Books and Authors worth Reading
List of the 100 Best Books of All Time
| Title | Author | Year | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | 1958 | Nigeria | English |
| Fairy tales | Hans Christian Andersen | 1835–37 | Denmark | Danish |
| The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri | 1308–1321 | Italy | Italian |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | Unknown | 18th – 17th century BCE | Sumer and Akkadian Empire | Akkadian |
| Book of Job | Unknown | 6th – 4th century BCE | Achaemenid Empire | Hebrew |
| One Thousand and One Nights | Unknown | 700–1500 | India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt/Tajikistan | Persian |
| Njál's Saga | Unknown | 13th century | Iceland | Old Norse |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 1813 | United Kingdom | English |
| Le Père Goriot | Honoré de Balzac | 1835 | France | French |
| Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, a trilogy | Samuel Beckett | 1951–53 | Republic of Ireland | French, English |
Top 100
100 Best Novels
ULYSSES
by James Joyce
THE GREAT GATSBY
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
by James Joyce
LOLITA
by Vladimir Nabokov
BRAVE NEW WORLD
by Aldous Huxley
THE SOUND AND THE FURY
by William Faulkner
CATCH-22
by Joseph Heller
DARKNESS AT NOON
by Arthur Koestler
SONS AND LOVERS
by D.H. Lawrence
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
by John Steinbeck
http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/
Best 100 Authors
1. William Shakespeare
2. Charles Dickens
3. Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. J.R.R. Tolkien
5. Leo Tolstoy
6. Ernest Hemingway
7. Jane Austen
8. George Orwell
9. John Steinbeck
10. Mark Twain
http://www.thebest100lists.com/best100authors/
The Best Short Story Writers of All Time
Edgar Allan Poe 1809
Anton Chekhov 1860
Ernest Hemingway 1899
Arthur Conan Doyle 1859
Franz Kafka 1883
F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896
J. D. Salinger 1919
Flannery O'Connor 1925
Roald Dahl 1916
Rudyard Kipling 1865
Jorge Luis Borges 1899
Mark Twain 1835
http://www.ranker.com/list/best-short-story-writers-of-all-time/ranker-books?utm_expid=16418821-19.fYivk2gAQXaM6nD77CvZZA.0&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%3B_ylt%3DA0SO8w09uZVTQDsAPDlXNyoA%3Fp%3Dgreatest%2Bauthors%26pvid%3DumZhGTIwOC5ULhUsUqCpbQAyMTEyLlOVuQn_xTOo%26fr%3Dyfp-t-701%26fr2%3Dsb-top%26b%3D21%26pstart%3D3
List of best-selling fiction authors
| Author | Min. estimated sales | Max. estimated sales | Original language | Genre or title | Number of books | Citizenship |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jirō Akagawa | 300 million[43] | Japanese | Mystery | 500+ | Japanese | |
| Horatio Alger, Jr. | 200 million[26] | 400 million[27] | English | Dime novels | 135 | American |
| Jeffrey Archer | 120 million[55] | 270 million[56] | English | Crime thriller | 30 | British |
| David Baldacci | 110 million[101] | English | Thriller | 25 | American | |
| Stan and Jan Berenstain | 200 million[57] | 260 million[58] | English | Berenstain Bears | 300+ | American |
| Enid Blyton | 300 million[15] | 600 million[16] | English | Children's literature, Noddy, The Famous Five, The Secret Seven | 800 | British |
| Norman Bridwell | 100 million[99] | 110 million[100] | English | Clifford the Big Red Dog | 80 | American |
| Dan Brown | 200 million | 200 million[72] | English | Thriller including Robert Langdon | 6 | American |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | 100 million[134] | 100 million[135] | English | Tarzan, Barsoom and Pellucidar series and otherscience fantasy | American | |
| Erskine Caldwell | 80 million[116] | 100 million[117] | English | Literature | 25 | American |
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