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The Greatest Books: The Best Fictional Books of All Time

This list is generated from 130 "best of" book lists from a variety of great sources. An algorithm is used to create a master list based on how many lists a particular book appears on. Some lists count more than others. I generally trust "best of all time" lists voted by authors and experts over user-generated lists. On the lists that are actually ranked, the book that is 1st counts a lot more than the book that's 100th. If you're interested in the details about how the rankings are generated and which lists are the most important (in my eyes) please check out the list details page.
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In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
1
Marcel Proust
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
2
James Joyce
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
3
Miguel De Cervantes
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
4
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
5
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
6
Herman Melville
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
7
Leo Tolstoy
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
8
William Shakespeare
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
9
Homer
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
10
Gustave Flaubert
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
11
Dante Alighieri
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
12
Vladimir Nabokov
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
13
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
14
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
15
Emily Bronte
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
16
J.D. Salinger
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
17
Jane Austen
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
18
Mark Twain
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
19
Leo Tolstoy
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
20
Lewis Carroll
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
21
Homer
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
22
Virginia Woolf
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
23
Joseph Heller
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
24
Joseph Conrad
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
25
William Faulkner
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
26
George Orwell
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
27
Charles Dickens
One Thousand and One Nights (Anonimus)
One Thousand and One Nights
28
Anonimus
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
29
John Steinbeck
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
30
William Faulkner
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
31
Ralph Ellison
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
32
Harper Lee
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
33
Franz Kafka
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black
34
Stendhal
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
35
George Eliot
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
36
Jonathan Swift
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
37
Toni Morrison
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs. Dalloway
38
Virginia Woolf
The Complete Stories of Anton Chekhov, Vol. 1: 1882-1885 (Anton Chekhov)
The Complete Stories of Anton Chekhov, Vol. 1: 1882-1885
39
Anton Chekhov
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
40
Albert Camus
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