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emayarkay's "Ultimate Book List"

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My personal list of Top 100 Books according to their composite ranking from 5 definitive lists.

  1. 1.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

  2. 2.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  3. 3.
    The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  4. 4.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

  5. 6.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  6. 7.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

  7. 8.

  8. 9.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  9. 10.
    The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition)
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

  11. 12.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  12. 13.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

  13. 14.
    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

  14. 15.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac

  15. 16.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  16. 18.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  17. 19.

  18. 20.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph Conrad

  19. 21.

  20. 22.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  21. 23.
    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anthony Burgess

  22. 24.
    Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

  23. 25.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

  24. 26.
    Dune
    by Frank Herbert

  25. 27.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

  26. 28.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

  27. 29.
    As I Lay Dying (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

  28. 30.
    The Wind in the Willows (Penguin Classics)
    by Kenneth Grahame

  29. 31.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E. M. Forster

  30. 32.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

  31. 33.
    The Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  32. 34.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier

  33. 36.
    Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh

  34. 37.
    Howard's End (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by E.M. Forster

  35. 38.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  36. 39.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  37. 40.
    The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)
    by Ayn Rand

  38. 41.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright

  39. 42.
    Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry

  40. 43.
    A Town Like Alice
    by Nevil Shute

  41. 44.
    Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
    by Sebastian Faulks

  42. 45.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams

  43. 46.
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    by Roald Dahl

  44. 47.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

  45. 48.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

  46. 49.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin

  47. 50.
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

  48. 51.
    Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    by Louis De Bernieres

  49. 52.
    A Room with a View
    by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

  50. 53.
    I, Claudius
    by Robert Graves

  51. 54.
    The French Lieutenant's Woman
    by John Fowles

  52. 55.
    The Magus
    by John Fowles

  53. 56.
    Tender Is the Night (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald

  54. 57.
    Atlas Shrugged
    by Ayn Rand

  55. 58.
    Absalom, Absalom!
    by William Faulkner

  56. 59.
    The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
    by Jack London

  57. 60.
    The Wings of the Dove (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry James

  58. 61.
    The Age of Innocence
    by Edith Wharton

  59. 62.
    The World According to Garp A Novel
    by John Irving

  60. 63.
    Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
    by Henry Miller

  61. 64.
    Of Human Bondage (Signet Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

  62. 65.
    Pride and Prejudice
    by Jane Austen

  63. 66.
    An American Tragedy
    by Theodore Dreiser

  64. 67.
    Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    by L. Ron Hubbard

  65. 69.
    A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Modern Classics)
    by Vikram Seth

  66. 70.
    Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (Book 4)
    by J.K. Rowling

  67. 71.
    Anthem
    by Ayn Rand

  68. 72.
    Darkness at Noon: A Novel
    by Arthur Koestler

  69. 73.
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy

  70. 74.
    We the Living
    by Ayn Rand

  71. 75.
    Light in August (The Corrected Text)
    by William Faulkner

  72. 76.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  73. 77.
    The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library)
    by Margaret Atwood

  74. 78.
    Trainspotting
    by Irvine Welsh

  75. 79.
    Wild Swans
    by Jung Chang

  76. 80.
    Midnight's Children
    by Salman Rushdie

  77. 81.
    The Way of All Flesh
    by Samuel Butler

  78. 82.
    Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics)
    by Emily Brontë

  79. 83.

  80. 84.
    The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    by Robert A. Heinlein

  81. 85.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein

  82. 86.
    Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charles Dickens

  83. 87.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
    by Ken Kesey

  84. 88.
    Little Women (Unabridged Classics) (Sterling Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

  85. 89.
    ?
    Finnegans Wake
    by James Joyce

  86. 90.

  87. 91.
    War and Peace (Modern Library Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  88. 92.
    Gravity's Rainbow
    by Thomas Pynchon

  89. 93.

  90. 94.
    Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
    by John O'Hara

  91. 95.
    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
    by J K Rowling

  92. 96.
    Trial, The
    by Franz Kafka

  93. 97.
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)
    by J.K. Rowling

  94. 98.
    Perfume
    by Patrick Suskind

  95. 100.
    ?
    USA
    by John Dos Passos

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