Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

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Declaring the best book ever written is tricky business. Who’s to say what the best is? We went one step further: we crunched the numbers from 10 top books lists (Modern Library, the New York Public Library, St. John’s College reading list, Oprah’s, and more) to come up with The Top 100 Books of All Time. It’s a list of lists — a meta-list. Let the debate begin.

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  1. 1.
    War and Peace (Vintage Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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    Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

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    Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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    The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical Editions)
    by William Faulkner

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    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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    To The Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

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  8. 8.
    Iliad and Odyssey boxed set
    by Homer

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    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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    The Divine Comedy
    by Dante Alighieri

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    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

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    Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics)
    by George Eliot

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    Things Fall Apart (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Chinua Achebe

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    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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

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    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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  20. 20.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  21. 21.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  22. 22.
    Midnight's Children: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie

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  23. 23.
    Brave New World (P.S.)
    by Aldous Huxley

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  24. 24.
    Mrs. Dalloway (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

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    Native Son (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
    by Richard Wright

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    Democracy in America (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexis de Tocqueville

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    The Histories (Penguin Classics)
    by Herodotus

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  28. 29.
    The Social Contract and Discourses
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

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  30. 32.
    Confessions. Saint Augustine (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry Chadwick

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    Leviathan. Thomas Hobbes (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Thomas Hobbes

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    The History of the Peloponnesian War
    by Thucydides Thucydides

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  33. 35.
    The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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    Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition)
    by A. A. Milne

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

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    On the Road (Penguin Classics)
    by Jack Kerouac

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    Holy Bible
    by Anonymous

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  40. 42.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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    Light in August
    by William Faulkner

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  42. 44.
    The Souls of Black Folk (Oxford World's Classics)
    by W. E. B. Du Bois

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  43. 45.
    Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential.penguin)
    by Jean Rhys

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  44. 46.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  45. 47.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

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  46. 48.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  47. 49.
    Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  48. 50.
    King Lear (New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

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