5000 BEST BOOKS

Year from to
 
RankScoreTitle (Year)LinksWriter
401.7.4Hush, Hush (2009)GR  AM  KBBecca Fitzpatrick
402.7.4Bridge to Terabithia (1977)GR  AM  KBKatherine Paterson
403.7.4From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1967)GR  AM  KBE.L. Konigsburg
404.7.4Paradise Lost (1667)GR  AM  KBJohn Milton
405.7.4Moonstone (1868)GR  AM  KBWilkie Collins
406.7.4Adventures of Huckleberry FinnGR  AM  KBMark Twain
407.7.4Lovely Bones (2002)GR  AM  KBAlice Seybold
408.7.4Paper Towns (2008)GR  AM  KBJohn Green
409.7.4The Book of MormonGR  AM  KBJoseph Smith Jr.
410.7.4Underworld (1997)GR  AM  KBDon DeLillo
411.7.4Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974)GR  AM  KBShel Silverstein
412.7.4Battle Royale (1999)GR  AM  KBKoushun Takami
413.7.4The Haunting of Hill House (1959)GR  AM  KBShirley Jackson
414.7.4Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)GR  AM  KBAlan Paton
415.7.4Flowers of EvilGR  AM  KBCharles Baudelaire
416.7.4Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)GR  AM  KBJ.M. Coeztee
417.7.4The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)GR  AM  KBUrsula Le Guin
418.7.4Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782)GR  AM  KBPierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de Laclos
419.7.4Bridget Jones's Diary (1996)GR  AM  KBHelen Fielding
420.7.4Kane and Abel (1979)GR  AM  KBJeffrey Archer
421.7.4Martian Chronicles (1950)GR  AM  KBRay Bradbury
422.7.4Delirium (2011)GR  AM  KBLauren Oliver
423.7.4Borrowers (1952)GR  AM  KBMary Norton
424.7.4Origin of Species (1977)GR  AM  KBCharles Darwin
425.7.4Steve Jobs (2011)GR  AM  KBWalter Isaacson
426.7.4The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)GR  AM  KBThomas Hardy
427.7.4Killer Angels (1974)GR  AM  KBMichael Shaara
428.7.4The Poisonwood Bible (1998)GR  AM  KBBarbara Kingsolver
429.7.4Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997)GR  AM  KBJared Diamond
430.7.4Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)GR  AM  KBDee Alexander Brown
431.7.4Book of JobGR  AM  KBGod
432.7.4The Dark TowerGR  AM  KBStephen King
433.7.4Under the Dome (2009)GR  AM  KBStephen King
434.7.4The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966)GR  AM  KBRobert A. Heinlein
435.7.4Stories (1971)GR  AM  KBFranz Kafka
436.7.4Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)GR  AM  KBMark Twain
437.7.4Joy Luck Club (1989)GR  AM  KBAmy Tan
438.7.4The Sneetches and Other Stories (1989)GR  AM  KBDr. Seuss
439.7.4The Blind Assassin (2000)GR  AM  KBMargaret Atwood
440.7.4The Graveyard Book (2008)GR  AM  KBNeil Gaiman
441.7.4A Suitable Boy (1993)GR  AM  KBVikram Seth
442.7.4Sister Carrie (1900)GR  AM  KBTheodore Dreiser
443.7.4ConstitutionGR  AM  KBUnited States
444.7.4Notebook (1996)GR  AM  KBNicholas Sparks
445.7.4Silas MarnerGR  AM  KBGeorge Eliot
446.7.4The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006)GR  AM  KBMichael Pollan
447.7.4Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (1987)GR  AM  KBFannie Flagg
448.7.4Death NoteGR  AM  KBTsugumi Ohba
449.7.4The Last Song (2009)GR  AM  KBNicholas Sparks
450.7.4The Big Sleep (1939)GR  AM  KBRaymond Chandler
451.7.4Unwind (2007)GR  AM  KBNeal Shusterman
452.7.4A Walk to Remember (1999)GR  AM  KBNicholas Sparks
453.7.4RepublicGR  AM  KBPlato
454.7.4Little House in the Big Woods (1932)GR  AM  KBLaura Ingalls Wilder
455.7.4The Sandman (1996)GR  AM  KBNeil Gaiman
456.7.4Speak (1999)GR  AM  KBLaurie Halse Anderson
457.7.4The Selfish Gene (1976)GR  AM  KBRichard Dawkins
458.7.4Lorna Doone (1869)GR  AM  KBR.D. Blackmore
459.7.4The Far Pavilions (1978)GR  AM  KBM.M. Kaye
460.7.4Gargantua and PantagruelGR  AM  KBFrancois Rabelais
461.7.4The Maze Runner (2009)GR  AM  KBJames Dashner
462.7.4Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)GR  AM  KBTom Wolfe
463.7.4GlassGR  AM  KB
464.7.4House at Pooh Corner (1928)GR  AM  KBA.A. Milne
465.7.4Tawny ManGR  AM  KBRobin Hobb
466.7.4Kafka on the Shore (2002)GR  AM  KBHaruki Murakami
467.7.4Portrait of a Lady (1881)GR  AM  KBHenry James
468.7.4Good Earth (1931)GR  AM  KBPearl S. Buck
469.7.4Tuck Everlasting (1975)GR  AM  KBNatalie Babbitt
470.7.4Make Way for Ducklings (1941)GR  AM  KBRobert McCloskey
471.7.4Red Harvest (1929)GR  AM  KBDashiell Hammett
472.7.4The Andromeda Strain (1969)GR  AM  KBMichael Crichton
473.7.4Naked Lunch (1959)GR  AM  KBWilliam Burroughs
474.7.4If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (1985)GR  AM  KBLaura Joffe Numeroff
475.7.4The Other Boleyn Girl (2001)GR  AM  KBPhilippa Gregory
476.7.4Angle of Repose (1971)GR  AM  KBWallace Stegner
477.7.4Hunger (1890)GR  AM  KBKnut Hamsun
478.7.4The Beach (1996)GR  AM  KBAlex Garland
479.7.4Hansel and GretelGR  AM  KBEngelbert Humperdinck
480.7.4The Last Lecture (2008)GR  AM  KBRandy Pausch
481.7.4Power and the Glory (1940)GR  AM  KBGraham Greene
482.7.4Pygmalion (1912)GR  AM  KBGeorge Bernard Shaw
483.7.4My Name Is Asher Lev (1972)GR  AM  KBChaim Potok
484.7.4The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007)GR  AM  KBSherman Alexie
485.7.3Cold Mountain (1997)GR  AM  KBCharles Frazier
486.7.3Horton Hears a Who! (1982)GR  AM  KBDr. Seuss
487.7.3The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)GR  AM  KBAgatha Christie
488.7.3Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929)GR  AM  KBAlfred Doblin
489.7.3Cider House Rules (1985)GR  AM  KBJohn Irving
490.7.3Goedel, Escher, Bach (1979)GR  AM  KBDouglas Hofstadter
491.7.3The Stars My Destination (1956)GR  AM  KBAlfred Bester
492.7.3Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)GR  AM  KBJules Verne
493.7.3The English Patient (1992)GR  AM  KBMichael Ondaatje
494.7.3Outlander (1991)GR  AM  KBDiana Gabaldon
495.7.3Sentimental Education (1869)GR  AM  KBGustave Flaubert
496.7.3Marley & Me (2005)GR  AM  KBJohn Grogan
497.7.3Oedipus RexGR  AM  KBSophocles
498.7.3Possession: A Romance (1990)GR  AM  KBA.S. Byatt
499.7.3As You Like ItGR  AM  KBWilliam Shakespeare
500.7.3The House of the Spirits (1982)GR  AM  KBIsabel Allende
 
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5000 Best Books, by Arek Paterek (Twitter), 2012.
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