What is the best book of all time? - Results & Rankings

Crime novel by Stieg Larsson, published in 2005

Historical mystery novel by Umberto Eco, published in 1980

Emily Brontë's novel about love and revenge, published in 1847

Controversial novel by Vladimir Nabokov, published in 1955

Philosophical novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, published in 1880

Franz Kafka's novella about transformation, published in 1915

F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel set in the 1920s

Novella by John Steinbeck about friendship and dreams, published in 1937

Dystopian novel by George Orwell, published in 1949

Dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, published in 1985

Mystery novel by Mark Haddon, published in 2003

Satirical novel by Joseph Heller, published in 1961

Allegorical novella by George Orwell, published in 1945

Gothic novel by Daphne du Maurier, published in 1938

Epic fantasy novel by J.R.R. Tolkien, published in 1954

Jane Austen's romantic novel published in 1813

Magical realism novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published in 1967

Ancient Greek epic poem attributed to Homer

Existential novel by Albert Camus, published in 1942

Jack Kerouac's defining work of the Beat Generation, published in 1957

Dystopian novel by Anthony Burgess, published in 1962

Science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut, published in 1969

Victor Hugo's historical novel about justice, published in 1862

Joseph Conrad's novella exploring imperialism, published in 1899

First book in J.K. Rowling's fantasy series, released in 1997

Novel by Yann Martel about survival and faith, published in 2001

Modernist novel by James Joyce, published in 1922

Shakespeare's tragedy exploring themes of revenge and madness

Philosophical novel by Paulo Coelho, published in 1988

Ray Bradbury's novel about a future without books, published in 1953

Epic historical novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1869

Children's fantasy novel by J.R.R. Tolkien, published in 1937

Adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, published in 1844

Post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy, published in 2006

Classic Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes, published in 1605

Epic science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, published in 1965

Novel by William Faulkner about a family's journey, published in 1930

Science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, published in 1985

Historical novel by Arthur Golden, published in 1997

Novel by Franz Kafka about a man facing an incomprehensible legal system

Novel by J.D. Salinger, exploring teenage angst, published in 1951

Thriller novel by Dan Brown, published in 2003

Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison, published in 1987

William Faulkner's modernist novel, published in 1929

William Golding's novel about stranded boys, published in 1954

Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel published in 1932

Historical novel by Margaret Mitchell, published in 1936

Novel by Alice Sebold about loss and the afterlife, published in 2002

Herman Melville's novel about obsession, published in 1851

John Steinbeck's novel about the Great Depression, published in 1939

Isaac Asimov's science fiction series beginning in 1951

Ancient Greek epic poem attributed to Homer

Mary Shelley's novel about creation and monstrosity, published in 1818

Gothic novel by Charlotte Brontë, published in 1847

Historical novel by Markus Zusak, narrated by Death, published in 2005

Oscar Wilde's philosophical novel about vanity, published in 1890

Comic science fiction series by Douglas Adams, first published in 1979

Dante Alighieri's epic poem, completed in the 14th century

Psychological novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, published in 1866

Philosophical tale by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, published in 1943

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from 1960

Sylvia Plath's semi-autobiographical novel, published in 1963

Khaled Hosseini's novel about friendship and betrayal, published in 2003

Gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897