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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

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  2. 2.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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

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

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  5. 5.
    Ulysses Annotated
    by Don Gifford

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

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    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

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  9. 9.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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

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

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  12. 12.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  13. 13.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  14. 14.
    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

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

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  16. 16.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  17. 18.
    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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  19. 20.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph Conrad

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  21. 22.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  22. 23.
    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anthony Burgess

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  23. 24.
    Of Mice and Men: (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  24. 25.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  25. 26.
    Dune
    by Frank Herbert

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  26. 27.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

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  27. 28.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

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  28. 29.
    As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

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  29. 30.
    The Wind in the Willows (Penguin Classics)
    by Kenneth Grahame

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  30. 31.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E.M. Forster

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  31. 32.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  32. 33.
    Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  33. 34.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier

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  34. 36.
    Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  35. 37.
    Howard's End (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by E.M. Forster

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  36. 38.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  37. 39.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  38. 40.
    The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)
    by Ayn Rand

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  39. 41.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright

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  40. 42.
    Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry

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  41. 43.
    A Town Like Alice
    by Nevil Shute

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  42. 44.
    Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
    by Sebastian Faulks

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  43. 45.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams

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  44. 46.
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    by Roald Dahl

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  45. 47.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Carson McCullers

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  46. 48.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

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  47. 49.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin

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  48. 50.
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  49. 51.
    Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    by Louis de Bernieres

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  50. 52.
    A Room with a View
    by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

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  51. 53.
    I, Claudius
    by Robert Graves

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  52. 54.
    The French Lieutenant's Woman
    by John Fowles

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  53. 55.
    The Magus
    by John Fowles

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  54. 56.
    Tender Is the Night (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald

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  55. 57.
    Atlas Shrugged
    by Ayn Rand

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  56. 58.
    Absalom, Absalom!
    by William Faulkner

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  57. 59.
    The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
    by Jack London

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  58. 60.
    The Wings of the Dove (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry James

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  59. 61.
    The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  60. 62.
    The World According to Garp A Novel
    by John Irving

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  61. 63.
    Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
    by Henry Miller

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  62. 64.
    Of Human Bondage (Signet Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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  63. 65.
    Pride and Prejudice
    by Jane Austen

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  64. 66.
    An American Tragedy
    by Theodore Dreiser

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  65. 67.
    Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    by L. Ron Hubbard

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  66. 69.
    A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Vikram Seth

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  67. 70.
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)
    by J.K. Rowling

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  68. 71.
    Anthem
    by Ayn Rand

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  69. 72.
    Darkness at Noon: A Novel
    by Arthur Koestler

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  70. 73.
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy

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  71. 74.
    We the Living
    by Ayn Rand

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  72. 75.
    Light in August
    by William Faulkner

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  73. 76.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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  74. 77.
    The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library)
    by Margaret Atwood

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  75. 78.
    Trainspotting
    by Irvine Welsh

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  76. 79.
    Wild Swans
    by Jung Chang

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  77. 80.
    Midnight's Children
    by Salman Rushdie

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  78. 81.
    The Way of All Flesh
    by Samuel Butler

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  79. 82.
    Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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  81. 84.
    The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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  82. 85.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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  83. 86.
    Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charles Dickens

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  84. 87.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
    by Ken Kesey

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  85. 88.
    Little Women (Unabridged Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

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  86. 89.
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    Finnegans Wake
    by James Joyce

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  88. 91.
    War and Peace (Modern Library Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  89. 92.
    Gravity's Rainbow
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  90. 93.
    Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  91. 94.
    Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
    by John O'Hara

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  92. 95.
    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
    by J.K. Rowling

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  93. 96.
    Trial, The
    by Franz Kafka

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  94. 97.
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)
    by J.K. Rowling

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  95. 98.
    Perfume
    by Patrick Suskind

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  96. 100.
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    USA
    by John Dos Passos

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Created by emayarkay on Jun 22, 2007.