When the topic of “What are the Best Books Ever Written” is discussed, everyone has different viewpoints and preferences. The dispute continues to generate fresh arguments from everyone from regular observers to historians, voracious readers, and even literary experts. Is this a book that had a quiet influence on the world? This article is the list of 10 books that have, for various reasons, been hailed as some of the best works of literature ever written.

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1. The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer composed The Canterbury Tales, a collection of twenty-four tales totaling more than 17,000 lines, between 1387 and 1400. It is frequently referred to as Chaucer’s greatest work. A group of pilgrims traveling from London to Canterbury to view the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral recites the stories as part of a storytelling competition.

 A complimentary supper at the Tabard Inn in Southwark is the award for this competition. It is generally accepted that Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales was unfinished at the time. Chaucer intended to write four stories—two each on the journey to and from the pilgrims’ ultimate destination, St. Thomas Becket’s shrine—from the viewpoint of each traveler, according to the Introduction.

2. In Search of Lost Time

French author Marcel Proust wrote the seven-volume work In Search of Lost Time, which was first published in English under the title Remembrance of Things Past and is occasionally referred to in French as La Recherche (The Search).

 It follows the narrator’s memories of childhood and encounters into adulthood in high-society France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries while pondering the passing of time and the meaninglessness of life. In France, the book was published from 1913 through 1927.

3. The Divine Comedy

The Italian poet Dante Alighieri wrote The Divine Comedy, a narrative poem, between 1308 and 1320, the year before he passed away in 1321. The poem’s imaginative concept of death exemplifies the medieval worldview that by the 14th century had been established in the Western Church. There are three sections: the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.

 The story depicts Dante’s journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise or Heaven and takes the condition of the soul after death as its literal subject. It also portrays an idea of divine justice being administered as due punishment or reward. The piece’s original title was Comedìa.

4. Ulysses

The modernist book Ulysses was written by Irish author James Joyce. From March 1918 through December 1920, it was first serialized in The Little Review in America. On February 2, 1922, Joyce’s 40th birthday, Sylvia Beach published the full bookwork in Paris.

With structural similarities between the personalities and interactions of Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus, as well as with the events as well as themes of the early 20th-century frame of reference of modernism, Dublin, and Ireland’s connection to Britain, the novel establishes several parallels between the poem as well as the novel.

5. Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes wrote the Spanish epic classic Don Quixote. Its official name is The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, or El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha in Spanish. It was first published in two parts in 1605 and 1615. The story follows the exploits of Alonso Quijano, a hidalgo from La Mancha who belongs to the lowest class, who reads far too many chivalric romance novels that he also loses or pretends to also have lost his mind necessary to become Don Quixote de la Mancha, a knight-errant who seeks to restore chivalry and serve his country.

It was best regarded for its presumptive central ethic—that people can be intelligent in certain ways even while their society is somewhat fantastical—after the victorious French Revolution, and in this context was regarded as an intriguing, entrancing, or disentrancing novel.

6.1984

The English author George Orwell’s 1984 is a dystopian social science fiction work that serves as both a warning and a cautionary tale. It was Orwell’s ninth and last book that he finished during his lifetime, and Secker & Warburg released it on June 8, 1949. The totalitarian regime in the book was modeled after Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia by democratic socialist author George Orwell.

 In a broader sense, the book looks at how facts and truth are used in politics and how they can be exploited. Many phrases from the book entered everyday language, helping to popularise the adjective “Orwellian.” The book was listed by Time as one of the top 100 English-language books published between 1923 & 2005, and it also made the Modern Library’s list of the top 100 books.

7. One Hundred Years of Solitude

The multigenerational tale of the Buenda family, whose grandfather, José Arcadio Buenda, created the (fictitious) town of Macondo, is told in Gabriel Garca Márquez’s 1967 book One Hundred Years of Solitude. With much more than 50 million copies sold, it has been adapted into 46 other languages. The book, which is regarded as Garca Márquez’s masterpiece, is still highly regarded and is one of the most important works in both the Hispanic literary canon and global literature.

8. The Great Gatsby

A 1925 book titled The Great Gatsby was written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Nick Carraway, the book’s first-person author, describes encounters with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby including Gatsby’s obsession with reconciliation with Daisy Buchanan, his former flame. In the vicinity of New York City, on Long Island, the story takes place during the Jazz Age.

 Fitzgerald’s early relationship with socialite Ginevra King and the wild parties he frequented on Long Island’s North Shore in 1922 served as inspiration for the book. The novel had a sudden increase in popularity during World War II whenever the Council on Books in Wartime gave away extra copies to American soldiers fighting abroad.

9. Brave New World

Aldous Huxley, an English author, wrote the dystopian book Brave New World in 1931 and had it published in 1932. The novel foresees significant scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that when combined create a dystopian society that is only challenged by one person: the protagonist of the story, is set primarily in a futuristic World State in which citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy.

 Brave New World was named fifth on the Modern Library’s list of the top 100 English-language books of the 20th century in 1999. Despite this, since its initial release, Brave New World has been regularly questioned and outlawed.

10. Hamlet

Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet was written between the years 1599 and 1601. With 29,551 words, it is Shakespeare’s largest play. The play, which is set in Denmark, tells the story of Prince Hamlet and his quest for vengeance against his uncle Claudius, who killed Hamlet’s father in an attempt to take the kingdom and wed Hamlet’s mother.

It has been performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company and its forebears the most at Stratford-upon-Avon since 1879, establishing this one of Shakespeare’s very well plays both then and now. The legend of Amleth served as the inspiration for Shakespeare’s Hamlet.