Monday, 2 January 2012

TOP 50 BOOKS ALL-TIME

Rank Title Author Year Rating  Read
1 War & Peace  Tolstoy 1869 10 1993
2 Crime & Punishment Dostoevsky 1866 10 1991
3 Moby Dick Melville 1851 10 1996
4 The Odyssey Homer -800 10 1990
5 Ulysses Joyce 1922 10 2010
6 Gilgamesh Mitchell -2000 10 2010
7 One Hundred Years of Solitude Marquez 1967 10 2010
8 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain 1885 10 2009
9 Anna Karenina Tolstoy 1877 10 1990
10 Shepherds of the Night Amado 1966 10 2011
11 The Death of Ivan Illych Tolstoy 1887 10 1997
12 The Fountainhead Rand  1943 10 1992
13 Othello Shakespeare 1605 10 1977
14 Hamlet Shakespeare 1605 10 1978
15 The Magus Fowles 1965 10 1988
16 The Razor’s Edge Maugham 1944 10 1994
17 Siddhartha Hesse  1922 10 1994
18 The Book Thief Zucak 2005 10 2008
19 Robinson Crusoe Defoe 1719 10 2008
20 Oedipus the King Sophocles -429 10 2010
21 Walden Thoreau 1854 10 1994
22 Farewell to Arms  Hemingway 1929 10 2011
23 Tale of Two Cities Dickens 1859 10 2011
24 Time Traveler’s Wife Niffenegger 2003 10 2007
25 One Thousand and One Nights Burton  1500 10 1993
26 Gulliver’s Travels Swift 1726 10 1997
27 Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky 1880 10 1994
28 The Prince Machiavelli 1532 10 1996
29 Death in Venice Mann 1912 10 1989
30 King Lear Shakespeare 1605 10 1978
31 Macbeth Shakespeare 1605 10 1977
32 Sorrows of a Young Werther Goethe 1774 10 1986
33 Mayor of Casterbridge Hardy 1880 10 2011
34 If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Calvino 1979 10 2011
35 Divine Comedy - Inferno Dante 1308 9.5 2010
36 The Trial Kafka 1925 9.5 2008
37 Of Human Bondage Maugham 1915 9.5 2011
38 Chronciles of Death Foretold Marquez 1981 9.5 2011
39 Dubliners Joyce 1914 9.5 2010
40 Wuthering Heights  Bronte 1847 9.5 2009
41 Metamorphisis Kafka 1915 9.5 2011
42 Kim Kipling 1901 9.5 2010
43 The Idiot Dostoevsky 1869 9.5 1989
44 The Stranger Camus 1942 9.5 1986
45 Dangerous Liaisons Laclos 1782 9.5 2007
46 Justine  Durrell 1957 9.5 1998
47 The French Lieutenants Wife Fowles 1969 9.5 2005
48 The Road McCarthy 2006 9.5 2008
49 Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde 1891 9.5 2010
50 Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury 1953 9.5 2007

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