Best Books Ever: The Top 10 Must-Read Books [2024 Update]

What are the best books you have ever read? In this top 10, you will find the best books/novels/non-fiction ever. Chances are the most impressive and most beautiful book you have ever read is here. Read on for the top 10 list.

Beste books ever

We start our recommendations with the top 10 best books of all time. This list has been updated this year, including all the recent titles.

Best Books Ever	Author
In Search of Lost Time	Marcel Proust
Ulysses	James Joyce
Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald
Moby Dick	Herman Melville
War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy
Hamlet	William Shakespeare
The Odyssey	Homer
Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert

The updated top 10 list: the best must-read books

Spilled Milk: Based on a true story

The glass of spilled milk is what eventually makes Brooke speak out about her abuse. She fears for her safety, even when social services come into the picture. Brooke takes many hurdles and discovers that some people choose not to be saved from a terrible life.

The Girl Who Lived: A Thrilling Suspense Novel

We think this is one of the best psychological thrillers to read, with one girl being in the center of the story and four others around her ending up murdered. Did she see the one who did it? And will anyone believe her? Alcohol surely isn’t the answer to her problems, especially when they think she had anything to do with the murders.

Goodnight Moon

A little bunny says goodnight to everything he can see in his room. Both the poem and the illustrations are a nice way to end the day smoothly with your baby or toddler.

Where the Crawdads Sing

When pretty boy Chase is killed, the rumor of the “Marsh Girl” starts popping up again. Is the Marsh girl really what everyone believes she is? You will find this to be untrue. Kya, which is her real name, did live in the marsh for a very long time, but now she is ready to start a new life with more people in it and maybe even a relationship.

The Secrets We Keep: A gripping emotional page turner

Tessa and her children are hiding at a little house near a lake. Then a family who lives in the next house disrupts their way of living. When secrets start having an effect on both families, there is no way back anymore. Will Tessa and her children still be there at the end of their summer?

Relentless: Gray Man, Book 10 

When three intelligence agents disappear and only one reappears, it is the Gray Man’s task to bring him back home to the intelligence agency. He barely escapes when they are trying to assassinate him, but at least finds an interesting piece of information for the agency.

The Book Thief

We like this book, because the general theme throughout this story is about… books. A book can teach you how to read, a book can be an escape from a time of war, and a book can be a connection with another human being, even if they had been stolen.

A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire (Blood and Ash Book 2)

Poppy is looking for her missing brother and Casteel Da’Neer will help her find him. Will she like how her brother ended up, and what is the relationship between her and Casteel anyway?

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones 

If you are looking to change some of your habits, we suggest you read this book by James Clear. He is an expert in the field of habit formation, and the strategies in his book will help you get rid of some of the bad habits and instead replace them with some good ones.

The 48 Laws of Power

The writers of this book have divided the element of power into 48 essential laws. Each law is discussed, but they all end up coming back to the feeling of the need to control and to dominate. This is an interesting read if you want to understand control or learn how to deal with it.