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📚 Books

Erich Kästner's best-known books

1 Emil and the Detectives
2 Lottie and Lisa
3 The Flying Classroom

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The Planeta Prize-winning novels of the 1990s

1 El jinete polaco — Antonio Muñoz Molina
2 El manuscrito carmesí — Antonio Gala
3 Death in the Andes — Mario Vargas Llosa

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Time's best books of 2019

1 The Testaments — Margaret Atwood
2 Trust Exercise — Susan Choi
3 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous — Ocean Vuong

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Anna Akhmatova's best-known lines (with the poem)

1 If only you knew from what rubbish / poems grow, knowing no shame.
2 "Only children love like that, / and only the first time."
3 If living, then in freedom; / if dying, then at home.

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The BBC's Big Read: Britain's best-loved novels (top 50)

1 Winnie-the-Pooh
2 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
3 Rebecca

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📘 Non-fiction

The best nonfiction books of the 20th century according to the Modern Library (top 40)

1 The Education of Henry Adams
2 The Varieties of Religious Experience
3 The Frontier in American History

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🐉 Sagas & series

The Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films in order

1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
3 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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💥 Comics & manga

The best Spider-Man comics of all time

1 Kraven's Last Hunt
2 Amazing Spider-Man #1-38 (Lee and Ditko)
3 If This Be My Destiny…!

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The best Amélie Nothomb books

1 Hygiene and the Assassin
2 Fear and Trembling
3 The Character of Rain

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The best Dostoevsky novels

1 Crime and Punishment
2 Demons
3 Poor Folk

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The most translated books in the world (by number of languages)

1 Tao Te Ching
2 The Communist Manifesto
3 The Way to Happiness

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Osamu Dazai's best works

1 No Longer Human
2 Run, Melos!
3 Schoolgirl

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Charles Dickens's novels ranked

1 Bleak House
2 David Copperfield
3 Great Expectations

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Taras Shevchenko's best-known lines (with the poem)

1 Bury me, then rise up / and break your chains, / and sprinkle your freedom / with the enemy's evil blood.
2 When I die, bury me / in a grave / amid the wide steppe / of my beloved Ukraine
3 And in the great new family, / the family of the free, / do not forget to remember me / with a kind and quiet word.

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The best Stephen King books

1 It
2 The Stand
3 Carrie

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The best foreign mystery novels according to Japan: Shūkan Bunshun's Tōzai Mystery Best 100 (2012), top 30

1 And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
2 The Burning Court – John Dickson Carr
3 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle

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The best Japanese mystery novels of all time: Shūkan Bunshun's Tōzai Mystery Best 100 (2012), top 30

1 Gokumon Island – Seishi Yokomizo
2 All She Was Worth (Kasha) – Miyuki Miyabe
3 Offerings to Nothingness (Kyomu e no Kumotsu) – Hideo Nakai

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The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners of the 1990s

1 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love — Oscar Hijuelos
2 Rabbit at Rest — John Updike
3 A Thousand Acres — Jane Smiley

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Orhan Veli Kanık's best-loved poems and lines

1 I never knew songs were so beautiful / and words so inadequate / before I fell into this sorrow.
2 I am listening to Istanbul, my eyes closed.
3 If I wept, would you hear my voice / in my lines?

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Odysseas Elytis's best-known lines (with their collection)

1 With the first drop of rain, summer was killed.
2 Sorrow grows beautiful because we resemble her.
3 The last journey looks like the very first.

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The best Ernest Hemingway books

1 The Old Man and the Sea
2 For Whom the Bell Tolls
3 A Moveable Feast

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The best Roberto Bolaño books

1 2666
2 By Night in Chile
3 Nazi Literature in the Americas

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Every winner of Italy's Strega Prize from 1990 to 2025

1 Nottetempo, casa per casa – Vincenzo Consolo
2 Bella vita e guerre altrui di Mr. Pyle, gentiluomo – Alessandro Barbero
3 La chimera – Sebastiano Vassalli

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📘 Non-fiction

The best popular science books of all time

1 A Short History of Nearly Everything
2 Cosmos
3 A Brief History of Time

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