What is the best book ever written, and why?

Question

I'm looking for the best books to put on my website. Thank you for your time. Kay

Answer 1

Of Course it is THE HOLY QURAN

WHY???
Because it was written by God..... Who can dare say that there exists a better book?

IF u say so... produce anything equivalent and lets see...


TW K

Answer 2

Iamstitch2u: I've only seen the miniseries on Scifi, but you really have a point about The Stand. People that aren't even Christians would probably enjoy it.
It's debatable on whether of not all religious works would be considered the "best." I personally think they all would - so many points of view, so many different philosophies...
When it comes to fiction writing, like others have also said, To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most popular books. For some reason, I've never read it, but I'm biased because Harper Lee was born in my home state, Alabama. :-p
We need to take into more consideration the authors instead of just the books. Sir Conan Doyle has written a ton of Sherlock Holmes stories, for example. But often they have the same basic plot - a stranger comes and tells of the predicament, Holmes behaves a bit unusually while thinking of what to do, Watson and Holmes put the plan into action, and so on. So maybe you could write on the list: "Books by [author]."
Sorry for the long and slightly confusing read, hope I helped.

Answer 3

The Vampire Huntress Legend Series By: L.A. Banks

The Other Boleyn Girl By: Philippa Gregory

Shadowmancer By: G.P. Taylor

Anything By: Banana Yoshimoto

Susan's Diary For Nicolas By: James Patterson

The Bartmaeus Trilogy By: Stroud

Answer 4

My list of the best books ever written:

The Odyssey - Homer
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne
Call of the Wild - Jack London
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Angels & Demons - Dan Brown

Answer 5

I think i would say Lord Of the Rings the trilogy. I love the book anyway but for me what makes an amazing book the the vast array of emotion that is not only projected into the novel by the writer but what is taken from the novel by the reader.
This book covered every human emotion possible to man and in a way which has you living their pain that every arrow into Boromir, and every step Frodo crawls up mount doom is felt by the reader, it is a unique and wonderful gift for Tolkien to have had and share with the entire world.

No other book that i have read has covered such an in-depth array of emotions without without other areas suffering.

Answer 6

The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings Triology, By Tolkein
Tolkien invinted hobbits, and most of the characters are drawn from real European myths.

Conan of Cimmeria, Conan the Freebooter, Conan the Wanderer, Conan the Adventurer, Conan the Buccaneer, Conan the Warrior, Conan the Ursurper, Conan the Conquerer. By Robert E. Howard
Howard invented heroic sci-fi in the 1920's even before Tolkein. His old house and typewritter are now national and state monuments in the city of Cross Plains, Texas.

Answer 7

The word "best" is such an open-ended word. Enjoyable? Educational? Influential?

I'd have to say the most influential novel of the 20th century is James Joyce's Ulysses. It is 700+ pages of the best example of stream-of-consciousness writing (an attempt to capture the human mind at work); the final 40 pages -- without one piece of punctuation! -- is puportedly the best description of a woman's mind as it drifts off to sleep ever written by a man. Without Joyce's Ulysses, you have no Faulkner, no free association poetry, no Miles Davis, no X-sports mentality, no Stephen Sondheim.

And any Shakespearerean play -- Hamlet being the best -- but even bad Shakespeare is better than good Caryl Churchill or Tina Howe or some of what passes for drama today.

Answer 8

In my opinion, the Oxford English Dictionary. Why? Because it contains almost every word in the English language, it tells you what they mean, how to pronounce them, and their more common uses. Not to mention it is an invaluable tool for people who attempt crosswords on a regular basis.

No bookshelf should be without it.


If you're referring solely to Fiction, then, it would be more difficult to answer.

While I'll acknowledge the popularity of religious books, and of The Lord Of The Rings (arguably the greatest work of fiction of the past two hundred years), I'd probably plump for Mort by Terry Pratchett. It's humourous, it's got 3-Dimensional characterization, it has a gripping plot, is beloved by millions worldwide, was in the Top Ten for the "Britain's Big Read" event, and establishes Death as something to be respected as opposed to be feared. After all, it's not Death that kills you - he merely tidies up all the loose ends afterwards.


If you only read one novel by a British author, Mort should be it.

Answer 9

There are too many to list, but I'll make a case for Of Mice and Men simply because of the simplicity of the way Steinbeck shows that we gain our identity and meaning in our lives through our contact with other human beings. After all, George and Lenny are the only characters with first and last names and the only ones who can say that somebody loves them, each other. Curly's wife doesn't even have a name. When Lenny dies at the end, George melds in with the rest of the farm hands and loses his individuality, and, sadly, there will be nobody to mark his passing.

Answer 10

you say best book ever written? it would definitely be the holy bible. if you're looking for best books to put on your website here's my suggestions:

on religion: the holy bible pref. king james version, the Qu'ran, Tao Te Ching, Chinese Analects of Confucius, the Dhamapada, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, and Srimad Bhagavatam

on philosophy, math and sciences: Plato's Republic, works of Aristotle, history of Philosophy, St. Thomas Aquinas', St. Augustine, works of Hipocrates, Euclid, Archiemdes, Apollonius, Nicomachus, Ptolemy, Copernicus, the Prince of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Galileo, Francis Bacon, the Essential Descartes, Spinoza, Pascal, Newton, Huygens, Locke, Berkeley, DAvid Hume, Montesquieu, Rosseau, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday, Hegel, Goethe, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Engels, William James, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Alan Watts

on art and literature: Virgil and Homer's works (a must), Plutarch, Essays of Montaigne, history of Literature (of course), William Shakespeare (an essential), Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Chaucer, Cervantes, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Aesthetics of Parker, Dante's Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, Milton's Paradise Lost, et cetera.

there are at least 33,000 books I can write here but I suggest you chose a category which you can complete first (it's not impossible).

whew--choose a category first.

Answer 11

My faves are:
1) A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
2)Forever Amber By Kathleen Windsor
3)A Moon in Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
and of course the classic
4) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë