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Books
The 11 Books That Changed How We Think
Novels and essays whose ideas escaped the page and reshaped how people see the world.
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This ranking is illustrative. The eleven entries are real, but the order they appear in was not produced by testing, scoring, voting or measurement of any kind, and Top11 publishes no scores, view counts or reach figures because it has never recorded any.
The short answer
The best books combine craft with lasting influence.
The Top11 index
The complete ranking.
- #2
Crime and Punishment
- #3
Things Fall Apart
- #4
1984
- #5
Beloved
- #6
The Brothers Karamazov
- #7
To Kill a Mockingbird
- #8
Mrs Dalloway
- #9
Don Quixote
- #10
Invisible Man
- #11
The Great Gatsby
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