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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
  2. 2.
    The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien
  3. 3.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  4. 4.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce
  5. 5.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  6. 6.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  7. 7.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck
  8. 8.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell
  10. 10.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell
  11. 11.
    Lord of the Flies (50th Anniversary Edition)
    by William Golding
  12. 12.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger
  13. 13.
    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anthony Burgess
  14. 14.
    Lord Jim (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad
  15. 15.
  16. 16.
    Farenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury
  17. 17.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey
  18. 18.
    Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  19. 19.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë
  20. 20.
    Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Emily Brontë
  21. 21.
    Great Expectations (A Norton Critical Edition)
    by Charles Dickens
  22. 22.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy
  23. 23.
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    by Alexandre Dumas pere
  24. 24.
    Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  25. 25.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  26. 26.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  27. 27.
    Moby-Dick
    by Herman Melville
  28. 28.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton
  29. 29.
    A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet)
    by Madeleine L'Engle
  30. 30.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert
  31. 31.
    Absalom, Absalom!
    by William Faulkner
  32. 32.
    The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  33. 33.
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway
  34. 34.
    Robinson Crusoe
    by Daniel Defoe
  35. 35.
    Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Voltaire
  36. 36.
    The Last of the Mohicans
    by James Fenimore Cooper
  37. 37.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  38. 38.
    Frankenstein (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Mary Shelley
  39. 39.
  40. 40.
    American Pastoral
    by Philip Roth
  41. 41.
    ?
    The Pilgrams Progress (Early Best Sellers)
    by John Bunyan
  42. 42.
    Gulliver's Travels (Signet Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift
  43. 43.
    Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Henry Fielding
  44. 44.
    Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Signet Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  45. 45.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain
  46. 46.
    Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  47. 47.
    A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh
  48. 48.
    Tin Drum
    by Gunter Grass
  49. 49.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  50. 50.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence
  51. 51.
    The Iliad of Homer
    by Homer
  52. 52.
    The Odyssey of Homer
    by Homer
  53. 53.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf
  54. 54.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren
  55. 55.
    ?
    Falconer - John Cheever

  56. 56.
    The Painted Bird
    by Jerzy Kosinski
  57. 57.
  58. 58.
    The Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway
  59. 59.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston
  60. 60.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers
  61. 61.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein
  62. 62.
    Babbit
    by Sinclair Lewis
  63. 63.
    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo
  64. 64.
    A Journey to the Center of the Earth
    by Jules Verne
  65. 65.
    The Three Musketeers (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas
  66. 66.
    Treasure Island (Unabridged Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  67. 67.
    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
    by Jules Verne
  68. 68.
    Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray
  69. 69.
    The War of the Worlds (Modern Library Classics)
    by H. G. Wells
  70. 70.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev
  71. 71.
    Call It Sleep: A Novel
    by Henry Roth
  72. 72.
    Les Miserables
    by Victor Hugo
  73. 73.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  74. 74.
    Darkness at Noon
    by Arthur Koestler
  75. 75.
    Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry
  76. 76.
    The Way of All Flesh
    by Samuel Butler
  77. 77.
    Dune
    by Frank Herbert
  78. 78.
    As I Lay Dying (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner
  79. 79.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin
  80. 80.
    The Rainbow
    by D.H. Lawrence
  81. 81.
    The Age of Innocence (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  82. 82.
    Sophie's Choice
    by William Styron
  83. 83.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice (Crime Masterworks)
    by James M. Cain
  84. 84.
    The Blind Assassin
    by Margaret Atwood
  85. 85.
    ?
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker
  86. 86.
    The Last Days of Pompeii
    by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  87. 87.
    Cry, the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton
  88. 88.
    Emma (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  89. 89.
  90. 90.
    Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Walter Scott
  91. 91.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell
  92. 92.
    TESS OF THE D'UBERVILLES (PL 25)
    by Thomas Hardy
  93. 93.
    The Jungle (Enriched Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair
  94. 94.
    Dr. Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak
  95. 95.
    ?
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque
  96. 96.
    The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Henry James
  97. 97.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather
  98. 98.
    The 39 Steps
    by JOHN BUCHAN
  99. 99.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett
  100. 100.
    The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells
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Created by bgerdin on Apr 06, 2007.
 

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