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Updated - The Ultimate List - 100 Books to Read Before You Die (With 57 Bonus Titles)

These are the 8 lists that Joel Patrick at medium.com amalgamated and culled to create this 'ULTIMATE LIST' (updated January 2019):
The Guardian's The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time
The BBC's Big Read Top 100
Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
Harvard's Book store top 100
Modern Library's 100 Best Novels
Time's All-Time 100 Novels
The Telegraph's 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
The Art of Manliness' 100 Must-Read Books
I have expanded the list to 157 items by including all books that appeared on at least 2 of the 8 lists (there is a link to a detailed spreadsheet at the source URL). Thanks to the original poster Anshu Kumari.
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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
1
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
2
Joseph Heller
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
3
Jack Kerouac
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
4
Harper Lee
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
5
J.R.R. Tolkien
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
6
Vladimir Nabokov
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
7
J.D. Salinger
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
8
Salman Rushdie
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
9
Lewis Carroll
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
10
James Joyce
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
11
William Golding
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
12
John Steinbeck
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
13
George Orwell
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
14
Charlotte Bronte
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
15
Herman Melville
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway
16
Virginia Woolf
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
A Passage to India
17
E.M. Forster
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
18
Aldous Huxley
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
19
Chinua Achebe
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
20
Muriel Spark
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
21
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
22
Jane Austen
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
23
George Orwell
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
24
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
25
Toni Morrison
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
26
Ralph Ellison
Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse Five
27
Kurt Vonnegut
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
28
Albert Camus
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
29
Miguel De Cervantes
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
30
Daniel Defoe
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
31
Mary Shelley
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
32
Alexandre Dumas
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
33
Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
34
Emily Bronte
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women
35
Louisa May Alcott
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
The Call of the Wild
36
Jack London
The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)
The Wind in the Willows
37
Kenneth Grahame
Scoop (Evelyn Waugh)
Scoop
38
Evelyn Waugh
The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
The Big Sleep
39
Raymond Chandler
Lucky Jim (Jim Dixon)
Lucky Jim
40
Jim Dixon
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