49 Best Fiction Books
Goal: Find the best Fiction books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).
Method:
- Search for "best fiction books" and study the top 4+ pages.
- Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
- Rank the results neatly here.
49 Best Fiction 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, Christopher Hitchens, Sahil Lavingia, Jenn Im, Winston Churchill, Diane Rehm, Brad Delong, Anna Akana
War And Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
Also recommended by:
Jordan Peterson, Larry King, Christopher Hitchens, Mark Manson, Ernest Hemingway, Nelson Mandela
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Also recommended by:
Jordan Peterson, Yuval Noah Harari, Tristan Harris, Matt Mullenweg, Stewart Brand, Sam Altman, PewDiePie, Christopher Hitchens, Sahil Lavingia, Winston Churchill
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Also recommended by:
Jordan Peterson, Esther Perel, Larry King, PewDiePie, Christopher Hitchens, Jim Cramer, Ernest Hemingway, Jim Carrey, Brian Dean, Jack Edwards
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Also recommended by:
Taylor Swift, Bill Gates, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Daniel Pink, Ev Williams, Ryan Holiday, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Christopher Hitchens, Jim Carrey
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
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird, Book 1
by Harper Lee
Also recommended by:
Jordan Peterson, Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey, Kathie Lee Gifford, James Clear
Ulysses
by James Joyce
Also recommended by:
Neil Strauss, Debbie Millman, Christopher Hitchens, Ernest Hemingway
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings, Book 1
by J. R. R. Tolkien
Also recommended by:
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
Also recommended by:
Aubrey Marcus, Will Smith, LeBron James, Big Sean, Brené Brown, Ryan Flaherty, Lisa Ling, Daniel Ek, Eric Ripert, Gabby Reece, Ryan Shea, Tony Robbins, Garry Tan, Lewis Howes, Jodie Cook, James Clear, Andy Frisella, Patrick Bet-David
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Also recommended by:
Oprah Winfrey, Jordan Peterson, Chelsea Handler, Jennifer Lawrence, Sam Altman, Laura R Walker, Peter Thiel, Austen Allred, Jen Wilkin, Ernest Hemingway, Bret Easton Ellis
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Also recommended by:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Neil Strauss, Richard Branson, Oprah Winfrey, Cal Fussman, Christopher Hitchens, Fred Wilson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Shashi Tharoor
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
Also recommended by:
Jordan Peterson, Jack Dorsey, Josh Waitzkin, Lex Fridman, Phil Keoghan, PewDiePie, Mark Manson, Jack Edwards
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
Also recommended by:
Jocko Willink, Oprah Winfrey, Aubrey Marcus, Charlize Theron, Joel McHale, Lex Fridman, Ryan Holiday, Sam Hinkie
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Also recommended by:
Emma Watson, Ricardo Semler, Brandon Stanton, Evan Goldberg, Fred Wilson, Garry Tan, James Clear
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Also recommended by:
J.K. Rowling, Amelia Boone, Oprah Winfrey, Christopher Hitchens, Mahatma Gandhi, Maya Angelou
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
Also recommended by:
Steve Jobs, Barack Obama, PewDiePie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Penn Jillette, Jack Edwards
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Also recommended by:
Peter Thiel, Jordan Peterson, Jack Dorsey, Max Levchin, PewDiePie, Jack Edwards
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland, Book 1
by Lewis Carroll
Also recommended by:
Naval Ravikant, Richa Chadha, Russell Brand, Sahil Lavingia, Salman Rushdie
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
Also recommended by:
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Mahatma Gandhi, Mark Twain, Alice Walker, Winston Churchill
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
Also recommended by:
J.K. Rowling, Ev Williams, PewDiePie, Tavi Gevinson, Bryan Callen
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
Also recommended by:
Mike Maples, Jr., Patrick Collison, PewDiePie, Nassim Taleb, James Clear
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Also recommended by:
Daniel Pink, Richard Branson, Walter Isaacson, Ernest Hemingway
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Also recommended by:
Jordan Peterson, Hillary Clinton, Ernest Hemingway, Russell Moore
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 1
by C. S. Lewis
Also recommended by:
Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
Gone With the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter, Book 7
by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter, Book 1
by J.K. Rowling
The Lord of the Rings
One Volume
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
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