1 | 1. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) George Orwell (9.5) |
2 | 2.Midnight’s Children (1981) Salman Rushdie (9) |
3 | 3. Ulysses (1922) James Joyce (9) |
4 | 4. The Great Gatsby (1925) F. Scott Fitzgerald (9) |
5 | 5. Lolita (1955) Vladimir Nabokov (9) |
6 | 6. Brave New World (1932) Aldous Huxley (8.9) |
7 | 7. The Sound and the Fury (1929) William Faulkner (8.9) |
8 | 8. The Lord of the Rings (1954) J.R.R. Tolkien (8.8) |
9 | 9. The Grapes of Wrath (1939) John Steinbeck (8.8) |
10 | 10. Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen (8.8) |
11 | 11. Anna Karenina (1877) Leo Tolstoy (8.6) |
12 | 12. Invisible Man (1952) Ralph Ellison (8.6) |
13 | 13. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) J.D. Salinger (8.6) |
14 | 14. Catch-22 (1961) Joseph Heller (8.6) |
15 | 15. One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) Gabriel Garcia Marquez (8.6) |
16 | 16. Gone with the Wind (1936) Margaret Mitchell (8.6) |
17 | 17. Clockwork Orange (1962) Anthony Burgess (8.5) |
18 | 18. To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) Harper Lee (8.5) |
19 | 19. The Hobbit (1937) J.R.R. Tolkien (8.5) |
20 | 20. Crime and Punishment (1866) Fyodor Dostoyevsky (8.5) |
21 | 21. The Little Prince (1943) Antoine de Saint-Exupery (8.5) |
22 | 22. Les Miserables (1862) Victor Hugo (8.5) |
23 | 23. To the Lighthouse (1927) Virginia Woolf (8.4) |
24 | 24. On the Road (1957) Jack Kerouac (8.4) |
25 | 25. War and Peace (1869) Leo Tolstoy (8.4) |
26 | 26. Beloved (1987) Toni Morrison (8.4) |
27 | 27. The Trial (1925) Franz Kafka (8.3) |
28 | 28. Animal Farm (1945) George Orwell (8.3) |
29 | 29. The Brothers Karamazov (1880) Fyodor Dostoyevsky (8.3) |
30 | 30. Wuthering Heights (1847) Emily Bronte (8.3) |
31 | 31. Lord of the Flies (1954) William Golding (8.3) |
32 | 32. Slaughterhouse Five (1969) Kurt Vonnegut (8.2) |
33 | 33. Great Expectations (1861) Charles Dickens (8.2) |
34 | 34. The Master and Margarita (1973) Mikhail Bulgakov (8.2) |
35 | 35. The Stranger (1942) Albert Camus (8.2) |
36 | 36. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Lewis Carroll (8.2) |
37 | 37. Heart of Darkness (1899) Joseph Conrad (8.2) |
38 | 38. Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) Gabriel Garcia Marquez (8.2) |
39 | 39. The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) Alexandre Dumas (8.2) |
40 | 40. Hamlet William Shakespeare (8.2) |
41 | 41. Don Quixote (1605) Miguel de Cervantes (8.2) |
42 | 42. Jane Eyre (1847) Charlotte Bronte (8.2) |
43 | 43. East of Eden (1952) John Steinbeck (8.2) |
44 | 44. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) Ken Kesey (8.2) |
45 | 45. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) Oscar Wilde (8.1) |
46 | 46. The Name of the Rose (1980) Umberto Eco (8.1) |
47 | 47. The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) Margaret Atwood (8.1) |
48 | 48. Middlemarch (1874) George Eliot (8.1) |
49 | 49. The Idiot (1869) Fyodor Dostoyevsky (8.1) |
50 | 50. The Magic Mountain (1924) Thomas Mann (8.1) |
51 | 51. The Old Man and the Sea (1952) Ernest Hemingway (8.1) |
52 | 52. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979) Douglas Adams (8.1) |
53 | 53. The Color Purple (1982) Alice Walker (8.1) |
54 | 54. Dracula (1897) Bram Stoker (8.1) |
55 | 55. Fahrenheit 451 (1953) Ray Bradbury (8.1) |
56 | 56. Fairy Tales (1812) Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (8) |
57 | 57. Native Son (1940) Richard Wright (8) |
58 | 58. Infinite Jest (1996) David Foster Wallace (8) |
59 | 59. American Psycho (1991) Bret Easton Ellis (8) |
60 | 60. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) Ernest Hemingway (8) |
61 | 61. The Fault in Our Stars (2012) John Green (8) |
62 | 62. And Then There Were None (1939) Agatha Christie (8) |
63 | 63. Persuasion (1818) Jane Austen (8) |
64 | 64. Rebecca (1938) Daphne du Maurier (8) |
65 | 65. The War of the Worlds (1898) H.G. Wells (8) |
66 | 66. The Kite Runner (2003) Khaled Hosseini (8) |
67 | 67. House of Mirth (1905) Edith Wharton (8) |
68 | 68. Journey to the End of the Night (1932) Louis-Ferdinand Celine (8) |
69 | 69. Of Mice and Men (1937) John Steinbeck (8) |
70 | 70. Lonesome Dove (1985) Larry McMurtry (8) |
71 | 71. Three Musketeers (1844) Alexandre Dumas (8) |
72 | 72. Pale Fire (1989) Vladimir Nabokov (8) |
73 | 73. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1915) James Joyce (8) |
74 | 74. The Hunger Games (2008) Suzanne Collins (8) |
75 | 75. Emma (1815) Jane Austen (8) |
76 | 76. The Godfather (1969) Mario Puzo (8) |
77 | 77. Call of the Wild (1903) Jack London (7.9) |
78 | 78. Sons and Lovers (1913) D.H. Lawrence (7.9) |
79 | 79. A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) John Irving (7.9) |
80 | 80. The Stand (1978) Stephen King (7.9) |
81 | 81. Little Women (1868) Louisa May Alcott (7.9) |
82 | 82. Brideshead Revisited (1945) Evelyn Waugh (7.9) |
83 | 83. Cloud Atlas (2004) David Mitchell (7.9) |
84 | 84. Sense and Sensibility (1811) Jane Austen (7.9) |
85 | 85. Mrs Dalloway (1925) Virginia Woolf (7.9) |
86 | 86. Diary of a Young Girl (1947) Anne Frank (7.9) |
87 | 87. Othello William Shakespeare (7.9) |
88 | 88. Maus Art Spiegelman (7.9) |
89 | 89. Absalom, Absalom! (1936) William Faulkner (7.9) |
90 | 90. King Lear William Shakespeare (7.9) |
91 | 91. Of Human Bondage (1915) W. Somerset Maugham (7.9) |
92 | 92. Madame Bovary (1857) Gustave Flaubert (7.9) |
93 | 93. Leaves of Grass (1855) Walt Whitman (7.9) |
94 | 94. A Tale of Two Cities (1859) Charles Dickens (7.9) |
95 | 95. As I Lay Dying (1930) William Faulkner (7.9) |
96 | 96. Odyssey Homer (7.9) |
97 | 97. Gulliver’s Travels (1726) Jonathan Swift (7.9) |
98 | 98. Frankenstein (1818) Mary Shelley (7.9) |
99 | 99. Things Fall Apart (1958) Chinua Achebe (7.9) |
100 | 100. Age of Innocence (1920) Edith Wharton (7.9) |