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12 Novels Considered the ā€œGreatest Book Ever Writtenā€
  • Introduction
  • Anna Karenina
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • The Great Gatsby
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • A Passage to India
  • Invisible Man
  • Don Quixote
  • Beloved
  • Mrs. Dalloway
  • Things Fall Apart
  • Jane Eyre
  • The Color Purple
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Books Greta Garbo as Anna Karenina stands in profile by a window, wearing an ornate ruffled dress, with a decorative framed portrait and a bust on the table beside her. Book cover for To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, featuring a silhouette of a child under a tree and a large moon, with the title in script and "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize." F. Scott Fitzgerald Gabriel GarcĆ­a MĆ”rquez A Passage to India Head and shoulders portrait of American author Ralph Ellison, wearing a checked shirt and looking to his left, photographed in 1952. Don Quixote Toni Morrison, c. 1980–87 Virginia Woolf

12 Novels Considered the ā€œGreatest Book Ever Writtenā€: References & Edit History

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  • Jonathan Hogeback
    Editorial intern, Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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