20240726 阅读史上最伟大的书籍需要多长时间？

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阅读史上最伟大的书籍需要多长时间？
经济学人》咨询了藏书家数据科学家，为您揭晓答案。
2024年7月26日


“19世纪德国哲学家亚瑟-叔本华写道："读好书的前提是不读坏书：因为人生苦短。与叔本华的时代相比，现在人们的寿命更长，但书籍的数量却增加了很多。因此，他的论断现在应该比当时更有分量。

这位著名的悲观主义哲学家在发表这一论断时，表现出了非同寻常的乐观。他认为读者可以可靠地辨别哪些书值得花时间阅读，哪些不值得。这种信念已经消退。文学正典的概念受到了攻击。一些读者愿意撬开它，接纳更多女性和非白人作家的作品；另一些读者则会直接将它打入冷宫。评论家失去了文化影响力。拥有书评版的报纸数量也在减少。如今，似乎每个人都有自己的个人作品集。


然而，筛选的需求依然存在，以至于图书推荐似乎和他们推荐的书一样受欢迎。视频应用 TikTok 的图书角 BookTok 上的 “影响者 ”已经取代了过去有公信力的评委。在拥有数千万会员的 Goodreads 网站上，成千上万的读者对书籍进行评价和评论。Rebind是一款目前处于测试阶段的应用程序，它可以让经典书籍的读者利用人工智能向专家提问。经济学人》定期发布最佳图书榜单，以及关于特定主题的评论和推荐。

然而，人们被告知应该阅读的书籍数量之多似乎令人目不暇接。修剪的方法之一是查看最佳图书榜单的重叠之处，其理论依据是，出现频率最高的图书一定是真正值得一读的。一个名为thegreatestbooks.org的网站就是这样做的。该网站的创建者谢恩-谢尔曼（Shane Sherman）是得克萨斯州的一名计算机程序员，他利用 300 多份榜单列出了一份榜单，并不完全认真地称之为 “有史以来最伟大的书籍”（gboats）。它有 10,000 多本书，按照它们在组成榜单中出现的频率进行排名。您可以在下面搜索前 500 名，并按照出版年代或世纪、出版年份、语言和篇幅进行排序。


每年至少阅读一本书的美国人--超过半数的成年人--平均每年读完 11 本；因此，一个典型的读者需要 45 年多的时间才能读完这 500 本必读书。为了帮助读者合理安排时间，我们采用搜索引擎 howlongtoread.com 的联合创始人 Harry Tong 提供的估算值，列出了阅读这份书单上每本书所需的大致时间。(他使用有声读物的长度来计算默读这本书大概需要多少时间）。人们的阅读速度各不相同，有些书比其他书读起来慢：一个读书俱乐部花了28年才读完詹姆斯-乔伊斯（James Joyce）的《芬尼根的守灵夜》（排名第325位），而我们的数据显示，你可以在12个小时内读完这本书。


谢尔曼先生在 7 月 1 日的书单上排在最前面的书是《百年孤独》，这是一部魔幻现实主义的先驱作品。唐先生估计，读完这本书只需要7小时40分钟的独处时间，大约是一本gboat的平均水平。排名第二的《了不起的盖茨比》是一部描写美国爵士乐时代的长篇小说，应该只需要 2 小时 51 分钟。但排名第三的乔伊斯的《尤利西斯》（约在同一时期出版）则需要花费近 15 个小时。如果你像普通美国人一样每天花 15 分钟阅读，那么你需要花上两个月的时间，这对于一本只在一天内发生故事的书来说似乎是个厚颜无耻的要求。“如果你不沉迷于有趣的插图，读完《野兽在哪里》（第 421 期）只需要一分钟。不耐烦的读者可能会松一口气，因为长度与伟大之间并无关联（见图表 1）。


榜单的本质反映了一种文化共识。如果是这样的话，那么这种文化正在做出一些奇怪的选择。排名最高的非小说类书籍是但丁-阿利吉耶里的《神曲》，这是一部 14 世纪的诗歌，讲述了作者从地狱到炼狱再到天堂的旅程。它排在第 27 位。圣经》，作者 “未知”，排在第 34 位。“哈姆雷特》是莎士比亚六部作品中的第一部，排在第 83 位。莎士比亚戏剧汇编《第一对开本》排名第 126 位。


图表：《经济学家
自 20 世纪初以来，大多数诗歌都是用英语写成的（见图 2）。文学指南针几乎指向西方。在《百年孤独》（故事发生地与作者的出生地哥伦比亚相似）之后，再也没有其他以全球南部为背景、由南部作家创作的作品问世，直到排名第50位的以尼日利亚为背景的历史小说《Things Fall Apart》。

除了《圣经》之外，排名第 60 位的第一本非小说类书籍是安妮-弗兰克（Anne Frank）的《少女日记》，她曾在阿姆斯特丹躲避纳粹，但被发现，1945 年在卑尔根-贝尔森（Bergen-Belsen）被杀害。在受欢迎的文学作品中，深刻性也能排在前列。“哈利-波特与魔法石》排名第134位，比希腊著名哲学家柏拉图的《共和国》高出8位。遗憾的是，叔本华没有进入前 500 名。

虽然谢尔曼先生主要是做统计工作，但他也做了一些老式的把关工作，主要是通过改变数据库中各榜单的权重。(他的调整看起来很合理。例如，他对只使用短时间内出版的图书的榜单进行减分。过于依赖非专家和来自单一地区的书单也会减分。谢尔曼先生还提出了一个更有选择性的 “全球文学典范”，规定每个国家只能有三本书入选，想象文学占80%（您可以在他的网站上更改其中一些权重）。


然而，渴望自我完善和娱乐的读者可能会向往 19 世纪式的规定性，即约翰-卢博克爵士的 “百本好书”（1887 年出版的一个版本）。卢博克被一位记者称为好书榜的 “教父”，他的精神在一些大学的好书课程大纲中得以延续。荷马、维吉尔和圣奥古斯丁出现在卢伯克的书单上，也出现在哥伦比亚学院新生必修的一门课程--《文学人文》的近期读物中。(他们也都是大船作家）。  

对叔本华来说，避开流行的东西是明智阅读的重要组成部分： “你应该记住，为傻瓜写作的人总能找到大批读者。对于 BookTok 这一代人来说，这句话可能过于教条。不过，文学学者、儿童文学作品《纳尼亚传奇》系列的作者 C.S. Lewis 更温和的建议值得借鉴： “读完一本新书后，除非中间读过一本旧书，否则绝不允许自己再读一本新书，这是一条好规则"。如果你读的主要是航海类书籍，那么你就有可能把时间花在刀刃上。

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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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2
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3
Ulysses
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4
The Catcher in the Rye
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Lolita
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Pride and Prejudice
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Wuthering Heights
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Crime and Punishment
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War and Peace
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The Lord of the Rings
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Catch-22
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10 hours and 33 minutes to read


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Madame Bovary
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Jane Eyre
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10 hours and 25 minutes to read


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The Sound and the Fury
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Middlemarch
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Heart of Darkness
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Beloved
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Invisible Man
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The Odyssey
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Frankenstein
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The Stranger
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The Brothers Karamazov
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Great Expectations
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The Bible
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To the Lighthouse
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Mrs Dalloway
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3 hours and 42 minutes to read


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The Iliad
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Midnight's Children
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13 hours and 34 minutes to read


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The Trial
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4 hours and 49 minutes to read


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On the Road
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7 hours and 26 minutes to read


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The Master and Margarita
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Brave New World
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The Magic Mountain
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18 hours and 27 minutes to read


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Gulliver's Travels
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David Copperfield
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Les Misérables
Victor Hugo, 1862
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Gone with the Wind
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23 hours and 17 minutes to read


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The Sun Also Rises
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Things Fall Apart
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3 hours and 34 minutes to read


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The Color Purple
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The Red and the Black
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A Passage to India
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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Lord of the Flies
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Absalom, Absalom!
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Rebecca
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The Scarlet Letter
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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Silent Spring
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The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943
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The Portrait of a Lady
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Candide
Voltaire, 1759
2 hours and 10 minutes to read


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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott, 1868
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One Thousand and One Nights
800
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As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner, 1930
3 hours and 14 minutes to read


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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce, 1916
4 hours and 53 minutes to read


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Native Son
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8 hours and 46 minutes to read


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The Handmaid's Tale
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Walden
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Vanity Fair
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16 hours and 58 minutes to read


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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Animal Farm
George Orwell, 1945
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The Aeneid
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In Cold Blood
Truman Capote, 1966
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Robinson Crusoe
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The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath, 1963
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway, 1940
10 hours and 19 minutes to read


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Oedipus the King
Sophocles, 429BC
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway, 1952
1 hour and 29 minutes to read


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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy, 1891
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Hamlet
William Shakespeare, 1600
1 hour and 47 minutes to read


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Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1808
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Dracula
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The Prince
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A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess, 1962
3 hours and 37 minutes to read


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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton, 1920
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Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman, 1855
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Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov, 1962
4 hours and 21 minutes to read


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Tom Jones
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16 hours and 30 minutes to read


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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde, 1891
4 hours and 33 minutes to read


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The Tin Drum
Günter Grass, 1959
13 hours and 10 minutes to read


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The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing, 1962
11 hours and 32 minutes to read


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Emma
Jane Austen, 1815
9 hours and 25 minutes to read


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Waiting for Godot
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The Leopard
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 1958
10 hours and 41 minutes to read


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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey, 1962
6 hours and 55 minutes to read


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Charlotte's Web
E.B. White, 1952
2 hours and 12 minutes to read


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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque, 1928
4 hours and 26 minutes to read


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Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges, 1944
4 hours and 10 minutes to read


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The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler, 1939
3 hours and 47 minutes to read


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The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer, 1476
9 hours and 53 minutes to read


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Treasure Island
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3 hours and 59 minutes to read


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The Count of Monte Cristo
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1 day, 1 hour and 47 minutes to read


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Fahrenheit 451
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2 hours and 43 minutes to read


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Paradise Lost
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4 hours and 38 minutes to read


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The Name of the Rose
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3 hours and 30 minutes to read


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The Idiot
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13 hours and 35 minutes to read


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Dune
Frank Herbert, 1965
8 hours and 59 minutes to read


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Essays
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22 hours and 7 minutes to read


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Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez, 1985
8 hours and 31 minutes to read


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Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys, 1966
2 hours and 55 minutes to read


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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera, 1984
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The Stories of Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov, 1900
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A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway, 1929
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The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford, 1915
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My Ántonia
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4 hours and 19 minutes to read


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Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry, 1947
7 hours and 35 minutes to read


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On the Origin of Species
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8 hours and 49 minutes to read


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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, 1902
15 hours and 32 minutes to read


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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902
3 hours and 28 minutes to read


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The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka, 1915
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Journey to the End of The Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1932
9 hours and 30 minutes to read


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Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence, 1913
9 hours and 4 minutes to read


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First Folio
William Shakespeare, 1623
1 day, 21 hours and 30 minutes to read


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The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame, 1908
3 hours and 25 minutes to read


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The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers, 1940
7 hours and 6 minutes to read


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Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak, 1957
12 hours and 34 minutes to read


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The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir, 1949
4 hours and 21 minutes to read


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Rabbit, Run
John Updike, 1960
6 hours and 6 minutes to read


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Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev, 1862
4 hours and 36 minutes to read


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The Castle
Franz Kafka, 1926
4 hours and 20 minutes to read


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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
J.K. Rowling, 1997
4 hours and 52 minutes to read


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The Plague
Albert Camus, 1947
10 hours and 41 minutes to read


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Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol, 1842
8 hours and 3 minutes to read


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Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison, 1977
5 hours and 20 minutes to read


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Antigone
Sophocles, 441BC
53 minutes to read


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Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad, 1900
7 hours and 23 minutes to read


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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Alex Haley, 1965
7 hours and 43 minutes to read


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The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett, 1930
4 hours and 5 minutes to read


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The Republic
Plato, 379BC
7 hours and 16 minutes to read


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The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud, 1899
11 hours and 38 minutes to read


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The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil, 1930
1 day, 6 hours and 20 minutes to read


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Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1872
13 hours and 40 minutes to read


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Orlando: A Biography
Virginia Woolf, 1928
3 hours and 59 minutes to read


147
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse, 1927
3 hours and 41 minutes to read


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Confessions
St Augustine, 397
10 hours to read


149
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann, 1901
13 hours and 24 minutes to read


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The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton, 1905
7 hours and 21 minutes to read


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Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth, 1969
4 hours and 22 minutes to read


152
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
John le Carré, 1963
3 hours and 48 minutes to read


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Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann, 1947
5 hours and 59 minutes to read


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The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith, 1955
5 hours and 3 minutes to read


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The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu, 1010
5 hours and 38 minutes to read


156
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, 1969
5 hours and 2 minutes to read


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The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas, 1844
12 hours and 55 minutes to read


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Howards End
E.M. Forster, 1910
6 hours and 12 minutes to read


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The Call of the Wild
Jack London, 1903
1 hour and 56 minutes to read


160
The Long Goodbye: A Novel
Raymond Chandler, 1953
5 hours and 20 minutes to read


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Bleak House
Charles Dickens, 1852
19 hours and 48 minutes to read


162
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser, 1925
18 hours and 29 minutes to read


163
Light in August
William Faulkner, 1932
8 hours and 3 minutes to read


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The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins, 1860
13 hours and 46 minutes to read


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Winnie the Pooh
A.A Milne, 1926
1 hour and 19 minutes to read


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All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren, 1946
12 hours and 41 minutes to read


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The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende, 1982
7 hours and 21 minutes to read


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Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934
6 hours and 18 minutes to read


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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
James D. Watson, 1968
2 hours and 10 minutes to read


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Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories
Franz Kafka, 1971
8 hours and 6 minutes to read


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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Hunter S. Thompson, 1971
3 hours and 13 minutes to read


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Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy, 1985
6 hours and 16 minutes to read


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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852
10 hours and 13 minutes to read


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Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh, 1945
6 hours and 7 minutes to read


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A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole, 1980
6 hours and 58 minutes to read


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A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf, 1929
2 hours and 32 minutes to read


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The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor, 1971
9 hours and 13 minutes to read


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The Shining
Stephen King, 1977
9 hours and 23 minutes to read


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Watership Down
Richard Adams, 1972
8 hours and 43 minutes to read


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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn, 1962
4 hours and 58 minutes to read


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The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow, 1953
4 hours and 6 minutes to read


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Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon, 1973
17 hours and 11 minutes to read


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The Jungle
Upton Sinclair, 1906
3 hours to read


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Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence, 1928
6 hours and 43 minutes to read


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The Time Machine
H.G. Wells, 1895
1 hour and 58 minutes to read


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The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989
4 hours to read


187
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1962
2 hours and 47 minutes to read


188
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937
5 hours and 41 minutes to read


189
Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson, 1890
2 hours to read


190
The Secret History
Donna Tartt, 1992
4 hours and 40 minutes to read


191
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark, 1961
2 hours and 11 minutes to read


192
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy, 1961
11 hours to read


193
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973
1 day, 12 hours and 40 minutes to read


194
Nostromo
Joseph Conrad, 1904
9 hours and 46 minutes to read


195
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, 1939
3 hours and 18 minutes to read


196
Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, 1848
48 minutes to read


197
Herzog
Saul Bellow, 1964
7 hours and 5 minutes to read


198
The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot, 1922
26 minutes to read


199
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1968
3 hours and 55 minutes to read


200
The Awakening
Kate Chopin, 1899
6 hours and 9 minutes to read


201
Gargantua and Pantagruel
François Rabelais, 1532
17 hours and 57 minutes to read


202
U.S.A. Trilogy
John Dos Passos, 1930
17 hours and 13 minutes to read


203
A Wrinkle In Time
Madeleine L'Engle, 1962
3 hours and 2 minutes to read


204
A House for Mr. Biswas
V.S. Naipaul, 1961
11 hours and 34 minutes to read


205
Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio, 1349
16 hours and 7 minutes to read


206
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith, 1943
8 hours and 20 minutes to read


207
Father Goriot
Honoré de Balzac, 1835
5 hours and 55 minutes to read


208
The Ambassadors
Henry James, 1903
9 hours and 10 minutes to read


209
Atonement
Ian McEwan, 2001
6 hours and 55 minutes to read


210
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis, 1950
2 hours and 16 minutes to read


211
Dangerous Liaison
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, 1782
8 hours and 33 minutes to read


212
Fairy Tales and Stories
Hans Christian Andersen, 1835
19 hours and 4 minutes to read


213
The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens, 1836
16 hours and 50 minutes to read


214
Kim
Rudyard Kipling, 1901
5 hours and 59 minutes to read


215
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson, 1980
3 hours and 29 minutes to read


216
White Teeth
Zadie Smith, 2000
1 hour and 28 minutes to read


217
Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats, 1933
1 hour and 35 minutes to read


218
Medea
Euripides, 431BC
46 minutes to read


219
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck, 1937
1 hour and 41 minutes to read


220
War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells, 1898
3 hours and 30 minutes to read


221
The World According to Garp
John Irving, 1978
10 hours and 45 minutes to read


222
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen, 2001
10 hours and 44 minutes to read


223
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand, 1957
1 day, 2 hours and 4 minutes to read


224
Macbeth
William Shakespeare, 1606
1 hour and 11 minutes to read


225
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy, 1997
5 hours and 47 minutes to read


226
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller, 1934
5 hours and 1 minute to read


227
The Stand
Stephen King, 1978
23 hours and 33 minutes to read


228
Women in Love
D.H. Lawrence, 1920
9 hours and 4 minutes to read


229
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain, 1876
4 hours and 6 minutes to read


230
Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons, 1932
4 hours and 39 minutes to read


231
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy, 1895
8 hours and 12 minutes to read


232
The Once and Future King
T.H. White, 1958
17 hours and 36 minutes to read


233
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886
1 hour and 36 minutes to read


234
Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis, 1922
6 hours and 59 minutes to read


235
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle, 1927
1 day, 12 hours and 26 minutes to read


236
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, 1922
2 hours and 21 minutes to read


237
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens, 1859
7 hours and 43 minutes to read


238
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis, 1954
4 hours and 44 minutes to read


239
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835
10 hours and 36 minutes to read


240
The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal, 1839
6 hours and 51 minutes to read


241
Molloy
Samuel Beckett, 1951
3 hours and 32 minutes to read


242
The Good Soldier Svejk
Jaroslav Hašek, 1921
4 hours and 21 minutes to read


243
Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe, 1987
13 hours and 49 minutes to read


244
The Life of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell, 1791
11 hours and 47 minutes to read


245
Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee, 1999
3 hours and 45 minutes to read


246
American Pastoral
Philip Roth, 1997
8 hours and 46 minutes to read


247
Man's Fate
André Malraux, 1933
6 hours and 7 minutes to read


248
Foundation
Isaac Asimov, 1951
4 hours and 18 minutes to read


249
Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles, 401BC
1 hour and 41 minutes to read


250
Oresteia
Aeschylus, 458BC
1 hour and 48 minutes to read


251
If This Is a Man
Primo Levi, 1947
7 hours and 34 minutes to read


252
Neuromancer
William Gibson, 1984
5 hours and 32 minutes to read


253
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy, 1886
6 hours and 34 minutes to read


254
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Michael Chabon, 2000
13 hours and 13 minutes to read


255
Nausea
Jean Paul Sartre, 1938
4 hours and 32 minutes to read


256
Confessions of Zeno
Italo Svevo, 1923
9 hours and 5 minutes to read


257
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien, 1990
3 hours and 55 minutes to read


258
King Lear
William Shakespeare, 1605
1 hour and 22 minutes to read


259
Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin, 1953
4 hours and 40 minutes to read


260
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin, 1956
2 hours and 55 minutes to read


261
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie, 1926
4 hours and 6 minutes to read


262
The Counterfeiters
André Gide, 1925
4 hours and 7 minutes to read


263
A Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert, 1869
8 hours and 19 minutes to read


264
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume, 1970
1 hour and 45 minutes to read


265
Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott, 1819
10 hours and 6 minutes to read


266
Possession
A.S. Byatt, 1990
10 hours to read


267
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham, 1915
14 hours and 35 minutes to read


268
The Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis, 1950
22 hours and 15 minutes to read


269
Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery, 1908
5 hours and 52 minutes to read


270
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James, 1898
2 hours and 31 minutes to read


271
The Godfather
Mario Puzo, 1969
4 hours and 21 minutes to read


272
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Italo Calvino, 1979
5 hours and 12 minutes to read


273
The Adventures of Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens, 1837
8 hours and 54 minutes to read


274
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne, 1870
5 hours and 59 minutes to read


275
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein, 1961
6 hours and 27 minutes to read


276
The Left Hand Of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969
4 hours and 59 minutes to read


277
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami, 1994
14 hours and 7 minutes to read


278
Brighton Rock
Graham Greene, 1938
5 hours and 11 minutes to read


279
Epic of Gilgamesh
2000BC
1 hour and 7 minutes to read


280
A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving, 1989
13 hours and 42 minutes to read


281
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson, 1959
3 hours and 19 minutes to read


282
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883
6 hours and 20 minutes to read


283
Oblomov
Ivan Goncharov, 1859
3 hours and 27 minutes to read


284
Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson, 1919
5 hours and 3 minutes to read


285
The End of the Affair
Graham Greene, 1951
2 hours and 31 minutes to read


286
Persuasion
Jane Austen, 1817
4 hours and 48 minutes to read


287
The Sea, The Sea
Iris Murdoch, 1978
10 hours and 6 minutes to read


288
The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire, 1857
36 minutes to read


289
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774
2 hours and 32 minutes to read


290
A Room With a View
E.M. Forster, 1908
3 hours and 52 minutes to read


291
The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever, 1978
3 hours and 35 minutes to read


292
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick, 1968
3 hours and 44 minutes to read


293
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino, 1972
1 hour and 33 minutes to read


294
The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck, 1931
6 hours and 8 minutes to read


295
A Season in Hell
Arthur Rimbaud, 1873
36 minutes to read


296
At Swim Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien, 1939
4 hours and 51 minutes to read


297
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins, 1868
11 hours to read


298
Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo, 1955
53 minutes to read


299
The Lover
Marguerite Duras, 1984
1 hour and 35 minutes to read


300
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan, 1989
4 hours and 39 minutes to read


301
The Road
Cormac McCarthy, 2006
10 hours and 41 minutes to read


302
Hunger
Knut Hamsun, 1890
3 hours and 35 minutes to read


303
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace, 1996
1 day, 6 hours and 19 minutes to read


304
Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges, 1962
4 hours and 45 minutes to read


305
White Noise
Don DeLillo, 1985
5 hours and 24 minutes to read


306
Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe, 1929
12 hours and 23 minutes to read


307
I, Claudius
Robert Graves, 1934
8 hours and 50 minutes to read


308
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, 1988
2 hours and 51 minutes to read


309
The Tempest
William Shakespeare, 1623
1 hour and 28 minutes to read


310
Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar, 1951
2 hours and 4 minutes to read


311
The Poems of Robert Frost
Robert Frost, 1913
1 hour and 35 minutes to read


312
The Histories of Herodotus
Herodotus, 450BC
13 hours and 48 minutes to read


313
Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler, 1940
4 hours and 23 minutes to read


314
The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1782
15 hours and 4 minutes to read


315
Mahabharata
Vyasa, 400BC
2 hours and 50 minutes to read


316
Children's and Household Tales
Brothers Grimm, 1812
9 hours and 43 minutes to read


317
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792
4 hours and 58 minutes to read


318
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane, 1895
2 hours and 43 minutes to read


319
Nightwood
Djuna Barnes, 1936
3 hours and 9 minutes to read


320
East of Eden
John Steinbeck, 1952
13 hours and 8 minutes to read


321
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Döblin, 1929
5 hours and 6 minutes to read


322
Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs, 1959
5 hours and 15 minutes to read


323
Money
Martin Amis, 1984
8 hours and 40 minutes to read


324
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen, 1879
1 hour and 38 minutes to read


325
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce, 1939
12 hours and 9 minutes to read


326
Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), 1937
1 hour and 33 minutes to read


327
The Tartar Steppe
Dino Buzzati, 1940
2 hours and 27 minutes to read


328
The Old Wives' Tale
Arnold Bennett, 1908
12 hours and 12 minutes to read


329
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum, 1900
2 hours and 22 minutes to read


330
Metamorphoses
Ovid, 8
7 hours and 24 minutes to read


331
The Elements of Style
E.B. White, William Strunk Jr., 1918
57 minutes to read


332
The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot, 1860
11 hours and 38 minutes to read


333
Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov, 1951
4 hours and 36 minutes to read


334
Zorba the Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis, 1946
5 hours and 20 minutes to read


335
A Bend in the River
V.S. Naipaul, 1979
5 hours and 57 minutes to read


336
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor, 1953
4 hours and 23 minutes to read


337
Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren, 1945
1 hour and 26 minutes to read


338
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton, 1948
4 hours and 39 minutes to read


339
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes, 1651
12 hours and 1 minute to read


340
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Agee, 1941
6 hours and 1 minute to read


341
Ragtime
E. L. Doctorow, 1975
4 hours and 23 minutes to read


342
His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman, 1995
5 hours and 56 minutes to read


343
Clarissa
Samuel Richardson, 1748
17 hours and 13 minutes to read


344
Pensées
Blaise Pascal, 1670
6 hours and 20 minutes to read


345
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth, 1993
1 day, 10 hours and 57 minutes to read


346
Relativity
Albert Einstein, 1916
1 hour and 2 minutes to read


347
Sophie's Choice
William Styron, 1979
1 hour and 34 minutes to read


348
Death of Virgil
Hermann Broch, 1945
8 hours and 11 minutes to read


349
Germinal
Émile Zola, 1885
10 hours and 4 minutes to read


350
The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene, 1940
5 hours and 14 minutes to read


351
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
John Maynard Keynes, 1936
6 hours and 41 minutes to read


352
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper, 1826
8 hours and 25 minutes to read


353
Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan, 1678
5 hours and 52 minutes to read


354
The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West, 1939
3 hours and 30 minutes to read


355
Malone Dies
Samuel Beckett, 1951
2 hours and 38 minutes to read


356
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell, 1938
4 hours and 14 minutes to read


357
The Complete Works of Plato
Plato, 387BC
1 hour and 35 minutes to read


358
A Dance to the Music of Time
Anthony Powell, 1951
1 day, 23 hours and 20 minutes to read


359
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking, 1988
3 hours and 12 minutes to read


360
Le Morte d'Arthur
Thomas Malory, 1485
9 hours and 33 minutes to read


361
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1911
4 hours and 40 minutes to read


362
Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway, 1987
3 hours and 19 minutes to read


363
Rabbit Redux
John Updike, 1971
7 hours and 51 minutes to read


364
The Daughter of Time
Josephine Tey, 1951
3 hours to read


365
The Princess of Cleves
Madame de La Fayette, 1678
3 hours and 35 minutes to read


366
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton, 1911
2 hours and 6 minutes to read


367
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig, 1974
45 minutes to read


368
Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens, 1864
18 hours and 14 minutes to read


369
The Shipping News
Annie Proulx, 1993
5 hours and 26 minutes to read


370
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon, 1776
3 days, 16 hours and 55 minutes to read


371
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith, 1948
7 hours and 25 minutes to read


372
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens, 1843
1 hour and 31 minutes to read


373
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe, 1968
6 hours and 39 minutes to read


374
The Bacchae
Euripides, 405BC
1 hour and 7 minutes to read


375
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke, 1968
3 hours and 7 minutes to read


376
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Rebecca West, 1941
19 hours and 37 minutes to read


377
Rabbit Is Rich
John Updike, 1981
9 hours and 37 minutes to read


378
The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon, 1966
2 hours and 41 minutes to read


379
The Waves
Virginia Woolf, 1931
26 minutes to read


380
Regeneration
Pat Barker, 1991
4 hours and 30 minutes to read


381
The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan, 1963
8 hours and 8 minutes to read


382
Wings of the Dove
Henry James, 1902
4 hours and 37 minutes to read


383
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo, 1831
10 hours and 53 minutes to read


384
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry, 1995
12 hours and 25 minutes to read


385
The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth, 1971
1 hour and 56 minutes to read


386
The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy, 1878
2 hours and 31 minutes to read


387
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005
5 hours and 22 minutes to read


388
The Forsyte Saga
John Galsworthy, 1906
6 hours and 15 minutes to read


389
Nights At The Circus
Angela Carter, 1984
6 hours and 25 minutes to read


390
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, 161
4 hours and 10 minutes to read


391
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz, 2007
5 hours and 10 minutes to read


392
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver, 1998
9 hours and 14 minutes to read


393
The Rainbow
D.H. Lawrence, 1915
10 hours and 30 minutes to read


394
Kristin Lavransdatter
Sigrid Undset, 1920
1 day, 1 hour and 6 minutes to read


395
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant, 1781
11 hours and 47 minutes to read


396
Bonjour Tristesse
Francoise Sagan, 1954
28 minutes to read


397
So Long, See You Tomorrow
William Maxwell, 1980
3 hours and 6 minutes to read


398
The Civil War
Shelby Foote, 1958
23 hours and 18 minutes to read


399
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie, 1934
3 hours and 28 minutes to read


400
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy, 1886
1 hour and 23 minutes to read


401
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis, 1991
8 hours and 11 minutes to read


402
Through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll, 1871
2 hours and 58 minutes to read


403
Ferdydurke
Witold Gombrowicz, 1937
5 hours and 19 minutes to read


404
The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan, 1915
2 hours and 27 minutes to read


405
Das Kapital
Karl Marx, 1867
1 hour and 17 minutes to read


406
The Siege of Krishnapur
J. G. Farrell, 1973
7 hours and 4 minutes to read


407
Maus
Art Spiegelman, 1980
2 hours and 38 minutes to read


408
Silas Marner
George Eliot, 1861
4 hours and 7 minutes to read


409
Main Street
Sinclair Lewis, 1920
9 hours and 25 minutes to read


410
The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James, 1902
10 hours and 31 minutes to read


411
Independent People
Halldor Laxness, 1934
11 hours and 38 minutes to read


412
Schindler's List
Thomas Keneally, 1982
7 hours and 31 minutes to read


413
The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles, 1969
8 hours and 21 minutes to read


414
The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster, 1961
2 hours and 33 minutes to read


415
The Vicar of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith, 1766
1 hour and 56 minutes to read


416
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
James Hogg, 1824
4 hours and 50 minutes to read


417
Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser, 1900
8 hours and 52 minutes to read


418
Underworld
Don DeLillo, 1997
3 hours and 51 minutes to read


419
Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion, 1970
2 hours and 3 minutes to read


420
Perfume
Patrick Süskind, 1985
4 hours and 52 minutes to read


421
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, 1963
1 minute to read


422
The Death of the Heart
Elizabeth Bowen, 1938
3 hours and 30 minutes to read


423
The Affluent Society
John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958
4 hours and 31 minutes to read


424
Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864
2 hours and 37 minutes to read


425
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith, 1776
18 hours and 22 minutes to read


426
Collected Poems
Wallace Stevens, 1954
5 hours and 9 minutes to read


427
Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin, 1833
1 hour and 51 minutes to read


428
Beowulf
1000
1 hour and 56 minutes to read


429
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams, 1947
54 minutes to read


430
Waiting for the Barbarians
J.M. Coetzee, 1980
3 hours and 42 minutes to read


431
The Golden Bowl
Henry James, 1904
11 hours and 32 minutes to read


432
The Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams, 1907
9 hours and 57 minutes to read


433
Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy, 1874
7 hours and 47 minutes to read


434
A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov, 1840
3 hours and 27 minutes to read


435
Solaris
Stanislaw Lem, 1961
4 hours and 10 minutes to read


436
The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead, 1940
10 hours and 13 minutes to read


437
Crash: A Novel
J. G. Ballard, 1973
3 hours and 15 minutes to read


438
Dubliners
James Joyce, 1914
3 hours and 55 minutes to read


439
Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman, 1980
4 hours and 8 minutes to read


440
Electra
Sophocles, 409BC
38 minutes to read


441
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein, 1933
5 hours and 16 minutes to read


442
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson, 2004
4 hours and 50 minutes to read


443
Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe, 1722
8 hours and 8 minutes to read


444
The Koran
610
4 hours and 49 minutes to read


445
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002
2 hours and 30 minutes to read


446
The Alexandria Quartet
Lawrence Durrell, 1957
17 hours and 29 minutes to read


447
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell, 1877
3 hours and 30 minutes to read


448
Harry Potter and the Prisoner Of Azkaban
J.K. Rowling, 1999
6 hours and 44 minutes to read


449
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell, 2004
8 hours and 38 minutes to read


450
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse, 1943
11 hours and 5 minutes to read


451
Life, a User's Manual
Georges Perec, 1978
10 hours and 6 minutes to read


452
The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño, 1998
14 hours and 8 minutes to read


453
The Magus
John Fowles, 1965
13 hours and 13 minutes to read


454
Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1953
5 hours and 28 minutes to read


455
The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov, 1904
1 hour and 1 minute to read


456
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924
3 hours and 41 minutes to read


457
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison, 1970
3 hours and 11 minutes to read


458
Call It Sleep
Henry Roth, 1934
8 hours and 50 minutes to read


459
The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad, 1907
4 hours and 40 minutes to read


460
Death in Venice
Thomas Mann, 1912
1 hour and 45 minutes to read


461
The Postman Always Rings Twice
James M. Cain, 1934
1 hour and 50 minutes to read


462
Analects
Confucius, 479BC
1 hour and 28 minutes to read


463
The Third Policeman
Flann O'Brien, 1967
4 hours and 24 minutes to read


464
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler, 1979
5 hours and 33 minutes to read


465
Austerlitz
W.G. Sebald, 2001
2 hours and 14 minutes to read


466
Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett, 1929
3 hours and 17 minutes to read


467
Ada or Ardor
Vladimir Nabokov, 1969
9 hours and 33 minutes to read


468
Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger, 1953
5 hours and 1 minute to read


469
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand, 1943
11 hours to read


470
The Unnamable
Samuel Beckett, 1953
3 hours and 15 minutes to read


471
Adam Bede
George Eliot, 1859
11 hours and 47 minutes to read


472
Quo Vadis
Henryk Sienkiewicz, 1896
12 hours and 5 minutes to read


473
The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe, 1979
8 hours and 59 minutes to read


474
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote, 1958
1 hour and 31 minutes to read


475
Rabbit at Rest
John Updike, 1990
10 hours and 45 minutes to read


476
The Art of War
Sun Tzu, 475BC
3 hours and 14 minutes to read


477
The Way We Live Now
Anthony Trollope, 1875
19 hours and 39 minutes to read


478
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje, 1992
4 hours and 27 minutes to read


479
The Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer, 1948
5 hours and 14 minutes to read


480
The Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni, 1827
9 hours and 29 minutes to read


481
The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois, 1903
3 hours and 59 minutes to read


482
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa, 1982
8 hours and 54 minutes to read


483
The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough, 1977
3 hours and 22 minutes to read


484
Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus, 479BC
32 minutes to read


485
Season of Migration to the North
Al-Tayyib Salih, 1966
2 hours and 19 minutes to read


486
Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor, 1952
2 hours and 52 minutes to read


487
The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851
6 hours to read


488
2666
Roberto Bolaño, 2004
20 hours and 11 minutes to read


489
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, 1787
16 hours and 50 minutes to read


490
Journey to the West
Wu Cheng'en, 1592
3 hours and 19 minutes to read


491
De Rerum Natura
Lucretius, 55
3 hours and 43 minutes to read


492
Cousin Bette
Honoré de Balzac, 1846
8 hours and 23 minutes to read


493
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J.K. Rowling, 2000
10 hours and 24 minutes to read


494
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl, 1964
1 hour and 44 minutes to read


495
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles, 1949
5 hours and 38 minutes to read


496
The Sonnets
William Shakespeare, 1609
1 hour and 5 minutes to read


497
The Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle, 340BC
4 hours and 46 minutes to read


498
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
John le Carré, 1974
6 hours and 39 minutes to read


499
Watchmen
Alan Moore, 1987
6 hours and 55 minutes to read

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Effi Briest
Theodor Fontane, 1895