5000 BEST BOOKS

Year from to
 
RankScoreTitle (Year)LinksWriter
101.7.9Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940)GR  AM  KBCarson McCullers
102.7.9Harry Potter (1997)GR  AM  KBJ.K. Rowling
103.7.9Tropic of Cancer (1934)GR  AM  KBHenry Miller
104.7.8IliadGR  AM  KBHomer
105.7.8Watership DownGR  AM  KBRichard Adams
106.7.8Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)GR  AM  KBZora Neale Hurston
107.7.8Where the Wild Things Are (1963)GR  AM  KBMaurice Sendak
108.7.8Room With a View (1908)GR  AM  KBE.M. Forster
109.7.8Charlotte's Web (1952)GR  AM  KBE.B. White
110.7.8Green Eggs and Ham (1988)GR  AM  KBDr. Seuss
111.7.8Under the VolcanoGR  AM  KBMalcolm Lowry
112.7.8A Song of Ice and Fire (1996)GR  AM  KBGeorge R.R. Martin
113.7.8Oliver Twist (1837)GR  AM  KBCharles Dickens
114.7.8Blindness (1995)GR  AM  KBJose Saramago
115.7.8In Search of Lost Time (1927)GR  AM  KBMarcel Proust
116.7.8Passage to India (1924)GR  AM  KBE.M. Forster
117.7.8The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999)GR  AM  KBStephen Chbosky
118.7.8The Secret Garden (1911)GR  AM  KBFrances Hodgson Burnett
119.7.8The Lorax (1971)GR  AM  KBDr. Seuss
120.7.8The Pillars of the Earth (1989)GR  AM  KBKen Follett
121.7.8The Wind in the Willows (1908)GR  AM  KBKenneth Grahame
122.7.8The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)GR  AM  KBMilan Kundera
123.7.8The Chronicles of NarniaGR  AM  KBC.S. Lewis
124.7.8The Help (2009)GR  AM  KBKathryn Stockett
125.7.8Matilda (1988)GR  AM  KBRoald Dahl
126.7.8Black Beauty (1877)GR  AM  KBAnna Sewell
127.7.8House of Leaves (2000)GR  AM  KBMark Z. Danielewski
128.7.8Bell Jar (1963)GR  AM  KBSylvia Plath
129.7.8Watchmen (1987)GR  AM  KBAlan Moore
130.7.8Gravity's Rainbow (1973)GR  AM  KBThomas Pynchon
131.7.8Treasure Island (1883)GR  AM  KBRobert Louis Stevenson
132.7.8Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)GR  AM  KBRoald Dahl
133.7.8The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)GR  AM  KBArthur Conan Doyle
134.7.8American Gods (2001)GR  AM  KBNeil Gaiman
135.7.8Sophie's Choice (1979)GR  AM  KBWilliam Styron
136.7.8The Magus (1977)GR  AM  KBJohn Fowles
137.7.8Flowers for Algernon (1959)GR  AM  KBDaniel Keyes
138.7.8Schindler's List (1982)GR  AM  KBThomas Keneally
139.7.8Peter PanGR  AM  KBJ.M. Barrie
140.7.8It (1986)GR  AM  KBStephen King
141.7.8Tender Is the Night (1934)GR  AM  KBF. Scott Fitzgerald
142.7.8World War Z (2006)GR  AM  KBMax Brooks
143.7.8Life of Pi (2001)GR  AM  KBYann Martel
144.7.8Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)GR  AM  KBRobert A. Heinlein
145.7.8Dead SoulsGR  AM  KBNikolai Gogol
146.7.8Book of MormonGR  AM  KBThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
147.7.8American Tragedy (1925)GR  AM  KBTheodore Dreiser
148.7.8Moby-Dick (1851)GR  AM  KBHerman Melville
149.7.8Fullmetal AlchemistGR  AM  KBHiromu Arakawa
150.7.8A Christmas Carol (1843)GR  AM  KBCharles Dickens
151.7.8The Kingkiller Chronicle (2007)GR  AM  KBPatrick Rothfuss
152.7.8All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)GR  AM  KBErich Maria Remarque
153.7.7A Fine Balance (1995)GR  AM  KBRohinton Mistry
154.7.7Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)GR  AM  KBBaroness Orczy
155.7.7The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1969)GR  AM  KBEric Carle
156.7.7Bleak House (1853)GR  AM  KBCharles Dickens
157.7.7The Giving Tree (1964)GR  AM  KBShel Silverstein
158.7.7Howards End (1910)GR  AM  KBE.M. Forster
159.7.7Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)GR  AM  KBA.A. Milne
160.7.7Anne of Green Gables (1908)GR  AM  KBLucy Maud Montgomery
161.7.7The Heroes of Olympus (2010)GR  AM  KBRick Riordan
162.7.7His Dark MaterialsGR  AM  KBPhilip Pullman
163.7.7Fight Club (1996)GR  AM  KBChuck Palahniuk
164.7.7The Road (2006)GR  AM  KBCormac McCarthy
165.7.7MetamorphosesGR  AM  KBOvid
166.7.7Giver (1993)GR  AM  KBLois Lowry
167.7.7Looking for Alaska (2005)GR  AM  KBJohn Green
168.7.7The Day of the Jackal (1971)GR  AM  KBFrederick Forsyth
169.7.7Roots (1976)GR  AM  KBAlex Haley
170.7.7Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)GR  AM  KBThomas Hardy
171.7.7The Sheltering Sky (1949)GR  AM  KBPaul Bowles
172.7.7Dune (1965)GR  AM  KBFrank Herbert
173.7.7Waiting for GodotGR  AM  KBSamuel Beckett
174.7.7FaustGR  AM  KBJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
175.7.7The Thorn Birds (1977)GR  AM  KBColleen McCullough
176.7.7Good Omens (1990)GR  AM  KBTerry Pratchett
177.7.7Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)GR  AM  KBRobert Louis Stevenson
178.7.7Fifty Shades of Grey (2011)GR  AM  KBE.L. James
179.7.7The Red and the Black (1830)GR  AM  KBStendhal
180.7.7The Book Thief (2006)GR  AM  KBMarkus Zusak
181.7.7The Divine ComedyGR  AM  KBDante Alighieri
182.7.7Finnegans Wake (1939)GR  AM  KBJames Joyce
183.7.7Ficciones (1956)GR  AM  KBJorge Luis Borges
184.7.7Romeo and JulietGR  AM  KBWilliam Shakespeare
185.7.7Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)GR  AM  KBHarriet Beecher Stowe
186.7.7The God of Small Things (1997)GR  AM  KBArundhati Roy
187.7.7I, Claudius (1934)GR  AM  KBRobert Graves
188.7.7Atlas Shrugged (1957)GR  AM  KBAyn Rand
189.7.7Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)GR  AM  KBPhilip K. Dick
190.7.7The Green Mile (1996)GR  AM  KBStephen King
191.7.7The Shining (1977)GR  AM  KBStephen King
192.7.7AeneidGR  AM  KBVirgil
193.7.7The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994)GR  AM  KBHaruki Murakami
194.7.7Mansfield Park (1814)GR  AM  KBJane Austen
195.7.7Women in Love (1920)GR  AM  KBD.H. Lawrence
196.7.7Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)GR  AM  KBRobert M. Pirsig
197.7.7A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)GR  AM  KBKhaled Hosseini
198.7.7Cat in the Hat (1985)GR  AM  KBDr. Seuss
199.7.7Outsiders (1967)GR  AM  KBS.E. Hinton
200.7.6Zorba the Greek (1946)GR  AM  KBNikos Kazantzakis
 
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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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