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A List of the Greatest Books From the Greatest "Greatest Books" Lists

This list is generated from 107 "best of" book lists from a variety of great sources. An algorithm is used to create a master list based on how many lists a particular book appears on. Some lists count more than others. I generally trust "best of all time" lists voted by authors and experts over user-generated lists. On the lists that are actually ranked, the book that is 1st counts a lot more than the book that's 100th.
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In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
1
Marcel Proust
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
2
James Joyce
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
3
Miguel De Cervantes
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
4
Herman Melville
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
5
William Shakespeare
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
6
Leo Tolstoy
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
7
Homer
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
8
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
9
Dante Alighieri
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
10
Gustave Flaubert
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
11
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
12
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
13
Mark Twain
Iliad (Homer)
Iliad
14
Homer
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
15
Vladimir Nabokov
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
16
Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
17
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
18
Lewis Carroll
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
19
William Faulkner
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
20
Jane Austen
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
21
J.D. Salinger
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
22
Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Nineteen Eighty-Four
23
George Orwell
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
24
Joseph Conrad
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
25
Virginia Woolf
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
26
William Faulkner
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
27
George Eliot
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
28
Franz Kafka
One Thousand and One Nights (Anonymous)
One Thousand and One Nights
29
Anonymous
Stories: Anton Chekhov (Anton Chekhov)
Stories: Anton Chekhov
30
Anton Chekhov
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black
31
Stendhal
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
32
Jonathan Swift
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
33
Joseph Heller
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
34
John Steinbeck
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
35
Ralph Ellison
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
36
Albert Camus
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
37
Charles Dickens
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
38
Virgil
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
39
Charles Dickens
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway
40
Virginia Woolf
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