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1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (/items/190)
Alonso Quixano, a retired country gentleman in his fifties, lives in an unnamed section of La Mancha with his niece and a housekeeper. He has become obsessed with books of chivalry, and believes th... - W
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2. Ulysses by James Joyce (/items/122)
Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. The title parallels and alludes to Odysseus (Latinised into Ulysses), the hero of Homer's Odyss... - W
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3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (/items/50)
The book is internationally famous for its innovative style and infamous for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, middle aged Humbert Humbert, becomes obsessed and se... - W
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4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (/items/217)
Revered by all of the town's children and dreaded by all of its mothers, Huckleberry Finn is indisputably the most appealing child-hero in American literature. Unlike the tall-tale, idyllic worl... - P blisher I've read this book 5. I want to read this book
5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (/items/38)
The novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the "Jazz Age". Following the shock and chaos of World War I, American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity during the "roar... - W
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6. 1984 by George Orwell (/items/64)
The story follows the life of one seemingly insignificant man, Winston Smith, a civil servant assigned the task of perpetuating the regime's propaganda by falsifying records and political literatur... - W
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7. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (/items/116)
Epic in scale, War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of fi... - W
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8. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (/items/225)
Swann's Way, the first part of A la recherche de temps perdu, Marcel Proust's seven-part cycle, was published in 1913. In it, Proust introduces the themes that run through the entire work. The narr... - P blisher I've read this book 9. I want to read this book
9. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (/items/213)
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endu... P blisher I've read this book 10. I want to read this book
10. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (/items/209)
For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shoc... - P blisher
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11. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (/items/215)
Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers, is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is mur... - P blisher I've read this book 12. I want to read this book
12. Middlemarch by George Eliot (/items/410)
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final i... - W
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13. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (/items/266)
One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prizewinning car... - P blisher I've read this book 14. I want to read this book
14. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (/items/85)
The Sound and the Fury is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. The novel centers on the Compson family, former Southern aristocrats who are struggling to deal with the dissolution of their fa... - W
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15. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (/items/47)
The novel addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African-Americans in the early twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marx... - W
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16. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (/items/19)
The Catcher in the Rye is a 1945 novel by J. D. Salinger. Originally published for adults, the novel has become a common part of high school and college curricula throughout the English-speaking wo... - W
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17. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (/items/92)
A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporality and psycholog... - W
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18. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (/items/66)
On the Road is a largely autobiographical work that was based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and
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his friends across mid-century America. It is often considered a defining work of the post... - W
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19. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (/items/193)
From the preeminent prose satirist in the English language, a great classic recounting the four remarkable journeys of ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver. For children it remains an enchanting fantasy;... - P blisher I've read this book 20. I want to read this book
20. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (/items/36)
Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers, the Joads, driven from their home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agriculture industry. In a ... - W
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21. Moby Dick by Herman Melville (/items/208)
First published in 1851, Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white wh... - P blisher I've read this book 22. I want to read this book
22. Beloved by Toni Morrison (/items/10)
Beloved (1987) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. The novel, her fifth, is loosely
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based on the life and legal case of the slave Margaret Garner, about whom Morrison... ( :// . . / /B _( ))
23. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (/items/216)
The story centres on Isabel Archer, an attractive American whom circumstances have brought to Europe. Isabel refuses the offer of marriage to an English peer and to a bulldog-like New Englander, to... - P blisher I've read this book 24. I want to read this book
24. The Iliad by Homer (/items/407)
The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of Ilium by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and e... - W
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25. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (/items/444)
Absalom, Absalom! is a Southern Gothic novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in 1936. It is a story about three families of the American South, taking place before, during,... - W
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26. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (/items/70)
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A Passage to India is set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. The story revolves around four characters: Dr. Aziz, his British friend Cyril Fi... - W
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27. Native Son by Richard Wright (/items/61)
The novel tells the story of 20-year old Bigger Thomas, an African American living in utter poverty. Bigger lived in Chicago's South Side ghetto in the 1930s. Bigger was always getting into troubl... - W
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28. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (/items/59)
Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister", the novel's story is of Clarissa's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess. Wit... - W
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29. The Odyssey by Homer (/items/408)
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work traditionally ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the m... - W
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30. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (/items/18)
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Catch-22 is a satirical, historical novel by the American author Joseph Heller, first published in 1961. The novel, set during the later stages of World War II from 1943 onwards, is frequently cite... - W
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31. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (/items/125)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, first serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916. It depicts the formativ... - W
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32. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (/items/102)
The book is narrated in free indirect speech following the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with matters of upbringing, marriage, moral rightness and education in her aristocratic socie... - W
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33. The Trial by Franz Kafka (/items/258)
Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and mu... - P blisher I've read this book I want to read this book
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34. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (/items/133)
The book is told in stream of consciousness writing style by 15 different narrators in 59 chapters. It is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's questnoble or selfishto honor he... - W
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35. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (/items/126)
Set in the London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society. The future society is an embod... - W
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36. Emma by Jane Austen (/items/198)
Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like."[1] In the very first sentence she introduces the title character as "Emma Woodhouse, ... - Wik ipedia I've read this book 37. I want to read this book
37. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad (/items/224)
Edited with an introduction and notes by Martin Seymour-Smith. In his evocation of the republic of Costaguana, set amid the exotic and grandiose scenery of South America, Conrad reveals not only th... P blisher
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38. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (/items/90)
A novel of great power that turns the world upside down. The Nigerian novelist Achebe reached back to the early days of his people's encounter with colonialism, the 1890's, though the white man and... - T
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39. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (/items/91)
As a Southern Gothic novel and a Bildungsroman, the primary themes of To Kill a Mockingbird involve racial injustice and the destruction of innocence. Scholars have noted that Lee also addresses is... - W
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40. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (/items/135)
The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Although Conrad does not specify the name of th... - W
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41. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (/items/52)
The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by philologist and Oxford University professor J. R.
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42. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront (/items/107)
Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the title character, a small, plain-faced, intelligent and honest English orphan. The novel goes through five distinct stages: Jane's childhood at Gateshead... - W
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43. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (/items/326)
Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the ... - P blisher I've read this book 44. I want to read this book
44. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront (/items/108)
The narrative is non-linear, involving several flashbacks, and two primary narrators: Mr. Lockwood and Ellen "Nelly" Dean. The novel opens in 1801, with Mr. Lockwood arriving at Thrushcross Grange,... - W ( ) I've read this book 45. I want to read this book
45. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (/items/51)
Lord of the Flies discusses how culture created by man fails, using as an example a group of British
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schoolboys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves, but with disastrous results.... W ( :// . . / /L _ _ _F ) I've read this book 46. I want to read this book
46. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (/items/2)
All the King's Men portrays the dramatic political ascent and governorship of Willie Stark, a driven, cynical populist in the American South during the 1930s. - W ( :// . . / /A _ _K ' _M I've read this book 47. I want to read this book
47. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (/items/35)
Gone With the Wind is set in Jonesboro and Atlanta, Georgia during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and follows the life of Scarlett O'Hara, the daughter of an Irish immigrant plantation o... W ( :// . . / /G _ _ _W ) I've read this book 48. I want to read this book
48. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (/items/146)
The Age of Innocence centers on an upperclass couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of a scandalous woman whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assump... W ( :// . . / /T _A _ _I ) I've read this book 49. I want to read this book
49. The Aeneid by Virgil (/items/491)
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The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil in the late 1st century BC (2919 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the... - W
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50. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (/items/194)
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neig... - P blisher I've read this book I want to read this book
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The Lists
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100 Most Influential Books of the Century (/lists/42)

Boston Public Library's list of "The 100 Most Influential Books of the Century". A booklist for Adults. - B P L ( :// . . / /A B / . )
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110 Best Books: The Perfect Library (/lists/13)

From classics and sci-fi to poetry, biographies and books that changed the world we present the ultimate reading list. - T T ( :// . . . / / /3672376/110-T . )
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50 Greatest Books of All Time (/lists/41)

A list of the 50 greatest books of all time as determined by a panel of secret judges for Globe and Mail. The books are not ranked. - G M ( :// . . / / / 658588. )
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50 Memorable Books from 50 Years of Books to Remember (/lists/5)

A representative selection from over 1500 titles on annual lists of Books to Remember from 1956 to 2005. T N Y P L ( :// . . / / / 2. ?L ID=290)
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Books of the Decade (/lists/47)

The 50 books that defined the decade(2000) - T
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Costa Book Award - Best Novel (/lists/20)

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The Costa Book Awards are a series of literary awards given to books by authors based in the United Kingdom and Ireland. They were known as the Whitbread Book Awards until 2005, after which Costa C... - C C
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Donald Barthelme s Reading List (/lists/36)

81 books recommended by Author Donald Barthelme to his students at the University of Houston. ( :// . . / / /2004/04/13/ _ . )
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Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time (/lists/17)
The 100 greatest adventure books chosen by National Geographic. - N M ( :// . . / /0404/ G
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Great Books of the Western World (/lists/40)

Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopdia Britannica Inc. to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volume... - G B F ( :// . . / /G _B _ _ _W _W )
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Harvard Book Store Staff's Favorite 100 Books (/lists/39)

A list of the Harvard Book Store staff's top 100 favorite books. - H
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Man Booker Prize (/lists/19)

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known in short as the Booker Prize, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citiz... - M B P
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National Book Award - Fiction (/lists/24)

The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Started in 1950, the awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the prio... - N B F ( :// . . /)
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National Book Award - Nonfiction (/lists/30)

The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Started in 1950, the awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the prio... - N B F ( :// . . /)
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National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction (/lists/21)

The National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote the finest books and reviews published in English. - N B C C
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National Book Critics Circle Award - Nonfiction (/lists/22)

The National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote the finest books and reviews published in English. - N B C C
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16.
Paste Magazine's Best Books of the Decade(2000-2009) (/lists/35)

The top 20 best books of the 2000s by Paste Magazine. It includes both fiction and nonfiction. - P M ( :// . . / / /2009/11/ - . )
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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (/lists/23)

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the author of the best American work of fiction that year. The winner receives US $15,000 and each of four... - PEN/F
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (/lists/32)

The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author. - P P
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (/lists/8)

All the books that have won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction from 1948 to the present. - P
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20.
Pulitzer Prize for History (/lists/31)

The Pulitzer Prize for History has been awarded since 1917 for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States. Many history books have also been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General N... - P P
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Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction (/lists/16)

The Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction has been awarded since 1962 for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category. - P P
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22.
Radcliffe's 100 Best Novels (/lists/3)

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23.
St. John's College Academic Program Reading List (/lists/6)

The reading list that serves as the core of the St. John's College curriculum had its beginnings at Columbia College, at the University of Chicago, and at the University of Virginia. Since 1937, th... - S . J ' C
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The 100 Best Books of the Decade(2000) (/lists/38)

The Time's list of the 100 Best Books of the 2000s. It's a mix of fiction and nonfiction. - T
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The 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the Century (/lists/14)

The 100 best non-fiction books of all time judged by a panel of historians, authors, publishers, and experts for the National Review Magazine. - N R ( :// . . /100 /100_ . )
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The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time: The List (/lists/12)

The Observer's list of essential fiction from the past 300 years. - T
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The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written (/lists/45)

The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today (1998) is a book of intellectual history written by Martin Seymour-Smith (19281998), a British poet,... - M S S ( :// . . / /T _100_M _I _B _E _W )
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The 10 Best of the Decade(2000) (/lists/48)

Entertainment Weekly's top 10 best books of the 2000s - E
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The 50 Best Books of the Century (/lists/27)

ISI defined "best" as "volumes of extraordinary reflection and creativity in a traditional form, which heartens us with the knowledge that fine writing and clear-mindedness are perennially possible... - I S I ()
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The 75 Books Every Man Should Read (/lists/37)

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The Best Books of the 2000s (/lists/46)

The Best Books of the 2000s according to the Onion AV club. Includes Fiction and Nonfiction. - T AV C ( :// . . / / - -00 ,35774/) O
32.
The Best Southern Nonfiction of All Time (/lists/34)

The best southern United States nonfiction books of all time judged by 130 literary experts and authors. O A ( :// . . / /2009/ /31/ - /)
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The Best Southern Novels of All Time (/lists/33)

A list of the best southern novels of all time by Oxford American Magazine judged by 130 experts as well as
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The Big Read (/lists/25)

The Big Read was a survey on books carried out by the BBC in the United Kingdom in 2003, where over three quarters of a million votes were received to find the nations best-loved book of all time, ... - BBC
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The Modern Library | 100 Best Nonfiction (/lists/15)

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The Modern Library | 100 Best Novels (/lists/2)

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37.
The New Classics - 100 Best Reads from 1983 to 2008 (/lists/49)
Entertainment Weekly's list of the 100 best reads from 1083 to 2008. There's no description of who the judges were. - E W ( :// . . / / /0,,20207076_20207387_20207349,00. )
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The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time (/lists/29)
The list below is from the book The Novel 100: A Ranking of Greatest Novels All Time (Checkmark Books/Facts On File, Inc.: New York, 2004), written by Daniel S. Burt. - T N 100
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39.
The Top 10: The Greatest Books of All Time (/lists/44)

The Top 10 book chosen by 125 top writers from the book "The Top 10" edited by J. Peder Zane. - T (B )( :// . . /) T 10
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TIME Magazine All Time 100 Novels (/lists/1)

Time critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. - TIME M ( :// . . / /2005/100 / _ _ . )
41.
Top 100 Works in World Literature (/lists/28)

The editors of the Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute, polled a panel of 100 authors from 54 countries on what they considered the best and most central works in world litera... - N B C , N N I ( :// . . / /A0934958. )
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Top 10 British, Irish or Commonwealth Novels from 1980 to 2005 (/lists/26)

The Observer asked 150 literary luminaries to vote for the best British, Irish or Commonwealth novel from 1980 to 2005. - T O ( :// . . . / /2006/ /08/ . 1)
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What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years? (/lists/43)
The New York Times Book Review's editor, Sam Tanenhaus, sent out a short letter to a couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors and other literary sages, asking them to please identify... - N Y T
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What?
I've always loved to read and I'm a big fan of "best of" lists. After reading through about 5 or so "Greatest Books of all Time" lists I got the idea of combining the lists into 1 master list of the greatest books of all time. A goal of mine is to someday read The first 100 of these books. I built this application to help me generate the list as well as keep track of which books I've already read. You too can track which books you've read if you create an account. You can view details about a specific list or book by clicking the titles. I had a great time creating this site and I hope you enjoy it. If you have any Comments please e-mail
(mailto:shane.sherman@gmail.com)
How?
This list is generated from 43 "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.
Where Can I Buy The Books?

If you click on the title of the books you can easily see a summary of what amazon.com has for sale based on price and binding(paperback, hardcover, audio, etc). The prices and availability are updated daily directly from Amazon.com (http://amazon.com).
Tips
You can page through the lists by using the "j" and "k" keys on your keyboard.
Copyright 2010 Shane Sherman (m ailto:shane.sherm an@gm ail.com )
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