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49 Best Fiction Books of All Time


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

    Here's what we did:
  1. Type "best fiction books" into our search engine and study the top 4+ 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. 1
    1984

    1984

    George Orwell

  2. 2
    War And Peace

    War And Peace

    Leo Tolstoy

  3. 3
    Don Quixote

    Don Quixote

    Miguel De Cervantes

  4. 4
    Brave New World

    Brave New World

    Aldous Huxley

  5. 5
    Crime and Punishment

    Crime and Punishment

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  6. 6
    The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  7. 7
    The Catcher in the Rye
  8. 8
    To Kill a Mockingbird
  9. 9
    Ulysses

    Ulysses

    James Joyce

  10. 10
    Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Bronte

  11. 11
    The Hobbit
  12. 12
    Pride and Prejudice
  13. 13
    Frankenstein

    Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley

  14. 14
    Great Expectations

    Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens

  15. MOST RECOMMENDED!
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    The Alchemist

    The Alchemist

    Paulo Coelho

  16. 16
    Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina

    Leo Tolstoy

  17. 17
    One Hundred Years of Solitude

    One Hundred Years of Solitude

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  18. 18
    The Old Man and the Sea

    The Old Man and the Sea

    Ernest Hemingway

  19. 19
    The Road

    The Road

    Cormac McCarthy

  20. 20
    The Little Prince

    The Little Prince

    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  21. 21
    Moby Dick

    Moby Dick

    Herman Melville

  22. 22
    A Tale of Two Cities

    A Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens

  23. 23
    The Master and Margarita

    The Master and Margarita

    Mikhail Bulgakov

  24. 24
    Lolita

    Lolita

    Vladimir Nabokov

  25. 25
    The Count of Monte Cristo
  26. 26
    Gulliver's Travels

    Gulliver's Travels

    Jonathan Swift

  27. 28
    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  28. 29
    The Brothers Karamazov

    The Brothers Karamazov

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  29. 30
    The Handmaid's Tale

    The Handmaid's Tale

    Margaret Atwood

  30. 32
    The Metamorphosis
  31. 33
    Fahrenheit 451
  32. 34
    Charlotte's Web
  33. 35
    Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë

  34. 36
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  35. 37
    Beloved

    Beloved

    Toni Morrison

  36. 38
    The Bell Jar
  37. 39
    Midnight's Children

    Midnight's Children

    Salman Rushdie

  38. 40
    Candide

    Candide

    Voltaire

  39. 41
    Dracula

    Dracula

    Bram Stoker

  40. 42
    The Sound and the Fury

    The Sound and the Fury

    William Faulkner

  41. 43
    Les Miserables

    Les Miserables

    Victor Hugo

  42. 44
    The Lord of the Rings
  43. 45
    Gone With the Wind

    Gone With the Wind

    Margaret Mitchell

  44. 46
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
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    Anne of Green Gables

    Anne of Green Gables

    L. M. Montgomery

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