hippie1427's "A condensed list of definitive book lists"

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Combines several definitive book lists into 1.
The BookCrossing Top 100+ Books of All Time (2006) (done)
The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written (Easton Press) (done)
BBC’s "The Big Read" – Top 100 Books(done)
jsherry’s Recommended Reading list for the well educated adult (done)

  • not all books from the list were added to my list. If I’d never heard of a book, and didn’t see it repeatedly throughout the definitive lists, it wasleft out, at my whim.

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  1. 1.
    1984: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

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  3. 3.
    Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

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  5. 5.
    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  6. 6.
    The Aenid
    by Virgil

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  7. 7.
    Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Aesop

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  9. 9.
    All the Pretty Horses (Vintage International)
    by Cormac Mccarthy

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  10. 10.
    All quiet on the western front,
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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  11. 11.
    American Gods
    by Neil Gaiman

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  12. 12.
    Angelas Ashes: A Memoir
    by Frank McCourt

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  13. 13.
    Angels & Demons
    by Dan Brown

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  14. 14.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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  15. 15.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  16. 16.
    Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics)
    by L. M. Montgomery

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  17. 17.
    Antigone
    by Sophocles

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  18. 18.
    The Arabian Nights

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  19. 19.
    Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, Book 1)
    by Eoin Colfer

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  20. 20.
    As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

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  21. 21.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  22. 22.
    Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

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  25. 25.
    Black Beauty (Unabridged Classics)
    by Anna Sewell

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  26. 26.
    Bleak House
    by Charles Dickens

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  27. 27.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  28. 28.
    A Brief History of Time
    by Stephen Hawking

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  29. 29.
    The Brothers Karamazov (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  30. 30.
    Poems of Robert Browning: Riverside (Riverside Editions)
    by Robert Browning

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  32. 32.
    The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
    by Jack London

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  33. 33.
    Candide (Modern Library)
    by Voltaire

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  34. 34.
    The Canterbury Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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  35. 35.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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  36. 36.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  37. 37.
    Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Play)
    by Roald Dahl

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  38. 38.
    A Christmas Carol
    by Charles Dickens

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  39. 39.
    The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Drama)
    by Anton Chekhov

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  40. 40.
    The Chocolate War (Readers Circle)
    by Robert Cormier

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  41. 41.
    The Chronicles of Narnia
    by C. S. Lewis

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  43. 43.
    Cold Comfort Farm
    by Stella Gibbons

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  44. 44.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  45. 45.
    The Colour of Magic (Discworld Novels)
    by Terry Pratchett

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  46. 46.
    The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics)
    by Karl Marx

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  47. 47.
    A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole

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  48. 48.
    The Confessions of St. Augustine (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by St. Augustine

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  49. 49.
    Confucius Analects (Hackett Classics Series)
    by Confucius

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  50. 50.
    Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel
    by Louis De Bernieres

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Created by hippie1427 on Jul 27, 2006.
 

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hippie1427
Nashville

done — 6 weeks ago

I’ve added all I’m going to, and sorted it how I like. yay!

May 21, 04:00PM | 1 comment | Reply to this

hippie1427
Nashville

done adding — 7 weeks ago

I’ve finished adding all that I’m going to, to this list. there are still some that need sorted in.

May 12, 11:44AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

larisa5656

Untitled — 1 year ago

This is a pretty nice list. I hope you add more books onto it soon. My one suggestion for it is that, instead of having “boxed sets” for series like Little House on the Prairie, you list each individual title. Otherwise, great list.

Jun 20, 12:27PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

hippie1427
Nashville

Sorted — 1 year ago

The list is completely sorted, at least until I start adding more. Right now it consists of 3 lists. I still have 1 or 2 to add.

Oct 16, 03:14PM | 1 comment | Reply to this

hippie1427
Nashville

more work — 1 year ago

began adding a 3rd list, running into repeat app errors trying to add, will come back later. also did some additional sorting. front a-l should be sorted.

Sep 19, 01:28PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

reenum
Kansas City

Great list — 1 year ago

Keep it up. If you need any help parsing through things, let me know.

Aug 24, 08:39AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

hippie1427
Nashville

2 lists — 1 year ago

as of now, I’ve completed adding 2 lists. I still have a couple more lists I would like to work in, and will begin that next. I also did a little sorting on the first page, but it’s nothing like sorted, as everything I add is always appended to the end. That’s something I’ll continue to work on, as well as removing any duplicates I may have introduced.

Aug 17, 06:49AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

hippie1427
Nashville

That's a decent start — 1 year ago

currently this is a condensed version of The BookCrossing Top 100+ Books of All Time (2006)

I will continue to add great/classic books from other definitive lists.

Aug 04, 09:34AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

hippie1427
Nashville

still working on it — 1 year ago

This is very much a work in progress.

Jul 27, 07:14AM | 0 comments | Reply to this