Blue Pyramid's "The Book List (or the 778 Best Books of All-Time)"

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From the Blue Pyramid website:

"You’ll never need to seek out book recommendations again! Here we present to you the 778 best books of all-time, as ranked by readers, visitors, friends, and the creator of the Blue Pyramid. This compilation is the result of 46 individuals’ lists of their 25 favorite books."

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  2. 2.
    Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  3. 3.
    1984
    by George Orwell

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  4. 4.
    The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1)
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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    Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  8. 9.
    Ender's Game (The Ender Saga)
    by Orson Scott Card

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  9. 10.
    Night (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Elie Wiesel

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    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  11. 12.
    The Holy Bible
    by Various Authors

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

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  13. 14.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

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    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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    The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

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    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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    I, Robot (Bantam Spectra Book)
    by Isaac Asimov

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    The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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    Dune
    by Frank Herbert

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    LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
    by GABR GARCIAMARQUEZ

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    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

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    Siddhartha: Literary Touchstone Edition
    by Hermann Hesse

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  25. 27.
    The Stand
    by Stephen King

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    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

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    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

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    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
    by Robert M. Pirsig

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    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams

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    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    by Mark Twain

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    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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    Gone With the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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    Roots
    by Alex Haley

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    The Giver
    by Lois Lowry

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    The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2)
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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    Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charles Dickens

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    Cat's Cradle (Essential.penguin)
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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    Cry, the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton

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    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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

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    A Wrinkle in Time
    by Madeleine L'Engle

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    The World According To Garp
    by John Irving

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

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    Atlas Shrugged
    by Ayn Rand

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    Black Hawk Down
    by Mark Bowden

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    King Lear (New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

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dt123
Canberra

Changed number 623 on this list — 38 weeks ago

To the Poe version of The Fall of the House of Usher rather than the David Cutts version.