12 Novels Considered the Greatest Book Ever Written
Anna Karenina: Any fan of stories that involve juicy subjects like adultery, gambling, marriage plots, and, well, Russian feudalism.
To Kill a Mockingbird: believed to be one of the most influential authors to have ever existed, famously published only a single novel.
The Great Gatsby: is distinguished as one of the greatest texts for introducing students to the art of reading literature.
One Hundred Years of Solitude: The late Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez published his most famous work, One Hundred Years of Solitude, in 1967.
Invisible Man: Often confused with H.G. Wells’s science-fiction novella of nearly the same name (just subtract a “The”), Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is a groundbreaking novel.
Don Quixote: perhaps the most influential and well-known work of Spanish literature.
Don Quixote: perhaps the most influential and well-known work of Spanish literature.
Beloved: 987 spiritual and haunting novel Beloved tells the story of an escaped slave named Sethe who has fled to Cincinnati.
Mrs. Dalloway: Possibly the most idiosyncratic novel of this list, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway describes exactly one day in the life of a British socialite named Clarissa Dalloway.
Things Fall Apart: The Western canon of “great literature” often focuses on writers who come from North America or Europe.
Jane Eyre: Jane Eyre another novel often assigned for reading in school, was initially published in 1847.
The Color Purple: Though the epistolary novel (a novel in the form of letters written by one or more characters) was most popular.