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bgerdin's "100 Greatest Books of All Time"

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Have you been looking for a list of the best books? Have you found a list that doesn’t include your favorite book?

Many of the popular lists I’ve found don’t contain many of the books I hoped it would. So I’m going to change that. I have come up with a 100 list that combines many of the popular lists into one.

  1. 1.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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    The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  4. 4.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

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    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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  7. 7.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  8. 8.
    Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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  9. 10.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

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  10. 11.
    Lord of the Flies (50th Anniversary Edition)
    by William Golding

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  11. 12.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  12. 13.
    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anthony Burgess

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  13. 14.
    Lord Jim (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  15. 16.
    Farenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

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  16. 17.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

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  17. 18.
    Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  18. 19.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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  19. 20.
    Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Emily Bronte

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  20. 21.
    Great Expectations (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Charles Dickens

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  21. 22.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  22. 23.
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    by Alexandre Dumas pere

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  23. 24.
    Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  24. 25.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  25. 26.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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  26. 27.
    Moby-Dick
    by Herman Melville

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  27. 28.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

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  28. 29.
    A Wrinkle in Time
    by Madeleine L'Engle

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  29. 30.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  30. 31.
    Absalom, Absalom!
    by William Faulkner

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  31. 32.
    The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  32. 33.
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  33. 34.
    Robinson Crusoe
    by Daniel Defoe

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  34. 35.
    Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Voltaire

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  35. 36.
    The Last of the Mohicans
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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  36. 37.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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  37. 38.
    Frankenstein (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  38. 39.
    The Hound of the Baskervilles (Signet Classics)
    by Arthur Conan Doyle

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  39. 40.
    American Pastoral
    by Philip Roth

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    The Pilgrams Progress (Early Best Sellers)
    by John Bunyan

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  41. 42.
    Gulliver's Travels (Signet Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

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  42. 43.
    Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

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  43. 44.
    Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  44. 45.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  45. 46.
    Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  46. 47.
    A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  47. 48.
    The Tin Drum
    by Gunter Grass

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  48. 49.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  49. 50.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  50. 51.
    The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books)
    by Homer

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  51. 52.
    The Odyssey of Homer (Perennial Classics)
    by Richmond Lattimore

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  52. 53.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

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  53. 54.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

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  54. 55.
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    Falconer - John Cheever

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  55. 56.
    The Painted Bird
    by Jerzy N. Kosinski

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  56. 57.
    A Passage to India
    by E.M. Forster

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  57. 58.
    Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  58. 59.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  59. 60.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

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  60. 61.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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  61. 62.
    Babbit
    by Sinclair Lewis

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  63. 64.
    A Journey to the Center of the Earth
    by Jules Verne

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  64. 65.
    The Three Musketeers (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas

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  65. 66.
    Treasure Island (Unabridged Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  66. 67.
    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
    by Jules Verne

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  67. 68.
    Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  68. 69.
    The War of the Worlds (Modern Library Classics)
    by H. G. Wells

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  69. 70.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev

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  70. 71.
    Call It Sleep: A Novel
    by Henry Roth

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  71. 72.
    Les Miserables
    by Victor Hugo

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  72. 73.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  73. 74.
    Darkness at Noon
    by Arthur Koestler

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  74. 75.
    Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry

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  75. 76.
    The Way of All Flesh
    by Samuel Butler

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  76. 77.
    Dune
    by Frank Herbert

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  77. 78.
    As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

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  78. 79.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin

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  79. 80.
    The Rainbow
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  80. 81.
    The Age of Innocence (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  81. 82.
    Sophie's Choice
    by William Styron

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  82. 83.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice (Crime Masterworks)
    by James M. Cain

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  83. 84.
    The Blind Assassin
    by Margaret Atwood

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  84. 85.
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    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  85. 86.
    The Last Days of Pompeii
    by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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  86. 87.
    Cry, the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton

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  87. 88.
    Emma (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  88. 89.
    The Red Badge of Courage (Enriched Classics)
    by Stephen Crane

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  89. 90.
    Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Walter Scott

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  90. 91.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  91. 92.
    TESS OF THE D'UBERVILLES (PL 25)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  92. 93.
    The Jungle (Enriched Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair

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  93. 94.
    Dr. Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

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  94. 95.
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    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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  95. 96.
    The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Henry James

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  96. 97.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

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  97. 98.
    The 39 Steps
    by JOHN BUCHAN

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  98. 99.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  99. 100.
    The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

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Created by bgerdin on Apr 06, 2007.