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emayarkay's "Ultimate Book List"

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

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1. Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell
  
2. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
  
3. The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
4. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
5. Ulysses Annotated
by Don Gifford
  
6. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
  
7. Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
by George Orwell
  
8. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Pernnial Moderns Classics)
by Harper Lee
  
9. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
  
10. The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
11. Lord of the Flies (50th Anniversary Edition)
by William Golding
  
12. Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
13. Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
  
14. To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
  
15. On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Jack Kerouac
  
16. Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
  
17. The World of Pooh: The Complete Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner (Pooh Original Edition)
by A. A. Milne
  
18. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
19. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 25th Anniversary Edition
by Douglas Adams
  
20. Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
  
21. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)
by James Joyce
  
22. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
23. A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Anthony Burgess
  
24. Of Mice and Men: (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
25. Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
by D.H. Lawrence
  
26. Dune
by Frank Herbert
  
27. A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
by John Irving
  
28. Invisible Man: A Novel
by Ralph Ellison
  
29. As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
by William Faulkner
  
30. The Wind in the Willows (Penguin Classics)
by Kenneth Grahame
  
31. A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
by E.M. Forster
  
32. The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
  
33. Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
  
34. Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
  
35. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Color Gift Edition (Narnia)
by C. S. Lewis
  
36. Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Evelyn Waugh
  
37. Howard's End (Penguin Modern Classics)
by E.M. Forster
  
38. One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
39. The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
40.
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 The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)
by Ayn Rand
  
41. Native Son (Perennial Classics)
by Richard A. Wright
  
42. Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Malcolm Lowry
  
43. A Town Like Alice
by Nevil Shute
  
44. Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
by Sebastian Faulks
  
45. Watership Down: A Novel
by Richard Adams
  
46. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
  
47. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Carson McCullers
  
48. All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
  
49. Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Baldwin
  
50. A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
  
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Created by emayarkay on Jun 22, 2007.