5000 BEST BOOKS

Year from to
 
RankScoreTitle (Year)LinksWriter
1901.6.9The End (2006)GR  AM  KBDaniel Handler
1902.6.9Child of God (1973)GR  AM  KBCormac McCarthy
1903.6.9Nothing Lasts Forever (1979)GR  AM  KBRoderick Thorp
1904.6.9Dragon Rider (1997)GR  AM  KBCornelia Funke
1905.6.9The Puppet Masters (1951)GR  AM  KBRobert A. Heinlein
1906.6.9Arabian NightsGR  AM  KB
1907.6.9PenseesGR  AM  KBBlaise Pascal
1908.6.9PericlesGR  AM  KBWilliam Shakespeare
1909.6.9Superfudge (1980)GR  AM  KBJudy Blume
1910.6.9A Good Man in AfricaGR  AM  KBWilliam Boyd
1911.6.9The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)GR  AM  KBL. Frank Baum
1912.6.9Daughter of Fortune (1999)GR  AM  KBIsabel Allende
1913.6.9Nice Work (1988)GR  AM  KBDavid Lodge
1914.6.9My Cousin Rachel (1951)GR  AM  KBDaphne du Maurier
1915.6.9Hideous Kinky (1992)GR  AM  KBEsther Freud
1916.6.9Play It As It Lays (1970)GR  AM  KBJoan Didion
1917.6.9SacaramoucheGR  AM  KBRafael Sabatini
1918.6.9The Boys (2006)GR  AM  KB
1919.6.9The Story of Little Black Sambo (1899)GR  AM  KBHelen Bannerman
1920.6.9The Gruffalo (1999)GR  AM  KBJulia Donaldson
1921.6.9Arakawa Under the BridgeGR  AM  KB
1922.6.9Wicked Lovely (2007)GR  AM  KBMelissa Marr
1923.6.9Confessions of Zeno (1923)GR  AM  KBItalo Svevo
1924.6.9Red Pony (1937)GR  AM  KBJohn Steinbeck
1925.6.9Devil in a Blue Dress (1990)GR  AM  KBWalter Mosley
1926.6.9The History of Mr Polly (1910)GR  AM  KBH.G. Wells
1927.6.9Ruth (1853)GR  AM  KBElizabeth Gaskell
1928.6.9East LynneGR  AM  KBEllen Wood
1929.6.9Castle Rackrent (1800)GR  AM  KBMaria Edgeworth
1930.6.9The Machine-Gunners (1975)GR  AM  KBRobert Westall
1931.6.9The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? (1993)GR  AM  KBDick Teresi
1932.6.9The Devil's Dictionary (1911)GR  AM  KBAmbrose Bierce
1933.6.9A Hero of Our Time (1840)GR  AM  KBMikhail Lermontov
1934.6.9Boy Meets Boy (2003)GR  AM  KBDavid Levithan
1935.6.9The Boleyn Inheritance (2006)GR  AM  KBPhilippa Gregory
1936.6.9A Kestrel for a Knave (1968)GR  AM  KBBarry Hines
1937.6.9Independent People (1935)GR  AM  KBHalldor Laxness
1938.6.9Sounder (1969)GR  AM  KBWilliam Howard Armstrong
1939.6.9Lost Souls (1992)GR  AM  KBPoppy Z. Brite
1940.6.9Alpha FlightGR  AM  KB
1941.6.9Rant (2007)GR  AM  KBChuck Palahniuk
1942.6.9The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie (1999)GR  AM  KBThomas Fink
1943.6.9Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)GR  AM  KBRobert Burton
1944.6.9The Friends of Eddie CoyleGR  AM  KBGeorge V Higgins
1945.6.9Gorky Park (1981)GR  AM  KBMartin Cruz Smith
1946.6.9The Children of the New ForestGR  AM  KBFrederick Marryat
1947.6.9Batman and Robin (2009)GR  AM  KB
1948.6.92010: Odyssey Two (1982)GR  AM  KBArthur C. Clarke
1949.6.9Ghost HuntGR  AM  KB
1950.6.9The End of History and the Last Man (1992)GR  AM  KBFrancis Fukuyama
1951.6.9A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)GR  AM  KBWalter M. Miller
1952.6.9The Castafiore EmeraldGR  AM  KBGeorges Remi Herge
1953.6.9The Woman in Black (1983)GR  AM  KBSusan Hill
1954.6.9The MLA Style Manual (2008)GR  AM  KB
1955.6.9Eugene Francois VidocqGR  AM  KB
1956.6.9Olive Kitteridge (2008)GR  AM  KBElizabeth Strout
1957.6.9Richard IIGR  AM  KBWilliam Shakespeare
1958.6.9GoosebumpsGR  AM  KB
1959.6.9Venus in Furs (1870)GR  AM  KBLeopold von Sacher-Masoch
1960.6.9The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1922)GR  AM  KBF. Scott Fitzgerald
1961.6.9Lone Wolf and CubGR  AM  KB
1962.6.9The Mists of Avalon (1983)GR  AM  KBMarion Zimmer Bradley
1963.6.9Quotations from Chairman Mao (1964)GR  AM  KBMao Zedong
1964.6.9The Turner Diaries (1978)GR  AM  KBWilliam Luther Pierce
1965.6.9Birds of America (1838)GR  AM  KBJohn James Audubon
1966.6.9Institutes of the Christian ReligionGR  AM  KBJean Calvin
1967.6.9Pamela (1740)GR  AM  KBSamuel Richardson
1968.6.9Skellig (1998)GR  AM  KBDavid Almond
1969.6.9At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and WeptGR  AM  KBElizabeth Smart
1970.6.930 Days of Night (2002)GR  AM  KB
1971.6.9The Post-American World (2011)GR  AM  KBFareed Zakaria
1972.6.9HardcoverGR  AM  KB
1973.6.9The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (2006)GR  AM  KBMichael Lewis
1974.6.9Point Blanc (2001)GR  AM  KBAnthony Horowitz
1975.6.9Under Western Eyes (1911)GR  AM  KBJoseph Conrad
1976.6.9Rogue MaleGR  AM  KBGeoffrey Household
1977.6.9A Voyage to Arcturus (1920)GR  AM  KBDavid Lindsay
1978.6.9EnigmaGR  AM  KBRobert Harris
1979.6.9Call the Midwife (2007)GR  AM  KBJennifer Worth
1980.6.9First They Killed My Father (2000)GR  AM  KBLoung Ung
1981.6.9The Bone People (1984)GR  AM  KBKeri Hulme
1982.6.9Season of Migration to the North (1966)GR  AM  KBTayeb Salih
1983.6.9The Infinity Gauntlet (1991)GR  AM  KB
1984.6.9The Wave (1981)GR  AM  KBTodd Strasser
1985.6.9Witch and Wizard (2009)GR  AM  KBGabrielle Charbonnet
1986.6.9Brian's Hunt (1999)GR  AM  KBGary Paulsen
1987.6.9Titus Groan (1946)GR  AM  KBMervyn Peake
1988.6.9The Dark Phoenix Saga (1980)GR  AM  KB
1989.6.9Rules for Radicals (1971)GR  AM  KBSaul Alinsky
1990.6.9Eclipse (2007)GR  AM  KBStephenie Meyer
1991.6.9Rage (1977)GR  AM  KBRichard Bachman
1992.6.9XenotransplantationGR  AM  KB
1993.6.9Troilus and CriseydeGR  AM  KBGeoffrey Chaucer
1994.6.9The Return of the Soldier (1918)GR  AM  KBRebecca West
1995.6.9The Young Lions (1948)GR  AM  KBIrwin Shaw
1996.6.9The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980)GR  AM  KBDouglas Adams
1997.6.9Tatya Tope (1863)GR  AM  KBCaleb Wright
1998.6.9The Paperboy (1995)GR  AM  KBPete Dexter
1999.6.9X-FactorGR  AM  KB
2000.6.9The CliqueGR  AM  KBLisi Harrison
 
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5000 Best Books, by Arek Paterek (Twitter), 2012.
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