The 100 Most Influential Works

1.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,806 ratings
2.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,227,526 ratings
3.
Hamlet
Hamlet 4.03 avg rating — 1,020,270 ratings
4.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,871 ratings
5.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,634,229 ratings
6.
Faust, First Part
Faust, First Part 3.83 avg rating — 84,131 ratings
7.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,412 ratings
8.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,315,978 ratings
9.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,523 ratings
10.
The Arabian Nights
The Arabian Nights
by: Anonymous
4.03 avg rating — 80,400 ratings
11.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,719 ratings
12.
The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities 4.19 avg rating — 7,191 ratings
13.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,642 ratings
14.
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quijote de la Mancha 3.91 avg rating — 297,062 ratings
15.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,319,034 ratings
16.
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso 4.08 avg rating — 167,125 ratings
17.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 357,026 ratings
18.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.80 avg rating — 857,613 ratings
19.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,070,195 ratings
20.
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 293,941 ratings
21.
Jacques the Fatalist
Jacques the Fatalist 3.80 avg rating — 9,456 ratings
22.
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by: Sophocles
3.72 avg rating — 232,036 ratings
23.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,611 ratings
24.
Collected Fictions
Collected Fictions 4.56 avg rating — 25,159 ratings
25.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,357,376 ratings
26.
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel 3.65 avg rating — 16,002 ratings
27.
The Iliad
The Iliad
by: Homer
3.92 avg rating — 494,735 ratings
27.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,223 ratings
29.
Zorba the Greek
Zorba the Greek 4.04 avg rating — 56,535 ratings
30.
Othello
Othello 3.89 avg rating — 428,081 ratings
31.
The Idiot
The Idiot 4.21 avg rating — 207,690 ratings
32.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
by: Ovid
4.10 avg rating — 76,416 ratings
33.
King Lear
King Lear 3.91 avg rating — 232,715 ratings
34.
Medea
Medea
by: Euripides
3.95 avg rating — 84,396 ratings
35.
The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea 3.81 avg rating — 1,265,921 ratings
36.
A Doll's House
A Doll's House 3.77 avg rating — 159,049 ratings
36.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,346 ratings
38.
The Qur'an
The Qur'an
by: Anonymous
4.38 avg rating — 71,374 ratings
39.
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 342,008 ratings
40.
Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers 3.64 avg rating — 55,129 ratings
41.
The Aeneid
The Aeneid
by: Virgil
3.87 avg rating — 139,155 ratings
41.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass 4.11 avg rating — 114,646 ratings
43.
Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable 4.28 avg rating — 9,326 ratings
44.
The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories
The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories 4.29 avg rating — 108,192 ratings
45.
The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji 3.72 avg rating — 14,371 ratings
46.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,423 ratings
47.
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove 4.28 avg rating — 3,654 ratings
48.
Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night 4.19 avg rating — 46,257 ratings
49.
The Book of Disquiet
The Book of Disquiet 4.40 avg rating — 35,775 ratings
50.
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 206,943 ratings
51.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,995 ratings
52.
Hunger
Hunger 4.04 avg rating — 62,415 ratings
53.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,857 ratings
54.
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain 4.13 avg rating — 56,606 ratings
54.
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe 4.20 avg rating — 9,457 ratings
56.
The Decameron
The Decameron 3.88 avg rating — 42,711 ratings
57.
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov 4.37 avg rating — 31,696 ratings
58.
The Mathnawi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulana Jalalu-D-Din Mahammad I Rumi
The Mathnawi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulana Jalalu-D-Din Mahammad I Rumi 4.45 avg rating — 4,129 ratings
59.
Season of Migration to the North
Season of Migration to the North 3.72 avg rating — 32,270 ratings
60.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,748 ratings
61.
Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,362 ratings
62.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.33 avg rating — 28,038 ratings
63.
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,130 ratings
64.
Blindness
Blindness 4.18 avg rating — 324,738 ratings
65.
The Orchard: The Bostan Of Saadi Of Shiraz
The Orchard: The Bostan Of Saadi Of Shiraz
by: Saadi
4.35 avg rating — 2,035 ratings
66.
Père Goriot
Père Goriot 3.85 avg rating — 64,967 ratings
67.
Mahabharata
Mahabharata
by: Vyasa
4.32 avg rating — 11,794 ratings
68.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera 3.94 avg rating — 535,642 ratings
69.
Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! 3.99 avg rating — 47,020 ratings
70.
أولاد حارتنا
أولاد حارتنا 4.08 avg rating — 30,743 ratings
71.
Midnight’s Children
Midnight’s Children 3.98 avg rating — 130,721 ratings
72.
Candide
Candide
by: Voltaire
3.76 avg rating — 294,566 ratings
73.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,294 ratings
74.
The Tin Drum
The Tin Drum 3.95 avg rating — 45,960 ratings
75.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Berlin Alexanderplatz 3.84 avg rating — 10,886 ratings
76.
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family 4.20 avg rating — 34,071 ratings
77.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,690,004 ratings
78.
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories 4.12 avg rating — 16,590 ratings
79.
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
by: Stendhal
3.86 avg rating — 81,060 ratings
80.
Ramayana
Ramayana
by: Vālmīki
4.07 avg rating — 13,010 ratings
81.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by: Anonymous
3.75 avg rating — 114,199 ratings
81.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 477,043 ratings
83.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 3.73 avg rating — 22,671 ratings
84.
The Book of Job (Bible, #18)
The Book of Job (Bible, #18)
by: Anonymous
4.20 avg rating — 4,493 ratings
85.
The Complete Essays
The Complete Essays 4.23 avg rating — 21,557 ratings
86.
Dead Souls
Dead Souls 3.98 avg rating — 93,272 ratings
87.
Demons
Demons 4.30 avg rating — 59,732 ratings
88.
The Castle
The Castle 3.92 avg rating — 72,003 ratings
89.
Romancero gitano
Romancero gitano 4.23 avg rating — 13,864 ratings
89.
The Golden Notebook
The Golden Notebook 3.77 avg rating — 24,231 ratings
91.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,260,142 ratings
92.
Independent People
Independent People 4.13 avg rating — 13,797 ratings
93.
The Sound of the Mountain
The Sound of the Mountain 3.84 avg rating — 9,221 ratings
94.
Jo confesso
Jo confesso 4.44 avg rating — 10,511 ratings
95.
The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)
The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)
by: Anne Rice
4.11 avg rating — 212,585 ratings
96.
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Little Women (Little Women, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,393,435 ratings
97.
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 257,792 ratings
98.
Sentimental Education
Sentimental Education 3.81 avg rating — 24,082 ratings
99.
A Passage to India
A Passage to India 3.68 avg rating — 84,389 ratings
100.
Nostromo
Nostromo 3.81 avg rating — 17,607 ratings
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