Best Books of All Time

This collection is based solely on writer's own discretion. This selection has nothing to do with advertisements. This has also nothing to do with the sequence of books that appear here. There might be many more books in the market, library or internet which are even better than this writer's view. Healthy feedback and comments are most welcome. I hope you will find this list interesting.


1. Anna Karenina

'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' This might be the famously quoted line from the novel. Leo Tolstoy, a Russian writer wrote this wonderful realist fiction who considers this to be first true novel by himself. It is divided into 8 parts with style of transitional novel forming a bridge between realist and modernist style and mostly  narrated in third person perspective. 


This novel explores the themes of hypocrisy, jealousy, faith, fidelity, family, marriage, society, and passion and one may say this novel has a central message-no one may build their happiness on another's pain.


There are several adaptations of this masterpiece-movies, music, radio shows, and opera. If you are interested to know more about the novel you can read from here and for the adaptations from here.








2. Lolita
Humbert Humbert, a middle aged man, an unreliable narrator becomes sexually active with 12 years old girl named Dolores Haze whom he names Lolita. This novel was written by Vladimir Nabokov and became internationally renowned and a subject of high controversy at the same time because of the story line.

Now its reader to decide whether there is exploitation of a child by a cunning adult or the exploitation of a weak adult by a corrupt child.

                                                      You can read more information about the novel here.
3. To Kill a Mocking Bird

A Pulitzer prize winning book written by Harper Lee is most widely read book in America, and its protagonist, Atticus Finch, an enduring racial hero. The plot, the characters are based on author' observation of her family and surroundings.

Now we have to find the warmth, the humor and the issues of rape and racial inequality. You can read more on this novel here.










4. Hamlet

5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

6. War and Peace

7. MiddleMarch

8. Life: A User's Manual

9. The Remains of the Day

10. The Great Gatsby