How many books are on 100 Greatest Books?

100 Greatest Books has 98 books, published between 1320 and 2011.

Which book on 100 Greatest Books is the most popular?

1984 by George Orwell is the most-rated book on the list, with 5,983 ratings and a 4.2 average.

What is the highest-rated book on 100 Greatest Books?

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien has the highest average rating among the list's books with at least 100 ratings: 4.6 out of 5.

Where should I start with 100 Greatest Books?

Start with 1984, Animal Farm and Dune: the three most-rated books on the list.

What genres are on 100 Greatest Books?

The books on this list are tagged Classics, General, History and Literature.

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100 Greatest Books

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Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie, 1981

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison, 1952

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§Collection

100 Greatest Books

from https://thegreatestbooks.org/the-greatest-books.html

Original order

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie, 1981

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison, 1952

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift, 1726

Ulysses

James Joyce, 1920

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton, 1920

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce, 1916

Orlando

Virginia Woolf, 1919

Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition

Walt Whitman, 1855

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version

Anonymous, 1611

The Castle

Franz Kafka, 1922

The Aeneid

Virgil, 1990

A Passage to India

E. M. Forster, 1924

Demons

Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1871

Silent Spring

Rachel Carson, 1962

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner, 1936

One Thousand and One Nights

حنان الشيخ, 2011

Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges, 1944

Le Rouge et le Noir

Stendhal, 1800

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

Laurence Sterne, 1759

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens, Pauline Francis, 1850

Collected Fictions

Jorge Luis Borges, 1998

The Good Soldier

Ford Madox Ford, 1915

The Leopard

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 1958

The Golden Notebook

Doris Lessing, 1962

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§ About this list

Books: 98
Published: 1320–2011
Average rating: 4.0 / 5 across 88,853 ratings
Genres: Classics, General, History, Literature

Most-rated on 100 Greatest Books

11984 · George Orwell
2Animal Farm · George Orwell
3Dune · Frank Herbert

Common questions about 100 Greatest Books

How many books are on 100 Greatest Books?: 100 Greatest Books has 98 books, published between 1320 and 2011.
Which book on 100 Greatest Books is the most popular?: 1984 by George Orwell is the most-rated book on the list, with 5,983 ratings and a 4.2 average.
What is the highest-rated book on 100 Greatest Books?: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien has the highest average rating among the list's books with at least 100 ratings: 4.6 out of 5.
Where should I start with 100 Greatest Books?: Start with 1984, Animal Farm and Dune: the three most-rated books on the list.
What genres are on 100 Greatest Books?: The books on this list are tagged Classics, General, History and Literature.

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