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The Greatest Books, Part 1

"This list is generated from 114 "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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Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
1
Miguel De Cervantes
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
2
Marcel Proust
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
3
James Joyce
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
4
Homer
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
5
Leo Tolstoy
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
6
Herman Melville
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
7
Dante Alighieri
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
8
William Shakespeare
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
9
Mark Twain
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
10
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
11
Homer
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
12
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
13
Gustave Flaubert
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
14
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
15
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
16
Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
17
Emily Bronte
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
18
William Faulkner
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
19
Vladimir Nabokov
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Nineteen Eighty-Four
20
George Orwell
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
21
Lewis Carroll
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
22
Virginia Woolf
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
23
Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
24
Leo Tolstoy
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
25
J.D. Salinger
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
26
George Eliot
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
27
Jonathan Swift
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
28
Virgil
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
29
Joseph Conrad
One Thousand and One Nights (Anonymous)
One Thousand and One Nights
30
Anonymous
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
31
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
32
Albert Camus
Stories: Anton Chekhov (Anton Chekhov)
Stories: Anton Chekhov
33
Anton Chekhov
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
34
John Steinbeck
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
35
Joseph Heller
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black
36
Stendhal
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
37
Franz Kafka
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass
38
Walt Whitman
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
39
William Faulkner
Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
Oedipus the King
40
Sophocles
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