Sp. Newsweek makes the top 10 by processing 10 prestigious literary rankings.
The socio-political American magazine “Newsweek” has compared 10 prestigious literary rankings and presented to its readers its rating of the greatest books of all times and nations. In it, the first place is “War and Peace” by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy. When compiling the ranking, data from the New York Public Library, the reading list of St. John’s College, the rating by Oprah Winfrey, “Wikipedia”, the rankings of the Guardian and the Telegraph, of the publishing house “Modern Libraries” were taken into account. , specializing in classical literature.
Books by Marquez (17), Darwin (27), Marx (30), Tolkien (35), Shakespeare (49-52), Proust (62), Henry Miller (82), Freud (86) found a place among the first hundred , Mao Zedong (88). The Bible is only in 41st place.
Top 10 greatest books in the world:
1. “War and Peace”, Leo Tolstoy;
2. “1984”, George Orwell;
3. “Odysseus”, James Joyce;
4. “Lolita”, Vladimir Nabokov;
5. “The Sound and the Fury”, William Faulkner;
6. The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison;
7. “To the Lighthouse”, Virginia Woolf;
8. “Iliad” and “Odyssey”, Homer;
9. “Pride and Prejudice”, Jane Austen;
10. “Divine Comedy”, Dante Alighieri.
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