5000 BEST BOOKS

Year from to
 
RankScoreTitle (Year)LinksWriter
801.7.2The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (1997)GR  AM  KBJean-Dominique Bauby
802.7.2A Walk in the Woods (1998)GR  AM  KBBill Bryson
803.7.2Scoop (1938)GR  AM  KBEvelyn Waugh
804.7.2La Condition Humaine (1934)GR  AM  KBAndre Malraux
805.7.2Indian in the Cupboard (1980)GR  AM  KBLynne Reid Banks
806.7.2Nightwood (1936)GR  AM  KBDjuna Barnes
807.7.2Go Ask Alice (1971)GR  AM  KB
808.7.2The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)GR  AM  KBJunot Diaz
809.7.2Kitchen Confidential (2000)GR  AM  KBAnthony Bourdain
810.7.2Walden (1854)GR  AM  KBHenry David Thoreau
811.7.2Illusions (1977)GR  AM  KBRichard Bach
812.7.2Doctor FaustusGR  AM  KBChristopher Marlowe
813.7.2Perfect Storm (1997)GR  AM  KBSebastian Junger
814.7.2The Body (1982)GR  AM  KBStephen King
815.7.2Bag of Bones (1998)GR  AM  KBStephen King
816.7.2Between Shades of Gray (2011)GR  AM  KBRuta Sepetys
817.7.2Prince and the Pauper (1881)GR  AM  KBMark Twain
818.7.2Oregon TrailGR  AM  KBFrancis Parkman
819.7.2Columbine (2009)GR  AM  KBDave Cullen
820.7.2AutobiographyGR  AM  KBBenvenuto Cellini
821.7.2Rip Van WinkleGR  AM  KBWashington Irving
822.7.2Catching Fire (2009)GR  AM  KBSuzanne Collins
823.7.2The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockGR  AM  KBT.S. Eliot
824.7.2The Tao of Pooh (1982)GR  AM  KBBenjamin Hoff
825.7.2Bossypants (2011)GR  AM  KBTina Fey
826.7.2Tristram Shandy (1767)GR  AM  KBLaurence Sterne
827.7.2The Hot Zone (1997)GR  AM  KBRichard Preston
828.7.2War and Remembrance (1978)GR  AM  KBHerman Wouk
829.7.2Naked (1997)GR  AM  KBDavid Sedaris
830.7.2Through the Looking Glass (1871)GR  AM  KBLewis Carroll
831.7.2HighlanderGR  AM  KBKaren Marie Moning
832.7.2Never Let Me Go (2005)GR  AM  KBKazuo Ishiguro
833.7.2Bonesetter's Daughter (2001)GR  AM  KBAmy Tan
834.7.2Infidel (2006)GR  AM  KBAyaan Hirsi Ali
835.7.2Stories (1971)GR  AM  KBFlannery O'Connor
836.7.2DarknessGR  AM  KBFrank Peretti
837.7.2The Prince of Tides (1986)GR  AM  KBPat Conroy
838.7.1I ChingGR  AM  KBFu Xi
839.7.1One Day (2009)GR  AM  KBDavid Nicholls
840.7.1ZeitounGR  AM  KBDave Eggers
841.7.1Swan Song (1987)GR  AM  KBRobert R. McCammon
842.7.1Midsummer Night's DreamGR  AM  KBWilliam Shakespeare
843.7.1Last of the Mohicans (1826)GR  AM  KBJames Fenimore Cooper
844.7.1Hard Times (1854)GR  AM  KBCharles Dickens
845.7.1SymposiumGR  AM  KBPlato
846.7.1Cat's Eye (1988)GR  AM  KBMargaret Atwood
847.7.1Runaway Jury (1996)GR  AM  KBJohn Grisham
848.7.1Red Dragon (1981)GR  AM  KBThomas Harris
849.7.1The Good Soldier (1915)GR  AM  KBFord Madox Ford
850.7.1King Solomon's Mines (1885)GR  AM  KBH. Rider Haggard
851.7.1Anthem (1946)GR  AM  KBAyn Rand
852.7.1OresteiaGR  AM  KBAeschylus
853.7.1Black Boy (1945)GR  AM  KBRichard Wright
854.7.1The Bourne Identity (1980)GR  AM  KBRobert Ludlum
855.7.1These Is My WordsGR  AM  KBNancy E. Turner
856.7.1Chicagoland VampiresGR  AM  KBChloe Neill
857.7.1Impulse (2007)GR  AM  KBEllen Hopkins
858.7.1Peter and the Starcatchers (2004)GR  AM  KBDave Barry
859.7.1Let the Right One InGR  AM  KBJohn Ajvide Lindqvist
860.7.1Captain Corelli's Mandolin (1994)GR  AM  KBLouis de Bernieres
861.7.1Ishmael (1992)GR  AM  KBDaniel Quinn
862.7.1The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)GR  AM  KBTom Wolfe
863.7.1A Scanner Darkly (1977)GR  AM  KBPhilip K. Dick
864.7.1Hunt for Red October (1984)GR  AM  KBTom Clancy
865.7.1Thousand Acres (1991)GR  AM  KBJane Smiley
866.7.1Team of Rivals (2005)GR  AM  KBDoris Kearns Goodwin
867.7.1The Shock Doctrine (2007)GR  AM  KBNaomi Klein
868.7.1The Dispossessed (1974)GR  AM  KBUrsula Le Guin
869.7.1The Magic Faraway Tree (1943)GR  AM  KBEnid Blyton
870.7.1Leviathan (1651)GR  AM  KBThomas Hobbes
871.7.1Importance of Being EarnestGR  AM  KBOscar Wilde
872.7.1Guild HunterGR  AM  KBNalini Singh
873.7.1WheatGR  AM  KB
874.7.1Beyond Good and Evil (1886)GR  AM  KBFriedrich Nietzsche
875.7.1Just Kids (2010)GR  AM  KBPatti Smith
876.7.1Mountains Beyond Mountains (2003)GR  AM  KBTracy Kidder
877.7.1LysistrataGR  AM  KBAristophanes
878.7.1Fallen (2009)GR  AM  KBLauren Kate
879.7.1Tao Te ChingGR  AM  KBLaozi
880.7.1Three Little PigsGR  AM  KB
881.7.1The Song of the LionessGR  AM  KBTamora Pierce
882.7.1TalesGR  AM  KBEdgar Allan Poe
883.7.1Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language UnabridgedGR  AM  KBPhilip Babcock Gove
884.7.1Under the Net (1954)GR  AM  KBIris Murdoch
885.7.1Twenty Love Poems and a Song of DespairGR  AM  KBPablo Neruda
886.7.1Martin Chuzzlewit (1844)GR  AM  KBCharles Dickens
887.7.1Valley of the Dolls (1966)GR  AM  KBJacqueline Susann
888.7.1Mockingjay (2010)GR  AM  KBSuzanne Collins
889.7.1The Amityville Horror (1977)GR  AM  KBJay Anson
890.7.1The Talisman (1984)GR  AM  KBStephen King
891.7.1GarfieldGR  AM  KBJim Davis
892.7.1The Pact (1998)GR  AM  KBJodi Picoult
893.7.1The Man who was Thursday (1908)GR  AM  KBGK Chesterton
894.7.1Days of Future Past (1981)GR  AM  KB
895.7.1The Choice (2007)GR  AM  KBNicholas Sparks
896.7.1Blankets (2003)GR  AM  KBCraig Thompson
897.7.1Wealth of Nations (1776)GR  AM  KBAdam Smith
898.7.1UpanishadsGR  AM  KB
899.7.1Wrinkle in Time (1962)GR  AM  KBMadeleine L'Engle
900.7.1New Encyclopaedia Britannica (2010)GR  AM  KB
 
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5000 Best Books, by Arek Paterek (Twitter), 2012.
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