A selection of great books, novels and plays from centuries of brillant authors. Whether you are new to the world of literature and wish to savor it, or an avid reader and connoisseur, either way you will probably enjoy the classics of world literature.

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Great Books, Novels and Plays

Votes TitleAuthor

290The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde

283Brave New WorldAldous Huxley

168Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell

168The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri

102A ConfessionLeo Tolstoy

50The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald

41Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes

34The Royal Game (Chess Story)Stefan Zweig

31David CopperfieldCharles Dickens

27SiddharthaHermann Hesse

27Catch-22Joseph Heller

25The ShackWilliam P. Young

25WaldenHenry David Thoreau

22To Kill A MockingbirdHarper Lee

17Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky

17Fahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury

17The Catcher in the RyeJ. D. Salinger

16The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky

16The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas

16The ProphetKhalil Gibran

15The AlchemistPaulo Coelho

13LolitaVladimir Nabokov

13The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway

12Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy

11A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens

11The Call of the WildJack London

11The IdiotFyodor Dostoyevsky

9HamletWilliam Shakespeare

9Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen

9War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy

8Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare

8UlyssesJames Joyce

7FrankensteinMary Shelley

7In Search of Lost TimeMarcel Proust

7Jonathan Livingston SeagullRichard Bach

7One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel Garcia Marquez

7PerfumePatrick Süskind

7The StrangerAlbert Camus

6A Thousand Splendid SunsKhaled Hosseini

6The Kite RunnerKhaled Hosseini

6The Stories of Anton ChekhovAnton Chekhov

5FaustJohann Wolfgang von Goethe

5MacbethWilliam Shakespeare

5Of Mice and MenJohn Steinbeck

5Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle

5The Book of Laughter and ForgettingMilan Kundera

5The GamblerFyodor Dostoyevsky

5The Glass Bead GameHermann Hesse

5Wuthering HeightsEmily Bronte

4Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck

4The Time MachineH. G. Wells

4The TrialFranz Kafka

4Thus Spoke ZarathustraFriedrich Nietzsche

3A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare

3DemianHermann Hesse

3Dream of the Red ChamberCao Xueqin

3King LearWilliam Shakespeare

3Little WomenLouisa May Alcott

3Moby-DickHerman Melville

3OthelloWilliam Shakespeare

3SheH. Rider Haggard

2Angels and DemonsDan Brown

2EmmaJane Austen

2Jane EyreCharlotte Bronte

2Kane and AbelJeffrey Archer

2Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert

2MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot

2Norwegian WoodHaruki Murakami

2Notes from UndergroundFyodor Dostoyevsky

2Sophie's WorldJostein Gaarder

2SteppenwolfHermann Hesse

2The Da Vinci CodeDan Brown

2The Invisible ManH. G. Wells

2The Magic MountainThomas Mann

2The Merchant of VeniceWilliam Shakespeare

2The Sorrows of Young WertherJohann Wolfgang von Goethe

2The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson

2The Tragedy of ManImre Madách

2Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe

1BuddenbrooksThomas Mann

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