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- According to Guinness World Records as of 1995, the Bible is the best sold book of all time with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed.
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- "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling. Rowling, available on Amazon and Bookshop, from $6.98.
- "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins. "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins, available on Amazon and Bookshop, from $11.69. With almost 7 million ratings on Goodreads, "The Hunger Games" is the first book in a young adult dystopian series where the country is divided up into districts that annually select one boy and one girl to fight to the death in a highly publicized arena.
- "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer. "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer, available on Amazon and Bookshop, from $10.16. "Twilight" is an iconic young adult vampire romance novel about a high school girl named Bella who falls in love with a mysterious boy named Edward and quickly finds out he's a vampire.
- "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, available on Amazon and Bookshop, from $7.19. "To Kill A Mockingbird" is an American classic from 1960, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and frequently voted as one of the best books of the 20th century.
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- Anna Karenina
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Literary critics, historians, avid readers, and even casual readers will all have different opinions on which novel is truly the “greatest book ever written.” Is it a novel with beautiful, captivating figurative language? Or one with gritty realism? A novel that has had an immense social impact? Or one that has more subtly affected the world? Here ...
Any fan of stories that involve juicy subjects like adultery, gambling, marriage plots, and, well, Russian feudalism, would instantly place Anna Karenina at the peak of their “greatest novels” list. And that’s exactly the ranking that publications like Time magazine have given the novel since it was published in its entirety in 1878. Written by Rus...
Harper Lee, believed to be one of the most influential authors to have ever existed, famously published only a single novel (up until its controversial sequel was published in 2015 just before her death). Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 and became an immediate classic of literature. The novel examines racism in the American South ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is distinguished as one of the greatest texts for introducing students to the art of reading literature critically (which means you may have read it in school). The novel is told from the perspective of a young man named Nick Carraway who has recently moved to New York City and is befriended by his eccentric n...
The late Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez published his most famous work, One Hundred Years of Solitude, in 1967. The novel tells the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and follows the establishment of their town Macondo until its destruction along with the last of the family’s descendents. In fantastical form, the novel explor...
E.M. Forster wrote his novel A Passage to India after multiple trips to the country throughout his early life. The book was published in 1924 and follows a Muslim Indian doctor named Aziz and his relationships with an English professor, Cyril Fielding, and a visiting English schoolteacher named Adela Quested. When Adela believes that Aziz has assau...
Often confused with H.G. Wells’s science-fiction novella of nearly the same name (just subtract a “The”), Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is a groundbreaking novel in the expression of identity for the African American male. The narrator of the novel, a man who is never named but believes he is “invisible” to others socially, tells the story of his m...
Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote, perhaps the most influential and well-known work of Spanish literature, was first published in full in 1615. The novel, which is very regularly regarded as one of the best literary works of all time, tells the story of a man who takes the name “Don Quixote de la Mancha” and sets off in a fit of obsession over roma...
Toni Morrison’s 1987 spiritual and haunting novel Beloved tells the story of an escaped slave named Sethe who has fled to Cincinnati, Ohio, in the year 1873. The novel investigates the trauma of slavery even after freedom has been gained, depicting Sethe’s guilt and emotional pain after having killed her own child, whom she named Beloved, to keep h...
Possibly the most idiosyncratic novel of this list, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway describes exactly one day in the life of a British socialite named Clarissa Dalloway. Using a combination of a third-person narration and the thoughts of various characters, the novel uses a stream-of-consciousness style all the way through. The result of this style ...
A list of 12 novels that have been praised for their literary merit, social impact, or cultural significance by various critics and readers. The list includes classics such as Anna Karenina, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, and One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Explore 288 'best of' book lists to find the world's most acclaimed books. Discover the themes, styles, and genres of classics like One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Great Gatsby, Ulysses, and more.
- Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes, available at Amazon and Bookshop, from $15.30. Copies sold: 500 million. The highest selling and most translated book of all time, "Don Quixote", is also considered the first modern novel, published in two parts, one in 1605 and the other in 1615.
- A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens, available at Amazon and Bookshop, from $7.36. Copies sold: 200 million. In a story that famously begins "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," Dr. Manette has just spent 18 years as a political prisoner, finally released to be with his daughter, Lucie, in London.
- The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien, available at Amazon and Bookshop, from $10.09. Copies sold: 150 million. "The Fellowship of the Ring" is the first installment of the epic fantasy series "The Lord of the Rings."
- Le Petit Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, available at Amazon and Bookshop, from $6. Copies sold: 140 million. "Le Petit Prince" ("The Little Prince") is a beloved French children's book that uses elements of fantasy to tell an emotional and reflective story of life's greatest lessons.
All the books on the list "The Top 10: The Greatest Books of All Time" from The Top 10 (Book). The Top 10 book chosen by 125 top writers from the book "The Top 10" edited by J. Peder Zane.
The "The 50 Most Influential Books of All Time," as compiled by the Open Education Database, celebrates literature's unparalleled power to inspire, educate, and transform individuals and societies at large.
