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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
137This is the greatest bookBrave New WorldAldous Huxley
66This is the greatest bookNineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell
24This is the greatest bookThe Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald
23This is the greatest bookDon QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes
19This is the greatest bookThe ShackWilliam P. Young
17This is the greatest bookCatch-22Joseph Heller
17This is the greatest bookThe Royal Game (Chess Story)Stefan Zweig
10This is the greatest bookCrime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky
10This is the greatest bookSiddharthaHermann Hesse
10This is the greatest bookThe Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky
10This is the greatest bookThe ProphetKhalil Gibran
9This is the greatest bookAnna KareninaLeo Tolstoy
8This is the greatest bookA Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens
8This is the greatest bookThe Call of the WildJack London
8This is the greatest bookThe IdiotFyodor Dostoyevsky
8This is the greatest bookThe Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway
7This is the greatest bookFahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury
6This is the greatest bookPerfumePatrick Süskind
6This is the greatest bookThe AlchemistPaulo Coelho
6This is the greatest bookThe Divine ComedyDante Alighieri
5This is the greatest bookA Thousand Splendid SunsKhaled Hosseini
5This is the greatest bookPride and PrejudiceJane Austen
5This is the greatest bookThe Catcher in the RyeJ. D. Salinger
5This is the greatest bookThe GamblerFyodor Dostoyevsky
5This is the greatest bookThe Glass Bead GameHermann Hesse
5This is the greatest bookThe Kite RunnerKhaled Hosseini
5This is the greatest bookThe Stories of Anton ChekhovAnton Chekhov
5This is the greatest bookTo Kill A MockingbirdHarper Lee
4This is the greatest bookJonathan Livingston SeagullRichard Bach
4This is the greatest bookLolitaVladimir Nabokov
4This is the greatest bookWar and PeaceLeo Tolstoy
3This is the greatest bookFrankensteinMary Shelley
3This is the greatest bookIn Search of Lost TimeMarcel Proust
3This is the greatest bookMoby-DickHerman Melville
3This is the greatest bookOne Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel Garcia Marquez
3This is the greatest bookSherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle
3This is the greatest bookThe Book of Laughter and ForgettingMilan Kundera
3This is the greatest bookThe Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas
3This is the greatest bookThe Time MachineH. G. Wells
3This is the greatest bookThus Spoke ZarathustraFriedrich Nietzsche
3This is the greatest bookThe StrangerAlbert Camus
2This is the greatest bookA Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare
2This is the greatest bookAngels and DemonsDan Brown
2This is the greatest bookDemianHermann Hesse
2This is the greatest bookNotes from UndergroundFyodor Dostoyevsky
2This is the greatest bookSophie's WorldJostein Gaarder
2This is the greatest bookSteppenwolfHermann Hesse
2This is the greatest bookThe Da Vinci CodeDan Brown
2This is the greatest bookThe Magic MountainThomas Mann
2This is the greatest bookThe Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde
2This is the greatest bookThe Sorrows of Young WertherJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
2This is the greatest bookThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson
2This is the greatest bookThings Fall ApartChinua Achebe
2This is the greatest bookUlyssesJames Joyce
1This is the greatest bookBuddenbrooksThomas Mann
1This is the greatest bookDavid CopperfieldCharles Dickens
1This is the greatest bookDream of the Red ChamberCao Xueqin
1This is the greatest bookEmmaJane Austen
1This is the greatest bookJane EyreCharlotte Bronte
1This is the greatest bookKane and AbelJeffrey Archer
1This is the greatest bookLittle WomenLouisa May Alcott
1This is the greatest bookMadame BovaryGustave Flaubert
1This is the greatest bookMiddlemarchGeorge Eliot
1This is the greatest bookNorwegian WoodHaruki Murakami
1This is the greatest bookOf Mice and MenJohn Steinbeck
1This is the greatest bookRomeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare
1This is the greatest bookSheH. Rider Haggard
1This is the greatest bookThe Invisible ManH. G. Wells
1This is the greatest bookThe Merchant of VeniceWilliam Shakespeare
1This is the greatest bookThe Tragedy of ManImre Madách
1This is the greatest bookThe TrialFranz Kafka
1This is the greatest bookWuthering HeightsEmily Bronte

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