The 100 Greatest Books of All Time

The following is an aggregate list sourced from over 480 "Greatest Books of All Time" lists curated by TheGreatestBooks. The full list can be found here. (updated as of 2/14/25)

1. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
2. Ulysses - James Joyce (1922)
3. In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust (1913)
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
5. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger (1951)
6. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell (1949)
7. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
8. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville (1851)
9. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (1877)
10. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes (1605)
11. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë (1847)
12. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (1869)
13. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (1960)
14. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
15. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (1813)
16. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)
17. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner (1929)
18. The Stranger - Albert Camus (1942)
19. The Odyssey - Homer (740 BCE)
20. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)
21. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (1857)
22. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (1899)
23. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (1865)
24. Middlemarch - George Eliot (1871)
25. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (1927)
26. The Trial - Franz Kafka (1925)
27. The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri (1308)
28. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (1939)
29. The Bible - Unknown (1400 BCE)
30. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë (1847)
31. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann (1924)
32. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf (1925)
33. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (1860)
34. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (1884)
35. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (1961)
36. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison (1952)
37. The Iliad - Homer (750 BCE)
38. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)
39. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (1818)
40. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo (1862)
41. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (1981)
42. The Red and the Black - Stendhal (1830)
43. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (1958)
44. One Thousand and One Nights - Unknown (800)
45. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (1926)
46. On the Road - Jack Kerouac (1957)
47. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner (1936)
48. Beloved - Toni Morrison (1987)
49. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne (1759)
50. Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1932)
51. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)
52. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (1849)
53. Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges (1944)
54. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1932)
55. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (1952)
56. Animal Farm - George Orwell (1945)
57. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
58. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift (1726)
59. The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank (1947)
60. Dune - Frank Herbert (1965)
61. The Aeneid - Virgil (19)
62. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
63. Hamlet - William Shakespeare (1600)
64. A Passage to India - E. M. Forster (1924)
65. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman (1855)
66. Dracula - Bram Stoker (1897)
67. The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford (1915)
68. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote (1966)
69. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James (1881)
70. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier (1938)
71. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1869)
72. Essays - Michel de Montaigne (1580)
73. Candide - Voltaire (1759)
74. Silent Spring - Rachel Carson (1962)
75. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (1954)
76. Oedipus the King - Sophocles (429 BCE)
77. Orlando - Virginia Woolf (1928)
78. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (1985)
79. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka (1915)
80. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell (1936)
81. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott (1868)
82. The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1958)
83. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (1916)
84. Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808)
85. The Castle - Franz Kafka (1926)
86. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner (1930)
87. The Golden Notebook - Doris May Lessing (1962)
88. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (1844)
89. Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1872)
90. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (1890)
91. The Stories of Anton Chekhov - Anton Chekhov (1900)
92. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (1920)
93. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque (1928)
94. The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe (1902)
95. Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry (1947)
96. Emma - Jane Austen (1815)
97. Charlotte's Web - E. B. White (1952)
98. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe (1719)
99. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
100. Native Son - Richard Wright (1940)