The Greatest Books of All Time¶
This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 557 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.
来自 统计的书单综合排名,目前总计超过 1.5 万书籍排名。 网站由 Shane Sherman 于 2009 年创建,目前囊括的榜单超过 500 个,总榜单基本上一月一更新;英美文学作品比重较大。
Published: March 03, 2025, 来自 Ratings for March 2025
Top 500¶
| Rank | Title | Authors | Year | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 | American |
| 2 | Ulysses | James Joyce | 1922 | Irish |
| 3 | In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | 1913 | French |
| 4 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | 1967 | Colombian |
| 5 | The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | 1951 | American |
| 6 | Nineteen Eighty Four | George Orwell | 1949 | British |
| 7 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 | American |
| 8 | Moby-Dick | Herman Melville | 1851 | American |
| 9 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 1877 | Russian |
| 10 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | 1605 | Spanish |
| 11 | The Lord of the Rings | J. R. R. Tolkien | 1954 | British |
| 12 | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | 1847 | British |
| 13 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1960 | American |
| 14 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 1869 | Russian |
| 15 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 1813 | British |
| 16 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1866 | Russian |
| 17 | The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | 1929 | American |
| 18 | The Stranger | Albert Camus | 1942 | French |
| 19 | The Odyssey | Homer | -740 | Greek |
| 20 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | 1857 | French |
| 21 | The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1880 | Russian |
| 22 | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 1899 | British |
| 23 | The Bible | Unknown | -1400 | Jewish |
| 24 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 1865 | British |
| 25 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1939 | American |
| 26 | To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | 1927 | British |
| 27 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | 1871 | British |
| 28 | The Trial | Franz Kafka | 1925 | Czech |
| 29 | The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri | 1308 | Italian |
| 30 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | 1847 | British |
| 31 | The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann | 1924 | German |
| 32 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 1884 | American |
| 33 | Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | 1925 | British |
| 34 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 1860 | British |
| 35 | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 1961 | American |
| 36 | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | 1952 | American |
| 37 | The Iliad | Homer | -750 | Greek |
| 38 | The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | 1967 | Russian |
| 39 | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 1818 | British |
| 40 | Les Misérables | Victor Hugo | 1862 | French |
| 41 | Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | 1981 | British, Indian |
| 42 | Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | 1958 | Nigerian |
| 43 | The Red and the Black | Stendhal | 1830 | French |
| 44 | The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | 1926 | American |
| 45 | Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner | 1936 | American |
| 46 | One Thousand and One Nights | Unknown | 800 | Multiple |
| 47 | On the Road | Jack Kerouac | 1957 | American |
| 48 | Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1987 | American |
| 49 | The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 1943 | French |
| 50 | The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy | Laurence Sterne | 1759 | British |
| 51 | Journey to the End of The Night | Louis-Ferdinand Céline | 1932 | French |
| 52 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 1932 | British |
| 53 | Fictions | Jorge Luis Borges | 1944 | Argentinian |
| 54 | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | 1849 | British |
| 55 | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | 1952 | American |
| 56 | Animal Farm | George Orwell | 1945 | British |
| 57 | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | 1937 | American |
| 58 | Dune | Frank Herbert | 1965 | American |
| 59 | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | 1726 | British |
| 60 | The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | 1947 | Dutch |
| 61 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 1969 | American |
| 62 | Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 1936 | American |
| 63 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | 1600 | British |
| 64 | Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | 1938 | British |
| 65 | Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | 1868 | American |
| 66 | A Passage to India | E. M. Forster | 1924 | British |
| 67 | The Aeneid | Virgil | 19 | Roman |
| 68 | Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | 1855 | American |
| 69 | The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | 1985 | Canadian |
| 70 | Dracula | Bram Stoker | 1897 | British |
| 71 | The Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford | 1915 | British |
| 72 | In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | 1966 | American |
| 73 | Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 1954 | British |
| 74 | The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1869 | Russian |
| 75 | The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | 1881 | American |
| 76 | Essays | Michel de Montaigne | 1580 | French |
| 77 | The Leopard | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | 1958 | Italian |
| 78 | Candide | Voltaire | 1759 | French |
| 79 | Silent Spring | Rachel Carson | 1962 | American |
| 80 | Oedipus the King | Sophocles | -429 | Greek |
| 81 | The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | 1915 | Czech |
| 82 | Orlando | Virginia Woolf | 1928 | British |
| 83 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | 1844 | French |
| 84 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | 1916 | Irish |
| 85 | Charlotte's Web | E. B. White | 1952 | American |
| 86 | The Golden Notebook | Doris May Lessing | 1962 | British |
| 87 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 1890 | British |
| 88 | Under the Volcano | Malcolm Lowry | 1947 | British |
| 89 | Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1808 | German |
| 90 | The Castle | Franz Kafka | 1926 | Czech |
| 91 | As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | 1930 | American |
| 92 | The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton | 1920 | American |
| 93 | Emma | Jane Austen | 1815 | British |
| 94 | Demons | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1872 | Russian |
| 95 | The Stories of Anton Chekhov | Anton Chekhov | 1900 | Russian |
| 96 | The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe | Edgar Allan Poe | 1902 | American |
| 97 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | 1928 | German |
| 98 | The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1850 | American |
| 99 | Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov | 1962 | American |
| 100 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | 1719 | British |
| 101 | Buddenbrooks | Thomas Mann | 1901 | German |
| 102 | Native Son | Richard Wright | 1940 | American |
| 103 | The Long Goodbye | Raymond Chandler | 1953 | American |
| 104 | The Color Purple | Alice Walker | 1982 | American |
| 105 | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | 1847 | British |
| 106 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1902 | British |
| 107 | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1883 | British |
| 108 | The Man Without Qualities | Robert Musil | 1930 | Austrian |
| 109 | The Tale of Genji | Murasaki Shikibu | 1001 | Japanese |
| 110 | The Tin Drum | Günter Grass | 1959 | German |
| 111 | The Second Sex | Simone de Beauvoir | 1949 | French |
| 112 | Pedro Páramo | Juan Rulfo | 1955 | Mexican |
| 113 | Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett | 1953 | Irish |
| 114 | The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler | 1939 | American |
| 115 | The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | 1908 | British |
| 116 | Walden | Henry David Thoreau | 1854 | American |
| 117 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | 1852 | British |
| 118 | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Patricia Highsmith | 1955 | American |
| 119 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway | 1940 | American |
| 120 | Dead Souls | Nikolai Gogol | 1842 | Russian |
| 121 | The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammett | 1930 | American |
| 122 | The Plague | Albert Camus | 1947 | French |
| 123 | Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | 1945 | British |
| 124 | Doctor Faustus | Thomas Mann | 1947 | German |
| 125 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera | 1984 | Czech |
| 126 | Antigone | Sophocles | -441 | Greek |
| 127 | The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | 1963 | American |
| 128 | A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | 1962 | British |
| 129 | The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | 1980 | Italian |
| 130 | Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys | 1966 | British |
| 131 | First Folio | William Shakespeare | 1623 | British |
| 132 | King Lear | William Shakespeare | 1608 | British |
| 133 | Memoirs of Hadrian | Marguerite Yourcenar | 1951 | French |
| 134 | Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak | 1957 | Russian |
| 135 | The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins | 1860 | British |
| 136 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 1962 | Russian |
| 137 | Paradise Lost | John Milton | 1667 | British |
| 138 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | 1891 | British |
| 139 | The Complete Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1927 | British |
| 140 | And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | 1939 | British |
| 141 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | 1979 | British |
| 142 | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | 1929 | American |
| 143 | The Charterhouse of Parma | Stendhal | 1839 | French |
| 144 | Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel García Márquez | 1985 | Colombian |
| 145 | The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas | 1844 | French |
| 146 | Poems of Emily Dickinson | Emily Dickinson | 1890 | American |
| 147 | The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers | 1940 | American |
| 148 | A Sentimental Education | Gustave Flaubert | 1869 | French |
| 149 | Decameron | Giovanni Boccaccio | 1353 | Italian |
| 150 | Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad | 1900 | British |
| 151 | Steppenwolf | Hermann Hesse | 1927 | German |
| 152 | Howards End | E. M. Forster | 1910 | British |
| 153 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 1953 | American |
| 154 | Sons and Lovers | D. H. Lawrence | 1913 | British |
| 155 | The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | 1400 | British |
| 156 | Tender Is the Night | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1934 | American |
| 157 | Lady Chatterley's Lover | D. H. Lawrence | 1928 | British |
| 158 | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | 1606 | British |
| 159 | Winnie the Pooh | A. A. Milne | 1926 | British |
| 160 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | 1962 | American |
| 161 | The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli | 1532 | Italian |
| 162 | Rabbit, Run | John Updike | 1960 | American |
| 163 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Muriel Spark | 1961 | British, Scottish |
| 164 | Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone | J. K. Rowling | 1997 | British |
| 165 | Confessions of Zeno | Italo Svevo | 1923 | Italian |
| 166 | The Waste Land | T. S. Eliot | 1922 | British |
| 167 | Tom Jones | Henry Fielding | 1749 | British |
| 168 | The Interpretation of Dreams | Sigmund Freud | 1899 | Austrian |
| 169 | The Flowers of Evil | Charles Baudelaire | 1857 | French |
| 170 | Fairy Tales and Stories | Hans Christian Andersen | 1835 | Danish |
| 171 | A Room of One's Own | Virginia Woolf | 1929 | British |
| 172 | The Hobbit | J. R. R. Tolkien | 1937 | British |
| 173 | A Wrinkle In Time | Madeleine L'Engle | 1962 | American |
| 174 | The Good Soldier Svejk | Jaroslav Hašek | 1921 | Czech |
| 175 | Watership Down | Richard Adams | 1972 | British |
| 176 | Confessions | Augustine | 397 | Roman |
| 177 | The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Alex Haley | 1965 | American |
| 178 | On the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin | 1859 | British |
| 179 | Portnoy's Complaint | Philip Roth | 1969 | American |
| 180 | U.S.A. Trilogy | John Dos Passos | 1930 | American |
| 181 | White Teeth | Zadie Smith | 2000 | British |
| 182 | Metamorphoses | Ovid | 8 | Roman |
| 183 | Giovanni's Room | James Baldwin | 1956 | American |
| 184 | All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren | 1946 | American |
| 185 | The Once and Future King | T. H. White | 1958 | British |
| 186 | Light in August | William Faulkner | 1932 | American |
| 187 | If This Is a Man | Primo Levi | 1947 | Italian |
| 188 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | 1843 | British |
| 189 | The End of the Affair | Graham Greene | 1951 | British |
| 190 | Brighton Rock | Graham Greene | 1938 | British |
| 191 | Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev | 1862 | Russian |
| 192 | A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | 1980 | American |
| 193 | A House for Mr. Biswas | V. S. Naipaul | 1961 | Trinidadian |
| 194 | A Good Man Is Hard to Find | Flannery O'Connor | 1953 | American |
| 195 | Blood Meridian | Cormac McCarthy | 1985 | American |
| 196 | My Antonia | Willa Cather | 1918 | American |
| 197 | The Spy Who Came in From the Cold | John le Carré | 1963 | British |
| 198 | The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe | C. S. Lewis | 1950 | British |
| 199 | The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | 1989 | British |
| 200 | Atonement | Ian McEwan | 2001 | British |
| 201 | Bonjour Tristesse | Francoise Sagan | 1954 | French |
| 202 | A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1968 | American |
| 203 | Man's Fate | Andre Malraux | 1933 | French |
| 204 | An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser | 1925 | American |
| 205 | The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson | 1959 | American |
| 206 | Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels | 1848 | German |
| 207 | The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton | 1905 | American |
| 208 | A Season in Hell | Arthur Rimbaud | 1873 | French |
| 209 | Persuasion | Jane Austen | 1817 | British |
| 210 | The Secret History | Donna Tartt | 1992 | American |
| 211 | Anne of Green Gables | L. M. Montgomery | 1908 | Canadian |
| 212 | Franz Kafka | Franz Kafka | 1971 | Czech |
| 213 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay | Michael Chabon | 2000 | American |
| 214 | Gargantua and Pantagruel | Francois Rabelais | 1532 | French |
| 215 | The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | 2001 | American |
| 216 | The Gulag Archipelago | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 1973 | Russian |
| 217 | East of Eden | John Steinbeck | 1952 | American |
| 218 | The Life of Samuel Johnson | James Boswell | 1791 | British |
| 219 | The Stand | Stephen King | 1978 | American |
| 220 | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 1937 | American |
| 221 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | 1943 | American |
| 222 | Zorba the Greek | Nikos Kazantzakis | 1946 | Greek |
| 223 | Invisible Cities | Italo Calvino | 1972 | Italian |
| 224 | Out of Africa | Isak Dinesen | 1937 | Danish |
| 225 | The Jungle | Upton Sinclair | 1906 | American |
| 226 | The Turn of the Screw | Henry James | 1898 | American |
| 227 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | 2005 | Korean |
| 228 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 1859 | British |
| 229 | Molloy | Samuel Beckett | 1951 | Irish |
| 230 | The Forsyte Saga | John Galsworthy | 1906 | British |
| 231 | The Counterfeiters | André Gide | 1925 | French |
| 232 | Hunger | Knut Hamsun | 1890 | Norwegian |
| 233 | The Double Helix | James D. Watson | 1968 | American |
| 234 | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Agatha Christie | 1926 | British |
| 235 | The Tempest | William Shakespeare | 1623 | British |
| 236 | Disgrace | J. M. Coetzee | 1999 | South African |
| 237 | The Tartar Steppe | Dino Buzzati | 1940 | Italian |
| 238 | Darkness at Noon | Arthur Koestler | 1940 | British |
| 239 | Death of Virgil | Hermann Broch | 1945 | Austrian |
| 240 | The Moviegoer | Walker Percy | 1961 | American |
| 241 | Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats | William Butler Yeats | 1933 | Irish |
| 242 | Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret | Judy Blume | 1970 | American |
| 243 | Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | 1922 | German |
| 244 | The World According to Garp | John Irving | 1978 | American |
| 245 | Democracy in America | Alexis de Tocqueville | 1835 | French |
| 246 | Nausea | Jean Paul Sartre | 1938 | French |
| 247 | Epic of Gilgamesh | Unknown | -2100 | Multiple |
| 248 | The Waves | Virginia Woolf | 1931 | British |
| 249 | Berlin Alexanderplatz | Alfred Döblin | 1929 | German |
| 250 | Women in Love | D. H. Lawrence | 1920 | British |
| 251 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1852 | American |
| 252 | Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller | 1934 | American |
| 253 | The Godfather | Mario Puzo | 1969 | American |
| 254 | The Republic | Plato | -379 | Greek |
| 255 | The Shining | Stephen King | 1977 | American |
| 256 | Independent People | Halldor Laxness | 1934 | Icelandic |
| 257 | Thus Spake Zarathustra | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1883 | German |
| 258 | Of Human Bondage | W. Somerset Maugham | 1915 | British |
| 259 | The Chronicles of Narnia | C. S. Lewis | 1950 | British |
| 260 | The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor | Flannery O'Connor | 1971 | American |
| 261 | Oblomov | Ivan Goncharov | 1859 | Russian |
| 262 | The Left Hand Of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1969 | American |
| 263 | The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow | 1953 | American |
| 264 | Nostromo | Joseph Conrad | 1904 | British |
| 265 | Medea | Euripides | -431 | Greek |
| 266 | The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 1782 | French |
| 267 | The Time Machine | H. G. Wells | 1895 | British |
| 268 | Dangerous Liaison | Pierre Choderlos de Laclos | 1782 | French |
| 269 | The Death of Ivan Ilyich | Leo Tolstoy | 1886 | Russian |
| 270 | The Power and the Glory | Graham Greene | 1940 | British |
| 271 | The Lover | Marguerite Duras | 1984 | French |
| 272 | The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck | 1931 | American |
| 273 | Foundation | Isaac Asimov | 1951 | American |
| 274 | A Hero of Our Time | Mikhail Lermontov | 1840 | Russian |
| 275 | The Ambassadors | Henry James | 1903 | American |
| 276 | Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak | 1963 | American |
| 277 | Winesburg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson | 1919 | American |
| 278 | Labyrinths | Jorge Luis Borges | 1962 | Argentinian |
| 279 | Finnegans Wake | James Joyce | 1939 | Irish |
| 280 | Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | 1977 | American |
| 281 | Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes | 1651 | British |
| 282 | Bonfire of the Vanities | Tom Wolfe | 1987 | American |
| 283 | Pippi Longstocking | Astrid Lindgren | 1945 | Swedish |
| 284 | The Radetzky March | Joseph Roth | 1932 | Austrian |
| 285 | Herzog | Saul Bellow | 1964 | American |
| 286 | The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | 1836 | British |
| 287 | The Road | Cormac McCarthy | 2006 | American |
| 288 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | 1969 | American |
| 289 | 2666 | Roberto Bolaño | 2004 | Chilean |
| 290 | Mahabharata | Vyasa | -400 | Indian |
| 291 | Look Homeward, Angel | Thomas Wolfe | 1929 | American |
| 292 | Cry, the Beloved Country | Alan Paton | 1948 | South African |
| 293 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson | 1971 | American |
| 294 | Homage to Catalonia | George Orwell | 1938 | British |
| 295 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Haruki Murakami | 1994 | Japanese |
| 296 | Lucky Jim | Kingsley Amis | 1954 | British |
| 297 | Life and Fate | Vasily Grossman | 1980 | Russian |
| 298 | The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner | James Hogg | 1824 | Scottish |
| 299 | Peter And Wendy | J. M. Barrie | 1911 | Scottish |
| 300 | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Thomas Kuhn | 1962 | American |
| 301 | Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | 161 | Roman |
| 302 | The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas | Machado de Assis | 1881 | Brazilian |
| 303 | The House of the Spirits | Isabel Allende | 1982 | Chilean |
| 304 | Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | 1996 | American |
| 305 | The Call of the Wild | Jack London | 1903 | American |
| 306 | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1886 | British |
| 307 | The Alexandria Quartet | Lawrence Durrell | 1957 | British |
| 308 | Tarzan of the Apes | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1912 | American |
| 309 | The Stories of John Cheever | John Cheever | 1978 | American |
| 310 | La Regenta | Clarín | 1884 | Spanish |
| 311 | Malone Dies | Samuel Beckett | 1951 | Irish |
| 312 | A Dance to the Music of Time | Anthony Powell | 1951 | British |
| 313 | Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | 2004 | American |
| 314 | Wings of the Dove | Henry James | 1902 | American |
| 315 | The Book of Disquiet | Fernando Pessoa | 1982 | Portuguese |
| 316 | Babbitt | Sinclair Lewis | 1922 | American |
| 317 | Speak, Memory | Vladimir Nabokov | 1951 | American |
| 318 | Kim | Rudyard Kipling | 1901 | British |
| 319 | Let Us Now Praise Famous Men | James Agee | 1941 | American |
| 320 | Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | 1973 | American |
| 321 | La Celestina | Fernando de Rojas | 1499 | Spanish |
| 322 | The Complete Works of Plato | Plato | -387 | Greek |
| 323 | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money | John Maynard Keynes | 1936 | British |
| 324 | White Noise | Don DeLillo | 1985 | American |
| 325 | The Daughter of Time | Josephine Tey | 1951 | British |
| 326 | Oresteia | Aeschylus | -458 | Greek |
| 327 | Naked Lunch | William S. Burroughs | 1959 | American |
| 328 | The Education of Henry Adams | Henry Adams | 1907 | American |
| 329 | The Awakening | Kate Chopin | 1899 | American |
| 330 | Father Goriot | Honoré de Balzac | 1835 | French |
| 331 | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | 1997 | Indian |
| 332 | Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson | 1980 | American |
| 333 | The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas | Gertrude Stein | 1933 | American |
| 334 | The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test | Tom Wolfe | 1968 | American |
| 335 | Black Lamb and Grey Falcon | Rebecca West | 1941 | British |
| 336 | Kristin Lavransdatter | Sigrid Undset | 1920 | Norwegian |
| 337 | The Old Wives' Tale | Arnold Bennett | 1908 | British |
| 338 | His Dark Materials | Philip Pullman | 1995 | British |
| 339 | At Swim Two-Birds | Flann O'Brien | 1939 | Irish |
| 340 | The Elements of Style | E. B. White, William Strunk Jr. | 1918 | American |
| 341 | Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi | 2000 | Korean |
| 342 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz | 2007 | Dominican |
| 343 | Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons | 1932 | British |
| 344 | The Sea, The Sea | Iris Murdoch | 1978 | British |
| 345 | The Quiet American | Graham Greene | 1955 | British |
| 346 | I, Claudius | Robert Graves | 1934 | British |
| 347 | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1792 | British |
| 348 | A Death in the Family | James Agee | 1957 | American |
| 349 | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | 1886 | British |
| 350 | The Poems of Robert Frost | Robert Frost | 1913 | American |
| 351 | Austerlitz | W. G. Sebald | 2001 | German |
| 352 | Journey to the West | Wu Cheng'en | 1592 | Chinese |
| 353 | The Things They Carried | Tim O'Brien | 1990 | American |
| 354 | The Prophet | Kahlil Gibran | 1923 | Lebanese |
| 355 | Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel | 2009 | British |
| 356 | The Princess of Cleves | Madame de La Fayette | 1678 | French |
| 357 | A Room With a View | E. M. Forster | 1908 | British |
| 358 | Murder on the Orient Express | Agatha Christie | 1934 | British |
| 359 | The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot | 1860 | British |
| 360 | The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 1911 | British |
| 361 | Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | 1864 | British |
| 362 | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | 2002 | American |
| 363 | Man's Search for Meaning | Viktor Frankl | 1946 | Austrian |
| 364 | Ferdydurke | Witold Gombrowicz | 1937 | Polish |
| 365 | The Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion | 2005 | Korean |
| 366 | Life, a User's Manual | Georges Perec | 1978 | French |
| 367 | The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster | 1961 | American |
| 368 | Memoirs From Beyond the Grave | François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand | 1849 | French |
| 369 | Ivanhoe | Sir Walter Scott | 1819 | British |
| 370 | A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry | 1995 | Indian |
| 371 | If on a Winter's Night a Traveller | Italo Calvino | 1979 | Italian |
| 372 | The Razor's Edge | W. Somerset Maugham | 1944 | British |
| 373 | I Capture the Castle | Dodie Smith | 1948 | British |
| 374 | Kolyma Stories | Varlam Shalamov | 1954 | Russian |
| 375 | Das Kapital | Karl Marx | 1867 | German |
| 376 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | 1876 | American |
| 377 | The Feminine Mystique | Betty Friedan | 1963 | American |
| 378 | Hopscotch | Julio Cortazar | 1963 | Argentinian |
| 379 | The Hollow Man | John Dickson Carr | 1935 | British |
| 380 | American Pastoral | Philip Roth | 1997 | American |
| 381 | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | 1988 | Brazilian |
| 383 | The Betrothed | Alessandro Manzoni | 1827 | Italian |
| 382 | History of My Life | Giacomo Casanova | 1822 | Italian |
| 384 | The Silence of the Lambs | Thomas Harris | 1988 | American |
| 385 | The Souls of Black Folk | W. E. B. Du Bois | 1903 | American |
| 386 | The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan | 1989 | American |
| 387 | Clarissa | Samuel Richardson | 1748 | British |
| 388 | The Moonstone | Wilkie Collins | 1868 | British |
| 389 | A Visit From The Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan | 2010 | American |
| 390 | Gormenghast | Mervyn Peake | 1950 | British |
| 391 | Critique of Pure Reason | Immanuel Kant | 1781 | German |
| 392 | Go Tell it on the Mountain | James Baldwin | 1953 | American |
| 393 | Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | 2004 | British |
| 394 | Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | 1957 | American |
| 395 | Germinal | Émile Zola | 1885 | French |
| 396 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick | 1968 | American |
| 397 | Relativity | Albert Einstein | 1916 | German |
| 398 | Le Grand Meaulnes | Henri Alain-Fournier | 1913 | French |
| 399 | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1774 | German |
| 400 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | James M. Cain | 1934 | American |
| 401 | War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells | 1898 | British |
| 402 | The Savage Detectives | Roberto Bolaño | 1998 | Chilean |
| 403 | Gypsy Ballads | Federico García Lorca | 1928 | Spanish |
| 404 | Notes from the Underground | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1864 | Russian |
| 405 | The Man Who Loved Children | Christina Stead | 1940 | Australian |
| 406 | The Devil to Pay in the Backlands | Joao Guimaraes Rosa | 1956 | Brazilian |
| 407 | Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy | 1895 | British |
| 408 | The Princess Bride | William Goldman | 1973 | American |
| 409 | The Confusions of Young Törless | Robert Musil | 1906 | Austrian |
| 410 | The Second World War | Winston Churchill | 1948 | British |
| 411 | Household Tales | Brothers Grimm | 1812 | German |
| 412 | Season of Migration to the North | Al-Tayyib Salih | 1966 | Sudanese |
| 413 | The Federalist Papers | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay | 1787 | American |
| 414 | Ramayana | Valmiki | -200 | Indian |
| 415 | We | Yevgeny Zamyatin | 1924 | Russian |
| 416 | Collected Poems | Wallace Stevens | 1954 | American |
| 417 | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Giorgio Bassani | 1962 | Italian |
| 418 | Nightwood | Djuna Barnes | 1936 | American |
| 419 | Amerika | Franz Kafka | 1927 | Czech |
| 420 | Complete Poems | Elizabeth Bishop | 1969 | American |
| 421 | Parallel Lives | Plutarch | 100 | Greek |
| 422 | Eugene Onegin | Alexander Pushkin | 1833 | Russian |
| 423 | Another Country | James Baldwin | 1962 | American |
| 424 | Bartleby the Scrivener | Herman Melville | 1853 | American |
| 425 | Joseph and His Brothers | Thomas Mann | 1933 | German |
| 426 | Ragtime | E. L. Doctorow | 1975 | American |
| 427 | The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge | Rainer Maria Rilke | 1910 | German |
| 428 | The Unnamable | Samuel Beckett | 1953 | Irish |
| 429 | Roots | Alex Haley | 1976 | American |
| 430 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein | 1961 | American |
| 431 | Play It As It Lays | Joan Didion | 1970 | American |
| 433 | Parade's End | Ford Madox Ford | 1924 | British |
| 432 | Oedipus at Colonus | Sophocles | -401 | Greek |
| 434 | Nine Stories | J. D. Salinger | 1953 | American |
| 435 | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists | Robert Tressell, Peter Miles | 1914 | British |
| 436 | Pensées | Blaise Pascal | 1670 | French |
| 437 | Fortunata and Jacinta | Benito Pérez Galdós | 1887 | Spanish |
| 438 | Melmoth the Wanderer | Charles Robert Maturin | 1820 | British |
| 439 | The Fall | Albert Camus | 1956 | French |
| 440 | Passing | Nella Larsen | 1929 | American |
| 441 | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus | Ludwig Wittgenstein | 1921 | Austrian |
| 442 | The Code of the Woosters | P. G. Wodehouse | 1938 | British |
| 443 | Eminent Victorians | Lytton Strachey | 1918 | British |
| 444 | My Brilliant Friend | Elena Ferrante | 2012 | Korean |
| 445 | Froth on the daydream | Boris Vian | 1947 | French |
| 446 | A Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen | 1879 | Norwegian |
| 447 | The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | 1970 | American |
| 448 | The Glass Bead Game | Hermann Hesse | 1943 | German |
| 449 | Casino Royale | Ian Fleming | 1953 | British |
| 450 | Dubliners | James Joyce | 1914 | Irish |
| 451 | The Social Contract | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 1762 | French |
| 452 | A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | 1988 | British |
| 453 | The Affluent Society | John Kenneth Galbraith | 1958 | American |
| 454 | Poet in New York | Federico García Lorca | 1940 | Spanish |
| 455 | Stories of Ernest Hemingway | Ernest Hemingway | 1987 | American |
| 456 | Poems by Machado | Antonio Machado | 1907 | Spanish |
| 457 | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | Victor Hugo | 1831 | French |
| 458 | Dispatches | Michael Herr | 1977 | American |
| 459 | Facundo | Domingo Faustino Sarmiento | 1845 | Argentinian |
| 460 | The Secret Agent | Joseph Conrad | 1907 | British |
| 461 | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum | 1900 | American |
| 462 | Ada or Ardor | Vladimir Nabokov | 1969 | American |
| 463 | The Varieties of Religious Experience | William James | 1902 | American |
| 464 | De Rerum Natura | Lucretius | 55 | Roman |
| 465 | On Liberty | John Stuart Mill | 1859 | British |
| 466 | Richard III | William Shakespeare | 1592 | British |
| 467 | The Day of the Locust | Nathanael West | 1939 | American |
| 468 | Bouvard et Pécuchet | Gustave Flaubert | 1881 | French |
| 469 | The Death of the Heart | Elizabeth Bowen | 1938 | British, Irish |
| 470 | Goodnight Moon | Margaret Wise Brown | 1947 | American |
| 471 | The English Patient | Michael Ondaatje | 1992 | Canadian |
| 472 | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne | 1870 | French |
| 473 | The Swindler | Francisco de Quevedo | 1626 | Spanish |
| 474 | Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser | 1900 | American |
| 475 | Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 2013 | Nigerian |
| 476 | Perfume | Patrick Suskind | 1985 | German |
| 477 | The Human Comedy | Honoré de Balzac | 1830 | French |
| 478 | Effi Briest | Theodor Fontane | 1895 | German |
| 479 | The Blind Owl | Ṣādiq Hidāyat | 1937 | Iranian |
| 480 | Jacques the Fatalist and His Master | Denis Diderot | 1796 | French |
| 481 | The Nine Tailors | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1934 | British |
| 482 | American Psycho | Bret Easton Ellis | 1991 | American |
| 483 | The Thirty-Nine Steps | John Buchan | 1915 | British |
| 484 | The Duino Elegies | Rainer Maria Rilke | 1923 | German |
| 485 | The Nicomachean Ethics | Aristotle | -334 | Greek |
| 486 | The Human Stain | Philip Roth | 2000 | American |
| 487 | Titus Groan | Mervyn Peake | 1946 | British |
| 488 | Neuromancer | William Gibson | 1984 | American, Canadian |
| 489 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 2003 | Afghan |
| 490 | Arrow of God | Chinua Achebe | 1964 | Nigerian |
| 491 | The Histories of Herodotus | Herodotus | -450 | Greek |
| 492 | Reflections on the Revolution in France | Edmund Burke | 1790 | British |
| 493 | The Way We Live Now | Anthony Trollope | 1875 | British |
| 494 | The Aleph And Other Stories | Jorge Luis Borges | 1949 | Argentinian |
| 495 | Testament Of Youth | Vera Brittain | 1933 | British |
| 496 | Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe | 1722 | British |
| 497 | So Long, See You Tomorrow | William Maxwell | 1980 | American |
| 498 | The Joy of Cooking | Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker | 1931 | American |
| 499 | The Crying of Lot 49 | Thomas Pynchon | 1966 | American |
| 500 | The Time of the Hero | Mario Vargas Llosa | 1963 | Peruvian |
Top 501-1000¶
| Rank | Title | Authors | Year | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 501 | The Passion According to G.H. | Clarice Lispector | 1964 | Brazilian |
| 502 | Poems of W. H. Auden | W. H. Auden | 1930 | British |
| 503 | The Open Society and Its Enemies | Karl Popper | 1945 | British |
| 504 | Harriet the Spy | Louise Fitzhugh | 1964 | American |
| 505 | Belle du Seigneur | Albert Cohen | 1968 | Swiss |
| 506 | The Known World | Edward P. Jones | 2003 | American |
| 507 | A Handful of Dust | Evelyn Waugh | 1934 | British |
| 508 | Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton | 1911 | American |
| 509 | I'm Not Stiller | Max Frisch | 1954 | Swiss |
| 510 | Tristes Tropiques | Claude Lévi-Strauss | 1955 | French |
| 511 | The Civil War | Shelby Foote | 1958 | American |
| 512 | Interview with the Vampire | Anne Rice | 1976 | American |
| 513 | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | 2005 | Australian |
| 514 | Romance of the Three Kingdoms | Guanzhong Luo | 1400 | Chinese |
| 515 | Philosophical Investigations | Ludwig Wittgenstein | 1953 | Austrian |
| 516 | Rabbit Redux | John Updike | 1971 | American |
| 517 | Call to Arms | Lu Xun | 1922 | Chinese |
| 518 | The Vicar of Wakefield | Oliver Goldsmith | 1766 | British |
| 519 | The Origins of Totalitarianism | Hannah Arendt | 1951 | German |
| 520 | The Castle of Otranto | Horace Walpole | 1764 | British |
| 521 | Nights At The Circus | Angela Carter | 1984 | British |
| 522 | Watchmen | Alan Moore | 1986 | American, British |
| 523 | Encyclopedia Britannica | Encyclopedia Britannica | 1768 | British |
| 524 | Quo Vadis | Henryk Sienkiewicz | 1895 | Polish |
| 525 | The Custom of the Country | Edith Wharton | 1913 | American |
| 526 | Stories of Guy de Maupassant | Guy de Maupassant | 1880 | French |
| 527 | Lud-in-the-Mist | Hope Mirrlees | 1926 | British |
| 528 | Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather | 1927 | American |
| 529 | Complete Poems of Giacomo Leopardi | Giacomo Leopardi | 1831 | Italian |
| 530 | Platero | Juan Ramón Jiménez | 1914 | Spanish |
| 531 | Sula | Toni Morrison | 1973 | American |
| 532 | The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | 1943 | American |
| 533 | Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie | 1988 | British |
| 534 | Sanctuary | William Faulkner | 1931 | American |
| 535 | Farewell, My Lovely | Raymond Chandler | 1940 | American |
| 536 | The Outsider And Others | H. P. Lovecraft | 1939 | American |
| 537 | A Moveable Feast | Ernest Hemingway | 1964 | American |
| 538 | Four Quartets | T. S. Eliot | 1943 | British |
| 539 | New Grub Street | George Gissing | 1891 | British |
| 540 | The Road to Serfdom | Friedrich von Hayek | 1944 | Austrian |
| 541 | A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | 1989 | American |
| 542 | All the President's Men | Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein | 1974 | American |
| 543 | Gaudy Night | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1935 | British |
| 544 | We Have Always Lived in the Castle | Shirley Jackson | 1962 | American |
| 545 | The Monk | Matthew Lewis | 1796 | British |
| 546 | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Edward Gibbon | 1776 | British |
| 547 | The Rebel | Albert Camus | 1951 | French |
| 548 | Through the Looking Glass | Lewis Carroll | 1871 | British |
| 549 | The Day of the Jackal | Frederick Forsyth | 1971 | British |
| 550 | Ethics | Baruch de Spinoza | 1677 | Dutch |
| 551 | Rabbit Is Rich | John Updike | 1981 | American |
| 552 | The Pillars Of The Earth | Ken Follett | 1989 | British |
| 553 | The Book of the City of Ladies | Christine De Pizan | 1405 | French |
| 554 | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | 1811 | British |
| 555 | Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | 1877 | British |
| 556 | The Cat in the Hat | Dr. Seuss | 1957 | American |
| 557 | Dandelion Wine | Ray Bradbury | 1957 | American |
| 558 | Nadja | André Breton | 1928 | French |
| 559 | The Book of Job | Unknown | -600 | Israeli |
| 560 | The Opposing Shore | Julien Gracq | 1951 | French |
| 561 | W, or the Memory of Childhood | Georges Perec | 1975 | French |
| 562 | Wise Blood | Flannery O'Connor | 1952 | American |
| 563 | Murder Must Advertise | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1933 | British |
| 564 | Henderson The Rain King | Saul Bellow | 1959 | American |
| 565 | Oroonoko | Aphra Behn | 1688 | British |
| 566 | Excellent Women | Barbara Pym | 1952 | British |
| 567 | Uncle Silas | Sheridan Le Fanu | 1864 | Irish |
| 568 | Promise at Dawn | Romain Gary | 1960 | French |
| 569 | The Myth of Sisyphus | Albert Camus | 1942 | French |
| 570 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel | 2001 | Canadian |
| 571 | The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | 1998 | American |
| 572 | The Third Policeman | Flann O'Brien | 1967 | Irish |
| 573 | History | Elsa Morante | 1974 | Italian |
| 574 | The Outsiders | S. E. Hinton | 1967 | American |
| 575 | Dream of the Red Chamber | Cao Xueqin | 1754 | Chinese |
| 576 | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | John le Carré | 1974 | British |
| 577 | Slouching Towards Bethlehem | Joan Didion | 1968 | American |
| 578 | Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry | 1985 | American |
| 579 | The Adventures of Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | 1837 | British |
| 580 | Requiem | Anna Akhmatova | 1963 | Russian |
| 581 | Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, | Roald Dahl | 1964 | British |
| 582 | Red Cavalry | Isaac Babel | 1926 | Russian |
| 583 | The Cherry Orchard | Anton Chekhov | 1904 | Russian |
| 584 | Red Harvest | Dashiell Hammett | 1929 | American |
| 585 | The Golden Ass | Apuleius | 158 | Roman |
| 586 | Loving | Henry Green | 1945 | British |
| 587 | The Warmth Of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson | 2010 | American |
| 588 | A Game of Thrones | George R. R. Martin | 1996 | American |
| 589 | Lost Illusions | Honoré de Balzac | 1837 | French |
| 590 | Henry James | Leon Edel | 1953 | American |
| 591 | Cousin Bette | Honoré de Balzac | 1846 | French |
| 592 | The Immoralist | André Gide | 1902 | French |
| 593 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | Truman Capote | 1958 | American |
| 594 | A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth | 1993 | Indian |
| 595 | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | Dave Eggers | 2000 | American |
| 596 | Embers | Sandor Marai | 1942 | Hungarian |
| 597 | The Thorn Birds | Colleen McCullough | 1977 | Australian |
| 598 | Regeneration | Pat Barker | 1991 | British |
| 599 | Crash | J. G. Ballard | 1973 | British |
| 600 | The Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith | 1776 | Scottish |
| 601 | Three Sisters | Anton Chekhov | 1901 | Russian |
| 602 | Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn | 2012 | Korean |
| 603 | Bastard Out of Carolina | Dorothy Allison | 1992 | American |
| 604 | V | Thomas Pynchon | 1963 | American |
| 605 | The Lady with the Dog | Anton Chekhov | 1899 | Russian |
| 606 | The Magus | John Fowles | 1965 | British |
| 607 | Adam Bede | George Eliot | 1859 | British |
| 608 | Barchester Towers | Anthony Trollope | 1857 | British |
| 609 | Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot | T. S. Eliot | 1963 | British |
| 610 | The Power Broker | Robert Caro | 1974 | American |
| 611 | The Island of Doctor Moreau | H. G. Wells | 1896 | British |
| 612 | Call It Sleep | Henry Roth | 1934 | American |
| 613 | Maus | Art Spiegelman | 1980 | American |
| 614 | Anniversaries | Uwe Johnson | 1970 | German |
| 615 | Maldoror | Comte de Lautréamont | 1868 | French |
| 616 | The Palm-Wine Drinkard | Amos Tutola | 1952 | Nigerian |
| 617 | Jakob Von Gunten | Robert Walser | 1909 | Swiss |
| 618 | Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | 1874 | British |
| 619 | If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem | William Faulkner | 1939 | American |
| 620 | At the Mountains of Madness | H. P. Lovecraft | 1936 | American |
| 621 | Underworld | Don DeLillo | 1997 | American |
| 622 | The Naked and the Dead | Norman Mailer | 1948 | American |
| 623 | In Our Time | Ernest Hemingway | 1925 | American |
| 624 | The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin | 1963 | American |
| 625 | Good-Bye to All That | Robert Graves | 1929 | British |
| 626 | Main Street | Sinclair Lewis | 1920 | American |
| 627 | The Siege of Krishnapur | J. G. Farrell | 1973 | British |
| 628 | The Mask of Dimitrios | Eric Ambler | 1939 | British |
| 629 | The Recognitions | William Gaddis | 1955 | American |
| 630 | Little House on the Prairie | Laura Ingalls Wilder | 1935 | American |
| 631 | Le Morte d'Arthur | Thomas Malory | 1485 | British |
| 632 | Words | Jean Paul Sartre | 1963 | French |
| 633 | The Art of War | Sun Tzu | -500 | Chinese |
| 634 | Nervous Conditions | Tsitsi Dangarembga | 1988 | Zimbabwean |
| 635 | The Lost Steps | Alejo Carpentier | 1953 | Cuban |
| 636 | The Golden Bowl | Henry James | 1904 | American |
| 637 | Breakfast of Champions | Kurt Vonnegut | 1973 | American |
| 638 | The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead | 2016 | American |
| 639 | Voss | Patrick White | 1957 | Australian |
| 641 | The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie | Agota Kristof | 1986 | Hungarian |
| 640 | I Am Legend | Richard Matheson | 1954 | American |
| 642 | Waiting for the Barbarians | J. M. Coetzee | 1980 | South African |
| 643 | North and South | Elizabeth Gaskell | 1855 | British |
| 644 | Bridget Jones's Diary | Helen Fielding | 1996 | British |
| 645 | Kindred | Octavia E. Butler | 1979 | Korean |
| 646 | A Heart So White | Javier Marias | 1992 | Spanish |
| 647 | The French Lieutenant's Woman | John Fowles | 1969 | British |
| 648 | The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper | 1826 | American |
| 649 | Hiroshima | John Hersey | 1946 | American |
| 650 | Meditations on First Philosophy | Rene Descartes | 1641 | French |
| 651 | Possession | A. S. Byatt | 1990 | British |
| 652 | The Adventures of Caleb Williams | William Godwin | 1794 | British |
| 653 | Love Medicine | Louise Erdrich | 1984 | American |
| 654 | Baby And Child Care | Benjamin Spock | 1946 | American |
| 655 | The Heart of the Matter | Graham Greene | 1948 | British |
| 656 | The Shipping News | Annie Proulx | 1993 | American |
| 657 | Alcools | Guillaume Apollinaire | 1913 | French |
| 658 | The Manuscript Found in Saragossa | Jan Potocki | 1805 | Polish |
| 659 | Rickshaw Boy | Lao She | 1936 | Chinese |
| 660 | The Moon and the Bonfires | Cesare Pavese | 1950 | Italian |
| 661 | The Giver | Lois Lowry | 1993 | American |
| 662 | Electra | Sophocles | -409 | Greek |
| 663 | The Waning of the Middle Ages | Johan Huizinga | 1919 | Dutch |
| 664 | Manhattan Transfer | John Dos Passos | 1925 | American |
| 665 | Solaris | Stanislaw Lem | 1961 | Polish |
| 666 | Beast In View | Margaret Millar | 1955 | Canadian |
| 667 | The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1890 | British |
| 668 | Selected Stories of Alice Munro | Alice Munro | 1996 | Canadian |
| 669 | Rosemary's Baby | Ira Levin | 1967 | American |
| 670 | Revolutionary Road | Richard Yates | 1961 | American |
| 671 | All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy | 1992 | American |
| 672 | Kaputt | Curzio Malaparte | 1944 | Italian |
| 673 | The Worst Journey in the World | Apsley Cherry-Garrard | 1922 | British |
| 674 | High Fidelity | Nick Hornby | 1995 | British |
| 675 | Conversation in the Cathedral | Mario Vargas Llosa | 1969 | Peruvian |
| 676 | Christ Stopped at Eboli | Carlo Levi | 1945 | Italian |
| 677 | Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | 1830 | British |
| 678 | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | Annie Dillard | 1974 | American |
| 679 | Scoop | Evelyn Waugh | 1938 | British |
| 680 | Outlander | Diana Gabaldon | 1991 | American |
| 681 | Night | Elie Wiesel | 1958 | French |
| 682 | Death on Credit | Louis-Ferdinand Céline | 1936 | French |
| 683 | Silas Marner | George Eliot | 1861 | British |
| 684 | Los Siete Locos | Roberto Arlt | 1929 | Argentinian |
| 685 | Life Is a Dream | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | 1635 | Spanish |
| 686 | Death in Venice | Thomas Mann | 1912 | German |
| 687 | The Burning Plain and Other Stories | Juan Rulfo | 1953 | Mexican |
| 688 | The Man Who Was Thursday | G. K. Chesterton | 1908 | British |
| 689 | Nada | Carmen Laforet | 1944 | Spanish |
| 690 | Captain Hornblower R.N. | C. S. Forester | 1937 | British |
| 691 | The Temple of the Golden Pavilion | Yukio Mishima | 1956 | Japanese |
| 692 | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | 1597 | British |
| 693 | The House On The Borderland And Other Novels | William Hope Hodgson | 1908 | British |
| 694 | Thérèse Raquin | Émile Zola | 1867 | French |
| 695 | Love In A Fallen City | Eileen Chang | 1943 | Chinese |
| 696 | The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Beatrix Potter | 1902 | British |
| 697 | Poems Of Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy | 1898 | British |
| 698 | The Red Room | August Strindberg | 1879 | Swedish |
| 699 | The Sonnets | William Shakespeare | 1609 | British |
| 700 | Rhymes And Legends | Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer | 1871 | Spanish |
| 701 | The Female Eunuch | Germaine Greer | 1970 | Australian |
| 702 | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Mildred D. Taylor | 1976 | American |
| 703 | Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary | M. R. James | 1904 | British |
| 704 | The Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri | 2003 | American |
| 705 | The Rings of Saturn | W. G. Sebald | 1995 | German |
| 706 | Growth of the Soil | Knut Hamsun | 1917 | Norwegian |
| 707 | The Glass Key | Dashiell Hammett | 1931 | American |
| 708 | The Seven Pillars of Wisdom | T. E. Lawrence | 1926 | British |
| 709 | Three Trapped Tigers | Guillermo Cabrera Infante | 1965 | Cuban |
| 710 | Jealousy | Alain Robbe-Grillet | 1957 | French |
| 711 | Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban | J. K. Rowling | 1999 | British |
| 712 | The History of the Peloponnesian War | Thucydides | -410 | Greek |
| 713 | The Bacchae | Euripides | -405 | Greek |
| 714 | Where I'm Calling From | Raymond Carver | 1988 | American |
| 715 | The Line of Beauty | Alan Hollinghurst | 2004 | British |
| 716 | Decline and Fall | Evelyn Waugh | 1928 | British |
| 717 | Letters from a Stoic | Seneca | 64 | Roman |
| 718 | The Expedition of Humphry Clinker | Tobias Smollett | 1771 | British |
| 719 | Quotations from Chairman Mao | Mao | 1964 | Chinese |
| 720 | The Case of Comrade Tulayev | Victor Serge | 1949 | French |
| 721 | The Hour of the Star | Clarice Lispector | 1977 | Brazilian |
| 722 | Way of All Flesh | Samuel Butler | 1903 | British |
| 723 | Fingersmith | Sarah Waters | 2002 | British |
| 724 | The African Child | Camara Laye | 1953 | Guinean |
| 725 | The Mandarins | Simone de Beauvoir | 1954 | French |
| 726 | Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut | 1963 | American |
| 727 | Max Havelaar | Multatuli | 1860 | Dutch |
| 728 | Drunkard | Émile Zola | 1877 | French |
| 729 | Daniel Deronda | George Eliot | 1876 | British |
| 730 | Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner | 1971 | American |
| 731 | Rights of Man | Thomas Paine | 1791 | British |
| 732 | Death Of A Salesman | Arthur Miller | 1949 | American |
| 733 | Money | Martin Amis | 1984 | British |
| 734 | The Making of the English Working Class | E. P. Thompson | 1963 | British |
| 735 | The Right Stuff | Tom Wolfe | 1979 | American |
| 736 | Cannery Row | John Steinbeck | 1945 | American |
| 737 | The Plot Against America | Philip Roth | 2004 | American |
| 738 | The Country Girls | Edna O'Brien | 1960 | Irish |
| 739 | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | Dee Alexander Brown | 1970 | American |
| 740 | Eugenie Grandet | Honoré de Balzac | 1833 | French |
| 741 | The Far Pavilions | Mary Margaret Kaye | 1978 | British |
| 742 | The Killer Angels | Michael Shaara | 1974 | American |
| 743 | Conjure Wife | Fritz Leiber | 1943 | American |
| 744 | Them | Joyce Carol Oates | 1969 | American |
| 745 | Petrarch's Songbook | Francesco Petrarca | 1341 | Italian |
| 746 | 2001 | Arthur C. Clarke | 1968 | British |
| 747 | The Water Margin | Shi Naian | 1370 | Chinese |
| 748 | The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes | Unknown | 1554 | Spanish |
| 749 | Barabbas | Par Lagerkvist | 1950 | Swedish |
| 750 | Lives of the Artists | Giorgio Vasari | 1550 | Italian |
| 751 | Annals | Cornelius Tacitus | 109 | Roman |
| 752 | Green Henry | Gottfried Keller | 1855 | Swiss |
| 753 | The Lusiad | Luís Vaz Camões | 1572 | Portuguese |
| 754 | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne Brontë | 1848 | British |
| 755 | The Alberta Trilogy | Cora Sandel | 1926 | Norwegian |
| 755 | The People of Hemsö | August Strindberg | 1887 | Swedish |
| 757 | The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt | 2013 | American |
| 758 | The Fifth Season | N. K. Jemisin | 2015 | American |
| 759 | The Solitudes | Luis de Góngora | 1613 | Spanish |
| 760 | Moravagine | Blaise Cendrars | 1926 | Swiss |
| 761 | Vathek | William Beckford | 1786 | British |
| 762 | The Hunt for Red October | Tom Clancy | 1984 | American |
| 763 | Salem's Lot | Stephen King | 1975 | American |
| 764 | Lives of Girls and Women | Alice Munro | 1971 | Canadian |
| 765 | A Kiss Before Dying | Ira Levin | 1953 | American |
| 766 | The Seven Storey Mountain | Thomas Merton | 1948 | American |
| 767 | The Dwarf | Par Lagerkvist | 1944 | Swedish |
| 768 | In A Lonely Place | Dorothy B. Hughes | 1947 | American |
| 769 | The Shipyard | Juan Carlos Onetti | 1961 | Uruguayan |
| 770 | The Bridge on the Drina | Ivo Andrić | 1945 | Bosnian |
| 771 | The Rainbow | D. H. Lawrence | 1915 | British |
| 772 | The Life Before Us | Romain Gary | 1975 | French |
| 773 | The Street | Ann Petry | 1946 | American |
| 774 | Woman at Point Zero | Nawal El Saadawi | 1975 | Egyptian |
| 775 | Danube | Claudio Magris | 1986 | Italian |
| 776 | Howl and Other Poems | Allen Ginsberg | 1956 | American |
| 777 | Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories | Ryunosuke Akutagawa | 1915 | Japanese |
| 778 | Pamela | Samuel Richardson | 1740 | British |
| 779 | Hadrian the Seventh | Frederick Rolfe | 1904 | British |
| 780 | Being and Nothingness | Jean Paul Sartre | 1943 | French |
| 781 | The Tunnel | Ernesto Sábato | 1948 | Argentinian |
| 782 | Uncle Vanya | Anton Chekhov | 1897 | Russian |
| 783 | The True History of the Conquest of New Spain | Bernal Díaz del Castillo | 1632 | Spanish |
| 784 | Little, Big | John Crowley | 1981 | American |
| 785 | Bel Ami | Guy de Maupassant | 1885 | French |
| 786 | The Principles of Psychology | William James | 1890 | American |
| 787 | The House by the Medlar Tree | Giovanni Verga | 1881 | Italian |
| 788 | The Death and Life of Great American Cities | Jane Jacobs | 1961 | American |
| 789 | The Snowy Day | Ezra Jack Keats | 1962 | American |
| 790 | Economy and Society | Max Weber | 1922 | German |
| 791 | Memories, Dreams, Reflections | Carl Jung | 1963 | Swiss |
| 792 | Wild Swans | Jung Chang | 1991 | Chinese |
| 793 | King Solomon's Mines | H. Rider Haggard | 1885 | British |
| 794 | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Radcliffe | 1794 | British |
| 795 | The Nose | Nikolai Gogol | 1836 | Russian |
| 796 | The True Story Of Ah Q | Lu Xun | 1922 | Chinese |
| 797 | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Ray Bradbury | 1962 | American |
| 798 | Tales of the City | Armistead Maupin | 1978 | American |
| 799 | Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | David Hume | 1779 | British |
| 800 | The Story of Art | Ernest H. Gombrich | 1950 | British |
| 801 | The Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy | 1878 | British |
| 802 | Castle Rackrent | Maria Edgeworth | 1800 | British |
| 803 | Stoner | John Williams | 1965 | American |
| 804 | Last Afternoons With Teresa | Juan Marsé | 1966 | Spanish |
| 805 | Auto Da Fé | Elias Canetti | 1935 | Bulgarian |
| 806 | Rabbit at Rest | John Updike | 1990 | American |
| 807 | The Lottery and Other Stories | Shirley Jackson | 1948 | American |
| 808 | Thousand Cranes | Yasunari Kawabata | 1952 | Japanese |
| 809 | The Woman Warrior | Maxine Hong Kingston | 1976 | American |
| 810 | Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 2006 | Nigerian |
| 811 | Notes of a Native Son | James Baldwin | 1955 | American |
| 812 | Humboldt's Gift | Saul Bellow | 1975 | American |
| 813 | I, Robot | Isaac Asimov | 1950 | American |
| 814 | The Unknown Soldier | Väinö Linna | 1954 | Finnish |
| 815 | Black Boy | Richard Wright | 1945 | American |
| 816 | And Quiet Flows The Don | Mikhail Sholokhov | 1928 | Russian |
| 817 | Disraeli | Robert Blake | 1966 | British |
| 818 | The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen | 2015 | American |
| 819 | Women of Trachis | Sophocles | -450 | Greek |
| 821 | Philoctetes | Sophocles | -409 | Greek |
| 820 | Ajax | Sophocles | -440 | Greek |
| 822 | Children of Gebelawi | Naguib Mahfouz | 1959 | Egyptian |
| 823 | The Day of the Triffids | John Wyndham | 1951 | British |
| 824 | The Enchanted Wanderer | Nikolai Leskov | 1873 | Russian |
| 825 | Dom Casmurro | Machado de Assis | 1899 | Brazilian |
| 826 | The Praise of Folly | Erasmus | 1511 | Dutch |
| 827 | Tao Te Ching | Lao Tsu | -300 | Chinese |
| 828 | Devil in a Blue Dress | Walter Mosley | 1990 | American |
| 829 | True History of the Kelly Gang | Peter Carey | 2000 | Australian |
| 830 | Orientalism | Edward W. Said | 1978 | Palestinian |
| 832 | A Ghost at Noon | Alberto Moravia | 1954 | Italian |
| 831 | The Thin Man | Dashiell Hammett | 1934 | American |
| 833 | Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy | Joseph A. Schumpeter | 1942 | Austrian |
| 834 | Lincoln in the Bardo | George Saunders | 2017 | American |
| 835 | Song Of Lawino | Okot P'Bitek | 1966 | Ugandan |
| 836 | Jean Christophe | Romain Rolland | 1904 | French |
| 837 | Chaka | Thomas Mofolo | 1925 | South African |
| 839 | The Dispossessed | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1974 | American |
| 838 | The Interior Castle | Teresa of Avila | 1588 | Spanish |
| 840 | Greguerias | Ramón Gómez de la Serna | 1910 | Spanish |
| 841 | Anton Reiser | Karl Philipp Moritz | 1785 | German |
| 842 | Fifth Business | Robertson Davies | 1970 | Canadian |
| 843 | The Stechlin | Theodor Fontane | 1898 | German |
| 844 | The Go-Between | L. P. Hartley | 1953 | British |
| 845 | Everything That Rises Must Converge | Flannery O'Connor | 1965 | American |
| 846 | The Sellout | Paul Beatty | 2015 | American |
| 847 | The Yearling | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | 1938 | American |
| 848 | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | Alan Sillitoe | 1958 | British |
| 849 | The Poetry of Luis Cernuda | Luis Cernuda | 1901 | Spanish |
| 850 | The Colour of Magic | Terry Pratchett | 1983 | British |
| 851 | Being and Time | Martin Heidegger | 1927 | German |
| 852 | Orthodoxy | G. K. Chesterton | 1908 | British |
| 853 | Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen | 1817 | British |
| 854 | Flaubert's Parrot | Julian Barnes | 1984 | British |
| 855 | The Phantom of the Opera | Gaston Leroux | 1909 | French |
| 856 | Fateless or Fatelessness | Imre Kertész | 1975 | Hungarian |
| 857 | Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | 2001 | American |
| 858 | Discourse on Method | Rene Descartes | 1637 | French |
| 859 | Poems of Federico García Lorca | Federico García Lorca | 1921 | Spanish |
| 860 | The Last Good Kiss | James Crumley | 1978 | American |
| 861 | Claudine | Colette | 1900 | French |
| 862 | Kalīla wa-Dimna | Anonymous | 750 | Iranian |
| 863 | Riders of the Purple Sage | Zane Grey | 1912 | American |
| 864 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J. K. Rowling | 2000 | British |
| 865 | The Time Of The Doves | Merce Rodoreda | 1962 | Spanish |
| 866 | Moscow Petushki | Venedikt Yerofeev | 1970 | Russian |
| 867 | It | Stephen King | 1986 | American |
| 868 | Death and the Dervish | Meša Selimović | 1966 | Bosnian |
| 869 | Maud Martha | Gwendolyn Brooks | 1953 | American |
| 870 | The Vegetarian | Han Kang | 2007 | Korean |
| 871 | Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler | 1925 | German |
| 872 | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Jules Verne | 1864 | French |
| 873 | A Hero Born | Jin Yong | 1957 | Chinese |
| 874 | The Third Man | Graham Greene | 1949 | British |
| 875 | The Theory of the Leisure Class | Thorstein Veblen | 1899 | American |
| 876 | Eichmann in Jerusalem | Hannah Arendt | 1963 | German |
| 877 | Ubik | Philip K. Dick | 1969 | American |
| 878 | Riddle of the Sands | Erskine Childers | 1903 | British |
| 879 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams | 1947 | American |
| 880 | Symposium | Plato | -385 | Greek |
| 881 | The Midwich Cuckoos | John Wyndham | 1957 | British |
| 882 | The Royal Game | Stefan Zweig | 1941 | Austrian |
| 883 | Speedboat | Renata Adler | 1976 | American |
| 884 | Paroles | Jacques Prévert | 1946 | French |
| 885 | The Quran | Unknown | 610 | Arabic |
| 886 | Sophie's Choice | William Styron | 1979 | American |
| 887 | Birds of America | Lorrie Moore | 1998 | American |
| 888 | The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood | 2000 | Canadian |
| 889 | Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | 2015 | American |
| 890 | Schindler's List | Thomas Keneally | 1982 | Australian |
| 891 | Smilla's Sense of Snow | Peter Høeg | 1992 | Danish |
| 892 | Ballet Shoes | Noel Streatfeild | 1936 | British |
| 893 | The House at Pooh Corner | A. A. Milne | 1928 | British |
| 894 | Zazie in the Metro | Raymond Queneau | 1959 | French |
| 895 | The Hive | Camilo José Cela | 1951 | Spanish |
| 896 | The Life of Charlotte Brontë | Elizabeth Gaskell | 1857 | British |
| 897 | The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne | John Donne | 1952 | British |
| 898 | The Captive Mind | Czesław Miłosz | 1953 | Polish |
| 899 | The Pillow Book | Sei Shōnagon | 1002 | Japanese |
| 900 | Get Shorty | Elmore Leonard | 1990 | American |
| 901 | Les Enfants Terribles | Jean Cocteau | 1929 | French |
| 902 | Evelina | Fanny Burney | 1778 | British |
| 903 | A Sportsman's Notebook | Ivan Turgenev | 1852 | Russian |
| 904 | Mythology | Edith Hamilton | 1942 | American |
| 905 | The War of the End of the World | Mario Vargas Llosa | 1981 | Peruvian |
| 906 | Under Satan's Sun | Georges Bernanos | 1926 | French |
| 907 | Kokoro | Natsume Sōseki | 1914 | Japanese |
| 908 | Othello | William Shakespeare | 1603 | British |
| 909 | The Man with the Golden Arm | Nelson Algren | 1949 | American |
| 910 | Family Sayings | Natalia Ginzburg | 1963 | Italian |
| 911 | Double Indemnity | James M. Cain | 1943 | American |
| 912 | The Flanders Road | Claude Simon | 1960 | French |
| 913 | Down Second Avenue | Es'kia Mphahlele | 1959 | South African |
| 914 | The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | 1895 | American |
| 915 | Selected Essays of T. S. Eliot | T. S. Eliot | 1932 | British |
| 916 | Sandman | Neil Gaiman | 1989 | British |
| 917 | The Making of Americans | Gertrude Stein | 1925 | American |
| 918 | Justine | Marquis de Sade | 1791 | French |
| 919 | Carry On, Jeeves | P. G. Wodehouse | 1925 | British |
| 920 | Lives of the Caesars | Suetonius | 121 | Roman |
| 921 | The Girls of Slender Means | Muriel Spark | 1963 | British |
| 922 | The Stone Diaries | Carol Shields | 1993 | Canadian |
| 923 | The Sleepwalkers | Hermann Broch | 1932 | Austrian |
| 924 | Misery | Stephen King | 1987 | American |
| 925 | The Feast of the Goat | Mario Vargas Llosa | 2000 | Peruvian |
| 926 | Some Prefer Nettles | Junichiro Tanizaki | 1929 | Japanese |
| 927 | Invitation To A Beheading | Vladimir Nabokov | 1935 | American |
| 928 | The World Of Yesterday | Stefan Zweig | 1942 | Austrian |
| 929 | The Killer Inside Me | Jim Thompson | 1952 | American |
| 930 | Simplicius Simplicissimus | Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen | 1668 | German |
| 931 | The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr | E. T. A. Hoffmann | 1819 | German |
| 932 | The Making of the Atomic Bomb | Richard Rhodes | 1986 | American |
| 933 | The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | Max Weber | 1905 | German |
| 934 | Hyperion | Friedrich Holderlin | 1797 | German |
| 935 | Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri | 1999 | American |
| 936 | Fantômas | Marcel Allain, Pierre Souvestre | 1911 | French |
| 937 | Thaïs | Anatole France | 1890 | French |
| 938 | The Death of Artemio Cruz | Carlos Fuentes | 1962 | Mexican |
| 939 | The House of the Seven Gables | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1851 | American |
| 940 | The Life of a Good-For-Nothing | Joseph von Eichendorff | 1826 | German |
| 941 | Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout | 2008 | American |
| 942 | Peyton Place | Grace Metalious | 1956 | American |
| 943 | The Diary of a Nobody | George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith | 1892 | British |
| 944 | And the Band Played On | Randy Shilts | 1987 | American |
| 945 | The Life Written By Himself | the Archpriest Avvakum | 1666 | Russian |
| 946 | The Life Of Arseniev | Ivan Bunin | 1930 | Russian |
| 947 | Cider with Rosie | Laurie Lee | 1959 | British |
| 948 | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | 1959 | American |
| 949 | Parable Of The Sower | Octavia E. Butler | 1993 | American |
| 950 | Fortress Besieged | Qian Zhongshu | 1947 | Chinese |
| 951 | Blonde | Joyce Carol Oates | 2000 | American |
| 952 | Winter's Tale | Mark Helprin | 1983 | American |
| 953 | Venice | Jan Morris | 1960 | British |
| 954 | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin | 1791 | American |
| 955 | The Nibelungenlied | Anonymous | 1200 | German |
| 956 | A Bend in the River | V. S. Naipaul | 1979 | Trinidadian |
| 957 | Pilgrim's Progress | John Bunyan | 1678 | British |
| 958 | Life & Times of Michael K | J. M. Coetzee | 1983 | South African |
| 959 | Cane | Jean Toomer | 1923 | American |
| 960 | Odessa Stories | Isaac Babel | 1923 | Ukrainian |
| 961 | Under the Net | Iris Murdoch | 1954 | British |
| 962 | Prometheus Bound | Aeschylus | -455 | Greek |
| 963 | Lysistrata | Aristophanes | -411 | Greek |
| 964 | Martin Eden | Jack London | 1909 | American |
| 965 | Evenings On A Farm Near Dikanka | Nikolai Gogol | 1831 | Russian |
| 966 | The Well of Loneliness | Radclyffe Hall | 1928 | British |
| 967 | The Women of Brewster Place | Gloria Naylor | 1982 | American |
| 968 | The Elementary Particles | Michel Houellebecq | 1998 | French |
| 969 | The Years | Annie Ernaux | 2008 | French |
| 970 | The Innocence of Father Brown | G. K. Chesterton | 1911 | British |
| 971 | An American Dilemma | Gunnar Myrdal | 1944 | Swedish |
| 972 | A Kestrel for a Knave | Barry Hines | 1968 | British |
| 974 | Elective Affinities | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1809 | German |
| 973 | Two Treatises of Government | John Locke | 1689 | British |
| 975 | The Road to Oxiana | Robert Byron | 1937 | British |
| 976 | The Looming Tower | Lawrence Wright | 2006 | American |
| 977 | A Study of History | Arnold J. Toynbee | 1934 | British |
| 978 | Mythologies | Roland Barthes | 1957 | French |
| 979 | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Eugene O'Neill | 1956 | American |
| 980 | One, No One and One Hundred Thousand | Luigi Pirandello | 1926 | Italian |
| 981 | Normal People | Sally Rooney | 2018 | Irish |
| 982 | Explosion In A Cathedral | Alejo Carpentier | 1962 | Cuban |
| 983 | Angela's Ashes | Frank McCourt | 1996 | American |
| 984 | Up from Slavery | Booker T. Washington | 1901 | American |
| 985 | The Liberal Imagination | Lionel Trilling | 1950 | American |
| 986 | The Sea of Fertility | Yukio Mishima | 1965 | Japanese |
| 987 | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot | 2010 | American |
| 988 | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | Raymond Carver | 1981 | American |
| 989 | The Gift | Vladimir Nabokov | 1938 | Russian |
| 990 | Malice Aforethought | Francis Iles | 1931 | British |
| 991 | Letters to a Young Poet | Rainer Maria Rilke | 1929 | Austrian |
| 992 | The Moving Toyshop | Edmund Crispin | 1946 | British |
| 993 | The Book of Daniel | E. L. Doctorow | 1971 | American |
| 994 | The Bell | Iris Murdoch | 1958 | British |
| 995 | The Golden Compass | Philip Pullman | 1995 | British |
| 996 | A Writer's Diary | Virginia Woolf | 1953 | British |
| 997 | The Feynman Lectures on Physics | Richard P. Feynman | 1963 | American |
| 998 | Cathedral | Raymond Carver | 1983 | American |
| 999 | The Sheltering Sky | Paul Bowles | 1949 | American |
| 1000 | Outline | Rachel Cusk | 2014 | British |
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包括华人非中文写作作品。
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 352 | Journey to the West | Wu Cheng'en | 1592 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 514 | Romance of the Three Kingdoms | Guanzhong Luo | 1400 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 517 | Call to Arms | Lu Xun | 1922 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 575 | Dream of the Red Chamber | Cao Xueqin | 1754 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 633 | The Art of War | Sun Tzu | -500 | Chinese | Classical chinese |
| 659 | Rickshaw Boy | Lao She | 1936 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 695 | Love In A Fallen City | Eileen Chang | 1943 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 719 | Quotations from Chairman Mao | Mao | 1964 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 747 | The Water Margin | Shi Naian | 1370 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 792 | Wild Swans | Jung Chang | 1991 | Chinese | English |
| 796 | The True Story Of Ah Q | Lu Xun | 1922 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 827 | Tao Te Ching | Lao Tsu | -300 | Chinese | Classical chinese |
| 873 | A Hero Born | Jin Yong | 1957 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 950 | Fortress Besieged | Qian Zhongshu | 1947 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 1107 | Analects | Confucius | -479 | Chinese | Classical chinese |
| 1164 | Red Sorghum | Yan Mo | 1986 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 1443 | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | Dai Sijie | 2000 | Chinese | French |
| 1473 | Tales Of Hulan River | Xiao Hong | 1942 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 1481 | Border Town | Shen Congwen | 1934 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 1483 | Waiting | Ha Jin | 1999 | Chinese | English |
| 1550 | Mencius | Mencius | -300 | Chinese | Classical chinese |
| 1607 | To Live | Yu Hua | 1993 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 1667 | Cat Country | Lao She | 1932 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 1845 | The Plum in the Golden Vase | Anonymous | 1610 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 1870 | Soul Mountain | Xingjian Gao | 1990 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 1875 | Miss Sophie's Diary And Other Stories | Ding Ling | 1928 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 1924 | Taipei People | Pai Hsien-yung | 1971 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 2132 | The Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu | 2006 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 2348 | Heavy Wings | Jie Zhang | 1981 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 2455 | I Ching | China | -1000 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 2485 | Death Of A Red Heroine | Qiu Xiaolong | 2000 | Chinese | English |
| 2542 | The Song Of Everlasting Sorrow | Wang Anyi | 1995 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 2640 | Half of Man is Woman | Zhang Xianliang | 1985 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 2809 | Wandering On The Way | Zhuangzi, Victor H. Mair | -369 | Chinese | Classical chinese |
| 2842 | My City | Xi Xi | 1975 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 2856 | The Butterfly Lovers | Unknown | -389 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 2900 | Six Records Of A Floating Life | Shen Fu | 1809 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 2919 | With Love And Irony | Lin Yutang | 1934 | Chinese | English |
| 2943 | The Book of Songs | China | -600 | Chinese | Classical chinese |
| 2981 | The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain | Han Shan | 600 | Chinese | Classical chinese |
| 3023 | Cold Nights | Ba Jin | 1947 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 3029 | Baptism | Yang Jiang | 1988 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 3039 | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Lisa See | 2005 | Chinese | English |
| 3154 | Teahouse | Lao She | 1957 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 3166 | A Dictionary Of Maqiao | Han Shaogong | 1996 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 3177 | 1587, A Year Of No Significance | Ray Huang | 1981 | Chinese | English |
| 3196 | Falling Leaves | Adeline Yen Mah | 1997 | Chinese | English |
| 3240 | Life And Death In Shanghai | Nien Cheng | 1986 | Chinese | English |
| 3255 | Platform Sutra | Huineng | 713 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 3419 | Shanghai Baby | Wei Hui | 1999 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 3427 | The Poppy War | R. F. Kuang | 2018 | Chinese | English |
| 3549 | Midnight | Mao Dun | 1933 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 3562 | Family | Ba Jin | 1931 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 3667 | The Good Women Of China | Xinran | 2002 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 3685 | A Daughter Of Han | Ning Lao Tai-Tai, told to Ida Pruitt | 1945 | Chinese | English |
| 3694 | The Travels Of Lao Ts'an | Liu T'ieh-yün | 1907 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 3717 | Wandering | Lu Xun | 1926 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 3726 | Officialdom Unmasked | Li Baojia | 1903 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 3733 | Children Of The Rich | Lu Ling | 1940 | Chinese | Unknown |
| 3743 | Drowning | Yu Dafu | 1921 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 3751 | The Importance Of Living | Lin Yutang | 1937 | Chinese | English |
| 3759 | Ripples Across Stagnant Water | Li Jieren | 1935 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 3778 | The Marriage Of Young Blacky | Zhao Shuli | 1943 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 3808 | Half A Lifelong Romance | Eileen Chang | 1948 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 3816 | Four Generations Under One Roof | Lao She | 1944 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 3824 | Fate In Tears And Laughter | Chang Hen-shui | 1925 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 3852 | The Last Quarter Of The Moon | Chi Zijian | 2005 | Chinese | English |
| 3862 | Flower In A Sea Of Sin | Zeng Pu | 1905 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 3868 | Making Trouble | Loa Ho | 1930 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 3935 | 公墓 | Mu Shiying | 1933 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 3993 | Legend Of The Swordsmen Of The Mountains Of Shu | Huanzhulouzhu | 1932 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 4015 | The Death Of Yuli | Xu Zhenya | 1912 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 4019 | Moment In Peking | Lin Yutang | 1939 | Chinese | English |
| 4020 | Lotus Creek | Sun Li | 1950 | Chinese | Unknown |
| 4025 | 倪煥之 | Ye Shengtao | 1928 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 4029 | Spring Peach | Xu Dishan | 1930 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 4037 | Threshold Of Spring | Rou Shi | 1932 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 4038 | 風蕭蕭 | Xu Xu | 1947 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 4045 | 地之子 | Tai Jingnong | 1948 | Chinese | Unknown |
| 4061 | The Private Life of Chairman Mao | Li Zhi-Sui | 1994 | Chinese | English |
| 4065 | Records Of Orchard City | Shi Tuo | 1946 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 4085 | The General's Head | Shi Zhecun | 1932 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 4086 | Bizarre Happenings Eyewitnessed Over Two Decades | Jianren Wu | 1908 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 4089 | North Pole Landscape Painting | Wumingshi | 1943 | Chinese | Unknown |
| 4218 | Ruined City | Jia Pingwa | 1993 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 4233 | My Native Land | Chung Li-ho | 1956 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 4238 | 星星.月亮.太陽 | Su Xu | 1955 | Chinese | Unknown |
| 4277 | Stay True | Hua Hsu | 2022 | Chinese | English |
| 4372 | The Scholars | Wu Ching-tzu | 1750 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 4546 | The Corpse Walker | Liao Yiwu | 2008 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 4575 | The Bride With White Hair | Liang Yusheng | 1957 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 4616 | Red Scarf Girl | Ji-li Jiang | 1997 | Chinese | English |
| 4679 | Memories Of Peking | Lin Hai-yin | 1960 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 4767 | Records of the Grand Historian | Sima Qian | 91 | Chinese | Classical chinese |
| 4803 | Beijing Comrades | Bei Tong | 1998 | Chinese | English |
| 4806 | Northern Girls | Sheng Keyi | 2004 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 4861 | 艷陽天 | Hao Ran | 1964 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 4863 | Imperial China, 900–1800 | F. W. Mote | 1999 | Chinese | English |
| 4901 | Chinese Cinderella | Adeline Yen Mah | 1999 | Chinese | English |
| 4967 | The Blue And The Black | Wang Lan | 1963 | Chinese | Unknown |
| 4980 | The Drunkard | Liu Yichang | 1963 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 5041 | Outside The Window | Chiung Yao | 1963 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 5108 | Son's Big Doll | Huang Chun-ming | 1968 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 5190 | Dream Of Ding Village | Yan Lianke | 2006 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 5233 | The Deer And The Cauldron | Jin Yong | 1969 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 5305 | Chu Liuxiang | Gu Long | 1967 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 5314 | Stick Out Your Tongue | Ma Jian | 1987 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 5433 | Family Catastrophe | Wang Wen-hsin | 1973 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 5525 | 又見棕櫚, 又見棕櫚 | Yu Lihua | 1971 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 5545 | Where the Mountain Meets the Moon | Grace Lin, Janet Song | 2009 | Chinese | English |
| 5721 | The Rose Of Time | Bei Dao | 2005 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 5727 | China Along The Yellow River | Cao Jinqing | 2000 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 5755 | Bronze And Sunflower | Cao Wenxuan | 2005 | Chinese | English |
| 5764 | The Garlic Ballads | Yan Mo | 1988 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 5785 | Please Don’t Call Me Human | Wang Shuo | 1991 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 5789 | Serve The People! | Yan Lianke | 2005 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 5803 | 狂风 | Sima Zhongyuan | 1974 | Chinese | Unknown |
| 5862 | Poems Of Wang Wei | Wei Wang | 700 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 5862 | Poems Of Du Fu | Du Fu | 759 | Chinese | Classical chinese |
| 5862 | Selected Stories Of Lu Hsun | Lu Xun | 1972 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 5910 | Red Azalea | Anchee Min | 1993 | Chinese | English |
| 5986 | Frontier | Can Xue | 2008 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 6034 | Jade City | Fonda Lee | 2017 | Chinese | English |
| 6078 | Prisoner Of The State | Zhao Ziyang | 2009 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 6086 | Mulberry And Peach | Hualing Nieh | 1976 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 6095 | Socialism Is Great! | Lijia Zhang | 2008 | Chinese | English |
| 6109 | The Whirlwind | Chiang Kuei | 1977 | Chinese | Unknown |
| 6306 | Execution Of Mayor Yin | Chen Ruoxi | 1978 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 6523 | War Trash | Ha Jin | 2004 | Chinese | English |
| 6585 | 鐵漿 | Chu Hsi-ning | 1980 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 6610 | The Young Newcomer In The Organizational Department | Wang Meng | 1980 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 6611 | Wealth And Power | Orville Schell, John Delury | 2013 | Chinese | English |
| 6654 | Stones In The Wall | Dai Houying | 1980 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 6714 | Love Must Not Be Forgotten | Jie Zhang | 1980 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 6778 | The Chess Master | Ah Cheng | 1984 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 6837 | Spring Moon | Betty Bao Lord | 1981 | Chinese | English |
| 6967 | A Small Town Called Hibiscus | Gu Hua | 1983 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 7004 | Decoded | Mai Jia | 2002 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 7015 | Our Story | Rao Pingru | 2013 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 7091 | Candy | Mian Mian | 2000 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 7172 | The Noodle Maker | Ma Jian | 2004 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 7203 | The Jiling Chronicles | Li Yung-p'ing | 1986 | Chinese | Unknown |
| 7250 | A Race Of Generals | Chen Yingzhen | 1988 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 7256 | Farewell To My Concubine | Lilian Lee | 1985 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 7268 | Blue Blood Being | Ni Kuang | 1985 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 7269 | The Lure Of The Gangdise Mountains | Ma Yuan | 1985 | Chinese | Unknown |
| 7315 | When Red Is Black | Qiu Xiaolong | 2004 | Chinese | English |
| 7385 | Dogshit Food | Liu Heng | 1986 | Chinese | Unknown |
| 7501 | Leave Me Alone | Murong Xuecun | 2002 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 7505 | Turbulence | Jia Pingwa | 1987 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 7617 | On Guerilla Warfare | Mao | 1937 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 7745 | The Ancient Ship | Zhang Wei | 1987 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 7759 | Lai Suo | Huang Fan | 1987 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 7892 | Tombstone | Yang Jisheng | 2008 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 7934 | Chess King | Shi-Kuo Chang | 1988 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 7941 | Wolf Totem | Jiang Rong | 2004 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 7954 | Nine Continents | Xiaolu Guo | 2017 | Chinese | English |
| 7958 | The Story Of Hay Bo | Yi Shu | 1988 | Chinese | Unknown |
| 7966 | Ten years and Ten Cases of Hysteria | Lin Jinlan | 1988 | Chinese | Unknown |
| 8022 | Crystal Boys | Pai Hsien-yung | 1983 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 8139 | Iron Moon | Qin Xiaoyu | 2017 | Chinese | English |
| 8147 | Death Notice | Zhou Haohui | 2014 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 8155 | Fin De Siècle Splendor | Chu Tʽien-wen | 1990 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 8240 | Yellow Peril | Wang Lixiong | 1991 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 8246 | The Flowers Of War | Yan Geling | 2006 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 8250 | Raise The Red Lantern | Su Tong | 1990 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 8256 | Yongzheng Emperor | Eryue He | 1990 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 8358 | Zeng Guofan | Tang Haoming | 1992 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 8367 | Happy Dreams | Jia Pingwa | 2007 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 8372 | Brothers | Yu Hua | 2005 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 8397 | Ai Superpowers | Kai-Fu Lee | 2018 | Chinese | English |
| 8495 | Beijing Coma | Ma Jian | 2008 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 8498 | China In Ten Words | Yu Hua | 2011 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 8507 | White Deer Plain | Chen Zhongshi | 1993 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 8637 | The Fat Years | Chan Koonchung | 2009 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 8808 | City Of The Queen | Shin Shu-ching | 1994 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 8876 | Zhaun Falun | Li Hongzhi | 1992 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 9099 | The Alien Realm | Bo Yang | 1996 | Chinese | Unknown |
| 9628 | The Old Capital | Chu Tʽien-hsin | 1996 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 9664 | The Book Of Sins | Chen Xiwo | 2014 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 10038 | Golden Age | Wang Xiaobo | 1997 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 10190 | 舊址 | Li Rui | 1998 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 10314 | Hu Xueyan | Gao Yang | 2007 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 10644 | The Love Story Of A Young Monk | Wang Zengqi | 2011 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 10990 | Silent Island | Su Wei-chen | 2021 | Chinese | Unknown |
| 11016 | Lucky Worries About His Country | Chang Ta-chun | 2001 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 11073 | Sidetracks | Bei Dao | 2024 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 11098 | The Last Lover | Can Xue | 2005 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 11232 | Lotus | Lijia Zhang | 2017 | Chinese | English |
| 11349 | Death's End | Cixin Liu | 2010 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 12490 | The Dark Forest | Cixin Liu | 2008 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 12525 | The Girl Who Played Go | Shan Sa | 2001 | Chinese | French |
| 12661 | Life And Death Are Wearing Me Out | Yan Mo | 2006 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 13029 | The Wandering Earth | Cixin Liu | 2013 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 13725 | Mao's Great Famine | Frank Dikötter | 2010 | Chinese | English |
| 13800 | The Peony Pavilion | Tang Xianzu | 1598 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 13848 | The Three Hundred Tang Poems | China | 1763 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 13881 | Red Memory | Tania Branigan | 2023 | Chinese | English |
| 15003 | Adventures Of Sanmao The Orphan | Zhang Leping | 1935 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 15003 | Dawn Blossoms Plucked At Dusk | Lu Xun | 1928 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 15003 | Chu Yuan | Guo Moruo | 1942 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 14905 | Diary Of A Madman And Other Stories | Lu Xun | 1918 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 14905 | The Selected Poems Of T’ao Ch’ien | T’ao Ch’ien | -365 | Chinese | Classical chinese |
| 15312 | The Other Shore | Xingjian Gao | 1986 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 15312 | 青春万岁 | Wang Meng | 1979 | Chinese | Chinese |
| 15312 | The Chinese Machiavelli | Dennis Bloodworth | 1976 | Chinese | English |
| 15312 | Mountain Of Fame | John E. Wills Jr. | 1992 | Chinese | English |
| 15312 | Readings In Classical Chinese Philosophy | Philip J. Ivanhoe, Bryan W. Van Norden | 2001 | Chinese | English |
| 15312 | Confucian Moral Self Cultivation | Philip J. Ivanhoe | 1993 | Chinese | English |
| 15312 | The Philosophy Of The Daodejing | Hans-Georg Moeller | 2006 | Chinese | English |
| 15312 | Finding Them Gone | Red Pine | 2015 | Chinese | English |
| 15312 | The Tragedy Of Liberation | Frank Dikötter | 2013 | Chinese | English |
| 15312 | The Cultural Revolution | Frank Dikötter | 2016 | Chinese | English |
| 15312 | Readings In Later Chinese Philosophy | Justin Tiwald, Bryan W. Van Norden | 2014 | Chinese | English |
| 15312 | Neo Confucianism | Stephen C. Angle, Justin Tiwald | 2017 | Chinese | English |