To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,791 voters
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftCandide by VoltaireRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLes Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Best Books of the 18th Century
375 books — 1,008 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraParadise Lost by John MiltonKing Lear by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 17th Century
326 books — 705 voters
Romeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliMuch Ado About Nothing by William ShakespeareJulius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 16th Century
192 books — 543 voters

Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas MaloryThe Mabinogion by UnknownThe Imitation of Christ by Thomas à KempisThe Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de PizanLa Celestina by Fernando de Rojas
Best Books of the 15th Century
72 books — 164 voters
The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerSir Gawain and the Green Knight by Burton RaffelThe Decameron by Giovanni BoccaccioInferno by Dante Alighieri
Best Books of the 14th Century
63 books — 355 voters

The Prose Edda by Snorri SturlusonThe Nibelungenlied by UnknownThe Travels by Marco PoloSumma Theologica by Thomas AquinasThe Essential Rumi by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
Best Books of the 13th Century
72 books — 186 voters
The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of MonmouthPerceval, or, The Story of the Grail by Chrétien de TroyesThe Lais of Marie de France by Marie de FranceLancelot by Chrétien de TroyesYvain, or, The Knight with the Lion by Chrétien de Troyes
Best Books of the 12th Century
62 books — 152 voters

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar KhayyámThe Pillow Book by Sei ShōnagonShahnameh by Abolqasem FerdowsiAvicenna Canon of Medicine Volume 1 by Avicenna
Best Books of the 11th Century
24 books — 112 voters
Beowulf by UnknownShahnameh by Abolqasem FerdowsiThe plays of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim by HrotsvithaFrom The Meadows of Gold by al-Mas'udiThe Táin by Anonymous
Best Books of the 10th Century
13 books — 69 voters

The Arabian Nights by AnonymousThe Anglo Saxon Chronicle by Anglo-Saxon ChronicleThe Life of Charlemagne by EinhardAlfred the Great by AsserHistory of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) by Nennius
Best Books of the 9th Century
18 books — 96 voters
Ecclesiastical History of the English People by BedeThe Selected Poems of Li Po by Li PoLi Po and Tu Fu by Li PoPoems by Wang WeiSpring in the Ruined City by Du Fu
Best Books of the 8th Century
20 books — 53 voters


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