The Guardian Top 100 books of all time

1.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,227,418 ratings
2.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,634,140 ratings
3.
Hamlet
Hamlet 4.03 avg rating — 1,020,252 ratings
4.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,852 ratings
5.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,319,026 ratings
6.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,600 ratings
7.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,409 ratings
8.
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso 4.08 avg rating — 167,123 ratings
9.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,058 ratings
10.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,338 ratings
11.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.80 avg rating — 857,606 ratings
12.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 357,021 ratings
13.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,315,941 ratings
14.
The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea 3.81 avg rating — 1,265,906 ratings
15.
King Lear
King Lear 3.91 avg rating — 232,713 ratings
16.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,853 ratings
17.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,782 ratings
18.
Othello
Othello 3.89 avg rating — 428,077 ratings
19.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,505 ratings
20.
The Iliad
The Iliad
by: Homer
3.92 avg rating — 494,722 ratings
21.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,642 ratings
22.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,715 ratings
23.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,070,181 ratings
24.
Faust, First Part
Faust, First Part 3.83 avg rating — 84,131 ratings
25.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,406 ratings
26.
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 342,004 ratings
27.
The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities 4.19 avg rating — 7,191 ratings
28.
The Arabian Nights
The Arabian Nights
by: Anonymous
4.03 avg rating — 80,399 ratings
29.
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 293,941 ratings
30.
The Idiot
The Idiot 4.21 avg rating — 207,684 ratings
31.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,993 ratings
32.
The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories
The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories 4.29 avg rating — 108,190 ratings
33.
A Doll's House
A Doll's House 3.77 avg rating — 159,049 ratings
34.
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by: Sophocles
3.72 avg rating — 232,033 ratings
35.
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,124 ratings
36.
The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe 4.34 avg rating — 7,175 ratings
37.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,290 ratings
38.
Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,361 ratings
39.
The Decameron
The Decameron 3.88 avg rating — 42,710 ratings
40.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera 3.94 avg rating — 535,633 ratings
41.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 477,037 ratings
42.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,222 ratings
43.
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
by: Stendhal
3.86 avg rating — 81,057 ratings
44.
The Tin Drum
The Tin Drum 3.95 avg rating — 45,960 ratings
45.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by: Anonymous
3.75 avg rating — 114,196 ratings
46.
Dead Souls
Dead Souls 3.98 avg rating — 93,272 ratings
47.
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain 4.13 avg rating — 56,607 ratings
48.
Blindness
Blindness 4.18 avg rating — 324,732 ratings
49.
Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers 3.64 avg rating — 55,129 ratings
50.
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 206,943 ratings
51.
Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night 4.19 avg rating — 46,256 ratings
52.
The Aeneid
The Aeneid
by: Virgil
3.87 avg rating — 139,151 ratings
53.
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel 3.65 avg rating — 16,002 ratings
54.
The Castle
The Castle 3.92 avg rating — 72,002 ratings
55.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,748 ratings
56.
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
57.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, the Kreutzer Sonata, and Other Stories
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, the Kreutzer Sonata, and Other Stories 4.11 avg rating — 36 ratings
58.
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family 4.20 avg rating — 34,071 ratings
58.
Collected Fictions
Collected Fictions 4.56 avg rating — 25,158 ratings
60.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.33 avg rating — 28,037 ratings
61.
Memoirs of Hadrian
Memoirs of Hadrian 4.22 avg rating — 34,197 ratings
62.
Medea
Medea
by: Euripides
3.95 avg rating — 84,393 ratings
63.
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov 4.37 avg rating — 31,696 ratings
64.
Zorba the Greek
Zorba the Greek 4.04 avg rating — 56,535 ratings
65.
Midnight’s Children
Midnight’s Children 3.98 avg rating — 130,721 ratings
66.
Hunger
Hunger 4.04 avg rating — 62,414 ratings
67.
Old Goriot
Old Goriot 3.85 avg rating — 64,967 ratings
68.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
by: Ovid
4.10 avg rating — 76,415 ratings
69.
Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! 3.99 avg rating — 47,020 ratings
70.
The Golden Notebook
The Golden Notebook 3.77 avg rating — 24,231 ratings
71.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass 4.11 avg rating — 114,645 ratings
72.
Jacques the Fatalist
Jacques the Fatalist 3.80 avg rating — 9,456 ratings
73.
Pedro Páramo
Pedro Páramo 4.06 avg rating — 92,550 ratings
74.
Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable 4.28 avg rating — 9,326 ratings
75.
Mahabharata
Mahabharata
by: Vyasa
4.32 avg rating — 11,794 ratings
76.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 3.73 avg rating — 22,672 ratings
77.
The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji 3.72 avg rating — 14,371 ratings
78.
Nostromo
Nostromo 3.81 avg rating — 17,606 ratings
79.
The Possessed (1)
The Possessed (1) 4.12 avg rating — 1,286 ratings
80.
The Sound of the Mountain
The Sound of the Mountain 3.84 avg rating — 9,220 ratings
81.
أولاد حارتنا
أولاد حارتنا 4.08 avg rating — 30,743 ratings
82.
Ramayana
Ramayana
by: Vālmīki
4.19 avg rating — 5,259 ratings
83.
Independent People
Independent People 4.13 avg rating — 13,797 ratings
84.
Grande Sertão: Veredas
Grande Sertão: Veredas 4.62 avg rating — 6,059 ratings
85.
The Complete Essays
The Complete Essays 4.23 avg rating — 21,557 ratings
86.
Sentimental Education
Sentimental Education 3.81 avg rating — 24,082 ratings
87.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Berlin Alexanderplatz 3.84 avg rating — 10,886 ratings
87.
Poems of Paul Celan
Poems of Paul Celan 4.33 avg rating — 3,852 ratings
89.
Njal's Saga
Njal's Saga
by: Anonymous
3.94 avg rating — 5,367 ratings
90.
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
by: Lu Xun
3.90 avg rating — 2,456 ratings
91.
The Book of Job (Bible, #18)
The Book of Job (Bible, #18)
by: Anonymous
4.20 avg rating — 4,493 ratings
92.
Season of Migration to the North
Season of Migration to the North 3.72 avg rating — 32,270 ratings
93.
complete poems of giacomo leopardi
complete poems of giacomo leopardi 4.38 avg rating — 3,095 ratings
94.
Romancero gitano
Romancero gitano 4.23 avg rating — 13,864 ratings
95.
History
History 4.31 avg rating — 10,584 ratings
95.
Further Confessions of Zeno
Further Confessions of Zeno 4.10 avg rating — 58 ratings
97.
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
98.
Cousin Pons / Old Goriot
Cousin Pons / Old Goriot 3.90 avg rating — 31 ratings
99.
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
100.
The Recognition of Śakuntalā
The Recognition of Śakuntalā 3.86 avg rating — 1,970 ratings