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28 Best English Books of All Time


Our goal: Find the best English books according to the internet (not just one random person's opinion).

    Here's what we did:
  1. Type "best english books" into our search engine and study the top 5+ pages.
  2. Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
  3. Rank the results neatly for you here! 😊
    (It was a lot of work. But hey! That's why we're here, right?)

(Updated 2024)

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Last Updated: Monday 1 Jan, 2024

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  1. MOST RECOMMENDED!
    1
    1984

    1984

    George Orwell

  2. 2
    Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Bronte

  3. 3
    Middlemarch

    Middlemarch

    George Eliot

  4. 4
    Mrs. Dalloway

    Mrs. Dalloway

    Virginia Woolf

  5. 5
    The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  6. 6
    To Kill a Mockingbird
  7. 7
    Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë

  8. 8
    Pride and Prejudice
  9. 9
    Frankenstein

    Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley

  10. 10
    Great Expectations

    Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens

  11. 11
    Emma

    Emma

    Jane Austen

  12. 12
    David Copperfield

    David Copperfield

    Charles Dickens

  13. 13
    The Catcher in the Rye
  14. 15
    Things Fall Apart
  15. 16
    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  16. 17
    Ulysses

    Ulysses

    James Joyce

  17. 18
    Beloved

    Beloved

    Toni Morrison

  18. 19
    Persuasion

    Persuasion

    Jane Austen

  19. 20
    The Good Soldier

    The Good Soldier

    Ford Madox Ford

  20. 22
    Heart of Darkness

    Heart of Darkness

    Joseph Conrad

  21. 23
    The Golden Notebook
  22. 24
    Vanity Fair

    Vanity Fair

    William Makepeace Thackeray

  23. 25
    To The Lighthouse

    To The Lighthouse

    Virginia Woolf

  24. 26
    Jude The Obscure

    Jude The Obscure

    Thomas Hardy

  25. 27
    Clarissa
  26. 28
    A Passage to India
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