Greater Books
Unlike the master list, this shorter list is not split into monographical and non-monographical works. Since most of the lists documented at Greater Books do not rank their entries (indeed, many of them are not lists at all, but books from which a list has been derived) we present the highest-tally works for each of four time periods, instead of a single list. This site's primary concern is to document lists that match certain descriptive criteria. The reader can interpret a literary work's inclusion in a large number of these lists in whichever way he chooses. The four time periods are: Prehistory to 700 A. D., 700 to 1650, 1650 to 1900, and 1900 to Present.