 327 pages 3.6

The Aeneid

The Aeneid
ByVirgil,Robert Fitzgerald(Translator)

1990 • 201 Readers • 442 pages 3.7

The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence
ByEdith Wharton

1920 • 316 Readers • 388 pages 4

The Arabian Nights

The Arabian Nights
ByHusain Haddawy(Translator)

2010 • 187 Readers • 523 pages 3.8

The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar
BySylvia Plath

1963 • 1,614 Readers • 234 pages 3.9

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep
ByRaymond Chandler

1939 • 384 Readers • 155 pages 3.7

The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov
ByFyodor Dostoevsky,Andrew H. MacAndrew(Translator)

19 • 1,206 Readers • 796 pages 4.4

The Castle

The Castle
ByFranz Kafka,Mark Harman(Translator)

1922 • 245 Readers • 328 pages 3.9

The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye
ByJ. D. Salinger

1951 • 2,803 Readers • 288 pages 3.6

The Charterhouse of Parma

The Charterhouse of Parma
ByStendhal,Margaret Mauldon(Translator)

1839 • 52 Readers • 560 pages 3.5

The Color Purple

The Color Purple
ByAlice Walker

1976 • 912 Readers • 288 pages 4.2

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

1890 • 39 Readers • 770 pages 4.5

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

The Complete Sherlock Holmes
ByArthur Conan Doyle

379 Readers 4.5

The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

1849 • 282 Readers • 821 pages 4.4

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo
ByAlexandre Dumas

1830 • 1,694 Readers • 1,276 pages 4.3

The Decameron

The Decameron
ByGiovanni Boccaccio

1349 • 130 Readers • 418 pages 3.5

The Diary of a Young Girl

1944 • 1,526 Readers • 111 pages 4

The essays

The essays
ByMichel de Montaigne,M.A. Screech(Translator),+3 more

1973 • 93 Readers • 484 pages 3.6

The Golden Notebook

The Golden Notebook
ByDoris Lessing

1999 • 115 Readers • 676 pages 3.9

The Good Soldier

The Good Soldier
ByFord Madox Ford

1915 • 110 Readers 3.3

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath
ByJohn Steinbeck

1939 • 1,174 Readers • 496 pages 3.8

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
ByF. Scott Fitzgerald

1920 • 3,086 Readers • 180 pages 3.7

The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale
ByMargaret Atwood

1985 • 2,715 Readers • 324 pages 4.1

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

1940 • 232 Readers • 368 pages 3.7