List of English-language books considered the best

This is a list of English-language novels that multiple media outlets and commentators have considered to be among the best of all time. The books included on this list are on at least three "best/greatest of all time" lists.

List +NameAuthorYear Ref. Count The Adventures of Augie March19533All The King's Men19463Animal Farm19453Appointment in Samarra19343Atonement20013Beloved19874A Bend in the River19793 The Big Sleep19394Brave New World19324Catch-2219613 The Catcher in the Rye19515 A Clockwork Orange19633 A Dance to the Music of Time1951-753 The Day of the Locust19393Deliverance19703 The Golden Notebook19624The Good Soldier19153Go Tell It on the Mountain19533 The Grapes of Wrath19395 The Great Gatsby19255Heart of Darkness18993Light in August19323Lolita19556Lord of the Flies19543 The Lord of the Rings1954 3The Maltese Falcon19303 The Moviegoer19613Lucky Jim19543Midnight's Children19816Mrs. Dalloway19253Nineteen Eighty-Four19495Of Human Bondage19153On The Road19574 A Passage to India19244Portnoy's Complaint19693 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie19613Scoop19383Sophie's Choice19793 The Sound and the Fury19294 The Sun Also Rises19263To Kill a Mockingbird19603To the Lighthouse19274Tropic of Cancer19343Ulysses19224Under the Net19543Under the Volcano19474Wide Sargasso Sea19663

Publications Time's List of the 100 Best Novels (2005) NPR's 100 Years, 100 Novels (2009) (2) Modern Library 100 Best Novels (1998) The Daily Telegraph's 100 Novels Everyone Should Read The Guardians 100 Best Novels Written in English (2015) Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century (1999)Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century (1999)

See also

:Category:Top book lists List of top book lists List of literary awards

References