The top 10 books of all time

7. "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald himself called his 1925 portrait of the Jazz Age and story of obsessive love a "consciously artistic achievement" and a "purely creative work." The novel's enduring popularity is such that the upcoming Baz Luhrmann movie version will mark the seventh time in a little over 80 years that "The Great Gatsby" has been turned into a film.

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