| 1 | | Pride and Prejudice
byJane Austen 4.28 avg rating — 4,080,723 ratings | |
| 2 | | 1984
byGeorge Orwell 4.19 avg rating — 4,368,986 ratings | |
| 3 | | Crime and Punishment
byFyodor Dostoevsky 4.26 avg rating — 857,301 ratings | |
| 4 | | Hamlet
byWilliam Shakespeare 4.02 avg rating — 915,339 ratings | |
| 5 | | One Hundred Years of Solitude
byGabriel García Márquez 4.11 avg rating — 939,970 ratings | |
| 6 | | Anna Karenina
byLeo Tolstoy 4.09 avg rating — 821,433 ratings | |
| 7 | | The Odyssey
byHomer 3.80 avg rating — 1,042,165 ratings | |
| 8 | | The Stranger
byAlbert Camus 4.02 avg rating — 1,021,002 ratings | |
| 9 | | The Brothers Karamazov
byFyodor Dostoevsky 4.36 avg rating — 317,752 ratings | |
| 10 | | Lolita
byVladimir Nabokov 3.88 avg rating — 820,939 ratings | |
| 11 | | The Old Man and the Sea
byErnest Hemingway 3.80 avg rating — 1,099,778 ratings | |
| 12 | | Great Expectations
byCharles Dickens 3.79 avg rating — 779,888 ratings | |
| 13 | | War and Peace
byLeo Tolstoy 4.15 avg rating — 318,985 ratings | |
| 14 | | Don Quixote
byMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra 3.89 avg rating — 261,975 ratings | |
| 15 | | The Iliad
byHomer 3.90 avg rating — 436,422 ratings | |
| 16 | | Madame Bovary
byGustave Flaubert 3.70 avg rating — 323,201 ratings | |
| 17 | | The Trial
byFranz Kafka 3.96 avg rating — 307,861 ratings | |
| 18 | | The Divine Comedy
byDante Alighieri 4.07 avg rating — 147,354 ratings | |
| 19 | | Moby-Dick or, The Whale
byHerman Melville 3.54 avg rating — 546,317 ratings | |
| 20 | | King Lear
byWilliam Shakespeare 3.91 avg rating — 213,128 ratings | |
| 21 | | Love in the Time of Cholera
byGabriel García Márquez 3.93 avg rating — 492,054 ratings | |
| 22 | | The Complete Fairy Tales
byHans Christian Andersen 4.29 avg rating — 106,637 ratings | |
| 23 | | Mrs. Dalloway
byVirginia Woolf 3.79 avg rating — 292,855 ratings | |
| 24 | | Othello
byWilliam Shakespeare 3.89 avg rating — 378,557 ratings | |
| 25 | | The Arabian Nights
byAnonymous 4.03 avg rating — 75,978 ratings | |
| 26 | | Ulysses
byJames Joyce 3.75 avg rating — 125,421 ratings | |
| 27 | | The Sound and the Fury
byWilliam Faulkner 3.86 avg rating — 178,393 ratings | |
| 28 | | Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
bySophocles 3.72 avg rating — 209,756 ratings | |
| 29 | | Gulliver’s Travels
byJonathan Swift 3.58 avg rating — 268,364 ratings | |
| 30 | | The Canterbury Tales
byGeoffrey Chaucer 3.52 avg rating — 217,103 ratings | |
| 31 | | The Idiot
byFyodor Dostoevsky 4.20 avg rating — 174,437 ratings | |
| 32 | | Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
byAstrid Lindgren 4.15 avg rating — 202,571 ratings | |
| 33 | | Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
byMarcel Proust 4.14 avg rating — 58,422 ratings | |
| 34 | | The Collected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
byEdgar Allan Poe 4.29 avg rating — 1,503 ratings | |
| 35 | | To the Lighthouse
byVirginia Woolf 3.80 avg rating — 175,590 ratings | |
| 36 | | Beloved
byToni Morrison 3.94 avg rating — 419,008 ratings | |
| 37 | | Faust, First Part
byJohann Wolfgang von Goethe 3.86 avg rating — 73,688 ratings | |
| 38 | | Blindness
byJosé Saramago 4.17 avg rating — 277,522 ratings | |
| 39 | | Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
byChinua Achebe 3.73 avg rating — 359,090 ratings | |
| 40 | | Ficciones
byJorge Luis Borges 4.42 avg rating — 64,742 ratings | |
| 41 | | Zorba the Greek
byNikos Kazantzakis 4.05 avg rating — 49,779 ratings | |
| 42 | | The Death of Ivan Ilych
byLeo Tolstoy 4.12 avg rating — 151,260 ratings | |
| 43 | | Middlemarch
byGeorge Eliot 4.01 avg rating — 158,809 ratings | |
| 44 | | Midnight’s Children
bySalman Rushdie 3.98 avg rating — 121,032 ratings | |
| 45 | | The Epic of Gilgamesh
byAnonymous 3.71 avg rating — 91,969 ratings | |
| 46 | | A Doll’s House
byHenrik Ibsen 3.76 avg rating — 138,937 ratings | |
| 47 | | Journey to the End of the Night
byLouis-Ferdinand Céline 4.20 avg rating — 40,584 ratings | |
| 48 | | Invisible Man
byRalph Ellison 3.91 avg rating — 183,429 ratings | |
| 49 | | Leaves of Grass
byWalt Whitman 4.12 avg rating — 104,279 ratings | |
| 50 | | The Magic Mountain
byThomas Mann 4.12 avg rating — 47,614 ratings | |
| 51 | | The Book of Disquiet
byFernando Pessoa 4.42 avg rating — 29,162 ratings | |
| 52 | | The Man Without Qualities
byRobert Musil 4.19 avg rating — 6,604 ratings | |
| 53 | | Hunger
byKnut Hamsun 4.06 avg rating — 53,661 ratings | |
| 54 | | The Decameron
byGiovanni Boccaccio 3.88 avg rating — 39,061 ratings | |
| 55 | | Dead Souls
byNikolai Gogol 3.98 avg rating — 82,169 ratings | |
| 56 | | Metamorphoses
byOvid 4.08 avg rating — 69,264 ratings | |
| 57 | | The Aeneid
byVirgil 3.86 avg rating — 126,354 ratings | |
| 58 | | The Castle
byFranz Kafka 3.94 avg rating — 60,002 ratings | |
| 59 | | Wuthering Heights
byEmily Brontë 3.88 avg rating — 1,735,354 ratings | |
| 60 | | Medea
byEuripides 3.92 avg rating — 73,135 ratings | |
| 61 | | Mahabharata
byAnonymous 4.31 avg rating — 10,890 ratings | |
| 62 | | The Red and the Black
byStendhal 3.87 avg rating — 72,742 ratings | |
| 63 | | The Complete Stories
byFranz Kafka 4.34 avg rating — 26,111 ratings | |
| 64 | | Gargantua and Pantagruel
byFrançois Rabelais 3.67 avg rating — 15,023 ratings | |
| 65 | | Père Goriot
byHonoré de Balzac 3.85 avg rating — 57,408 ratings | |
| 66 | | Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
byAnton Chekhov 4.38 avg rating — 30,546 ratings | |
| 67 | | The Tin Drum
byGünter Grass 3.95 avg rating — 43,327 ratings | |
| 68 | | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
byMark Twain 3.83 avg rating — 1,250,265 ratings | |
| 69 | | Absalom, Absalom!
byWilliam Faulkner 3.98 avg rating — 43,680 ratings | |
| 70 | | Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
byThomas Mann 4.19 avg rating — 29,104 ratings | |
| 71 | | Ramayana
byVālmīki 4.20 avg rating — 4,979 ratings | |
| 72 | | Sons and Lovers
byD.H. Lawrence 3.64 avg rating — 52,322 ratings | |
| 73 | | Demons
byFyodor Dostoevsky 4.29 avg rating — 49,804 ratings | |
| 74 | | Pedro Páramo
byJuan Rulfo 4.05 avg rating — 65,143 ratings | |
| 75 | | Memoirs of Hadrian
byMarguerite Yourcenar 4.23 avg rating — 28,122 ratings | |
| 76 | | The Book of Job (Pocket Canon)
byAnonymous 4.12 avg rating — 3,562 ratings | |
| 77 | | The Golden Notebook
byDoris Lessing 3.76 avg rating — 22,507 ratings | |
| 78 | | The Complete Essays
byMichel de Montaigne 4.24 avg rating — 13,604 ratings | |
| 79 | | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
byLaurence Sterne 3.73 avg rating — 21,324 ratings | |
| 80 | | Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
bySamuel Beckett 4.28 avg rating — 8,858 ratings | |
| 81 | | مثنوی معنوی
byRumi 4.45 avg rating — 4,019 ratings | |
| 82 | | Jacques the Fatalist
byDenis Diderot 3.80 avg rating — 8,545 ratings | |
| 83 | | The Tale of Genji
byMurasaki Shikibu 3.73 avg rating — 12,976 ratings | |
| 84 | | Season of Migration to the North
byTayeb Salih 3.72 avg rating — 27,815 ratings | |
| 85 | | Sentimental Education
byGustave Flaubert 3.81 avg rating — 21,588 ratings | |
| 86 | | أولاد حارتنا
byنجيب محفوظ 4.09 avg rating — 27,872 ratings | |
| 87 | | Independent People
byHalldór Laxness 4.14 avg rating — 11,872 ratings | |
| 88 | | The Sound of the Mountain
byYasunari Kawabata 3.87 avg rating — 7,805 ratings | |
| 89 | | Nostromo
byJoseph Conrad 3.81 avg rating — 16,710 ratings | |
| 90 | | Zeno’s Conscience
byItalo Svevo 3.78 avg rating — 25,526 ratings | |
| 91 | | Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
byLu Xun 3.92 avg rating — 2,102 ratings | |
| 92 | | Grande Sertão: Veredas
byJoão Guimarães Rosa 4.60 avg rating — 5,164 ratings | |
| 93 | | Romancero gitano
byFederico Garcia Lorca 4.18 avg rating — 9,879 ratings | |
| 94 | | History (La Storia, #1-2)
byElsa Morante 4.27 avg rating — 6,376 ratings | |
| 95 | | Poems of Paul Celan
byPaul Celan 4.35 avg rating — 3,365 ratings | |
| 96 | | Berlin Alexanderplatz
byAlfred Döblin 3.85 avg rating — 9,419 ratings | |
| 97 | | Njal’s Saga
byUnknown 3.95 avg rating — 4,918 ratings | |
| 98 | | The Recognition of Śakuntalā
byKālidāsa 3.86 avg rating — 1,730 ratings | |
| 99 | | The Orchard: The Bostan Of Saadi Of Shiraz
bySaadi 4.36 avg rating — 1,890 ratings | |
| 100 | | The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi
byGiacomo Leopardi 4.40 avg rating — 2,625 ratings | |
