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Top 500 Books Per Greatestbooks.Org

Here is a top 500 list as determined by proprietary algorithm at thegreatestbooks.org. It includes all genres across all time periods. The calculation was done by pulling together and ranking the titles from 300 or so reputable lists (by writers, critics, editors, vox populi, etc).
Since much of these books are worth reading, I sorted them by publication year instead of "popularity" for enhanced historical context.
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Anonymous -- The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous -- The Epic of Gilgamesh
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The Bible
The Bible
3
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad (Homer)
4
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
5
The Art of War
The Art of War
6
Analects
Analects
7
Oresteia (Aeschylus)
Oresteia (Aeschylus)
8
Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)
Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)
9
Herodotus -- The Histories
Herodotus -- The Histories
10
Antigone
Antigone
11
Medea (Euripides)
Medea (Euripides)
12
Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
13
Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
14
Electra (Sophocles)
Electra (Sophocles)
15
Bacchae (Euripides)
Bacchae (Euripides)
16
Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)
Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)
17
Mahabharata (R. K. Narayan)
Mahabharata (R. K. Narayan)
18
Plato: Complete Works (Plato)
Plato: Complete Works (Plato)
19
Republic
Republic
20
The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
21
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
22
The Aeneid
The Aeneid
23
De Rerum Natura (Lecretius)
De Rerum Natura (Lecretius)
24
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
25
Confessions
Confessions
26
The Koran
The Koran
27
One Thousand and One Nights
One Thousand and One Nights
28
Beowulf
Beowulf
29
The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
30
Divine Comedy
Divine Comedy
31
The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
32
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
33
Le Morte D'Arthur (Sir Thomas Malory)
Le Morte D'Arthur (Sir Thomas Malory)
34
The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
35
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel
36
Essays (Montaigne)
Essays (Montaigne)
37
Journey to the West (Wu Cheng'en)
Journey to the West (Wu Cheng'en)
38
Hamlet
Hamlet
39
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
40
MacBeth
MacBeth
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