5000 BEST BOOKS

Year from to
 
RankScoreTitle (Year)LinksWriter
1101.7.1How Green was My Valley (1939)GR  AM  KBRichard Llewellyn
1102.7.1The Leopard (1958)GR  AM  KBGiuseppi di Lampedusa
1103.7.1All Things Wise and WonderfulGR  AM  KBJames Herriot
1104.7.1The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1767)GR  AM  KBLaurence Sterne
1105.7.1ThoughtlessGR  AM  KBS.C. Stephens
1106.7.1Farner Boy (1933)GR  AM  KBLaura Ingalls Wilder
1107.7.1Crash (1973)GR  AM  KBJ.G. Ballard
1108.7.1The Richest Man in Babylon (1926)GR  AM  KBGeorge S. Clason
1109.7.1Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)GR  AM  KBGabriel Garcia Marquez
1110.7.1Shatter Me (2011)GR  AM  KBTahereh Mafi
1111.7.1The Children of Men (1992)GR  AM  KBP.D. James
1112.7.1The ImmortalsGR  AM  KBTamora Pierce
1113.7.1Guinness World Records (1955)GR  AM  KB
1114.7.1Eragon (2003)GR  AM  KBChristopher Paolini
1115.7.1The Doors of Perception (1954)GR  AM  KBAldous Huxley
1116.7.1The Guns of August (1962)GR  AM  KBBarbara Tuchman
1117.7.1Barchester Towers (1857)GR  AM  KBAnthony Trollope
1118.7.1DiaryGR  AM  KBSamuel Pepys
1119.7.1The Dead Zone (1979)GR  AM  KBStephen King
1120.7.1The Fall (1956)GR  AM  KBAlbert Camus
1121.7.1Princess Academy (2005)GR  AM  KBShannon Hale
1122.7.0Eats, Shoots & Leaves (2003)GR  AM  KBLynne Truss
1123.7.1Bel Canto (2001)GR  AM  KBAnn Patchett
1124.7.0Common Sense (1776)GR  AM  KBThomas Paine
1125.7.0The Communist Manifesto (1848)GR  AM  KBFriedrich Engels
1126.7.0Jaws (1973)GR  AM  KBPeter Benchley
1127.7.0Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave (1688)GR  AM  KBAphra Behn
1128.7.0Night Before ChristmasGR  AM  KBClement Clarke Moore
1129.7.0Taming of the ShrewGR  AM  KBWilliam Shakespeare
1130.7.0Peer GyntGR  AM  KBHenrik Ibsen
1131.7.0The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)GR  AM  KBAgatha Christie
1132.7.0Homage to Catalonia (1938)GR  AM  KBGeorge Orwell
1133.7.0Beautiful DarknessGR  AM  KBKami Garcia
1134.7.0Four Quartets (1943)GR  AM  KBT.S. Eliot
1135.7.0All Things Bright and BeautifulGR  AM  KBJames Herriot
1136.7.0The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009)GR  AM  KBStieg Larsson
1137.7.0Flatland (1884)GR  AM  KBEdwin A. Abbott
1138.7.0The Wettest County in the World (2008)GR  AM  KBMatt Bondurant
1139.7.0The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010)GR  AM  KBDavid Mitchell
1140.7.01776 (2005)GR  AM  KBDavid McCullough
1141.7.0Little Brother (2008)GR  AM  KBCory Doctorow
1142.7.0Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1995)GR  AM  KBKate Atkinson
1143.7.0Democracy in America (1840)GR  AM  KBAlexis de Tocqueville
1144.7.0The Prestige (1995)GR  AM  KBChristopher Priest
1145.7.0CausalityGR  AM  KB
1146.7.0Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)GR  AM  KBMark Twain
1147.7.0Cold Sassy Tree (1984)GR  AM  KBOlive Ann Burns
1148.7.0DemonicaGR  AM  KBLarissa Ione
1149.7.0Running with Scissors (2003)GR  AM  KBAugusten Burroughs
1150.7.0A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)GR  AM  KBVernor Vinge
1151.7.0Gates of Fire (1998)GR  AM  KBSteven Pressfield
1152.7.0Popol VuhGR  AM  KB
1153.7.0The Monk (1796)GR  AM  KBMatthew Lewis
1154.7.0Empire of the Sun (1984)GR  AM  KBJ.G. Ballard
1155.7.0Resident Evil (1998)GR  AM  KBS.D. Perry
1156.7.0NibelungenliedGR  AM  KB
1157.7.0Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)GR  AM  KBC.S. Lewis
1158.7.0Smiley's People (1979)GR  AM  KBJohn le Carre
1159.7.0The Rainbow (1915)GR  AM  KBD.H. Lawrence
1160.7.0Kokoro ConnectGR  AM  KB
1161.7.0DeterminismGR  AM  KB
1162.7.0Velveteen Rabbit (1922)GR  AM  KBMargery Williams Bianco
1163.7.0Elements of Style (1959)GR  AM  KBWilliam Strunk
1164.7.0Social Contract (1762)GR  AM  KBJean Jacques Rousseau
1165.7.0Lesson Before Dying (1993)GR  AM  KBErnest J. Gaines
1166.7.0LA Confidential (1990)GR  AM  KBJames Ellroy
1167.7.0Freak the Mighty (1993)GR  AM  KBRodman Philbrick
1168.7.0Momo (1973)GR  AM  KBMichael Ende
1169.7.0Book of Common PrayerGR  AM  KBChurch of England
1170.7.0Interpretation of Dreams (1899)GR  AM  KBSigmund Freud
1171.7.0Therese RaquinGR  AM  KBEmile Zola
1172.7.0Angels & Demons (2000)GR  AM  KBDan Brown
1173.7.0A Million Little Pieces (2003)GR  AM  KBJames Frey
1174.7.0300 (1998)GR  AM  KBFrank Miller
1175.7.0On Beauty (2005)GR  AM  KBZadie Smith
1176.7.0Perfect ChemistryGR  AM  KBSimone Elkeles
1177.7.0Born to RunGR  AM  KBChristopher McDougall
1178.7.0The Lost Symbol (2009)GR  AM  KBDan Brown
1179.7.0Before I Die (2007)GR  AM  KBJenny Downham
1180.7.0Inheritance (2011)GR  AM  KBChristopher Paolini
1181.7.0True Grit (1968)GR  AM  KBCharles Portis
1182.7.0Flags of Our Fathers (2000)GR  AM  KBJames Bradley
1183.7.0Before I Go to Sleep (2011)GR  AM  KBS.J. Watson
1184.7.0DilbertGR  AM  KBScott Adams
1185.7.0Oxford English Dictionary (1989)GR  AM  KBEdmund Weiner
1186.7.0The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 (1995)GR  AM  KBChristopher Paul Curtis
1187.7.0Emily of New Moon (1923)GR  AM  KBL.M. Montgomery
1188.7.0Last Battle (1956)GR  AM  KBC.S. Lewis
1189.7.0Living (1945)GR  AM  KBHenry Green
1190.7.0Band of BrothersGR  AM  KBStephen E. Ambrose
1191.7.0LuxGR  AM  KBJennifer L. Armentrout
1192.7.0Power GirlGR  AM  KB
1193.7.0Suttree (1979)GR  AM  KBCormac McCarthy
1194.7.0Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)GR  AM  KBJ.D. Salinger
1195.7.0Froth on the Daydream (1947)GR  AM  KBBoris Vian
1196.7.0Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)GR  AM  KBSir Arthur Conan Doyle
1197.7.0Kitchen God's Wife (1991)GR  AM  KBAmy Tan
1198.7.0The Wapshot Chronicle (1957)GR  AM  KBJohn Cheever
1199.7.0Sold (2006)GR  AM  KBPatricia McCormick
1200.7.0Martin Eden (1909)GR  AM  KBJack London
 
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5000 Best Books, by Arek Paterek (Twitter), 2012.
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