The Book Depository's Best Books Ever

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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front 4.10 avg rating — 505,144 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,577 ratings
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,070,232 ratings
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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,634,398 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray 4.13 avg rating — 1,783,383 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 3.97 avg rating — 2,719,642 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,722 ratings
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The Idiot
The Idiot 4.21 avg rating — 207,698 ratings
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Northern Lights (His Dark Materials, #1)
Northern Lights (His Dark Materials, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 1,594,387 ratings
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The Iliad
The Iliad
by: Homer
3.92 avg rating — 494,751 ratings
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The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises 3.79 avg rating — 482,115 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,867 ratings
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Tender Is the Night
Tender Is the Night 3.77 avg rating — 146,453 ratings
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Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,723 ratings
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Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,075 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,451,500 ratings
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The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,298 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars 4.12 avg rating — 5,581,624 ratings
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Frankenstein
Frankenstein 3.89 avg rating — 1,772,624 ratings
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The English Patient
The English Patient 3.86 avg rating — 137,391 ratings
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Rebecca
Rebecca 4.25 avg rating — 697,939 ratings
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1-2)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1-2) 4.06 avg rating — 597,726 ratings
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A Fine Balance
A Fine Balance 4.38 avg rating — 156,868 ratings
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Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,360 ratings
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating — 200,865 ratings
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 3.64 avg rating — 161,015 ratings
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The Prince
The Prince 3.84 avg rating — 371,455 ratings
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,865 ratings
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Candide
Candide
by: Voltaire
3.76 avg rating — 294,568 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 477,053 ratings
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The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,316,057 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 569,026 ratings
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The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis 3.90 avg rating — 1,338,847 ratings
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I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1) 4.24 avg rating — 71,610 ratings
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Sophie’s Choice
Sophie’s Choice 4.17 avg rating — 93,616 ratings
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On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species 4.01 avg rating — 120,201 ratings
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A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,534 ratings
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Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories
Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories 3.83 avg rating — 286,608 ratings
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Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,411 ratings
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A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces 3.89 avg rating — 291,819 ratings
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Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,997 ratings
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Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin 3.73 avg rating — 36,730 ratings
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The Naked and the Dead
The Naked and the Dead 3.94 avg rating — 26,166 ratings
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Bel Canto
Bel Canto 3.94 avg rating — 312,453 ratings
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,835 ratings
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Story of the Eye
Story of the Eye 3.65 avg rating — 24,381 ratings
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Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night 4.19 avg rating — 46,260 ratings
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A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1)
A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 49,458 ratings
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The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day 4.14 avg rating — 344,158 ratings
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The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating — 2,802,690 ratings
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Lost Illusions
Lost Illusions 4.16 avg rating — 12,147 ratings
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The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
by: Stendhal
3.86 avg rating — 81,062 ratings
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Midnight’s Children
Midnight’s Children 3.98 avg rating — 130,722 ratings
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by: Ken Kesey
4.20 avg rating — 767,710 ratings
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The Good Soldier Švejk
The Good Soldier Švejk 4.10 avg rating — 20,522 ratings
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Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe 3.68 avg rating — 325,020 ratings
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The Little Prince
The Little Prince 4.33 avg rating — 2,376,047 ratings
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Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov 4.37 avg rating — 31,697 ratings
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The Republic
The Republic
by: Plato
3.96 avg rating — 220,239 ratings
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century 4.05 avg rating — 43,243 ratings
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Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend 4.09 avg rating — 30,892 ratings
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The Art of War
The Art of War
by: Sun Tzu
3.95 avg rating — 550,699 ratings
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More 4.12 avg rating — 24,927 ratings
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Resurrection
Resurrection 4.17 avg rating — 27,233 ratings
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The Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High Castle 3.59 avg rating — 229,276 ratings
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Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia 4.09 avg rating — 68,336 ratings
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Another Country
Another Country 4.30 avg rating — 32,354 ratings
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The Earthsea Quartet (Earthsea Cycle, #1-4)
The Earthsea Quartet (Earthsea Cycle, #1-4) 4.30 avg rating — 12,510 ratings
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Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version 4.05 avg rating — 22,971 ratings
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The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault 3.92 avg rating — 1,019 ratings
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Money
Money 3.70 avg rating — 25,096 ratings
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Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)
Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3) 4.25 avg rating — 26,772 ratings
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The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild 3.91 avg rating — 461,107 ratings
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It
It 4.24 avg rating — 1,227,682 ratings
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 4.14 avg rating — 306,635 ratings
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The Magic Toyshop
The Magic Toyshop 3.79 avg rating — 13,385 ratings
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Franny and Zooey
Franny and Zooey 3.96 avg rating — 235,186 ratings
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon 4.22 avg rating — 2,622 ratings
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The Secret History
The Secret History 4.16 avg rating — 950,966 ratings
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Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 545,818 ratings
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Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,302 ratings
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The Unconscious
The Unconscious 3.68 avg rating — 915 ratings
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Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
by: Karl Marx
4.28 avg rating — 1,923 ratings
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Man and His Symbols
Man and His Symbols
by: C.G. Jung
4.19 avg rating — 32,165 ratings
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The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1) 4.42 avg rating — 25,864 ratings
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Faust, Part One
Faust, Part One 3.83 avg rating — 84,131 ratings
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Prayer for Owen Meany 4.24 avg rating — 332,412 ratings
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Watt
Watt 3.89 avg rating — 3,660 ratings
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Ethics
Ethics 4.10 avg rating — 20,279 ratings
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Leviathan
Leviathan 3.70 avg rating — 51,364 ratings
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Portnoy’s Complaint
Portnoy’s Complaint 3.71 avg rating — 72,181 ratings
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The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6) 4.19 avg rating — 45,505 ratings
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Goodbye to Berlin
Goodbye to Berlin 3.93 avg rating — 20,503 ratings
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The Complete Maus
The Complete Maus 4.58 avg rating — 245,708 ratings
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,326 ratings
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The Shock of the New
The Shock of the New 3.74 avg rating — 35,757 ratings
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Orientalism
Orientalism 4.13 avg rating — 28,517 ratings
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 4.20 avg rating — 31,568 ratings
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The Affluent Society
The Affluent Society really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,046 ratings