100 Greatest Books List


  • I compiled this list by taken 49 lists of best books from the internet and creating an excel spreadsheet. They were weighted by the number the appeared on a list (if it wasn't a numbered list, then every book on the list was given the number 1) and how many times they appeared. 
  • Bolded titles are books I've read since starting the list in 2011 (and a review has been posted or will be soon).

    1. The Great Gatsby
    2. Pride and Prejudice
    3. Nineteen Eighty-Four
    4. One Hundred Years of Solitude
    5. Grapes of Wrath, The
    6. War and Peace
    7. Catcher in the Rye, The
    8. Gone with the Wind
    9. Lolita
    10. Catch-22
    11. To Kill a Mockingbird
    12. Wuthering Heights
    13. Adventures of Huckelberry Finn, The
    14. Anna Karenina
    15. Jane Eyre
    16. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
    17. Crime and Punishment
    18. Ulysses
    19. Don Quixote
    20. Sound and the Fury, The
    21. Brave New World
    22. Animal Farm
    23. Heart of Darkness
    24. Beloved
    25. Great Expectations
    26. Moby-Dick
    27. On the Road
    28. Frankenstein
    29. Middlemarch
    30. Divine Comedy, The
    31. Invisible Man
    32. Lord of the Flies
    33. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The
    34. To the Lighthouse
    35. Odyssey, The
    36. Iliad, The
    37. Madame Bovary
    38. Hamlet
    39. Scarlet Letter, The
    40. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    41. Slaughterhouse-Five
    42. Emma
    43. Les Misérables
    44. Vanity Fair
    45. David Copperfield
    46. Tale of Two Cities, A
    47. Little Women
    48. Of Mice and Men
    49. Clockwork Orange, A
    50. Harry Potter Series
    51. Midnight's Children
    52. Canterbury Tales, The
    53. Prince, The
    54. Brothers Karamazov, The
    55. In Search of Lost Time
    56. Trial, The
    57. Mrs. Dalloway
    58. Count of Monte Cristo, The
    59. Passage to India, A
    60. Sun Also Rises, The
    61. Rebecca
    62. Gulliver's Travels
    63. On the Origin of Species
    64. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A
    65. Hobbit, The
    66. Age of Innocence, The
    67. Picture of Dorian Gray, The
    68. Love in the Time of Cholera
    69. As I Lay Dying
    70. Prayer for Owen Meany, A
    71. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    72. Handmaid's Tale, The
    73. Dune
    74. Histories (Herodotus), The
    75. Confessions of St. Augustine, The
    76. Tom Jones
    77. Things Fall Apart
    78. In Cold Blood
    79. Color Purple, The
    80. Stand, The
    81. Dracula
    82. Watership Down
    83. Poisonwood Bible, The
    84. Brideshead Revisited
    85. Portrait of a Lady, the
    86. Tristam Shandy
    87. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
    88. Life of Pi
    89. Master and Margarita, The
    90. Charlotte's Web
    91. Atlas Shrugged
    92. Walden
    93. Macbeth
    94. Candide
    95. King Lear
    96. Romeo and Juliet
    97. Stranger, The
    98. Robinson Crusoe
    99. Native Son
    100. Angela's Ashes

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