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 was left out, at my whim.

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  1. 1.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by George Orwell

  2. 3.
    Absalom, Absalom! (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

  3. 4.

  4. 5.
    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  5. 6.
    The Aenid
    by Virgil

  6. 7.
    Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Aesop

  7. 8.
    Alas, Babylon
    by Pat Frank

  8. 10.
    All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1)
    by Cormac McCarthy

  9. 11.
    All quiet on the western front,
    by Erich Maria Remarque

  10. 12.
    American Gods
    by Neil Gaiman

  11. 13.
    Angelas Ashes: A Memoir
    by Frank McCourt

  12. 14.
    Angels & Demons
    by Dan Brown

  13. 15.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

  14. 16.
    Anna Karenina
    by Leo Tolstoy

  15. 17.
    Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics)
    by L. M. Montgomery

  16. 18.
    Antigone
    by Sophocles

  17. 19.
    The Arabian Nights

  18. 20.
    Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, Book 1)
    by Eoin Colfer

  19. 21.
    As I Lay Dying (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

  20. 22.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  21. 26.
    Black Beauty (Sterling Classics)
    by Anna Sewell

  22. 27.
    Bleak House
    by Charles Dickens

  23. 28.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  24. 29.
    A Brief History of Time
    by Stephen Hawking

  25. 30.
    The Brothers Karamazov (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  26. 31.
    Poems of Robert Browning: Riverside (Riverside Editions)
    by Robert Browning

  27. 33.
    The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
    by Jack London

  28. 34.
    Candide (Modern Library)
    by Voltaire

  29. 35.
    The Canterbury Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

  30. 36.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  31. 37.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  32. 38.
    Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: A Play
    by Roald Dahl

  33. 39.
    A Christmas Carol
    by Charles Dickens

  34. 40.
    The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Drama)
    by Anton Chekhov

  35. 41.
    The Chocolate War
    by Robert Cormier

  36. 42.
    The Chronicles of Narnia
    by C. S. Lewis

  37. 44.
    Cold Comfort Farm (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by Stella Gibbons

  38. 45.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

  39. 46.
    The Colour of Magic (Discworld Novels)
    by Terry Pratchett

  40. 47.
    The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics)
    by Karl Marx

  41. 48.
    A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole

  42. 49.
    The Confessions of St. Augustine (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by St. Augustine

  43. 50.
    Confucius Analects (Hackett Classics Series)
    by Confucius

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Untitled — 2 years ago

I changed the Sleepy Hollow one, the one appearing here was by Jane Mason and I think it should be Washington Irving’s ;)


lovely list! — 3 years ago

I like this list as it blends many different literary, uh, traditions. You could take this list to the library, select as many as possible, and explore the whole of the building—which we too seldomly do! :)


done — 4 years ago

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


done adding — 4 years ago

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


Untitled — 4 years 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.


Sorted — 5 years 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.


more work — 5 years 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.


Great list — 5 years ago

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


2 lists — 5 years 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.


That's a decent start — 5 years 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.



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