
OCLC, the Online Computer Library Center, has shared a list of the Top 100 novels of all time found in libraries around the world. Buzzfeed put together a quiz to see how many of the top 100 novels of all time you’ve read. Take the quiz here!
Below is a complete list of the 10 best books of the year, as selected by the New York Times Book Revieweditors since 1968. How many of the greats have you read?
Titles |
Order |
by Andre Malraux |
1968 |
by V. S. Pritchett |
1968 |
by George Orwell |
1968 |
by George Orwell |
1968 |
by George Orwell |
1968 |
by Jan Myrdal |
1968 |
by James D. Watson |
1968 |
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
1968 |
by John Berryman |
1968 |
by Michael Holroyd |
1968 |
by Norman Mailer |
1968 |
by Eldridge Cleaver |
1968 |
by Ronald Blythe |
1969 |
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline |
1969 |
by Jean Stafford |
1969 |
by Erik H. Erikson |
1969 |
by T. Harry Williams |
1969 |
by Philip Roth |
1969 |
by Dean Acheson |
1969 |
by Peter Gay |
1969 |
by Kurt Vonnegut |
1969 |
by Joyce Carol Oates |
1969 |
by John Updike |
1970 |
by Donald Barthelme |
1970 |
by Francis Steegmuller |
1970 |
by Alvin W. Gouldner |
1970 |
by Charles E. Silberman |
1970 |
by Albert Speer |
1970 |
by Dumas Malone |
1970 |
by Eudora Welty |
1970 |
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
1970 |
by James MacGregor Burns |
1970 |
by Kate Millett |
1970 |
by Nancy Milford |
1970 |
by Yambo Ouologuem |
1971 |
by Joseph P. Lash |
1971 |
by Samuel Eliot Morison |
1971 |
by Richard Morris Titmuss |
1971 |
by John Updike |
1971 |
by Edmund Wilson |
1971 |
by T. S. Eliot |
1971 |
by Robert Manson Myers |
1972 |
by Simone de Beauvoir |
1972 |
by Frances FitzGerald |
1972 |
by Leon Edel |
1972 |
by John Rawls |
1972 |
by Thomas Pynchon |
1973 |
by John Clive |
1973 |
by Doris Lessing |
1973 |
by Theodore Rosengarten |
1974 |
by Howard E. Gruber |
1974 |
by Robert Stone |
1974 |
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
1974 |
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
1974 |
by Eugene D. Genovese |
1974 |
by Joseph Heller |
1974 |
by Richard Adams |
1974 |
by Susan Brownmiller |
1975 |
by Donald Barthelme |
1975 |
by R. W. B. Lewis |
1975 |
by Peter Matthiessen |
1975 |
by Paul Theroux |
1975 |
by V. S. Naipaul |
1975 |
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
1975 |
by Saul Bellow |
1975 |
by David Brion Davis |
1975 |
by E. L. Doctorow |
1975 |
by Peter Handke |
1975 |
by Lucy S. Dawidowicz |
1975 |
by Leonard Michaels |
1975 |
by Jean Lacouture |
1976 |
by Gabriel García Márquez |
1976 |
by Ron Kovic |
1976 |
by George Dangerfield |
1976 |
by Vladimir Nabokov |
1976 |
by Richard Yates |
1976 |
by Anthony Powell |
1976 |
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
1976 |
by John Gardner |
1976 |
by Alex Haley |
1976 |
by Renata Adler |
1976 |
by Saul Bellow |
1976 |
by Bruno Bettelheim |
1976 |
by Andrei Sinyavsky |
1976 |
by Maxine Hong Kingston |
1976 |
by Ann Cornelisen |
1976 |
by Irving Howe |
1976 |
by Arlene Croce |
1977 |
by Joan Didion |
1977 |
by Simon Leys |
1977 |
by John McPhee |
1977 |
by Robert Lowell |
1977 |
by James Atlas |
1977 |
by Michael Herr |
1977 |
by Selma Fraiberg |
1977 |
by John Cheever |
1977 |
by Morris Dickstein |
1977 |
by V. S. Pritchett |
1977 |
by V. S. Naipaul |
1977 |
by Edmund Wilson |
1977 |
by Susan Sontag |
1977 |
by David McCullough |
1977 |
by Richard Poirier |
1977 |
by W. Jackson Bate |
1977 |
by Toni Morrison |
1977 |
by Paul Scott |
1977 |
by John Updike |
1978 |
by Michel Foucault |
1978 |
by P. N. Furbank |
1978 |
by Eudora Welty |
1978 |
by Maureen Howard |
1978 |
by Mary Gordon |
1978 |
by Günter Grass |
1978 |
by Bruce Chatwin |
1978 |
by Garry Wills |
1978 |
by Diane Johnson |
1978 |
by Alistair Horne |
1978 |
by Doris Lessing |
1978 |
by John Cheever |
1978 |
by Irving Howe |
1978 |
by John Irving |
1978 |
by Charles Simmons |
1978 |
by V. S. Naipaul |
1979 |
by Thomas Pakenham |
1979 |
by Christopher Lasch |
1979 |
by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
1979 |
by Horace Freeland Judson |
1979 |
by Norman Mailer |
1979 |
by Philip Roth |
1979 |
by Douglas R. Hofstadter |
1979 |
by Flannery O’Connor |
1979 |
by Leslie Epstein |
1979 |
by Thomas Powers |
1979 |
by Edmund Morris |
1979 |
by William Shawcross |
1979 |
by Elizabeth Hardwick |
1979 |
by John Updike |
1979 |
by Joan Didion |
1979 |
by Henry A. Kissinger |
1979 |
by Maxine Hong Kingston |
1980 |
by John Boswell |
1980 |
by Eudora Welty |
1980 |
by Ian Watt |
1980 |
by Charles R. Morris |
1980 |
by Ann Beattie |
1980 |
by Italo Calvino |
1980 |
by E. L. Doctorow |
1980 |
by Max Frisch |
1980 |
by Barbara Novak |
1980 |
by Justin Kaplan |
1980 |
by James H. Jones |
1981 |
by David Bradley |
1981 |
by Robert Stone |
1981 |
by Jonathan D. Spence |
1981 |
by H.C. Robbins Landon |
1981 |
by H.C. Robbins Landon |
1981 |
by H.C. Robbins Landon |
1981 |
by H.C. Robbins Landon |
1981 |
by H.C. Robbins Landon |
1981 |
by Marilynne Robinson |
1981 |
by Salman Rushdie |
1981 |
by Jonathan Raban |
1981 |
by Robert Nozick |
1981 |
by Jacobo Timerman |
1981 |
by John Updike |
1981 |
by D. M. Thomas |
1981 |
by Francine du Plessix Gray |
1981 |
by Philip Roth |
1981 |
by Wole Soyinka |
1982 |
by Mario Vargas Llosa |
1982 |
by John Updike |
1982 |
by Kate Simon |
1982 |
by Ann Beattie |
1982 |
by Anne Tyler |
1982 |
by Jonathan Schell |
1982 |
by Judith Thurman |
1982 |
by Thomas Keneally |
1982 |
by Robert J. Donovan |
1982 |
by J. M. Coetzee |
1982 |
by Henry Kissinger |
1982 |
by Philip Roth |
1983 |
by Kenneth Harris |
1983 |
by Raymond Carver |
1983 |
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
1983 |
by Joan Chase |
1983 |
by John Updike |
1983 |
by William J. Kennedy |
1983 |
by Paul Johnson |
1983 |
by Alice Munro |
1983 |
by Umberto Eco |
1983 |
by Seymour M. Hersh |
1983 |
by Ronald Radosh |
1983 |
by Paul Starr |
1983 |
by John Edgar Wideman |
1984 |
by Strobe Talbott |
1984 |
by Peter Gay |
1984 |
by Saul Bellow |
1984 |
by Elisabeth Griffith |
1984 |
by J. M. Coetzee |
1984 |
by E. L. Doctorow |
1984 |
by Jayne Anne Phillips |
1984 |
by Jonathan D. Spence |
1984 |
by William Shawcross |
1984 |
by Milan Kundera |
1984 |
by Paul Zweig |
1984 |
by Mario Vargas Llosa |
1984 |
by Mary Catherine Bateson |
1984 |
by David S. Wyman |
1985 |
by Gary Sick |
1985 |
by J. Anthony Lukas |
1985 |
by Julian Barnes |
1985 |
by Richard Holmes |
1985 |
by Tracy Kidder |
1985 |
by Louise Erdrich |
1985 |
by Joseph Lelyveld |
1985 |
by Italo Calvino |
1985 |
by Peter Taylor |
1985 |
by Primo Levi |
1985 |
by David K. Shipler |
1986 |
by Barry Lopez |
1986 |
by William Finnegan |
1986 |
by Kenneth S. Davis |
1986 |
by Kenneth S. Davis |
1986 |
by Margaret Atwood |
1986 |
by Robert Skidelsky |
1986 |
by Arnold Rampersad |
1986 |
by Michael Kammen |
1986 |
by Oliver Sacks |
1986 |
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
1986 |
by John le Carré |
1986 |
by Alice Munro |
1986 |
by John Updike |
1986 |
by Angela Carter |
1986 |
by Fouad Ajami |
1986 |
by Jonathan Brown |
1986 |
by Norman Rush |
1986 |
by Andrei Voznesensky |
1987 |
by Toni Morrison |
1987 |
by Tom Wolfe |
1987 |
by James Gleick |
1987 |
by Philip Roth |
1987 |
by Simon Schama |
1987 |
by Martin Stannard |
1987 |
by Robert Hughes |
1987 |
by Stephen J. Pyne |
1987 |
by Nien Cheng |
1987 |
by Richard Rhodes |
1987 |
by Saul Bellow |
1987 |
by Julian Barnes |
1987 |
by William Julius Wilson |
1987 |
by Bob Woodward |
1987 |
by T. C. Boyle |
1987 |
by Anton Shammas |
1988 |
by James M. McPherson |
1988 |
by Michael Holroyd |
1988 |
by Stephen Hawking — not in English Common Knowledge |
1988 |
by Neil Sheehan |
1988 |
by Timothy Ferris |
1988 |
by Milorad Pavić |
1988 |
by Don DeLillo |
1988 |
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
1988 |
by Ingmar Bergman |
1988 |
by Leonard W. Levy |
1988 |
by Taylor Branch |
1988 |
by Paul Kennedy |
1988 |
by Harold Brodkey |
1988 |
by Thomas Flanagan |
1988 |
by Raymond Carver |
1988 |
by E. L. Doctorow |
1989 |
by Simon Schama |
1989 |
by Ian Gibson |
1989 |
by Thomas L. Friedman |
1989 |
by Alistair Horne |
1989 |
by Alistair Horne |
1989 |
by Julian Barnes |
1989 |
by Donald Cameron Watt |
1989 |
by T. C. Boyle |
1989 |
by David Fromkin |
1989 |
by Kazuo Ishiguro |
1989 |
by Salman Rushdie |
1989 |
by Cynthia Ozick |
1989 |
by Padraig O’Malley |
1990 |
by Anna Akhmatova |
1990 |
by Alice Munro |
1990 |
by Jeremy Wilson |
1990 |
by Martin Amis |
1990 |
by Nadine Gordimer |
1990 |
by Derek Walcott |
1990 |
by A. S. Byatt |
1990 |
by John Updike |
1990 |
by Jonathan D. Spence |
1990 |
by Deirdre Bair |
1990 |
by Tim O’Brien |
1990 |
by Robert Klitgaard |
1990 |
by Brian Boyd |
1990 |
by V. S. Pritchett |
1991 |
by Daniel C. Dennett |
1991 |
by Lawrence L. Langer |
1991 |
by John Cheever |
1991 |
by John Richardson |
1991 |
by Norman Rush |
1991 |
by Art Spiegelman |
1991 |
by Grigori Medvedev |
1991 |
by William Trevor |
1991 |
by Louis Begley |
1991 |
by Helena Cronin |
1992 |
by Michael Ondaatje |
1992 |
by Toni Morrison |
1992 |
by Walter Isaacson |
1992 |
by Garry Wills |
1992 |
by W. S. Merwin |
1992 |
by Robert Stone |
1992 |
by Pat Barker |
1992 |
by Norman Maclean |
1992 |
by Mavis Gallant |
1993 |
by Robert D. Kaplan |
1993 |
by Reinaldo Arenas |
1993 |
by William Trevor |
1993 |
by Douglas H. Chadwick |
1993 |
by Gustaw Herling-Grudziński |
1993 |
by Denis Johnson |
1993 |
by Ivan Klima |
1993 |
by George B. Schaller |
1993 |
by David Remnick |
1993 |
by Camilo José Cela |
1993 |
by Laurie Lee |
1993 |
by John Gross |
1993 |
by Lars Eighner |
1993 |
by Graham Robb |
1994 |
by Hugh Thomas |
1994 |
by William Gaddis |
1994 |
by Tim O’Brien |
1994 |
by Steven Pinker |
1994 |
by Robert Wright |
1994 |
by Edward O. Wilson |
1994 |
by Alice Munro |
1994 |
by David Holloway |
1994 |
by David Levering Lewis |
1994 |
by V. S. Naipaul |
1994 |
by Tina Rosenberg |
1995 |
by Anatoly Dobrynin |
1995 |
by Richard Ford |
1995 |
by Martin Amis |
1995 |
by Umberto Eco |
1995 |
by Norman Sherry |
1995 |
by David Herbert Donald |
1995 |
by Richard A. Posner |
1995 |
by Philip Roth |
1995 |
by Vladimir Nabokov |
1995 |
by Frederick Brown |
1995 |
by William Trevor |
1996 |
by Frank McCourt |
1996 |
by Jonathan Raban |
1996 |
by Mavis Gallant |
1996 |
by Cary Reich |
1996 |
by Alice Munro |
1996 |
by David Quammen |
1996 |
by Pauline Maier |
1997 |
by Penelope Fitzgerald |
1997 |
by Adrian Desmond |
1997 |
by Jon Krakauer |
1997 |
by Thomas Pynchon |
1997 |
by Cynthia Ozick |
1997 |
by John Updike |
1997 |
by Don DeLillo |
1997 |
by Hermione Lee |
1997 |
by Timothy Ferris |
1997 |
by Lorrie Moore |
1998 |
by Russell Banks |
1998 |
by Richard A. Fortey |
1998 |
by Alice Munro |
1998 |
by Barbara Kingsolver |
1998 |
by David Gates |
1998 |
by Ron Chernow |
1998 |
by Richard Holbrooke |
1998 |
by Hilary Spurling |
1998 |
by Graham Robb |
1998 |
by Philip Gourevitch |
1998 |
by Richard A. Posner |
1999 |
by Annie Proulx |
1999 |
by Richard Holmes |
1999 |
by J. M. Coetzee |
1999 |
by Antonio Damasio |
1999 |
by John Keegan |
1999 |
by Michael Frayn |
1999 |
by Jean Strouse |
1999 |
by Inga Clendinnen |
1999 |
by Judith Thurman |
1999 |
by Roddy Doyle |
1999 |
by Jim Crace |
2000 |
by Beowulf Poet |
Seamus Heaney translation, 2000 |
by Matt Ridley |
2000 |
by John Updike |
2000 |
by Dave Eggers |
2000 |
by Philip Roth |
2000 |
by Tom Segev |
2000 |
by Graham Robb |
2000 |
by Frances FitzGerald |
2000 |
by W. G. Sebald |
2001 |
by Paula Fox |
2001 |
by Jonathan Franzen |
2001 |
by Alice Munro |
2001 |
by Colson Whitehead |
2001 |
by Louis Menand |
2001 |
by Peter Carey |
2001 |
by Oliver Sacks |
2001 |
by Miranda Carter |
2002 |
by Ian McEwan |
2002 |
by Lorna Sage |
2002 |
by Jeffrey Eugenides |
2002 |
by Margaret MacMillan |
2002 |
by William Kennedy |
2002 |
by Timothy Ferris |
2002 |
by Caroline Alexander |
2003 |
by Monica Ali |
2003 |
by T. C. Boyle |
2003 |
by Jonathan Lethem |
2003 |
by William Taubman |
2003 |
by Edward P. Jones |
2003 |
by Gabriel García Márquez |
2003 |
by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc |
2003 |
by Ron Chernow |
2004 |
by Bob Dylan |
2004 |
by Colm Tóibín |
2004 |
by Philip Roth |
2004 |
by Alice Munro |
2004 |
by Orhan Pamuk |
2004 |
by Ha Jin |
2004 |
by George Packer |
2005 |
by Haruki Murakami |
2005 |
by Mark Stevens |
2005 |
by Jonathan Harr |
2005 |
by Zadie Smith |
2005 |
by Tony Judt |
2005 |
by Curtis Sittenfeld |
2005 |
by Ian McEwan |
2005 |
by Mary Gaitskill |
2005 |
by Joan Didion |
2005 |
by Gary Shteyngart |
2006 |
by Amy Hempel |
2006 |
by Claire Messud |
2006 |
by Danielle Trussoni |
2006 |
by Richard Ford |
2006 |
by Lawrence Wright |
2006 |
by Nathaniel Philbrick |
2006 |
by Michael Pollan |
2006 |
by Rory Stewart |
2006 |
by Marisha Pessl |
2006 |
by Rajiv Chandrasekaran |
2007 |
by Mildred Armstrong Kalish |
2007 |
by Michael Thomas |
2007 |
by Jeffrey Toobin |
2007 |
by Linda Colley |
2007 |
by Per Petterson |
2007 |
by Alex Ross |
2007 |
by Roberto Bolaño |
2007 |
by Joshua Ferris |
2007 |
by Denis Johnson |
2007 |
by Roberto Bolaño |
2008 |
by Steven Millhauser |
2008 |
by Jane Mayer |
2008 |
by Dexter Filkins |
2008 |
by Toni Morrison |
2008 |
by Joseph O’Neill |
2008 |
by Julian Barnes |
2008 |
by Drew Gilpin Faust |
2008 |
by Jhumpa Lahiri |
2008 |
by Patrick French |
2008 |
by Richard Holmes |
2009 |
by Maile Meloy |
2009 |
by Jonathan Lethem |
2009 |
by Lorrie Moore |
2009 |
by David Finkel |
2009 |
by Jeannette Walls |
2009 |
by Mary Karr |
2009 |
by Liaquat Ahamed |
2009 |
by Carol Sklenicka |
2009 |
by Kate Walbert |
2009 |
by Jennifer Homans |
2010 |
by Stacy Schiff |
2010 |
by Siddhartha Mukherjee |
2010 |
by Stephen Sondheim |
2010 |
by Jonathan Franzen |
2010 |
by Ann Beattie |
2010 |
by Emma Donoghue |
2010 |
by William Trevor |
2010 |
by Jennifer Egan |
2010 |
by Isabel Wilkerson |
2010 |
by Stephen King |
2011 |
by Christopher Hitchens |
2011 |
by Chad Harbach |
2011 |
by Ian Brown |
2011 |
by Manning Marable |
2011 |
by Karen Russell |
2011 |
by Eleanor Henderson |
2011 |
by Daniel Kahneman |
2011 |
by Tea Obreht |
2011 |
by Amanda Foreman |
2011 |
by Katherine Boo — not in English Common Knowledge |
2012 |
by Hilary Mantel |
2012 |
by Chris Ware — not in English Common Knowledge |
2012 |
by Andrew Solomon — not in English Common Knowledge |
2012 |
by Dave Eggers — not in English Common Knowledge |
2012 |
by Zadie Smith — not in English Common Knowledge |
2012 |
by Robert A. Caro — not in English Common Knowledge |
2012 |
by David Nasaw — not in English Common Knowledge |
2012 |
by Jim Holt — not in English Common Knowledge |
2012 |
by Kevin Powers — not in English Common Knowledge |
2012 |
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
Fiction, 2013 |
by Rachel Kushner |
Fiction, 2013 |
by Donna Tartt |
Fiction, 2013 |
by Kate Atkinson |
Fiction, 2013 |
by George Saunders |
Fiction, 2013 |
by Alan S. Blinder |
Nonfiction, 2013 |
by Peter Baker |
Nonfiction, 2013 |
by Sheri Fink |
Nonfiction, 2013 |
by Christopher Clark |
Nonfiction, 2013 |
by Sonali Deraniyagala |
Nonfiction, 2013 |
by Anthony Doerr |
Fiction, 2014 |
by Jenny Offill |
Fiction, 2014 |
by Lily King |
Fiction, 2014 |
by Akhil Sharma |
Fiction, 2014 |
by Phil Klay |
Fiction, 2014 |
by Roz Chast |
Nonfiction, 2014 |
by Eula Biss |
Nonfiction, 2014 |
by Hermione Lee |
Nonfiction, 2014 |
by Elizabeth Kolbert |
Nonfiction, 2014 |
by Lawrence Wright |
Nonfiction, 2014 |
by Magda Szabó |
Fiction, 2015 |
by Lucia Berlin |
Fiction, 2015 |
by Rachel Cusk |
Fiction, 2015 |
by Paul Beatty |
Fiction, 2015 |
by Elena Ferrante |
Fiction, 2015 |
by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
Nonfiction, 2015 |
by Sven Beckert |
Nonfiction, 2015 |
by Helen Macdonald |
Nonfiction, 2015 |
by Andrea Wulf |
Nonfiction, 2015 |
by Åsne Seierstad |
Nonfiction, 2015 |
by Karan Mahajan |
Fiction, 2016 |
by Ian McGuire |
Fiction, 2016 |
by Colson Whitehead |
Fiction, 2016 |
by Han Kang |
Fiction, 2016 |
by Stefan Hertmans |
Fiction, 2016 |
by Sarah Bakewell |
Nonfiction, 2016 |
by Jane Mayer |
Nonfiction, 2016 |
by Matthew Desmond |
Nonfiction, 2016 |
by Susan Faludi |
Nonfiction, 2016 |
by Hisham Matar |
Nonfiction, 2016 |
by Ali Smith |
Fiction, 2017 |
by Mohsin Hamid |
Fiction, 2017 |
by Min Jin Lee |
Fiction, 2017 |
by Naomi Alderman |
Fiction, 2017 |
by Jesmyn Ward |
Fiction, 2017 |
by Richard O. Prum |
Nonfiction, 2017 |
by Ron Chernow |
Nonfiction, 2017 |
by James Forman Jr. |
Nonfiction, 2017 |
by Caroline Fraser |
Nonfiction, 2017 |
by Patricia Lockwood |
Nonfiction, 2017 |
by Lisa Halliday |
Fiction, 2018 |
by Rebecca Makkai |
Fiction, 2018 |
by Leïla Slimani |
Fiction, 2018 |
by Tommy Orange |
Fiction, 2018 |
by Esi Edugyan |
Fiction, 2018 |
by Shane Bauer |
Nonfiction, 2018 |
by Tara Westover |
Nonfiction, 2018 |
by David W. Blight |
Nonfiction, 2018 |
by Michael Pollan |
Nonfiction, 2018 |
by Lisa Brennan-Jobs |
Nonfiction, 2018 |
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