Top rated books
Ranked by overall appearances across curated book lists, literary awards, and critics' polls.
- 1
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · 43 lists
- 2
Ulysses
James Joyce · 1920 · 39 lists
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1955 · 38 lists
- 4
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell · 1948 · 36 lists
- 5
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851 · 34 lists
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 1967 · 33 lists
- 7
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1960 · 33 lists
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger · 1951 · 32 lists
- 9
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 1939 · 32 lists
- 10
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987 · 31 lists
- 11
Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 1961 · 29 lists
- 12
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad · 1899 · 29 lists
- 13
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust · 1913 · 29 lists
- 14
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison · 1952 · 29 lists
- 15
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 1869 · 29 lists
- 16
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · 1847 · 29 lists
- 17
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 1813 · 28 lists
- 18
The Annotated Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 28 lists
- 19
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1615 · 27 lists
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Don Quixote de La Mancha II
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1968 · 27 lists
- 22
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 1865 · 26 lists
- 23
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 1847 · 26 lists
- 24
Middlemarch
George Eliot · 1871 · 26 lists
- 25
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner · 1929 · 26 lists
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 1856 · 25 lists
- 27
Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie · 1981 · 25 lists
- 28
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · 1321 · 25 lists
- 29
To The Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf · 1927 · 25 lists
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 1885 · 24 lists
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