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100 Greatest Books Ever Written

May 28th, 2011

I find myself in a dilemma. I am torn between writing a short review about each of the book mentioned in this list, or just enlisting the names of the 100 greatest books ever written. Judging by the excitement level in my heart, I think I will go on and on about each of these great books ever written. So, I choose to just enlist the names of these must read books. Hope you have read most of these must read books of all time.

  • Don Quixote ~ Miguel De Cervantes
  • Robinson Crusoe ~ Daniel Defoe
  • Dangerous Liaisons ~ Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
  • To Have and Have Not ~ Ernest Hemingway
  • 1984 ~ George Orwell
  • A Bend in the River ~ VS Naipaul
  • A Dance to the Music of Time ~ Anthony Powell
  • A Passage to India ~ E. M. Forster
  • A Room of One’s Own ~ Virginia Woolf
  • Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland ~ Lewis Carroll
  • All the King’s Men ~ Robert Penn Warren
  • Animal Farm ~ George Orwell
  • Arabian Nights ~ Anthony Galland
  • Austerlitz ~ WG Sebald
  • Birdsong ~ Sebastian Faulks
  • Black Beauty ~ Anna Sewell
  • Brave New World ~ Aldous Huxley
  • Breakfast At Tiffany’s ~ Truman Capote
  • Call of the Wild ~ Jack London
  • Catch-22 ~ Joseph Heller
  • Catcher in the Rye ~ J.D. Salinger
  • Crime and Punishment ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • David Copperfield ~ Charles Dickens
  • Don Quixote ~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  • Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Dr Zhivago ~ Boris Pasternak
  • Dracula ~ Bram Stoker
  • Dune ~ Frank Herbert
  • Fahrenheit 451 ~ Ray Bradbury
  • Fountainhead ~ Ayn Rand
  • Frankenstein ~ Mary Shelley
  • Germinal ~ Emile Zola
  • Go Tell It On the Mountain ~ James Baldwin
  • Gone with the Wind ~ Margaret Mitchell
  • Goodnight Mister Tom ~ Michelle Magorian
  • Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets ~ JK Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ~ JK Rowling
  • Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone ~ JK Rowling
  • Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban ~ JK Rowling
  • I Served the King of England ~ Bohumil Hrabal
  • Idylls of the King ~ Alfred Tennyson
  • Les Misérables ~ Victor Hugo
  • Lolita ~ Vladimir Nabokov
  • Lord of the Flies ~ William Golding
  • Madam Bovary ~ Gustave Flaubert
  • Memoirs Of A Geisha ~ Arthur Golden
  • Midnight’s Children ~ Salman Rushdie
  • Moby Dick ~ Herman Melville
  • Of Mice And Men ~ John Steinbeck
  • Old Goriot ~ Honoré de Balzac
  • Oliver Twist ~Charles Dickens
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Oscar and Lucinda ~ Peter Carey
  • Point Omega: A Novel ~ Don DeLillo
  • Pride and Prejudice ~ Jane Austin
  • Republic ~ Plato
  • Slaughterhouse-Five ~ Kurt Vonnegut
  • Swiss Family Robinson ~ Johann David Wyss
  • The Alchemist ~ Paulo Coelho
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ~ Junot Díaz
  • The Count of Monte Cristo ~ Alexandre Dumas
  • The God Of Small Things ~ Arundhati Roy
  • The Godfather ~ Mario Puzo
  • The Golden Notebook ~ Doris Lessing
  • The Grapes of Wrath ~ John Steinbeck
  • The Great Gatsby ~ F Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ~ Douglas Adams
  • The Home and the World ~ Rabindranath Tagore
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Kite Runner ~ Khaled Hosseini
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ~ Washington Irving
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ~ CS Lewis
  • The Lord Of The Rings ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Master and Margarita ~ Mikhail Bulgakov
  • The Metamorphosis ~ Franz Kafka
  • The Odyssey ~ Homer
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray ~ Oscar Wilde
  • The Secret Adversary ~ Agatha Christie
  • The Shining ~ Stephen King
  • The Sorrows of Young Werther ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • The Sound and The Fury ~ William Faulkner
  • The Stranger ~ Albert Camus
  • The Tale of Genji ~ Murasaki Shikibu
  • The Three Musketeers ~ Alexandre Dumas
  • The Time Machine ~ H.G. Wells
  • The Trial ~ Franz Kafka
  • The Wealth of Nations ~ Adam Smith
  • The Woman in White ~ Wilkie Collins
  • To Kill A Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee
  • Treasure Island ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Tropic of Cancer ~ Henry Miller
  • Ulysses ~ James Joyce
  • Under The Volcano ~ Malcolm Lowry
  • Underworld ~ Don DeLillo
  • Vanity Fair ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Waiting for the Mahatma ~ RK Narayan
  • Walden ~ Henry David Thoreau
  • War and Peace ~ Leo Tolstoy
  • Winter’s Bone ~ Daniel Woodrell
  • Wuthering Heights ~ Emily Bronte

This was the list of some of the greatest books ever written, in no particular order. I have enlisted some of my favorite books, thus, you may find the list biased. However, if your favorite book is missing, and you feel should be included in one of the greatest books ever written list, then make sure you mention it in the comment box below. Books are the world’s greatest treasures. Make it a point, to go through at least 50% of these classic books to read in our everyday busy lives.

Top Thriller Books – The 50 Most Collectible Reads

May 27th, 2011

These are instantly some of the best books of all time that fall under the best thriller books of all time genre. Be sure to stack these books up nice and tall, and get down to reading these if you’ve missed out on what’s making it to the top among critics and readers worldwide. The best thriller books of all time are.

The Bone Collector: Jeffery Deaver
The Shining: Stephen King
Mystic River: Dennis Lehane
No Country for Old Men: Cormac McCarthy
In Cold Blood: Truman Capote
The Likeness: Tana French
The Talented Mr. Ripley: Patricia Highsmith
Feed: Mira Grant
Deadline: Simon Kernick
What the Dead Know: Laura Lippman
A Simple Plan: Scott Smith
The Cairo Dairy: Maxim Chattam
The Lost Symbol: Dan Brown
Child 44: Tom Rob Smith
The First Deadly Sin: Lawrence Sanders
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Stieg Larsson
Shutter Island: Dennis Lehane
The Kill Artist: Daniel Silva
The Woman in White: Wilkie Collins
Carrie: Stephen King
Devil May Care: Sebastian Faulks
Jaws: Peter Benchley
The Poet: Michael Connelly
Intensity: Dean Koontz
Sweetheart: Chelsea Cain
Strangers on a Train: Patricia Highsmith
Heartsick: Chelsea Cain
In the Woods: Tana French
In the Dark: Mark Billingham
Jurassic Park: Michael Crichton
The Count of Monte Cristo: Alexandre Dumas
The Point of No Rescue: Sophie Hannah
The Silence of the Lambs: Thomas Harris
Dracula: Bram Stoker
Spook Country: William Gibson
The Anatomy of Ghosts: Andrew Taylor
The Bellini Madonna: Elizabeth Madonna
The Firm: John Grisham
The Secret Speech: Tom Rob Smith
The Tourist: Olen Steinhauer
Beat the Reaper: Josh Bazell
Blood Brother: J.A Kerley
The Vows of Silence: Susan Hill
Sunday at Tiffany’s: James Patterson
Heart Shaped Box: Joe Hill
Fearless Fourteen: Janet Evanovich
Echo Park: Michael Connelly
The Murder at Road Hill House: Kate Summerscale
Saturday: Ian McEwan
Nineteen Minutes: Jodi Picoult

The best selling books of 2010 will prove to be a good read, which avid book worms must follow up on as well. Thriller books always contain that element of factuality, where a writer’s mind will only think up things that could possibly be true – giving readers a hard time when the images start to form in their mind (leaving a cloud of doubt over their heads of, ‘do these things really happen?’). Whatever a story is about, it’s bound to make its readers sit back and wonder.