Aggregating the following lists then weighing them against one another, I came up with a list of the books everyone should read before they die
- Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels
- www.thegreatestbooks.org
- r/books user unknowns own aggregated list on the "I Tried To Make The Definitive "Top 100 Books To Read" List" thread
 The Great Gatsby
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 The Catcher in the Rye
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 1984
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 Catch-22
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 Lolita
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 To Kill a Mockingbird
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 The Grapes of Wrath
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 The Fellowship of the Ring
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 To the Lighthouse
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 The Sound and the Fury
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 Invisible man
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 The Sun Also Rises
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 Beloved
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 Animal farm
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 Lord of the Flies
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 One Hundred Years of Solitude
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 Moby-Dick
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 Gone with the Wind
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 Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition
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 Crime and Punishment
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 Mrs Dalloway
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 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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 Slaughterhouse 5
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 War and Peace
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 Pride and Prejudice
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 The Brothers Karamazov
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 Wuthering Heights
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 The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha
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 A Passage to India
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 The Chronicles of Narnia
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 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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 Great Expectations
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 Things Fall Apart
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 Heart of Darkness
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 Anna Karenina
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 Madame Bovary
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 Jane Eyre
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 Middlemarch
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 Midnight's Children
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 In Search of Lost Time
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 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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 On the Road
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 Pale Fire
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 The Odyssey
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 Absalom, Absalom!
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 The Trial
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 Brave New World
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 Les Misérables
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 Frankenstein
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 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
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 The Stranger
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 A Clockwork Orange
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 A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
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 Under the Volcano
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 Gulliver's Travels
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 Emma
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 The idiot
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 Hamlet
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 The Divine Comedy
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 The Magic Mountain
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 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
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 Atonement
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 Watchmen
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 Never Let Me Go
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 Vanity Fair
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 The Illiad The Illiad
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 Native son, and
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 Brideshead Revisited
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 I, Claudius
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 Infinite Jest
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 The Big Sleep
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 Possession
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 One Thousand and One Nights
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 The Age of Innocence
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 Their Eyes Were Watching God
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 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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 All the King's Men
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 The Blind Assassin
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 Le Rouge et le Noir
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 Ragtime
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 Light In August
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 The Golden Bowl
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 The French lieutenant's woman
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 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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 The Count of Monte Cristo
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 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
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 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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 The Aeneid
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 Blood Meridian
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 White Noise
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 David Copperfield
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 Naked Lunch
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 Leaves of Grass
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 Snow Crash
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 The Call of the Wild
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 Tropic of Cancer
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 Neuromancer
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 Revolutionary Road
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 Oedipus Rex
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 The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
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