BBC Culture - The 100 Stories That Shaped The World

1.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,690,127 ratings
2.
Hamlet
Hamlet 4.03 avg rating — 1,020,297 ratings
3.
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol 4.09 avg rating — 896,658 ratings
4.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,227,694 ratings
5.
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text 3.89 avg rating — 1,772,613 ratings
6.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,827 ratings
7.
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso 4.08 avg rating — 167,125 ratings
8.
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet 3.74 avg rating — 2,768,028 ratings
9.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,357,492 ratings
9.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 423,103 ratings
11.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,634,346 ratings
12.
The Little Prince
The Little Prince 4.33 avg rating — 2,376,028 ratings
13.
Monkey: The Journey to the West
Monkey: The Journey to the West 4.04 avg rating — 7,823 ratings
14.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 477,050 ratings
15.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) 4.47 avg rating — 11,066,441 ratings
15.
King Lear
King Lear 3.91 avg rating — 232,720 ratings
17.
Aesop’s Fables
Aesop’s Fables
by: Aesop
4.05 avg rating — 128,596 ratings
18.
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,135 ratings
19.
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by: Sophocles
3.68 avg rating — 170,490 ratings
20.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,903 ratings
21.
Dracula
Dracula 4.02 avg rating — 1,415,379 ratings
22.
Candide
Candide
by: Voltaire
3.76 avg rating — 294,569 ratings
23.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,074 ratings
24.
The Emperor's New Clothes
The Emperor's New Clothes 3.98 avg rating — 15,201 ratings
25.
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,323,790 ratings
26.
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita 4.28 avg rating — 401,168 ratings
27.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,260,186 ratings
28.
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1
by: Anonymous
4.01 avg rating — 4,239 ratings
29.
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by: Sophocles
3.72 avg rating — 232,041 ratings
30.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,863 ratings
31.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,070,223 ratings
32.
The Iliad
The Iliad
by: Homer
3.92 avg rating — 494,749 ratings
32.
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis 3.90 avg rating — 1,338,833 ratings
34.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 3.92 avg rating — 239,385 ratings
35.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,445 ratings
36.
Medea
Medea
by: Euripides
3.95 avg rating — 84,396 ratings
37.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
by: Jean Rhys
3.59 avg rating — 103,294 ratings
38.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by: Anonymous
3.75 avg rating — 114,202 ratings
39.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 3.92 avg rating — 996,831 ratings
40.
Water Margin, Volume 1
Water Margin, Volume 1 3.99 avg rating — 216 ratings
41.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 1 of 2 (chapter 1-60)
Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 1 of 2 (chapter 1-60) 4.29 avg rating — 2,248 ratings
42.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,723 ratings
43.
The Mahabharata (Mahabharata, #1)
The Mahabharata (Mahabharata, #1) 4.45 avg rating — 907 ratings
44.
The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji 3.72 avg rating — 14,372 ratings
44.
Il canzoniere
Il canzoniere 3.99 avg rating — 2,958 ratings
46.
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 66,170 ratings
47.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,839 ratings
47.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,300 ratings
47.
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness 4.10 avg rating — 209,519 ratings
50.
The Snowy Day (Peter, #1)
The Snowy Day (Peter, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 118,461 ratings
51.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 3.70 avg rating — 59,338 ratings
52.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 545,816 ratings
52.
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
by: Aeschylus
4.02 avg rating — 45,637 ratings
54.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
by: Ovid
4.10 avg rating — 76,417 ratings
55.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,643 ratings
56.
Ramayana
Ramayana
by: Vālmīki
4.19 avg rating — 5,259 ratings
57.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,996 ratings
58.
Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,363 ratings
59.
Butterfly Lovers
Butterfly Lovers
by: Fan Dai
4.02 avg rating — 54 ratings
60.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,567 ratings
61.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther 3.69 avg rating — 148,995 ratings
62.
The Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses 3.71 avg rating — 70,311 ratings
63.
Cinderella
Cinderella 4.23 avg rating — 10,999 ratings
64.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 357,031 ratings
65.
The Golden Notebook
The Golden Notebook 3.77 avg rating — 24,231 ratings
66.
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 342,015 ratings
67.
Song of Myself
Song of Myself 4.16 avg rating — 15,680 ratings
68.
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Little Women (Little Women, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,393,476 ratings
69.
América y otros poemas
América y otros poemas liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
70.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,424 ratings
70.
Midnight’s Children
Midnight’s Children 3.98 avg rating — 130,721 ratings
72.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,319,049 ratings
73.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,222 ratings
74.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,751 ratings
75.
Orlando
Orlando 3.87 avg rating — 109,476 ratings
76.
The Jungle
The Jungle 3.78 avg rating — 152,253 ratings
77.
Nervous Conditions
Nervous Conditions 4.04 avg rating — 22,085 ratings
78.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe 3.68 avg rating — 325,018 ratings
79.
The True Story of Ah Q
The True Story of Ah Q
by: Lu Xun
3.84 avg rating — 2,427 ratings
79.
Poems of Wine and Revelry: The Khamriyyat of Abu Nuwas
Poems of Wine and Revelry: The Khamriyyat of Abu Nuwas 4.21 avg rating — 48 ratings
81.
Monkey Grip
Monkey Grip 3.69 avg rating — 7,532 ratings
82.
Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol
Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol 4.02 avg rating — 756 ratings
83.
Pedro Páramo
Pedro Páramo 4.06 avg rating — 92,555 ratings
84.
Children of Gebelawi
Children of Gebelawi 4.08 avg rating — 30,746 ratings
85.
Howl and Other Poems
Howl and Other Poems 4.13 avg rating — 117,402 ratings
86.
The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1)
The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 13,641 ratings
87.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 3.98 avg rating — 122,148 ratings
88.
Panchatantra
Panchatantra 4.07 avg rating — 6,485 ratings
89.
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas 4.26 avg rating — 36,398 ratings
90.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists 4.04 avg rating — 10,248 ratings
91.
Omeros
Omeros 3.98 avg rating — 3,242 ratings
92.
Before the Law
Before the Law 4.09 avg rating — 20,578 ratings
93.
Kebra Nagast
Kebra Nagast
by: Anonymous
3.97 avg rating — 317 ratings
94.
The Raven
The Raven 4.29 avg rating — 163,428 ratings
95.
The Rainbow Serpent
The Rainbow Serpent 4.03 avg rating — 160 ratings
96.
Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road 3.93 avg rating — 92,061 ratings
97.
The Aleph and Other Stories
The Aleph and Other Stories 4.33 avg rating — 46,753 ratings
98.
The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant (Griffith Institute Publications)
The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant (Griffith Institute Publications)
by: Unknown
3.66 avg rating — 71 ratings
99.
The Secret History
The Secret History 4.16 avg rating — 950,943 ratings
100.
Toba Tek Singh: Stories
Toba Tek Singh: Stories 4.23 avg rating — 2,051 ratings