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Greatest Books Top 500: The 2021 Update: Uppers & Downers - Page 3

This is my annual update of the thegreatestbooks.org Top 500, obviously using the latest version of the source list. The latter is now using "130 'best of' book lists from a variety of great sources", including many of your favourites.
How has the list altered over the past year? Immediately noticeable was that some classic works, such as Shakespeare's plays and those of ancient Greece & Rome, have made great strides upwards. Amazingly 'Macbeth' has jumped upwards by 140 places (from 301 to 161). Modern works, if anything, tend to be drifting slightly downwards.
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Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
82
Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
83
The Waste Land (T.S. Eliot)
The Waste Land (T.S. Eliot)
84
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
85
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
86
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
87
Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)
Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)
88
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
89
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
90
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
91
Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
92
Native Son (Richard Wright)
Native Son (Richard Wright)
93
The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal)
The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal)
94
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
95
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Francois Rabelais)
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Francois Rabelais)
96
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson)
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson)
97
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
98
Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
99
The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire)
The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire)
100
Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
101
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
102
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
103
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
104
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
105
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
106
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
107
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
108
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
109
Père Goriot (Honoré De Balzac)
Père Goriot (Honoré De Balzac)
110
The Tin Drum (Gunter Grass)
The Tin Drum (Gunter Grass)
111
Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence)
Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence)
112
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
113
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
114
Oresteia (Aeschylus)
Oresteia (Aeschylus)
115
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
116
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
117
A Season in Hell (Arthur Rimbaud)
A Season in Hell (Arthur Rimbaud)
118
Howards End (E.M. Forster)
Howards End (E.M. Forster)
119
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
120
The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Andersen)
The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Andersen)
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