100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List

1.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,633,126 ratings
2.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,226,114 ratings
3.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,561 ratings
4.
Hamlet
Hamlet 4.03 avg rating — 1,020,139 ratings
5.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,069,969 ratings
6.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,254 ratings
7.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,628 ratings
8.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,315,463 ratings
9.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,507 ratings
10.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.80 avg rating — 857,534 ratings
11.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,197 ratings
12.
The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea 3.81 avg rating — 1,265,640 ratings
13.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 356,977 ratings
14.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,022 ratings
15.
The Iliad
The Iliad
by: Homer
3.92 avg rating — 494,648 ratings
16.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,645 ratings
17.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,298 ratings
18.
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso 4.08 avg rating — 167,102 ratings
19.
King Lear
King Lear 3.91 avg rating — 232,685 ratings
20.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,784 ratings
21.
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 341,937 ratings
22.
The Complete Fairy Tales
The Complete Fairy Tales 4.29 avg rating — 108,183 ratings
23.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera 3.94 avg rating — 535,581 ratings
24.
Othello
Othello 3.89 avg rating — 428,031 ratings
25.
The Arabian Nights
The Arabian Nights
by: Anonymous
4.03 avg rating — 80,396 ratings
26.
Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,340 ratings
27.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,626 ratings
28.
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by: Sophocles
3.72 avg rating — 232,007 ratings
29.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,270 ratings
30.
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 293,918 ratings
31.
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 206,933 ratings
32.
The Idiot
The Idiot 4.21 avg rating — 207,637 ratings
33.
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 66,161 ratings
34.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,171 ratings
35.
The Collected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
The Collected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe 4.29 avg rating — 1,669 ratings
36.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 476,945 ratings
37.
Faust, First Part
Faust, First Part 3.83 avg rating — 84,123 ratings
38.
Blindness
Blindness 4.18 avg rating — 324,657 ratings
39.
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,087 ratings
40.
Ficciones
Ficciones 4.40 avg rating — 75,852 ratings
41.
Zorba the Greek
Zorba the Greek 4.04 avg rating — 56,530 ratings
42.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,972 ratings
43.
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Death of Ivan Ilych 4.14 avg rating — 205,046 ratings
44.
Midnight’s Children
Midnight’s Children 3.98 avg rating — 130,710 ratings
45.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by: Anonymous
3.75 avg rating — 114,172 ratings
46.
A Doll's House
A Doll's House 3.77 avg rating — 159,022 ratings
47.
Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night 4.19 avg rating — 46,246 ratings
48.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,730 ratings
49.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass 4.11 avg rating — 114,640 ratings
50.
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain 4.13 avg rating — 56,593 ratings
51.
The Book of Disquiet
The Book of Disquiet 4.40 avg rating — 35,765 ratings
52.
The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities 4.19 avg rating — 7,191 ratings
53.
Hunger
Hunger 4.04 avg rating — 62,398 ratings
54.
The Decameron
The Decameron 3.88 avg rating — 42,706 ratings
55.
Dead Souls
Dead Souls 3.98 avg rating — 93,262 ratings
56.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
by: Ovid
4.10 avg rating — 76,399 ratings
57.
The Castle
The Castle 3.92 avg rating — 71,984 ratings
58.
The Aeneid
The Aeneid
by: Virgil
3.87 avg rating — 139,139 ratings
59.
Medea
Medea
by: Euripides
3.95 avg rating — 84,381 ratings
60.
Mahabharata
Mahabharata
by: Anonymous
4.32 avg rating — 11,794 ratings
61.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,160 ratings
62.
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
by: Stendhal
3.86 avg rating — 81,050 ratings
63.
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel 3.65 avg rating — 16,003 ratings
64.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.33 avg rating — 28,034 ratings
65.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,318,912 ratings
66.
Père Goriot
Père Goriot 3.85 avg rating — 64,956 ratings
67.
The Tin Drum
The Tin Drum 3.95 avg rating — 45,957 ratings
68.
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov 4.37 avg rating — 31,696 ratings
69.
Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! 3.99 avg rating — 47,014 ratings
70.
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family 4.20 avg rating — 34,067 ratings
71.
Ramayana
Ramayana
by: Vālmīki
4.19 avg rating — 5,257 ratings
72.
Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers 3.64 avg rating — 55,119 ratings
73.
Demons
Demons 4.30 avg rating — 59,722 ratings
74.
Pedro Páramo
Pedro Páramo 4.06 avg rating — 92,514 ratings
75.
Memoirs of Hadrian
Memoirs of Hadrian 4.22 avg rating — 34,180 ratings
76.
The Book of Job (Pocket Canon)
The Book of Job (Pocket Canon)
by: Anonymous
4.20 avg rating — 4,493 ratings
77.
The Golden Notebook
The Golden Notebook 3.77 avg rating — 24,228 ratings
78.
The Complete Essays
The Complete Essays 4.23 avg rating — 21,558 ratings
79.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 3.73 avg rating — 22,669 ratings
80.
Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable 4.28 avg rating — 9,327 ratings
81.
مثنوی معنوی
مثنوی معنوی 4.45 avg rating — 4,128 ratings
82.
Jacques the Fatalist
Jacques the Fatalist 3.80 avg rating — 9,455 ratings
83.
Season of Migration to the North
Season of Migration to the North 3.72 avg rating — 32,265 ratings
84.
The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji 3.72 avg rating — 14,370 ratings
85.
Sentimental Education
Sentimental Education 3.81 avg rating — 24,077 ratings
86.
أولاد حارتنا
أولاد حارتنا 4.08 avg rating — 30,736 ratings
87.
Independent People
Independent People 4.13 avg rating — 13,794 ratings
88.
The Sound of the Mountain
The Sound of the Mountain 3.84 avg rating — 9,218 ratings
89.
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
by: Lu Xun
3.90 avg rating — 2,456 ratings
90.
Nostromo
Nostromo 3.81 avg rating — 17,603 ratings
91.
Grande Sertão: Veredas
Grande Sertão: Veredas 4.62 avg rating — 6,057 ratings
92.
Zeno's Conscience
Zeno's Conscience 3.77 avg rating — 30,954 ratings
93.
Romancero gitano
Romancero gitano 4.23 avg rating — 13,862 ratings
94.
History
History 4.31 avg rating — 10,577 ratings
95.
Poems of Paul Celan
Poems of Paul Celan 4.33 avg rating — 3,852 ratings
96.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Berlin Alexanderplatz 3.84 avg rating — 10,884 ratings
97.
Njal's Saga
Njal's Saga
by: Anonymous
3.94 avg rating — 5,365 ratings
98.
The Recognition of Śakuntalā
The Recognition of Śakuntalā 3.86 avg rating — 1,969 ratings
99.
The Orchard: The Bostan Of Saadi Of Shiraz
The Orchard: The Bostan Of Saadi Of Shiraz
by: Saadi
4.35 avg rating — 2,034 ratings
100.
The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi
The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi 4.38 avg rating — 3,095 ratings
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