5000 BEST BOOKS

Year from to
 
RankScoreTitle (Year)LinksWriter
1.9.5Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)GR  AM  KBGeorge Orwell
2.9.0Lolita (1955)GR  AM  KBVladimir Nabokov
3.9.0Ulysses (1922)GR  AM  KBJames Joyce
4.9.0The Great Gatsby (1925)GR  AM  KBF. Scott Fitzgerald
5.9.0Midnight's Children (1981)GR  AM  KBSalman Rushdie
6.8.9Brave New World (1932)GR  AM  KBAldous Huxley
7.8.9The Sound and the Fury (1929)GR  AM  KBWilliam Faulkner
8.8.8The Lord of the Rings (1954)GR  AM  KBJ.R.R. Tolkien
9.8.8The Grapes of Wrath (1939)GR  AM  KBJohn Steinbeck
10.8.8Pride and Prejudice (1813)GR  AM  KBJane Austen
11.8.6Anna Karenina (1877)GR  AM  KBLeo Tolstoy
12.8.6Invisible Man (1952)GR  AM  KBRalph Ellison
13.8.6The Catcher in the Rye (1951)GR  AM  KBJ.D. Salinger
14.8.6Catch-22 (1961)GR  AM  KBJoseph Heller
15.8.6One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)GR  AM  KBGabriel Garcia Marquez
16.8.6Gone with the Wind (1936)GR  AM  KBMargaret Mitchell
17.8.5Clockwork Orange (1962)GR  AM  KBAnthony Burgess
18.8.5To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)GR  AM  KBHarper Lee
19.8.5The Hobbit (1937)GR  AM  KBJ.R.R. Tolkien
20.8.5Crime and Punishment (1866)GR  AM  KBFyodor Dostoyevsky
21.8.5The Little Prince (1943)GR  AM  KBAntoine de Saint-Exupery
22.8.5Les Miserables (1862)GR  AM  KBVictor Hugo
23.8.4To the Lighthouse (1927)GR  AM  KBVirginia Woolf
24.8.4On the Road (1957)GR  AM  KBJack Kerouac
25.8.4War and Peace (1869)GR  AM  KBLeo Tolstoy
26.8.4Beloved (1987)GR  AM  KBToni Morrison
27.8.3The Trial (1925)GR  AM  KBFranz Kafka
28.8.3Animal Farm (1945)GR  AM  KBGeorge Orwell
29.8.3The Brothers Karamazov (1880)GR  AM  KBFyodor Dostoyevsky
30.8.3Wuthering Heights (1847)GR  AM  KBEmily Bronte
31.8.3Lord of the Flies (1954)GR  AM  KBWilliam Golding
32.8.2Slaughterhouse Five (1969)GR  AM  KBKurt Vonnegut
33.8.2Great Expectations (1861)GR  AM  KBCharles Dickens
34.8.2The Master and Margarita (1973)GR  AM  KBMikhail Bulgakov
35.8.2The Stranger (1942)GR  AM  KBAlbert Camus
36.8.2Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)GR  AM  KBLewis Carroll
37.8.2Heart of Darkness (1899)GR  AM  KBJoseph Conrad
38.8.2Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)GR  AM  KBGabriel Garcia Marquez
39.8.2The Count of Monte Cristo (1845)GR  AM  KBAlexandre Dumas
40.8.2HamletGR  AM  KBWilliam Shakespeare
41.8.2Don Quixote (1605)GR  AM  KBMiguel de Cervantes
42.8.2Jane Eyre (1847)GR  AM  KBCharlotte Bronte
43.8.2East of Eden (1952)GR  AM  KBJohn Steinbeck
44.8.2One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)GR  AM  KBKen Kesey
45.8.1The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)GR  AM  KBOscar Wilde
46.8.1The Name of the Rose (1980)GR  AM  KBUmberto Eco
47.8.1The Handmaid's Tale (1985)GR  AM  KBMargaret Atwood
48.8.1Middlemarch (1874)GR  AM  KBGeorge Eliot
49.8.1The Idiot (1869)GR  AM  KBFyodor Dostoyevsky
50.8.1The Magic Mountain (1924)GR  AM  KBThomas Mann
51.8.1The Old Man and the Sea (1952)GR  AM  KBErnest Hemingway
52.8.1The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)GR  AM  KBDouglas Adams
53.8.1The Color Purple (1982)GR  AM  KBAlice Walker
54.8.1Dracula (1897)GR  AM  KBBram Stoker
55.8.1Fahrenheit 451 (1953)GR  AM  KBRay Bradbury
56.8.0Fairy Tales (1812)GR  AM  KBJacob and Wilhelm Grimm
57.8.0Native Son (1940)GR  AM  KBRichard Wright
58.8.0Infinite Jest (1996)GR  AM  KBDavid Foster Wallace
59.8.0American Psycho (1991)GR  AM  KBBret Easton Ellis
60.8.0For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)GR  AM  KBErnest Hemingway
61.8.0The Fault in Our Stars (2012)GR  AM  KBJohn Green
62.8.0And Then There Were None (1939)GR  AM  KBAgatha Christie
63.8.0Persuasion (1818)GR  AM  KBJane Austen
64.8.0Rebecca (1938)GR  AM  KBDaphne du Maurier
65.8.0The War of the Worlds (1898)GR  AM  KBH.G. Wells
66.8.0The Kite Runner (2003)GR  AM  KBKhaled Hosseini
67.8.0House of Mirth (1905)GR  AM  KBEdith Wharton
68.8.0Journey to the End of the Night (1932)GR  AM  KBLouis-Ferdinand Celine
69.8.0Of Mice and Men (1937)GR  AM  KBJohn Steinbeck
70.8.0Lonesome Dove (1985)GR  AM  KBLarry McMurtry
71.8.0Three Musketeers (1844)GR  AM  KBAlexandre Dumas
72.8.0Pale Fire (1989)GR  AM  KBVladimir Nabokov
73.8.0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1915)GR  AM  KBJames Joyce
74.8.0The Hunger Games (2008)GR  AM  KBSuzanne Collins
75.8.0Emma (1815)GR  AM  KBJane Austen
76.8.0The Godfather (1969)GR  AM  KBMario Puzo
77.7.9Call of the Wild (1903)GR  AM  KBJack London
78.7.9Sons and Lovers (1913)GR  AM  KBD.H. Lawrence
79.7.9A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)GR  AM  KBJohn Irving
80.7.9The Stand (1978)GR  AM  KBStephen King
81.7.9Little Women (1868)GR  AM  KBLouisa May Alcott
82.7.9Brideshead Revisited (1945)GR  AM  KBEvelyn Waugh
83.7.9Cloud Atlas (2004)GR  AM  KBDavid Mitchell
84.7.9Sense and Sensibility (1811)GR  AM  KBJane Austen
85.7.9Mrs Dalloway (1925)GR  AM  KBVirginia Woolf
86.7.9Diary of a Young Girl (1947)GR  AM  KBAnne Frank
87.7.9OthelloGR  AM  KBWilliam Shakespeare
88.7.9MausGR  AM  KBArt Spiegelman
89.7.9Absalom, Absalom! (1936)GR  AM  KBWilliam Faulkner
90.7.9King LearGR  AM  KBWilliam Shakespeare
91.7.9Of Human Bondage (1915)GR  AM  KBW. Somerset Maugham
92.7.9Madame Bovary (1857)GR  AM  KBGustave Flaubert
93.7.9Leaves of Grass (1855)GR  AM  KBWalt Whitman
94.7.9A Tale of Two Cities (1859)GR  AM  KBCharles Dickens
95.7.9As I Lay Dying (1930)GR  AM  KBWilliam Faulkner
96.7.9OdysseyGR  AM  KBHomer
97.7.9Gulliver's Travels (1726)GR  AM  KBJonathan Swift
98.7.9Frankenstein (1818)GR  AM  KBMary Shelley
99.7.9Things Fall Apart (1958)GR  AM  KBChinua Achebe
100.7.9Age of Innocence (1920)GR  AM  KBEdith Wharton
 
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5000 Best Books, by Arek Paterek (Twitter), 2012.
Scores are based mainly on Wikipedia, Goodreads and various top-lists.
 
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