The ten greatest books of all times. Enjoy it!

1. The 10 Greatest Books
of All Time

2. The 10 Greatest Books of All Time
125 of the greatest living writers were asked
to select their top 10, and then produced a
final list of the ten greatest books ever
written.
This is a list of the top 10 fictional books of
all time – needless to say, if you have not
read these books, you probably should.

3. 10. Middlemarch • Middlemarch is considered
George Eliot by many scholars to be one
of the most important
novels of the Victorian era.
It was written by George
Eliot (pen name of Mary
Anne Evans) and was first
published in 1871 to 1872.
It is set in the 1830s in
Middlemarch, a fictional
provincial town in England,
based on Coventry.

4. 9. The Stories of Anton • Anton Chekhov was a
Chekhov Russian short story writer
and playwright. He was born
in Taganrog, southern Russia,
on 29 January 1860. His
originality consists in an early
use of the stream-of-
consciousness technique,
combined with a disavowal
of the moral finality of
traditional story structure.

5. • I appreciate the great artistic merit
8. In Search of Lost Time in Proust’s writing, but I have to be
Marcel Proust honest and say that I have never
managed to get more than half way
through the first book of this
multiple-book novel. I found it
extremely slow paced and boring.
This is Proust’s most prominent
work, it is popularly known for its
extended length and the notion of
involuntary memory, the most
famous example being the “episode
of the madeleine” in which he
describes in great (boring) detail.

6. 7. The Great Gatsby • I agree with the inclusion
F. Scott Fitzgerald of this book – it is one of
my favorites and one of the
best examples of
Fitzgerald’s writing. The
Great Gatsby is a tale from
the Jazz age of Gatsby – a
wealthy man whose life is
surrounded by mystery. A
brilliant read.

7. • It is no surprise that
6. Hamlet
Shakespeare is on the list.
William Shakespeare
• Hamlet is a tragedy by William
Shakespeare, probably written
between 1599 and 1601. The
play, set in Denmark, recounts
how Prince Hamlet exacts
revenge on his uncle for
murdering Hamlet’s father, the
King, gaining the throne
through this treachery, and
subsequently marrying his
mother.

8. 5. The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
• It is good to see such a great
Mark Twain book for the younger
generation on the list.
Huckleberry Finn is commonly
accounted as one of the first
Great American Novels. It is
also one of the first major
American novels ever written
using Local Color Regionalism,
told in the first person by
“Huck” Finn, best friend of
Tom Sawyer (hero of three
other Mark Twain books).

9. 4. Lolita • Lolita was first written in
Vladimir Nabokov English and published in 1955
in Paris. The novel is both
internationally famous for its
innovative style and infamous
for its controversial subject:
the book’s narrator and
protagonist Humbert
Humbert becoming sexually
obsessed with a twelve-year-
old girl named Dolores Haze.

10. 3. War and Peace • War and Peace was first
Leo Tolstoy published from 1865 to
1869, which tells the story
of Russian society during
the Napoleonic Era. It is
usually described as one of
Tolstoy’s two major
masterpieces (the other
being Anna Karenina) as
well as one of the world’s
greatest novels.

11. 2. Madame Bovary • The novel focuses on a
Gustave Flaubert doctor’s wife, Emma
Bovary, who has adulterous
affairs and lives beyond her
means in order to escape
the banalities and
emptiness of provincial life.
Though the basic plot is
rather simple, even
archetypal, the novel’s true
art lies in its details and
hidden patterns.

12. 1. Anna Karenina • Anna Karenina is widely
Leo Tolstoy regarded as a pinnacle in realist
fiction, Tolstoy considered this
book his first true novel.
Although most Russian critics
panned the novel on its
publication as a “trifling
romance of high life,” Fyodor
Dostoevsky declared it to be
“flawless as a work of art.”
Tolstoy’s style in Anna Karenina
is considered by many critics to
be transitional, forming a bridge
between the realist and
modernist novel.