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Don Quixote and Jane Eyre book covers
Greatest Literature Lists including greatest novels of all time, 19th century, 20th century, fantasy, science fiction, American Nature Writing, and short stories.

Greatest Novels of All Time

Don Quixote book cover War and Peace book cover Ulysses book cover Pride and Prejudice book cover In Search of Lost Time book cover Great Expectations book cover
Novels published throughout history ranked according to their initial and lasting acclaim, influence as well as initial and lasting popularity.
• 300 Greatest Novels of All Time

Greatest Novels of the 19th Century

War and Peace book cover Pride and Prejudice book cover Great Expectations book cover Adventures of Huckleberry Finn book cover Crime and Punishment book cover Anna Karenina book cover
Novels published in the 1800s are ranked according to their initial and lasting acclaim, influence as well as initial and lasting popularity.
• 200 Greatest Novels of the 19th Century

Greatest Novels of the 20th Century

Ulysses book cover In Search of Lost Time book cover One Hundred Years of Solitude book cover The Trial book cover The Great Gatsby book cover The Sound and the Fury book cover
Novels published in the 1900s are ranked according to their initial and lasting acclaim, influence as well as initial and lasting popularity.
• 200 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century

Greatest Science Fiction Books

book Stranger in a Strange Land book dune book Foundation by Isaac Asimov book Fahrenheit 451 book cover The Book of the New Sun book cover 1984 by by George Orwell
With respect to all the myriad forms & interpretations of science fiction, these books were chosen for their lasting impact, influence on Science Fiction writing, originality and compositional skill.
• 200 Greatest Science Fiction Books

Greatest Fantasy Books

book cover The Lord of The Rings book cover Harry Potter book cover Alice's Adventures in Wonderland book cover Something Wicked This Way Comes book cover The Chronicles of Narnia book cover A Song of Ice and Fire
With respect to all the myriad forms & interpretations of Fantasy, these books were chosen for their lasting impact, influence on Fantasy writing, originality and compositional skill.
• 200 Greatest Fantasy Books

Greatest Books of American Nature Writing

book cover Walden book cover A Sand County Almanac book cover The Outermost House book cover Pilgrim at Tinker Creek book cover Encounters with the Archdruid book cover The Immense Journey
Accounts of experience in natural settings, descriptions of natural phenomena, factual information about the natural world, and philosophical reflections, particularly on humanity's relationship to nature.
• 100 Greatest Books of American Nature Writing

Greatest Short Stories

book cover An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge book cover The Cask of Amontillado book cover The Gift of The Magi book cover A Hunger Artist book cover For Eseme - with Love and Squalor book cover The Dead
It is with respect to the myriad forms and subject matter that exist in short stories that these titles were chosen. Their lasting impact, influence in the genre of short stories and originality.
• 200 Greatest Short Stories

100 Greatest Novelists

novelist Charles Dickens novelist Leo Tolstoy novelist Miguel de Cervantes novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky novelist Jane Austen novelist James Joyce
The greatest novelists of all time are ranked according to their initial and lasting acclaim, influence as well as initial and lasting popularity.
• 100 Greatest Novelists

50 of the Greatest Poets

poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge poet Edgar Allen Poe author Robert Frost poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poet William Shakespeare poet William Wordsworth
These poets and a few examples of their finest poetic works were chosen considering their lasting impact, influence and originality, as well as initial and lasting popularity.
• 50 of the Greatest Poets

50 of the Greatest Playwrights

poet William Shakespeare Playwright Anton Chekov Playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan Playwright Henrik Ibsen Playwright Molière Playwright Sophocles
The Greatest Playwrights and a few examples of their finest plays ranked considering their lasting impact, influence and originality, as well as the initial and lasting popularity of their works.
• 50 of the Greatest Playwrights