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To day I chose to post this IMPORTANT list of novels which linked to 10+ "Top 100" book lists from different sources, the lists were compared with each other and see what books are most recommended in top lists. The books are sorted by the number of lists in which the book is included.
Here is the list:
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - (10/11 Lists)
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - (10/11 Lists)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - (10/11 Lists)
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison - (9/11 Lists)
- Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut - (9/11 Lists)
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - (9/11 Lists)
- The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner - (9/11 Lists)
- 1984 by George Orwell - (8/11 Lists)
- Beloved by Toni Morrison - (8/11 Lists)
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - (8/11 Lists)
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - (8/11 Lists)
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway - (7/11 Lists)
- An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser - (6/11 Lists)
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - (6/11 Lists)
- Brave New World by Alduos Huxley - (6/11 Lists)
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell - (6/11 Lists)
- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie - (6/11 Lists)
- My Antonia by Willa Cather (1918) - (6/11 Lists)
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac - (6/11 Lists)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - (6/11 Lists)
- The Heart is A Lonely Hunter by Carson Mccullers- (6/11 Lists)
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams - (6/11 Lists)
- The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934) - (6/11 Lists)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston - (6/11 Lists)
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf - (6/11 Lists)
- Ulysses by James Joyce - (6/11 Lists)
These novels were selected from these lists (the name of the list followed by a quick summary):
- TIME’s List of the 100 Best Novels - Published 2005, America-centric, contains only books after 1923.
- Book Riot’s 100 Greatest American Novels 1893-1993 - Published early July 2013, one book per author only
- The Guardian’s Top 100 Bestselling Books of All Time (in the UK) - published August 2009, based on Nielsen Bookscan data, maybe influenced by reading lists
- The Entertainment Weekly 100 Greatest Novels Ever - Published July 2012
- The 100 Most Influential Books of All Time - Book, published 1998, heavy on philosophy and theology, nothing newer than 1971
- The 100 Favorite Novels of Librarians - Based on a 1998-1999 survey of librarians
- 100 Major Works of Modern Creative Nonfiction - from About.com
- The Modern Library Best 100 Novels of the 20th Century - Published 1998, possibly influenced by Scientologists
- Goodread's Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time - Published September 2011, voted on by readers of the website
- Top 100 Works In World Literature - Published 2002, pointedly not English-centric.
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