GREATEST BOOKS OF ALL TIME

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version

1611 • 250 Readers • 1,243 pages 3.7

The Hound of the Baskervilles

#5 of 39 in Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Baskervilles
ByArthur Conan Doyle

1900 • 660 Readers • 256 pages 4.2

The Idiot

The Idiot
ByFyodor Dostoevsky

1867 • 823 Readers • 692 pages 4.1

The Illiad

The Illiad
ByHomer

-800 • 39 Readers • 556 pages 4

The Inferno

#1 of 3 in La Divina Commedia

The Inferno
ByNicholas Kilmer(Translator),Dante Alighieri

1320 • 615 Readers • 241 pages 4

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God
ByZora Neale Hurston

1937 • 727 Readers • 260 pages 3.9

The Leopard

The Leopard
ByGiuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa,Archibald Colquhoun(Translator)

1958 • 146 Readers • 223 pages 3.9

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

1759 • 131 Readers • 308 pages 4

The Little Prince

The Little Prince
ByAntoine de Saint-Exupéry

1 • 2,474 Readers • 136 pages 4.2

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The Long Goodbye

#6 of 10 in Philip Marlowe

The Long Goodbye
ByRaymond Chandler

1953 • 162 Readers • 447 pages 4

The Lord of the Rings

#1-3 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings
ByJ.R.R. Tolkien

1954 • 1,909 Readers • 1,178 pages 4.5

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The Magic Mountain

The Magic Mountain
ByThomas Mann

1924 • 282 Readers • 752 pages 3.9

The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon
ByDashiell Hammett

1929 • 315 Readers • 165 pages 3.8

The Man Without Qualities

#1 of 3 in The Man Without Qualities

The Man Without Qualities
ByRobert Musil,Sophie Wilkins(Translator)

1930 • 104 Readers • 1,774 pages 4.5

The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita
ByMikhail Bulgakov,Katherine Tiernan O'Connor(Translator),+1 more

1918 • 1,217 Readers • 424 pages 4.2

The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis
ByFranz Kafka,David Wyllie(Translator)

1915 • 2,082 Readers • 106 pages 3.8

The Odyssey

The Odyssey
ByHomer,Robert Fagles(Translator)

-800 • 1,938 Readers • 541 pages 3.8

The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea
ByErnest Hemingway

1952 • 1,822 Readers • 127 pages 3.7

The Picture of Dorian Grey

1890 • 2,945 Readers • 186 pages 4.1

The Plague

The Plague
ByAlbert Camus,Robin Buss(Translator)

1942 • 837 Readers • 304 pages 4

The Portrait of a Lady

#1 of 2 in The Portrait of a Lady (2 volumes)

1881 • 208 Readers • 649 pages 3.7

The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings

1850 • 946 Readers • 443 pages 3.1

The Second Sex

#1 of 2 in Le deuxième sexe

The Second Sex
BySimone de Beauvoir

1949 • 342 Readers • 746 pages 3.9

The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury
ByWilliam Faulkner

1929 • 540 Readers • 274 pages 3.8

The Stranger

The Stranger
ByAlbert Camus,Matthew Ward(Translator)

1942 • 2,572 Readers • 134 pages 3.9

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises
ByErnest Hemingway

1926 • 839 Readers • 264 pages 3.6

The Talented Mr. Ripley / Ripley Under Ground / Ripley's Game

#1 of 5 in Ripley

1985 • 400 Readers • 906 pages 3.8

The Tale of Genji

#1-56 in 源氏物語

The Tale of Genji
ByMurasaki Shikibu

1001 • 185 Readers • 1,360 pages 3.4

The Three Musketeers

#1 of 2 in Les Trois Mousquetaires

The Three Musketeers
ByAlexandre Dumas

1844 • 41 Readers • 688 pages 3.9

The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus

#1 of 3 in The Theban Plays

-450 • 26 Readers • 430 pages 4.1

The Tin Drum

#1 of 3 in Die Danziger Trilogie

The Tin Drum
ByGünter Grass,Breon Mitchell(Translator)

1959 • 154 Readers • 592 pages 4.1

The Trial

The Trial
ByFranz Kafka,Willa Muir(Translator),+1 more

1925 • 1,124 Readers • 255 pages 3.9

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
ByMilan Kundera,Michael Henry Heim(Translator)

1980 • 948 Readers • 305 pages 3.9

The Wind in the Willows

2 Usborne Picture Storybook Classics

The Wind in the Willows
ByKenneth Grahame

1908 • 357 Readers • 256 pages 3.9

The Woman in White

The Woman in White
ByWilkie Collins

1859 • 399 Readers • 336 pages 4

Things Fall Apart

#1 of 3 in The African Trilogy

Things Fall Apart
ByChinua Achebe

1958 • 827 Readers • 185 pages 3.6

To Kill a Mockingbird

1960 • 4,371 Readers • 323 pages 4.2

To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse
ByVirginia Woolf

1925 • 736 Readers • 326 pages 3.8

Treasure Island

3 Les Classiques illustrés

Treasure Island
ByRobert Louis Stevenson

1847 • 930 Readers • 191 pages 3.7

Ulysses

Ulysses
ByJames Joyce

1920 • 808 Readers • 656 pages 3.8

Under the Volcano

Under the Volcano
ByMalcolm Lowry

1947 • 116 Readers • 363 pages 3.8

Vanity Fair

#1 of 2 in Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair
ByWilliam Makepeace Thackeray

1847 • 213 Readers • 922 pages 3.6

Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot
BySamuel Beckett

1952 • 491 Readers • 136 pages 3.8

Walden

Walden
ByHenry David Thoreau

1849 • 679 Readers • 538 pages 3.7

War and Peace

War and Peace
ByLeo Tolstoy,Marcy Kahan,+1 more

190 • 1,251 Readers • 838 pages 4.1

Wide Sargasso Sea

1966 • 337 Readers • 189 pages 3.4

Wuthering Heights

Continuum Contemporaries

Wuthering Heights
ByEmily Brontë

1847 • 2,074 Readers • 376 pages 3.6