Lists of Bests: Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List http://www.listsofbests.com/list/66033 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. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:12:08 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 War and Peace (Vintage Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5370537 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5370537"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DPLEkzuxL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499994 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499994"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014118776X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3466 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3466"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182806.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18439 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18439"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679410430.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464690_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11032 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11032"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393964817.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679732764.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464902_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> To The Lighthouse http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6365260 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6365260"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41rQjNH9GKL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> Iliad and Odyssey boxed set http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3760 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3760"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0147712556.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3511 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3511"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439513.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676361_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> The Divine Comedy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13699 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13699"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451208633.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dante Alighieri</div> The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1971552 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoffrey Chaucer</div> Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3510 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3510"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439491.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Swift</div> Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4217818 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4217818"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516lPWSPUQL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> Things Fall Apart (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2960423 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chinua Achebe</div> The Catcher in the Rye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316769177.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.D. Salinger</div> Gone with the Wind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2795665 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2795665"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01x13H3RvmL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Mitchell</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453406 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453406"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060883286.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4239324 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4239324"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FNVTRGE8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3180857 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3180857"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/1101ZNMTESL.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> Beloved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033411.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3555 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3555"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000663.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Midnight's Children: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972555 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972555"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812976533.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1136584770_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> Brave New World (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1434784 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1434784"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060850523.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> Mrs. Dalloway (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50448 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50448"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182490.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> Native Son (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3335200 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Wright</div> Democracy in America (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3316 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3316"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140447601.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexis de Tocqueville</div> On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection (Thrift Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2302780 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2302780"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486450066.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Darwin</div> The Histories (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3330 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3330"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449086.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herodotus</div> The Social Contract and Discourses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2949011 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2949011"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11pielH-y1L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Jacques Rousseau</div> Karl Marx's "Das Kapital": A Modern-day Interpretation of a True Classic (Infinite Success Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6677832 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6677832"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51G65FYbOPL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steve Shipside</div> The Prince http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5423908 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5423908"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416p2zDllOL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Niccolo Machiavelli</div> Confessions. Saint Augustine (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4825026 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4825026"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51x3ag8GdkL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Chadwick</div> Leviathan. Thomas Hobbes (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4857753 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hobbes</div> The History of the Peloponnesian War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5799313 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5799313"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Lf%2BkhRtxL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thucydides Thucydides</div> The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/596527 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/596527"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618645616.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</div> Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3096 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3096"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140361219.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138680489_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. A. Milne</div> The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77798 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77798"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0006716776.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056412354_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C.S. Lewis</div> A Passage to India (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163250 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163250"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014144116X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.M. Forster</div> On the Road (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3709 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3709"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437255.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Pernnial Moderns Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/417364 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/417364"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061120081.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harper Lee</div> Holy Bible http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1726891 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1726891"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452006473.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138678643_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> A Clockwork Orange http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10850 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10850"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393312836.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> Light in August http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18744 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18744"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679732268.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> The Souls of Black Folk (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6677891 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6677891"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gWRM4xnrL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. E. B. Du Bois</div> Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential.penguin) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62965 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62965"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140274219.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Rhys</div> Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3333 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3333"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449124.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gustave Flaubert</div> Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3150 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3150"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140424393.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Milton</div> Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3758 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3758"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143035002.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21550 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21550"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074347712X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> King Lear (New Folger Library Shakespeare) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21570 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21570"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074348276X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div>