5000 BEST BOOKS

Year from to
 
RankScoreTitle (Year)LinksWriter
201.7.6Trainspotting (1993)GR  AM  KBIrvine Welsh
202.7.6Time Machine (1895)GR  AM  KBH.G. Wells
203.7.6We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003)GR  AM  KBLionel Shriver
204.7.6MacbethGR  AM  KBWilliam Shakespeare
205.7.6The Things They CarriedGR  AM  KBTim O'Brien
206.7.6The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (2003)GR  AM  KBMark Haddon
207.7.6The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000)GR  AM  KBMichael Chabon
208.7.6Night (1956)GR  AM  KBElie Wiesel
209.7.6The Woman in White (1860)GR  AM  KBWilkie Collins
210.7.6Much Ado about NothingGR  AM  KBWilliam Shakespeare
211.7.6The Time Traveler's Wife (2003)GR  AM  KBAudrey Niffenegger
212.7.6Man's Search for Meaning (1946)GR  AM  KBViktor Emil Frankl
213.7.6Atonement (2001)GR  AM  KBIan McEwan
214.7.6In Cold Blood (1966)GR  AM  KBTruman Capote
215.7.6Breakfast of Champions (1973)GR  AM  KBKurt Vonnegut
216.7.6Fairy talesGR  AM  KBHans Christian Andersen
217.7.6Perfume (1985)GR  AM  KBPatrick Suskind
218.7.6V for Vendetta (1989)GR  AM  KB
219.7.6Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)GR  AM  KBJules Verne
220.7.6Huckleberry FinnGR  AM  KBMark Twain
221.7.6The Tin Drum (1959)GR  AM  KBGunter Grass
222.7.6The BFG (1982)GR  AM  KBRoald Dahl
223.7.6How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1985)GR  AM  KBDr. Seuss
224.7.6Candide (1759)GR  AM  KBVoltaire
225.7.6Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)GR  AM  KBD.H. Lawrence
226.7.6Fountainhead (1943)GR  AM  KBAyn Rand
227.7.6Nostromo (1904)GR  AM  KBJoseph Conrad
228.7.6Little Princess (1905)GR  AM  KBFrances Hodgson Burnett
229.7.6Holes (1998)GR  AM  KBLouis Sachar
230.7.6Mere Christianity (1952)GR  AM  KBC.S. Lewis
231.7.6Phantom Tollbooth (1961)GR  AM  KBNorton Juster
232.7.6David Copperfield (1850)GR  AM  KBCharles Dickens
233.7.6Goodnight Moon (1947)GR  AM  KBMargaret Wise Brown
234.7.6The Man in the High Castle (1962)GR  AM  KBPhilip K. Dick
235.7.6Time to Kill (1989)GR  AM  KBJohn Grisham
236.7.6Steppenwolf (1927)GR  AM  KBHermann Hesse
237.7.6Cryptonomicon (1999)GR  AM  KBNeil Stephenson
238.7.6The Remains of the Day (1989)GR  AM  KBKazuo Ishiguro
239.7.6Norwegian Wood (1987)GR  AM  KBHaruki Murakami
240.7.6The Canterbury TalesGR  AM  KBGeoffrey Chaucer
241.7.6James and the Giant Peach (1961)GR  AM  KBRoald Dahl
242.7.6Dubliners (1914)GR  AM  KBJames Joyce
243.7.6Doctor Zhivago (1957)GR  AM  KBBoris Pasternak
244.7.6Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943)GR  AM  KBBetty Smith
245.7.6Memoirs of a Geisha (1997)GR  AM  KBArthur Golden
246.7.6Essential RumiGR  AM  KBRumi
247.7.6Buddenbrooks (1901)GR  AM  KBThomas Mann
248.7.6Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)GR  AM  KBThomas Hardy
249.7.6Hiding Place (1971)GR  AM  KBCorrie Ten Boom
250.7.6The Princess Bride (1973)GR  AM  KBWilliam Goldman
251.7.6All the King's Men (1946)GR  AM  KBRobert Penn Warren
252.7.6The Maltese Falcon (1930)GR  AM  KBDashiell Hammett
253.7.6The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)GR  AM  KBMark Twain
254.7.6Ouran High School Host ClubGR  AM  KBBisco Hatori
255.7.6Plague (1947)GR  AM  KBAlbert Camus
256.7.6Jurassic Park (1990)GR  AM  KBMichael Crichton
257.7.6The Stormlight ArchiveGR  AM  KBBrandon Sanderson
258.7.6Shogun (1975)GR  AM  KBJames Clavell
259.7.6A Town Like Alice (1950)GR  AM  KBNevil Shute
260.7.6Ambassadors (1903)GR  AM  KBHenry James
261.7.6Blood Meridian (1985)GR  AM  KBCormac McCarthy
262.7.6No Country for Old Men (2005)GR  AM  KBCormac McCarthy
263.7.6The Castle (1926)GR  AM  KBFranz Kafka
264.7.6Phantom of the Opera (1910)GR  AM  KBGaston Leroux
265.7.6Middlesex (2002)GR  AM  KBJeffrey Eugenides
266.7.6The Book of the New Sun (1994)GR  AM  KBGene Wolfe
267.7.6Vanity Fair (1848)GR  AM  KBWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
268.7.6HeidiGR  AM  KBJohanna Spyri
269.7.6Bluest Eye (1970)GR  AM  KBToni Morrison
270.7.6SeabiscuitGR  AM  KBLaura Hillenbrand
271.7.6Pippi Longstocking (1945)GR  AM  KBAstrid Lindgren
272.7.6The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)GR  AM  KBJohn Fowles
273.7.6North and South (1855)GR  AM  KBElizabeth Gaskell
274.7.6Percy Jackson & the Olympians (2005)GR  AM  KBRick Riordan
275.7.6GilgameshGR  AM  KB
276.7.6The Infernal DevicesGR  AM  KBCassandra Clare
277.7.6Millennium seriesGR  AM  KBStieg Larsson
278.7.6Cat's Cradle (1963)GR  AM  KBKurt Vonnegut
279.7.6Northanger Abbey (1817)GR  AM  KBJane Austen
280.7.6The Secret History (1992)GR  AM  KBDonna Tartt
281.7.5Screwtape Letters (1942)GR  AM  KBC.S. Lewis
282.7.5Twelfth NightGR  AM  KBWilliam Shakespeare
283.7.5The World According to Garp (1978)GR  AM  KBJohn Irving
284.7.5A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)GR  AM  KBJohn Kennedy Toole
285.7.5Birdsong (1993)GR  AM  KBSebastian Faulks
286.7.5Dandelion Wine (1957)GR  AM  KBRay Bradbury
287.7.5Light in August (1932)GR  AM  KBWilliam Faulkner
288.7.5The Glass Castle (2005)GR  AM  KBJeannette Walls
289.7.5People's History of the United States (2010)GR  AM  KBHoward Zinn
290.7.5LambGR  AM  KBChristopher Moore
291.7.5Water for Elephants (2006)GR  AM  KBSara Gruen
292.7.5Moneyball (2003)GR  AM  KBMichael Lewis
293.7.5Three Men in a Boat (1889)GR  AM  KBJerome K. Jerome
294.7.5Jungle (1906)GR  AM  KBUpton Sinclair
295.7.5The Forever War (1974)GR  AM  KBJoe Haldeman
296.7.5Le Pere GoriotGR  AM  KBHonore de Balzac
297.7.5Number the Stars (1989)GR  AM  KBLois Lowry
298.7.5Siddhartha (1951)GR  AM  KBHermann Hesse
299.7.5Streetcar Named DesireGR  AM  KBTennessee Williams
300.7.5Misery (1987)GR  AM  KBStephen King
 
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5000 Best Books, by Arek Paterek (Twitter), 2012.
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