Editors' Top Picks
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftCandide by VoltaireRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLes liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Best Books of the 18th Century
44th out of 376 books — 1,010 voters
The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz KafkaAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueSteppenwolf by Hermann HessePerfume by Patrick Süskind
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
108th out of 984 books — 959 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George OrwellThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
774th out of 1,319 books — 5,865 voters
Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSteppenwolf by Hermann HessePerfume by Patrick Süskind
German Classics
55th out of 227 books — 151 voters

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington IrvingThe Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore CooperThe Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke MooreDon Juan by Lord ByronConfessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey
Best Books of the Decade: 1820s
21st out of 200 books — 151 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Reader by Bernhard SchlinkThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
Novels Set in Germany
41st out of 421 books — 200 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Best Bildungsroman book
68th out of 368 books — 331 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
First AND Last Name Please
153rd out of 1,064 books — 103 voters

The Way of Shadows by Brent WeeksAssassin's Apprentice by Robin HobbThe Black Prism by Brent WeeksThe Magician's Apprentice by Trudi CanavanMort by Terry Pratchett
Apprentices
29th out of 124 books — 87 voters
Great Expectations by Charles DickensJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
BILDUNGSROMAN
11th out of 97 books — 35 voters

Rubinrot by Kerstin GierInkheart by Cornelia FunkeMomo by Michael EndeSaphirblau by Kerstin GierThe Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Best German Authors
272nd out of 616 books — 707 voters
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Kitchen God's Wife by Amy TanThe Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy TanCleopatra's Daughter by Michelle MoranThe Soldier's Wife by Margaret Leroy
Wives, Daughters & Apprentices
27th out of 584 books — 61 voters

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Call of the Wild by Jack London
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die That Are Available From Project Gutenberg
73rd out of 198 books — 71 voters
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftSongs of Innocence and of Experience by William BlakeDream of the Red Chamber by Cao XueqinThe Monk by Matthew Gregory LewisJacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
Best Books of the 1790's: 1790-1799
31st out of 110 books — 27 voters

The Gay Science by Friedrich NietzscheThe Good Girl by Vincent O'SullivanGargantua and Pantagruel by François RabelaisRound the Corner by Gilbert CannanThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
John Cowper Powys' 100 Best Books
8th out of 101 books — 3 voters
Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Sorrows of Young Mike by John ZelaznyA Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Cider House Rules by John Irving
Great "JOHNS" Of Literature.
61st out of 281 books — 36 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LerouxThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Unrequited Love
150th out of 366 books — 193 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Stories For Book Lovers
4767th out of 8,440 books — 8,626 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best Books Ever
19775th out of 77,611 books — 289,661 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenProject Hail Mary by Andy WeirThe Six Pillars Of Effective Leadership by Jim CarloughThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The 52 Book Club 2026: #12 - A Genre-Defining Read
130th out of 174 books — 134 voters

The Odyssey by HomerThe Torah by AnonymousInferno by Dante AlighieriThe Decameron by Giovanni BoccaccioGargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
Books from Erich Auerbach's 'Mimesis'
24th out of 26 books — 2 voters
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry AdamsThe Spectator. [By Joseph Addison, Richard Steele and Others] by Joseph AddisonThe Three-Cornered Hat by Pedro Antonio de AlarcónLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottAmerican Indian Legends by Allan A. Macfarlan
Limited Editions Club Pt. 1
85th out of 100 books — 1 voter

The Great Transformation by Karl PolanyiThe Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914 by C.A. BaylyEmile, or On Education by Jean-Jacques RousseauGermany by Heinrich August WinklerGermany by H.A. Winkler
Age of Anger Bibliography
315th out of 414 books — 5 voters
A Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboAngelfall by Susan EeThe Immortal Rules by Julie KagawaThe Zombie Room by R.D. RonaldThe Elephant Tree by R.D. Ronald
Best Unknown but must be Known books
6339th out of 9,123 books — 8,346 voters

The Death of Virgil by Hermann BrochWoyzeck by Georg BüchnerElective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Trial by Franz KafkaMichael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist
Bibliothèque Idéale - Germanophone
6th out of 17 books — 1 voter
The Anxiety of Influence by Harold BloomSexual Deviation by Anthony StorrFurther Contributions to the Theory and Technique of Psychoan... by Sándor FerencziLord Byron's Marriage by George Wilson KnightSexuality and the Psychology of Love by Sigmund Freud
Cited in Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae (ch. 1-7)
76th out of 100 books — 1 voter

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickThe Shipping News by Annie ProulxDrawing Down the Moon by Margot AdlerWatership Down by Richard AdamsThe Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship by Phillip Darrell Collins
By Far The Best Kind Of "Ship" Is Arbitrary
117th out of 402 books — 16 voters
The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Complete Works by William ShakespeareDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraConfessions by Augustine of HippoCity of God by Augustine of Hippo
Philosophy & Literature Survival Kit
55th out of 100 books — 4 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Titles With the Main Character's Last Name
194th out of 273 books — 11 voters
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward GibbonA Philosophical Enquiry Into the Sublime and Beautiful (Routl... by Edmund BurkeReflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund BurkeAn essay on the dramatic character of Sir John Falstaff. by Maurice MorgannThe Poems of William Collins by William Collins
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages التقليد الأدبي الغربي _3
83rd out of 100 books — 1 voter

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