{"id":4,"date":"2023-07-05T16:53:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T16:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/10.17.2.108\/?p=4"},"modified":"2023-07-05T17:16:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T17:16:12","slug":"greatest-books-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.vicnunes.com\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Greatest books of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lot&#8217;s of &#8220;all time greatest&#8221; book lists on the dubdubdub. &nbsp;Sadly, I&#8217;ve read so few listed that I&#8217;m embarrassed to list them. &nbsp;Time to get cracking now that I&#8217;ve retired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lists I&#8217;ve reviewed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegreatestbooks.org\/\">The Greatest Books: The Best Books of All Time &#8211; 1-50<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.listchallenges.com\/top-51-books-of-all-time\">Top 50 Books of All Time &#8211; List Challenges<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lastly, I enjoyed watching&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hDjVHqKR-_k\">Benjamin McEvoy&#8217;s reaction video<\/a>&nbsp;to &#8220;the 50 greatest books of all time and this list comes from a master list that was pulled together from 130 different relatively authoritative lists by virtue of an algorithm&#8230;&#8221; &nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-master-list-referenced-is-153-books-long\">The master list referenced is 153 books long<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Bulfinch&#8217;s Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch<br>2. Gulliver&#8217;s Travels by Jonathan Swift<br>3. The Odyssey by Homer<br>4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain<br>5. Robinson Cruse by Daniel Defoe<br>6. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll<br>7. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson<br>8. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck<br>9. Walden by Henry David Thoreau<br>10. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne<br>11. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane<br>12. Ivanhoe by Walter Scott<br>13. Great Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe<br>14. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen<br>15. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw<br>16. Moby Dick by Herman Melville<br>17. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles<br>18. The Aeneid by Virgil<br>19. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley<br>20. 1984 by George Orwell<br>21. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin<br>22. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton<br>23. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand<br>24. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger<br>25. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte<br>26. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte<br>27. The Once and Future King by T. H. White<br>28. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes<br>29. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway<br>30. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller<br>31. Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress by John Bunyan<br>32. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee<br>33. The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson<br>34. Call of the Wild by Jack London<br>35. Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict<br>36. Lord of the Flies by William Golding<br>37. Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy<br>38. My Antonia by Willa Cather<br>39. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer<br>40. The Symposium by Plato<br>41. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll<br>42. The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle<br>43. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy<br>44. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway<br>45. Native Son by Richard Wright<br>46. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald<br>47. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling<br>48. The Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper<br>49. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman<br>50. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens<br>51. She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith<br>52. Hiroshima by John Hersey<br>53. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis<br>54. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle<br>55. The Ugly American by Eugene Burdick and William I. Lederer<br>56. Animal Farm by George Orwell<br>57. Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg<br>58. How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler<br>59. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson<br>60. Giants in the Earth by Ole Edvart R\u00f6lvaag<br>61. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad<br>62. Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis<br>63. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque<br>64. Vanity Fair by William<br>65. Make peace Thackeray<br>66. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy<br>67. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain<br>68. The Iliad by Homer<br>69. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens<br>70. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann<br>71. Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio&nbsp;<br>72. Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole<br>73. Lady Windermere&#8217;s Fan by Oscar Wilde&nbsp;<br>74. Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser<br>75. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson<br>76. Paradise Lost by John Milton<br>77. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane<br>78. The Green Hat by Michael Arlen<br>79. The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton<br>80. Sappho by Alphonse Daudet<br>81. The Green Bay Tree by Louis Bromfield<br>82. Jalna by Mazo de la Roche<br>83. &#8220;Bliss&#8221; by Katherine Mansfield (short story)<br>84. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith<br>85. Europa by Robert Briffault<br>86. Europa in Limbo by Robert Briffault<br>87. The Widow Barnaby by Frances Milton Trollope<br>88. The Widow Married by Frances Milton Trollope<br>89. The Old Wives Tales by Arnold Bennett<br>90. The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott<br>91. Pendennis by Williarn Makepeace Thackeray<br>92. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington<br>93. Penrod by Booth Tarkington<br>94. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham<br>95. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck<br>96. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky<br>97. The Golden Bough by James George Frazer<br>98. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton<br>99. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde<br>100. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams<br>101. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe<br>102. John Brown&#8217;s Body by Stephen Vincent Ben\u00e9t<br>103. A Doll&#8217;s House by Henrik Ibsen<br>104. Wind. Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry<br>105. All the King&#8217;s Men by Robert Penn Warren<br>106. Madame Curie by Eve Curie<br>107. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall<br>108. Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts<br>109. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene<br>110. The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan<br>111. The Organization Man by William H. Whyte&nbsp;<br>112. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad<br>113. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay<br>114. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser<br>115. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas<br>116. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James<br>117. The Bridge of San Luis Ray by Thornton Wilder<br>118. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri<br>119. Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner<br>120. The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway<br>121. Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson<br>122. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce<br>123. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster<br>124. The Human Comedy by William Saroyan<br>125. The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark<br>126. How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn<br>127. Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw<br>128. Lust for Life by Irving Stone<br>129. The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman<br>130. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler<br>131. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Calher<br>132. The Emperor Jones by Eugene O&#8217;Neill<br>133. The Virginian by Owen Wister<br>134. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert<br>135. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy<br>136. Capital (Das Kapital) by Karl Marx<br>137. Our Plundered Planet by Henry Fairfield Osborn Jr.<br>138. The Crucible by Arthur Miller<br>139. Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen<br>140. The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand<br>141. Looking Backward by Edward Bellary<br>142. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak<br>143. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev<br>144. Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis<br>145. The Sea of Grass by Conrad Richter<br>146. &#8220;The Lottery&#8221; by Shirley Jackson (short story)<br>147. Our Town by Thornton Wilder<br>148. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot<br>149. One Man&#8217;s Meat by E. B. White<br>150. The Innocents Abroad by Mark Iwain<br>151. Roughing It by Mark Twain<br>152. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner<br>153. 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