5000 BEST BOOKS

Year from to
 
RankScoreTitle (Year)LinksWriter
301.7.5Calvin and Hobbes (1993)GR  AM  KBBill Watterson
302.7.5I Am Legend (1954)GR  AM  KBRichard Matheson
303.7.5Tuesdays With Morrie (1997)GR  AM  KBMitch Albom
304.7.5MedeaGR  AM  KBEuripides
305.7.5The Witches (1983)GR  AM  KBRoald Dahl
306.7.5The Naked and the DeadGR  AM  KBNorman Mailer
307.7.5Where the Red Fern Grows (1961)GR  AM  KBWilson Rawls
308.7.5Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)GR  AM  KBHunter S. Thompson
309.7.5Robinson Crusoe (1719)GR  AM  KBDaniel Defoe
310.7.5Angela's Ashes (1996)GR  AM  KBFrank McCourt
311.7.5One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1963)GR  AM  KBAleksandr Solzhenitsyn
312.7.5Howl's Moving Castle (1986)GR  AM  KBDiana Wynne Jones
313.7.5Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)GR  AM  KBJames Baldwin
314.7.5Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974)GR  AM  KBJohn le Carre
315.7.5Silmarillion (1977)GR  AM  KBJ.R.R. Tolkien
316.7.5Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958)GR  AM  KBTruman Capote
317.7.5The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006)GR  AM  KBJohn Boyne
318.7.5I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsGR  AM  KBMaya Angelou
319.7.5High Fidelity (1995)GR  AM  KBNick Hornby
320.7.5Parade's End (1928)GR  AM  KBFord Madox Ford
321.7.5Kim (1901)GR  AM  KBRudyard Kipling
322.7.5Snow Crash (1992)GR  AM  KBNeal Stephenson
323.7.5WorksGR  AM  KBWilliam Shakespeare
324.7.5Song of Solomon (1977)GR  AM  KBToni Morrison
325.7.5Satanic Verses (1988)GR  AM  KBSalman Rushdie
326.7.5Ready Player One (2011)GR  AM  KBErnest Cline
327.7.5Starship Troopers (1959)GR  AM  KBRobert A. Heinlein
328.7.5MahabharataGR  AM  KBVyasa
329.7.5Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)GR  AM  KBJules Verne
330.7.5The Day of the Locust (1939)GR  AM  KBNathanael West
331.7.5The Day of the Triffids (1951)GR  AM  KBJohn Wyndham
332.7.5My Antonia (1918)GR  AM  KBWilla Cather
333.7.5Swiss Family Robinson (1812)GR  AM  KBJohann Wyss
334.7.5I Capture the Castle (1948)GR  AM  KBDodie Smith
335.7.5Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990)GR  AM  KBDr. Seuss
336.7.5Sirens of Titan (1959)GR  AM  KBKurt Vonnegut
337.7.5The Shawshank RedemptionGR  AM  KBStephen King
338.7.5The Golden Notebook (1962)GR  AM  KBDoris Lessing
339.7.5TempestGR  AM  KBWilliam Shakespeare
340.7.5Prophet (1923)GR  AM  KBKahlil Gibran
341.7.5Mary PoppinsGR  AM  KBP.L. Travers
342.7.5Everything is Illuminated (2002)GR  AM  KBJonathon Safran Foer
343.7.5The New York Trilogy (1987)GR  AM  KBPaul Auster
344.7.5The Host (2010)GR  AM  KBStephenie Meyer
345.7.5How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936)GR  AM  KBDale Carnegie
346.7.5Brief History of Time (1988)GR  AM  KBS.W. Hawking
347.7.5Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)GR  AM  KBJonathan Safran Foer
348.7.5One Thousand and One NightsGR  AM  KB
349.7.5Winesburg, Ohio (1919)GR  AM  KBSherwood Anderson
350.7.5Ivanhoe (1820)GR  AM  KBSir Walter Scott
351.7.5Farewell to Arms (1929)GR  AM  KBErnest Hemingway
352.7.5AwakeningGR  AM  KBKate Chopin
353.7.5Little HouseGR  AM  KBLaura Ingalls Wilder
354.7.5Fun Home (2006)GR  AM  KBAlison Bechdel
355.7.5USAGR  AM  KBJohn Dos Passos
356.7.5The Shadow of the Wind (2001)GR  AM  KBCarlos Ruiz Zafon
357.7.5RamayanaGR  AM  KBValmiki
358.7.5Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)GR  AM  KBMalcolm X
359.7.5The Alchemist (1986)GR  AM  KBPaulo Coelho
360.7.5The Power of One (1989)GR  AM  KBBryce Courtenay
361.7.5Aesop's FablesGR  AM  KBAesop
362.7.5The Virgin Suicides (1993)GR  AM  KBJeffrey Eugenides
363.7.5Darkness at Noon (1940)GR  AM  KBArthur Koestler
364.7.5Love You Forever (1986)GR  AM  KBRobert Munsch
365.7.5BatmanGR  AM  KB
366.7.5Story of Ferdinand (1936)GR  AM  KBMunro Leaf
367.7.5Scott Pilgrim (2010)GR  AM  KB
368.7.5Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)GR  AM  KBStephen R. Covey
369.7.5Divergent (2011)GR  AM  KBVeronica Roth
370.7.5Outliers (2008)GR  AM  KBMalcolm Gladwell
371.7.5Childhood's End (1953)GR  AM  KBArthur C. Clarke
372.7.5A Doll's HouseGR  AM  KBHenrik Ibsen
373.7.5Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831)GR  AM  KBVictor Hugo
374.7.5Thirteen Reasons Why (2007)GR  AM  KBJay Asher
375.7.5Polar Express (1985)GR  AM  KBChris Van Allsburg
376.7.4The DecameronGR  AM  KBGiovanni Boccaccio
377.7.5The Neverending Story (1979)GR  AM  KBMichael Ende
378.7.4Sun Also RisesGR  AM  KBErnest Hemingway
379.7.4Jungle Book (1894)GR  AM  KBRudyard Kipling
380.7.4Shantaram (2003)GR  AM  KBGregory David Roberts
381.7.4Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad DayGR  AM  KBJudith Viorst
382.7.4Light in the Attic (1981)GR  AM  KBShel Silverstein
383.7.4The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007)GR  AM  KBBrian Selznick
384.7.4Scarlet Letter (1850)GR  AM  KBNathaniel Hawthorne
385.7.4Jude the Obscure (1895)GR  AM  KBThomas Hardy
386.7.4Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NimhGR  AM  KBRobert C. O'Brien
387.7.4Ringworld (1970)GR  AM  KBLarry Niven
388.7.4The Discworld SeriesGR  AM  KBTerry Pratchett
389.7.4Redeeming Love (1991)GR  AM  KBFrancine Rivers
390.7.4The Shipping News (1993)GR  AM  KBE. Annie Proulx
391.7.4Like Water for ChocolateGR  AM  KBLaura Esquivel
392.7.4Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885)GR  AM  KBFriedrich Nietzsche
393.7.4Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)GR  AM  KBBeatrix Potter
394.7.4PersepolisGR  AM  KBMarjane Satrapi
395.7.4The Once and Future King (1958)GR  AM  KBT.H. White
396.7.4Little Dorrit (1857)GR  AM  KBCharles Dickens
397.7.4MythologyGR  AM  KBEdith Hamilton
398.7.4Gulag Archipelago (1973)GR  AM  KBAleksandr Solzhenitsyn
399.7.4Invisible Cities (1972)GR  AM  KBItalo Calvino
400.7.4The Walking Dead (2003)GR  AM  KBRobert Kirkman
 
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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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