28 Best English Books
Goal: Find the best English books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).
Method:
- Search for "best english books" and study the top 5+ pages.
- Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
- Rank the results neatly here.
28 Best English Books
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1984
by George Orwell
Also recommended by:
Tristan Harris, Jordan Peterson, J. Cole, Emma Watson, Noam Chomsky, Richard Branson, Matt Mullenweg, Anna Akana, Christopher Hitchens, Sahil Lavingia, Jenn Im, Winston Churchill, Diane Rehm, Brad Delong
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Also recommended by:
Taylor Swift, Bill Gates, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Daniel Pink, Christopher Hitchens, Ev Williams, Ryan Holiday, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jim Carrey
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird, Book 1
by Harper Lee
Also recommended by:
Jordan Peterson, Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey, James Clear, Kathie Lee Gifford
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
Also recommended by:
Bill Gates, Jennifer Lawrence, Gretchen Rubin, Ev Williams, Larry King, Tim Draper, Kathie Lee Gifford, Sarah Jessica Parker
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland, Book 1
by Lewis Carroll
Also recommended by:
Salman Rushdie, Sahil Lavingia, Russell Brand, Richa Chadha, Naval Ravikant
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Also recommended by:
Richard Branson, Daniel Pink, Walter Isaacson, Ernest Hemingway
Things Fall Apart
African Trilogy, Book 1
by Chinua Achebe
Also recommended by:
Barack Obama, Jacqueline Novogratz, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sarah Jessica Parker
Ulysses
by James Joyce
Also recommended by:
Neil Strauss, Debbie Millman, Christopher Hitchens, Ernest Hemingway
A Passage to India
by E.M. Forster
Clarissa
Or the History of a Young Lady
by Samuel Richardson
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
Jude The Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings, Book 2
by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Golden Notebook
A Novel
by Doris Lessing
To The Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Sources
- 1
12 Essential English Novels Everyone Should Read - Oxford Royale Academy
oxford-royale.com
- 2
Top 20 Greatest Books of All Time, Written in English
scientific-editing.info
- 3
The 25 greatest British novels - BBC Culture
bbc.com
- 4
The 100 best novels written in English: the full list | Books | The Guardian
theguardian.com
- 5
12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written” | Britannica
britannica.com
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