Titles | Order |
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy | 171 points |
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck | 43 ∙ 36 points |
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass | 108 ∙ 14 points |
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert | 160 points |
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | 150 points |
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | 131 points |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain | 126 points |
Hamlet by William Shakespeare | 111 points |
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 110 points |
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | 107 points |
Stories by Anton Chekhov | 105 points |
Middlemarch by George Eliot | 100 points |
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | 91 points |
Moby Dick by Herman Melville | 88 points |
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens | 87 points |
Ulysses by James Joyce | 85 points |
The Odyssey by Homer | 81 points |
Dubliners by James Joyce | 79 points |
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 72 points |
King Lear by William Shakespeare | 72 points |
Emma by Jane Austen | 67 points |
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 66 points |
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner | 63 points |
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf | 62 points |
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 61 points |
Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor | 55 points |
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne | 54 points |
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen | 52 points |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë | 52 points |
The Holy Bible | 50 points |
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov | 49 points |
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner | 47 points |
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James | 45 points |
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee | 44 points |
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer | 43 points |
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad | 42 points |
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf | 42 points |
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison | 41 points |
Bleak House by Charles Dickens | 40 points |
The Trial by Franz Kafka | 40 points |
Beloved by Toni Morrison | 40 points |
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë | 39 points |
The Stranger by Albert Camus | 38 points |
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren | 35 points |
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford | 32 points |
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger | 32 points |
Persuasion by Jane Austen | 31 points |
Macbeth by William Shakespeare | 31 points |
The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides by Aeschylus | 30 points |
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne | 30 points |
The Red and the Black by Stendhal | 28 points |
Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy by John Updike | 28 points |
Collected Stories by Isaac Babel | 27 points |
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 27 points |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce | 27 points |
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | 26 points |
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut | 26 points |
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever | 24 points |
Paradise Lost by John Milton | 24 points |
The Aeneid by Virgil | 24 points |
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy | 23 points |
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | 23 points |
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol | 22 points |
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann | 22 points |
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty | 22 points |
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov | 21 points |
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens | 21 points |
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner | 21 points |
The Hamlet by William Faulkner | 21 points |
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway | 21 points |
The Iliad by Homer | 21 points |
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio | 20 points |
Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 20 points |
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead | 20 points |
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal | 20 points |
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway | 19 points |
Independent People by Halldór Laxness | 19 points |
The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by Richard Burton | 18 points |
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 18 points |
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston | 18 points |
The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition by Stephen King | 18 points |
The Tempest by William Shakespeare | 18 points |
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson | 17 points |
Don Juan by Lord Byron | 17 points |
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding | 17 points |
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster | 17 points |
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson | 17 points |
Candide by Voltaire | 17 points |
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges | 16 points |
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler | 16 points |
Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell | 16 points |
Mr. Bridge by Evan S. Connell | 16 points |
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy | 16 points |
The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka | 16 points |
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri | 56 points |
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell | 16 points |
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift | 16 points |
The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West | 16 points |
A Death in the Family by James Agee | 15 points |
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino | 15 points |
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson | 15 points |
Howards End by E. M. Forster | 15 points |
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene | 15 points |
Selected Stories by Alice Munro | 15 points |
A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell | 15 points |
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark | 15 points |
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr | 14 points |
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare | 14 points |
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens | 13 points |
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser | 13 points |
The Bear by William Faulkner | 13 points |
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway | 13 points |
Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson | 13 points |
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | 13 points |
Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter | 13 points |
Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles | 13 points |
East of Eden by John Steinbeck | 13 points |
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson | 13 points |
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot | 12 points |
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 12 points |
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard | 12 points |
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell | 12 points |
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison | 12 points |
Germinal by Émile Zola | 12 points |
Ask the Dust by John Fante | 11 points |
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford | 11 points |
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro | 11 points |
The Ambassadors by Henry James | 11 points |
Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger | 11 points |
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray | 11 points |
Native Son by Richard Wright | 11 points |
The Bhagavad Gita : The song of God by Anonymous | 10 points |
The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe | 10 points |
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe | 10 points |
The Untouchable by John Banville | 10 points |
Ill Seen Ill Said by Samuel Beckett | 10 points |
Book of Leviathan by Peter Blegvad | 10 points |
The Outward Room by Millen Brand | 10 points |
Casa Guidi Windows by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 10 points |
Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote | 10 points |
The Golden Argosy: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language by Charles Grayson | 10 points |
The Professor's House by Willa Cather | 10 points |
The Awakening by Kate Chopin | 10 points |
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee | 10 points |
Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee | 10 points |
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn | 10 points |
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich | 10 points |
J R by William Gaddis | 10 points |
I, Claudius by Robert Graves | 10 points |
The Golden Bowl by Henry James | 10 points |
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence | 10 points |
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis | 10 points |
Embers by Sándor Márai | 10 points |
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville | 10 points |
The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter | 10 points |
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter | 10 points |
In Diamond Square by Mercè Rodoreda | 10 points |
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare | 10 points |
The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | 10 points |
L'Assommoir by Émile Zola | 10 points |
Nana by Émile Zola | 10 points |
The Complete Fables by Aesop | 9 points |
Mahābhārata (John D. Smith ed.) by Vyasa | 9 points |
The Zoo Story by Edward Albee | 9 points |
The American Dream by Edward Albee | 9 points |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee | 9 points |
Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac | 9 points |
The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos | 9 points |
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler | 9 points |
The Fall by Albert Camus | 9 points |
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather | 9 points |
The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermoût | 9 points |
Selected Stories by Andre Dubus | 9 points |
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot | 9 points |
Medea [in Translation] by Euripides | 9 points |
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon | 9 points |
1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray | 9 points |
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy | 9 points |
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst | 9 points |
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen | 9 points |
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann | 9 points |
Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend by Thomas Mann | 9 points |
Bourgeois Gentleman / Doctor in Spite of Himself / Learned Ladies / Misanthrope / Pretentious Young Ladies / Tartuffe by Molière | 9 points |
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec | 9 points |
Wheat that Springeth Green (New York Review Books Classics) by J. F. Powers | 9 points |
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym | 9 points |
Henry V by William Shakespeare | 9 points |
Othello by William Shakespeare | 9 points |
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson | 9 points |
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson | 9 points |
The Master by Colm Tóibín | 9 points |
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset | 9 points |
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West | 9 points |
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams | 9 points |
Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac | 8 points |
Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges | 8 points |
Bullet Park by John Cheever | 8 points |
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov | 8 points |
Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee | 8 points |
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad | 8 points |
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad | 8 points |
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies | 8 points |
Hard Times by Charles Dickens | 8 points |
The Ice Age by Margaret Drabble | 8 points |
Bacchae [Greek text] by Euripides | 8 points |
Light in August by William Faulkner | 8 points |
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding | 8 points |
The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald | 8 points |
The Sheltered Life by Ellen Glasgow | 8 points |
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris | 8 points |
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway | 8 points |
Almost Paradise by Susan Isaacs | 8 points |
Shining Through by Susan Isaacs | 8 points |
Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson | 8 points |
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera | 8 points |
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis | 8 points |
Man's Fate by André Malraux | 8 points |
Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant | 8 points |
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien | 8 points |
Norwood by Charles Portis | 8 points |
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie | 8 points |
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini | 8 points |
The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott | 8 points |
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald | 8 points |
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein | 8 points |
Sophie's Choice by William Styron | 8 points |
Golpo Guchho by Rabindranath Tagore | 8 points |
Sketches from a Hunter's Album by Ivan Turgenev | 8 points |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain | 8 points |
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde | 8 points |
Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory | 7 points |
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott | 7 points |
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen | 7 points |
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes | 7 points |
Herzog by Saul Bellow | 7 points |
My Ántonia by Willa Cather | 7 points |
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler | 7 points |
The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov | 7 points |
The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute | 7 points |
Letourneau's Used Auto Parts by Carolyn Chute | 7 points |
Merry Men by Carolyn Chute | 7 points |
The Hours by Michael Cunningham | 7 points |
U.S.A. by John Dos Passos | 7 points |
The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble | 7 points |
The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant by Mavis Gallant | 7 points |
The Comedians by Graham Greene | 7 points |
The Evening of the Holiday by Shirley Hazzard | 7 points |
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen | 7 points |
The Thin Red Line by James Jones | 7 points |
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey | 7 points |
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré | 7 points |
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry | 7 points |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers | 7 points |
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller | 7 points |
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu | 7 points |
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov | 7 points |
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris | 7 points |
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien | 7 points |
Metamorphoses [in translation] by Ovid | 7 points |
The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick | 7 points |
Gargantua And Pantagruel by François Rabelais | 7 points |
The Burning Plain, and Other Stories by Juan Rulfo | 7 points |
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald | 7 points |
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss | 7 points |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith | 7 points |
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson | 7 points |
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien | 7 points |
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole | 7 points |
Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope | 7 points |
The Color Purple by Alice Walker | 7 points |
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White | 7 points |
The Dreamer Wakes by Cao Xuequin | 7 points |
Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates | 7 points |
The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker | 6 points |
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett | 6 points |
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard | 6 points |
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles | 6 points |
Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown | 6 points |
Collected Stories by Raymond Carver | 6 points |
The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary | 6 points |
Troilus and Cressida by Geoffrey Chaucer | 6 points |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 6 points |
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 6 points |
A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley | 6 points |
Underworld by Don DeLillo | 3 points |