Inteliquest?s World?s 100 Greatest Books of All-Time

I’ve read the ones in bold.

  1. The Iliad by Homer
  2. The Odyssey by Homer
  3. The Aeneid by Virgil
  4. Beowulf by Unknown
  5. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
  6. The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
  7. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  8. Don Quixote by Cervantes
  9. Paradise Lost by John Milton
  10. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
  11. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  12. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
  13. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
  14. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
  15. Candide by Voltaire
  16. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  17. The Tragedy of Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  18. The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
  19. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
  20. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  21. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  22. The Red and the Black by Stendahl
  23. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
  24. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
  25. Carmen by Prosper Merimee
  26. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  27. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  28. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
  29. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  30. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  31. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  32. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  33. Camille by Alexandre Dumas Fils
  34. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  35. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  36. Idyls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson
  37. Silas Marner by George Eliot
  38. Middlemarch by George Eliot
  39. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
  40. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
  41. Crime and Punishment by Fedor Dostoyevsky
  42. The Brothers Karamazov by Fedor Dostoyevsky
  43. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  44. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
  45. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  46. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
  47. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  48. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
  49. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  50. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  51. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
  52. Tess of the D’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
  53. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
  54. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
  55. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  56. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  57. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
  58. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  59. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
  60. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
  61. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
  62. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
  63. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  64. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  65. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  66. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  67. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
  68. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  69. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  70. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  71. The Republic by Plato
  72. The Prince by Machiavelli
  73. The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
  74. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
  75. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  76. Das Kapital by Karl Marx
  77. The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
  78. Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
  79. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
  80. The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
  81. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  82. Othello by William Shakespeare
  83. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
  84. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
  85. Tartuffe by Moliere
  86. Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
  87. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
  88. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  89. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
  90. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
  91. Our Town by Thornton Wilder
  92. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
  93. The Nicomachaen Ethics by Aristotle
  94. Meditations by Rene Descartes
  95. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
  96. The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer
  97. Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  98. Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  99. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  100. How We Think by John Dewey