5000 BEST BOOKS

Year from to
 
RankScoreTitle (Year)LinksWriter
601.7.3A Handful of Dust (1934)GR  AM  KBEvelyn Waugh
602.7.3Revolutionary Road (1961)GR  AM  KBRichard Yates
603.7.3Franny and Zooey (1961)GR  AM  KBJ.D. Salinger
604.7.3Sorrows of Young Werther (1787)GR  AM  KBJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
605.7.3The Reader (1995)GR  AM  KBBenhardq Schlink
606.7.3Wise Blood (1952)GR  AM  KBFlannery O'Connor
607.7.3Lord Jim (1900)GR  AM  KBJoseph Conrad
608.7.3Shutter Island (2003)GR  AM  KBDennis Lehane
609.7.3The Power of Myth (1988)GR  AM  KBJoseph Campbell
610.7.3Noughts & Crosses (2001)GR  AM  KBMalorie Blackman
611.7.3Neuromancer (1984)GR  AM  KBWilliam Gibson
612.7.3Cutting for Stone (2009)GR  AM  KBAbraham Verghese
613.7.3Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2005)GR  AM  KBLisa See
614.7.3The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010)GR  AM  KBRebecca Skloot
615.7.3Ella Enchanted (1997)GR  AM  KBGail Carson Levine
616.7.3Chosen (1967)GR  AM  KBChaim Potok
617.7.3Disgrace (1999)GR  AM  KBJ.M. Coetzee
618.7.3The Man Without Qualities (1942)GR  AM  KBRobert Musil
619.7.3Master and Commander (1969)GR  AM  KBPatrick O'Brian
620.7.3Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960)GR  AM  KBScott O'Dell
621.7.3The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)GR  AM  KBMuriel Spark
622.7.3Harold and the Purple Crayon (1955)GR  AM  KBCrockett Johnson
623.7.3Da Vinci CodeGR  AM  KBDan Brown
624.7.3American Pastoral (1997)GR  AM  KBPhilip Roth
625.7.3The Zombie Survival Guide (2003)GR  AM  KBMax Brooks
626.7.3The Great Divorce (1945)GR  AM  KBC.S. Lewis
627.7.3Room (2010)GR  AM  KBEmma Donoghue
628.7.3Jacques the Fatalist (1796)GR  AM  KBDenis Diderot
629.7.3Main Street (1920)GR  AM  KBSinclair Lewis
630.7.3Patriot Games (1987)GR  AM  KBTom Clancy
631.7.3Maximum RideGR  AM  KBJames Patterson
632.7.3Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (1978)GR  AM  KBJudi Barrett
633.7.3V (1963)GR  AM  KBThomas Pynchon
634.7.3Solaris (1961)GR  AM  KBStanislaw Lem
635.7.3Harriet the Spy (1964)GR  AM  KBLouise Fitzhugh
636.7.3The Mortal InstrumentsGR  AM  KBCassandra Clare
637.7.3The Second Sex (1949)GR  AM  KBSimone de Beauvoir
638.7.3Sex (1992)GR  AM  KB
639.7.2Dead Sea ScrollsGR  AM  KB
640.7.3Malazan Book of the Fallen (2011)GR  AM  KBSteven Erikson
641.7.2Deliverance (1970)GR  AM  KBJames Dickey
642.7.2Nineteen Minutes (2007)GR  AM  KBJodi Picoult
643.7.2Firm (1991)GR  AM  KBJohn Grisham
644.7.2John Adams (2001)GR  AM  KBDavid G. McCullough
645.7.2Narziss and Goldmund (1930)GR  AM  KBHermann Hesse
646.7.2On Writing (2000)GR  AM  KBStephen King
647.7.22001: A Space Odyssey (1968)GR  AM  KBArthur C. Clarke
648.7.2The Westing Game (1978)GR  AM  KBEllen Raskin
649.7.2Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960)GR  AM  KBWilliam L. Shirer
650.7.2The Exorcist (1971)GR  AM  KBWilliam Peter Blatty
651.7.2Sarah's Key (2006)GR  AM  KBTatiana de Rosnay
652.7.2A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955)GR  AM  KBFlannery O'Connor
653.7.2Fablehaven (2010)GR  AM  KBBrandon Mull
654.7.2Art of WarGR  AM  KBSunzi
655.7.2Cannery Row (1945)GR  AM  KBJohn Steinbeck
656.7.2Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)GR  AM  KBJohn Le Carre
657.7.2SummerGR  AM  KBJenny Han
658.7.2Pilgrim's Progress (1678)GR  AM  KBJohn Bunyan
659.7.2The Winds of War (1971)GR  AM  KBHerman Wouk
660.7.2Turn of the Screw (1898)GR  AM  KBHenry James
661.7.2Eugene Onegin (1833)GR  AM  KBAleksandr Pushkin
662.7.2Road Less TraveledGR  AM  KBM. Scott Peck
663.7.2The Island of Dr Moreau (1896)GR  AM  KBH.G. Wells
664.7.2Astonishing X-MenGR  AM  KBJoss Whedon
665.7.2A Moveable Feast (1964)GR  AM  KBErnest Hemingway
666.7.2Red Storm Rising (1986)GR  AM  KBTom Clancy
667.7.2Villette (1853)GR  AM  KBCharlotte Bronte
668.7.2The Tipping Point (2000)GR  AM  KBMalcolm Gladwell
669.7.2Pedro Paramo (1955)GR  AM  KBJuan Rulfo
670.7.2I Know This Much Is True (1998)GR  AM  KBWally Lamb
671.7.2Alex RiderGR  AM  KBAnthony Horowitz
672.7.2The Power of NowGR  AM  KBEckhart Tolle
673.7.2Mill on the Floss (1860)GR  AM  KBGeorge Eliot
674.7.2Maniac MageeGR  AM  KBJerry Spinelli
675.7.2The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)GR  AM  KBThomas Pynchon
676.7.2The Hero with a Thousand Faces (2008)GR  AM  KBJoseph Campbell
677.7.2George's Marvellous Medicine (1981)GR  AM  KBRoald Dahl
678.7.2BeowulfGR  AM  KB
679.7.2The Third ManGR  AM  KBGraham Greene
680.7.2Georgina KincaidGR  AM  KBRichelle Mead
681.7.2Being and NothingnessGR  AM  KBJean Paul Sartre
682.7.2Jimmy Corrigan, The Smarest Kid on EarthGR  AM  KBChris Ware
683.7.2A Study in Scarlet (1887)GR  AM  KBArthur Conan Doyle
684.7.2The Tale of Despereaux (2003)GR  AM  KBKate DiCamillo
685.7.2A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (1997)GR  AM  KBDavid Foster Wallace
686.7.2Fantastic Mr. Fox (1970)GR  AM  KBRoald Dahl
687.7.2PoliticsGR  AM  KBAristotle
688.7.2A Bend in the River (1979)GR  AM  KBVS Naipaul
689.7.2Warm BodiesGR  AM  KBIsaac Marion
690.7.2An Abundance of Katherines (2006)GR  AM  KBJohn Green
691.7.2It's Kind of a Funny StoryGR  AM  KBNed Vizzini
692.7.2MythologyGR  AM  KBThomas Bulfinch
693.7.2Fathers and Sons (1862)GR  AM  KBIvan Turgenev
694.7.2Abhorsen (2003)GR  AM  KBGarth Nix
695.7.2Witch of Blackbird Pond (1958)GR  AM  KBElizabeth George Speare
696.7.2The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)GR  AM  KBLeo Tolstoy
697.7.2Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (1976)GR  AM  KBMildred D. Taylor
698.7.2It's a Magical WorldGR  AM  KBBill Watterson
699.7.2NovelsGR  AM  KBJane Austen
700.7.2Just ListenGR  AM  KBSarah Dessen
 
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5000 Best Books, by Arek Paterek (Twitter), 2012.
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