Best Fiction Books of All Time

Great fiction doesn't just tell a story — it changes how you see the world. These are the best fiction books ranked by reader popularity, spanning literary novels, psychological thrillers, and genre-defining classics.

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   The Song of Achilles

   Madeline Miller

   (220,000 reviews)

   WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his…

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   Troy

   Stephen Fry

   (22,000 reviews)

   AN EPIC BATTLE THAT LASTED TEN YEARS. A LEGENDARY STORY THAT HAS SURVIVED THOUSANDS. 'An inimitable retelling of the siege of Troy . . . Fry's narrative, artful…

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   Pompeii

   Engelmann Richard 1844-1909, HardPress

   (12,000 reviews)

   Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typ…

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   Yeshu: A Novel for the Open-Hearted

   ★ Our Pick

   Skriuwer.com

   (20 reviews)

   In this lyrical, Quaker retelling of the New Testament saga, readers are invited in to experience the resonant silences in the written record by joining the sto…

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