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. 51.
    Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  2. 52.
    Shakespeare's Sonnets (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  3. 53.
    Leaves of Grass (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Walt Whitman

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  4. 54.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  5. 55.
    Kim (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Rudyard Kipling

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  6. 56.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  7. 57.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison

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  8. 59.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  9. 60.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  10. 61.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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  11. 62.
    Lord of the Flies (50th Anniversary Edition)
    by William Golding

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  12. 63.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

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  13. 64.
    The Golden Notebook
    by Doris May Lessing

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  14. 66.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

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  15. 67.
    As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

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  16. 68.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  17. 70.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

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  18. 71.
    Sons and Lovers (Penguin Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  19. 72.
    All the King's Men [ALL THE KINGS MEN HARVEST/E]
    by Robert Penn(Author) ; Blotner, Joseph(Foreword by) Warren

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  20. 73.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

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  21. 74.
    Charlotte's Web
    by E. B. White

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  22. 75.
    Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  23. 76.
    Night (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Elie Wiesel

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  24. 77.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

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  25. 78.
    The Age of Innocence (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Edith Wharton

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  26. 79.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

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  27. 80.
    Dreiser American Tragedy (Library of America)
    by Theodore Dreiser

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  28. 81.
    Day of the Locust
    by Nathanael West

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  29. 82.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller

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  30. 83.
    The Maltese Falcon (Crime Masterworks)
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  31. 84.
    His Dark Materials Trilogy (His Dark Materials)
    by Philip Pullman

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  33. 86.
    The Interpretation of Dreams
    by Sigmund Freud

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  34. 87.
    The Education of Henry Adams: A Centennial Version
    by Henry Adams

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  35. 88.
    Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
    by Mao Tse-Tung

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  37. 90.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  38. 91.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

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  39. 92.
    The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
    by John Maynard Keynes

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  40. 93.
    Lord Jim (Signet Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  41. 94.
    Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
    by Robert Graves

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  42. 95.
    The Affluent Society
    by John Kenneth Galbraith

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  43. 96.
    The Wind in the Willows (Signet Classics)
    by Kenneth Grahame

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  44. 97.
    Autobiography of Malcolm X
    by MALCOLM X

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  45. 98.
    Eminent Victorians (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Lytton Strachey

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  46. 99.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  47. 100.
    Winston S. Churchill: The Second World War
    by Winston Churchill

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