Most Praised Books of All Time

1 The Bible

2 The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

3 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

4 The Qur'an

5 Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri

6 The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupéry

7 1984 - George Orwell

8 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez

9 The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

10 Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

The Contenders

11 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

12 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

13 The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

14 Catcher In the Rye - J.D.Salinger

15 The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

16 La Princesse De Cleves - Madame de La Fayette

The first psychological novel.

17 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

18 Lord of the Flies - William Golding