The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
0.3424Canon Score · ranked #21 all time
Aggregated from 9 of 14 authoritative lists, weighted by authority and adjusted for each list's scope and age. How scoring works →
About the book
Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever. The story focuses on a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers, farmers who work another man’s land for a share of the crops. Driven from their home by drought and poverty they take to the road in a battered old truck and make their way to California to look for work. When they arrive they find hundreds of others like them being forced to work for br
Why it ranks #21
Every list on which The Grapes of Wrath appears, with its position as published.
| List | Authority | Position |
|---|---|---|
| Le Monde 100 Books of the Century | Critics' canon | #7 / 100 |
| BBC Big Read Top 200 (2003) | Editorial list | #29 / 200 |
| OCLC/WorldCat Top 500 Novels (2019) | Editorial list | #41 / 500 |
| PBS Great American Read (2018) | Editorial list | #45 / 100 |
| The Novel 100 (Burt) | Editorial list | #60 / 100 |
| Guardian 1000 Novels (2009) | Critics' canon | Selected |
| 1001 Books You Must Read (union) | Critics' canon | Selected |
| Bloom, The Western Canon (1994) | Editorial list | Selected |
| Telegraph 100 Novels (2009) | Editorial list | Selected |