The Greatest Books of All Time
Arts & Entertainment 500 records updated 2026-07-17
The Greatest Books of All Time, with rank, title, author, and published.
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| ID | Rank | Title | Author | Published | Country | OriginalLanguage | PageRange | WordCount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 1967 | Colombian | spanish | 300-500 | 144000 |
| 2 | 2 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 | American | english | 47-180 | 47000 |
| 3 | 3 | Ulysses | James Joyce | 1922 | Irish | english | 730-1000 | 265000 |
| 4 | 4 | In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | 1913 | French | french | 3000-4300 | 1200000 |
| 5 | 5 | The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | 1945 | American | english | 220-277 | 73440 |
| 6 | 6 | Nineteen Eighty Four | George Orwell | 1949 | British | english | 300-400 | 88942 |
| 7 | 7 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 | American | english | 300-400 | 112473 |
| 8 | 8 | Moby Dick | Herman Melville | 1851 | American | english | 600-700 | 212000 |
| 9 | 9 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | 1605 | Spanish | spanish | 800-1000 | 500000 |
| 10 | 10 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 1813 | British | english | 432 | 122189 |
| 11 | 11 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1960 | American | english | 281-500 | 100388 |
| 12 | 12 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1866 | Russian | russian | 430-600 | 211591 |
| 13 | 13 | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | 1847 | British | english | 300-400 | 107945 |
| 14 | 14 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 1877 | Russian | russian | 800-1000 | 349000 |
| 15 | 15 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 1869 | Russian | russian | 1225-1500 | 587287 |
| 16 | 16 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1939 | American | english | 464 | 169481 |
| 17 | 17 | Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1987 | American | english | 275-350 | 90000 |
| 18 | 18 | The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | 1929 | American | english | 320 | 97000 |
| 19 | 19 | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 1961 | American | english | 450-550 | 174269 |
| 20 | 20 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 1865 | British | english | 92-202 | 26429 |
| 21 | 21 | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 1899 | British | english | 70-200 | 38000 |
| 22 | 22 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | 1857 | French | french | 300-450 | 117000 |
| 23 | 23 | The Lord of the Rings | J. R. R. Tolkien | 1954 | British | english | 1000-1500 | 455125 |
| 24 | 24 | The Odyssey | Homer | -700 | Greek | ancient greek | 300-500 | 120000 |
| 25 | 25 | The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri | 1301 | Italian | italian | 300-500 | 100000 |
Notes
- Last updated on July 17, 2026.
- The Greatest Books of All Time data courtesy of The Greatest LLC. .