The Globe's 50 Greatest Books
List by Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. 5 panelists, including Charlotte Gray, A. L. Kennedy and André Alexis.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 1885 · 25 lists
- 2
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust · 1913 · 29 lists
- 3
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin · 1859 · 7 lists
- 4
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · 1321 · 25 lists
- 5
The Republic
Plato · 375 · 6 lists
- 6
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1615 · 27 lists
- 7
Ulysses
James Joyce · 1920 · 39 lists
- 8
Das Kapital
Karl Marx · 1867 · 6 lists
- 9
Confessions
Augustine of Hippo · 1482 · 6 lists
- 10
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli · 1515 · 5 lists
- 11
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · 43 lists
- 12
Middlemarch
George Eliot · 1871 · 26 lists
- 13
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith · 1776 · 3 lists
- 14
The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud · 2018 · 10 lists
- 15
Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift · 1726 · 17 lists
- 16
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 1967 · 33 lists
- 17
King Lear
William Shakespeare · 1604 · 5 lists
- 18
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant · 2016 · 4 lists
- 19
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 1813 · 28 lists
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The Odyssey
Homer · -800 · 21 lists
- 22
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880 · 22 lists
- 23
Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot · 1936 · 3 lists
- 24
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1955 · 38 lists
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Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens · 1800 · 6 lists
- 27
The Histories of Herodotus
Herodotus · 1899 · 7 lists
- 28
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851 · 34 lists
- 29
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 1856 · 26 lists
- 30
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka · 1996 · 4 lists
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Principia Mathematica
Isaac Newton · 1687 · 2 lists
- 33
Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats · 1994 · 7 lists
- 34
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Galileo · 1953 · 4 lists
- 35
Oedipus the King
Sophocles · 1994 · 1 list
- 36
Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles · 2020 · 4 lists
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Mahabharata
Vyasa · 2010 · 4 lists
- 39
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 1865 · 26 lists
- 40
The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762 · 2 lists
- 41
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808 · 9 lists
- 42
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson · 1962 · 9 lists
- 43
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume · 1748 · 3 lists
- 44
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 1869 · 29 lists
- 45
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft · 1792 · 2 lists
- 46
Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio · 1516 · 10 lists
- 47
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett · 1989 · 5 lists
- 48
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu · 2000 · 10 lists
- 49
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James · 1881 · 13 lists
- 50
Encyclopédie
Denis Diderot · 2001 · 3 lists
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The Stories of Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov · 1932 · 8 lists
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Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges · 1973 · 12 lists
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Essays
Michel de Montaigne · 1618 · 11 lists