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The Most Influential Books of All Time

A list I compiled of what I believe are some of the most well-known and influential books of all time. Feel free to comment some books you believe I missed!
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Author
Year
Book
George Orwell
1949
1984
Charles Dickens
1843
A Christmas Carol
George R.R. Martin
1996
A Game of Thrones
Mark Twain
1884
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
1876
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Paulo Coelho
1988
The Alchemist
Agatha Christie
1939
And Then There Were None
Erich Maria Remarque
1928
All Quiet on the Western Front
George Orwell
1944
Animal Farm
Sylvia Plath
1963
The Bell Jar
Various
1500
BCE
The Bible
Aldous Huxley
1932
Brave New World
J.D. Salinger
1951
The Catcher in the Rye
Roald Dahl
1964
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1866
Crime and Punishment
Anne Frank
1942
The Diary of a Young Girl
Phillip K. Dick
1968
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Miguel De Cervantes
1615
Don Qiuxote
Bram Stoker
1897
Dracula
Chuck Palahniuk
1995
Fight Club
Daniel Keyes
1959
Flowers for Algernon
Mary Shelley
1816
Frankenstein
Charles Dickens
1860
Great Expectations
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1925
The Great Gatsby
Dr. Seuss
1960
Green Eggs and Ham
William Shakespeare
1601
Hamlet
J.K. Rowling
1997
Harry Potter
Joseph Conrad
1899
Heart of Darkness
J.R.R. Tolkien
1930
The Hobbit
Dr. Seuss
1957
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Stephen King
1986
IT
Charlotte Bronte
1847
Jane Eyre
Peter Benchley
1974
Jaws
Michael Crichton
1990
Jurassic Park
Victor Hug
1862
Les Miserables
Louisa May Alcott
1868
Little Women
William Golding
1954
Lord of the Flies
J.R.R. Tolkien
1937
The Lord of the Rings
Roald Dahl
1988
Matilda
Stephen King
1985
Misery
Herman Melville
1851
Moby Dick
Agatha Christie
1934
Murder on the Orient Express
John Steinbeck
1937
Of Mice and Men
Ernest Hemingway
1952
The Old Man and the Sea
Charles Dickens
1838
Oliver Twist
Charles Darwin
1831
On the Origin of Species
Ken Kesey
1962
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Oscar Wilde
1890
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jane Austen
1813
Pride and Prejudice
Cormac McCarthy
2006
The Road
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
1971
Roadside Picnic
Daniel Defoe
1719
Robinson Crusoe
William Shakespeare
1596
Romeo and Juliet
Stephen King
1977
The Shining
Thomas Harris
1988
The Silence of the Lambs
Kurt Vonnegut
1968
Slaughterhouse 5
Robert Louis Stevenson
1885
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Patricia Highsmith
1955
The Talented Mr. Ripley
H.G. Wells
1895
The Time Machine
Harper Lee
1960
To Kill a Mockingbird
Leo Tolstoy
1869
War and Peace
H.G. Wells
1898
The War of the Worlds
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5 Comments
interopia
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Level 90
Nov 23, 2025
Maybe author for the Bible should be "Various"?
Calleja
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Level 39
Nov 23, 2025
Good point! I'll change it now!
cpgatbyu
+1
Level 88
Nov 23, 2025
*Huckleberry
linhouse
+1
Level 44
Nov 24, 2025
Huckleberry - check spelling
Calleja
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Level 39
Nov 24, 2025
fixed
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