Time: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time

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Here, in all its glory, is the all-time, ultimate Top Top 10 list, derived from the top 10 lists of 125 of the world's most celebrated writers combined. Read it and— well, just read it.

1. Anna Karenina
   
   
   (literature and fiction, classics, romance)
   
   


2. Madame Bovary
   
   
   (literature and fiction, classics, mystery and thrillers)
   
   


3. War and Peace
   
   
   (literature and fiction, classics, nonfiction)
   
   


4. Lolita
   
   
   (literature and fiction)
   
   


5. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
   
   
   (business books, children books, IT books, food and cooking, happiness, history, literature and fiction, mystery and thrillers, nonfiction, parenting, religion and spirituality, romance, science, teens)
   
   


6. Hamlet
   
   
   (literature and fiction, classics)
   
   


7. The Great Gatsby
   
   
   (literature and fiction, classics)
   
   


8. In Search of Lost Time
   
   
   (literature and fiction, classics)
   
   


9. The Stories of Anton Chekhov
   
   
   (classics, literature and fiction)
   
   


10. Middlemarch
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    



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