Which are 10 best books in literature?

Answer 1

1. A Tale of Two Cities

2. The Lord of the Rings

3. The hobbit

4. Dream of the red chamber

5.And then there were none

6. The Lion, the witch, and the wardrobe

7. She

8. The little prince

9. The Da Vinci Code

10. The catcher in the rye

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Answer 2

That's a matter of opinion but I suggest:

The Authorised Bible

The Iliad Homer

Don Quixote Cervantes

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen

Animal Farm George Orwell

1984 George Orwell

The Trial Franz Kafka

The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck

Ulysses James Joyce

Catch-22 Joseph Heller

The Bible should not be on this list, as it is a collection of books and is never read in the same way "books" are read. Likewise, other religious books. I would visit: http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.HTML. There are certainly fabulous books in other languages that don't translate well into English.

Answer

My thought is that the best books are those that are read by many people. They give us pictures and vicarious experiences of time and place. My favorites of serious books at this moment are a Thousand Splendid Suns, The Life of Pi, A Time to Kill (John Grisham's first novel), Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co., A Single Pebble (John Hersey), The Once and Future King (T.H. White), The Opposite of Fate (Amy Tan), the Kapillan of Malta (Nicholas Monsarrat) and the Middle Kingdom (Andrea Barrett), Look Homeward Angel (difficult read, though). I am so glad that there are such gifted writers out there who spend their time crafting these stories.

Answer

Picking a top ten is highly subjective. Modern Library has a top 100 list; the top ten are:

Modern Library Top Ten List

1. ULYSSES by James Joyce

2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce

4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov

5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner

7. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller

8. DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler

9. SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence

10.THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck

My personal list, however reveals how much I enjoy historical fiction as my favored genre:

1. HAWAII by James Michener

2. TRILOGY by Leon Uris

3. PILLARS OF THE EARTH by Ken Follet

4. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

5. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austin

6. THE SOURCE by James Michener

7. CATCH 22 by Joseph Heller

8. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck

9. EAST OF EDEN by John Steinbeck

10. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey

I also find it interesting to see what books we were required to read in school:

Top Ten Books You Were Forced to Read in School

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

2. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

3. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

4. A Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

5. Animal Farm by George Orwell

6. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

8. A Farewell to Arms by Earnest Hemingway

9. A Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

10. Macbeth by William Shakespeare

I feel these ten books are a great foundation for establishing a well-rounded reading career.

Answer 3

1 - Various The Holy Bible c., 1451-55, More than 6 Billion 2 - Mao Tse-Tung Quotations from Chairman Mao, 1966, 900,000,0003 - Noah Webster The American Spelling Book, 1783, Up to 100,000,000

4 - Mark C. Young Guiness Book of World Records, 1955, More than 90,000,000

5 - World Almanac Editors World Almanac, 1868, 73,500,000

6 - William Holmes McGuffey The McGuffey Readers, 1836, 60,000,000

7 - Benjamin Spock The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, 1946, More than 50,000,000

8 - Elbert Hubbard A Message to Garcia, 1899, More than 40,000,000

9 - Charles Monroe Sheldon In His Steps, What Would Jesus Do?, 1896, More than 30.000,000

10 - Jacqueline Susann Valley of the Dolls, 1966, More than 30,000,000

Answer 4

Mao Tse-Tung, The people who wrote The Bible, The people who wrote the Koran, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie, Barbara Cartland, Harold Robbins Georges Simenon, Danielle Steel

Answer 5

tastes are differ, different sources give different opinions, for example, here : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/may/08/books.booksnews http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html http://www.adherents.com/people/100_novel.html

Answer 6

Some may say the Bible, bus there's is no doubt that the Quran is more read than the Bible.

Answer 7

It is The Holly Bible. The Quran is probably close to The Bible

Answer 8

The Holy Bible.