The 5 best books of all time chosen by famous authors and readers 

1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Synopsis: “Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby exposes herself to the hypocrisies of society.”

2. The Da Vinci Code

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Nominated together of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s the great American Read
While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a call within the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the bizarre riddles, they're stunned to urge a trail of clues hidden within the works of Leonardo da Vinci—clues visible for all to determine and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.


3.Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert

Synopsis: “When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women’s magazines. But Charles is a dull country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns.”

4.The Last Samurai

Is about the relationship between a young boy, Ludo, and his mother, Sibylla. Sibylla, a single mother, brings Ludo up somewhat unusually; he starts reading at two, reading Homer in the original Greek at three, and goes on to Hebrew, Japanese, Old Norse, Inuit, and advanced mathematics.

5.To Kill a Mockingbird

Novel by Harper Lee
Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's the good American Read
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice within the deep South—and the heroism of 1 man within the face of blind and violent hatred