This article from Collider presents a ranked list of the ten best books that are more than 100 years old, spanning centuries of literature to highlight works the author considers to have stood the test of time. It aims to celebrate novels with lasting influence and relevance, noting that finding century-old books is considerably easier than finding equally old films, since the novel form long predates cinema.

The countdown includes Franz Kafka's *The Trial* (published 1925, written earlier), praised for its psychologically intense, dystopian portrayal of a man on trial without knowing his crime; Mary Shelley's *Frankenstein* (1818), credited as a foundational work of science fiction and horror; Fyodor Dostoevsky's *Crime and Punishment* (1860s), lauded as a proto-psychological thriller with philosophical depth; and F. Scott Fitzgerald's *The Great Gatsby*, noted for its vivid, era-defining portrait of the 1920s. The list mixes recent centenarians with older classics spanning multiple centuries, though the full ranking of all ten titles continues beyond the excerpt provided.