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
| #1 |  The Great Gatsby
|
| #2 |  The Catcher in the Rye
|
| #3 |  1984
|
| #4 |  Catch-22
|
| #5 |  Lolita
|
| #6 |  To Kill a Mockingbird
|
| #7 |  The Grapes of Wrath
|
| #8 |  The Fellowship of the Ring
|
| #9 |  To the Lighthouse
|
| #10 |  The Sound and the Fury
|
| #11 |  Invisible man
|
| #12 |  The Sun Also Rises
|
| #13 |  Beloved
|
| #14 |  Animal farm
|
| #15 |  Lord of the Flies
|
| #16 |  One Hundred Years of Solitude
|
| #17 |  Moby-Dick
|
| #18 |  Gone with the Wind
|
| #19 |  Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition
|
| #20 |  Crime and Punishment
|
| #21 |  Mrs Dalloway
|
| #22 |  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
|
| #23 |  Slaughterhouse 5
|
| #24 |  War and Peace
|
| #25 |  Pride and Prejudice
|
| #26 |  The Brothers Karamazov
|
| #27 |  Wuthering Heights
|
| #28 |  The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha
|
| #29 |  A Passage to India
|
| #30 |  The Chronicles of Narnia
|
| #31 |  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
|
| #32 |  Great Expectations
|
| #33 |  Things Fall Apart
|
| #34 |  Heart of Darkness
|
| #35 |  Anna Karenina
|
| #36 |  Madame Bovary
|
| #37 |  Jane Eyre
|
| #38 |  Middlemarch
|
| #39 |  Midnight's Children
|
| #40 |  In Search of Lost Time
|
| #41 |  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
|
| #42 |  On the Road
|
| #43 |  Pale Fire
|
| #44 |  The Odyssey
|
| #45 |  Absalom, Absalom!
|
| #46 |  The Trial
|
| #47 |  Brave New World
|
| #48 |  Les Misérables
|
| #49 |  Frankenstein
|
| #50 |  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
|
| #51 |  The Stranger
|
| #52 |  A Clockwork Orange
|
| #53 |  A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
|
| #54 |  Under the Volcano
|
| #55 |  Gulliver's Travels
|
| #56 |  Emma
|
| #57 |  The idiot
|
| #58 |  Hamlet
|
| #59 |  The Divine Comedy
|
| #60 |  The Magic Mountain
|
| #61 |  Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
|
| #62 |  Atonement
|
| #63 |  Watchmen
|
| #64 |  Never Let Me Go
|
| #65 |  Vanity Fair
|
| #66 |  The Illiad The Illiad
|
| #67 |  Native son, and
|
| #68 |  Brideshead Revisited
|
| #69 |  I, Claudius
|
| #70 |  Infinite Jest
|
| #71 |  The Big Sleep
|
| #72 |  Possession
|
| #73 |  One Thousand and One Nights
|
| #74 |  The Age of Innocence
|
| #75 |  Their Eyes Were Watching God
|
| #76 |  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
|
| #77 |  All the King's Men
|
| #78 |  The Blind Assassin
|
| #79 |  Le Rouge et le Noir
|
| #80 |  Ragtime
|
| #81 |  Light In August
|
| #82 |  The Golden Bowl
|
| #83 |  The French lieutenant's woman
|
| #84 |  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
|
| #85 |  The Count of Monte Cristo
|
| #86 |  The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
|
| #87 |  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
|
| #88 |  The Aeneid
|
| #89 |  Blood Meridian
|
| #90 |  White Noise
|
| #91 |  David Copperfield
|
| #92 |  Naked Lunch
|
| #93 |  Leaves of Grass
|
| #94 |  Snow Crash
|
| #95 |  The Call of the Wild
|
| #96 |  Tropic of Cancer
|
| #97 |  Neuromancer
|
| #98 |  Revolutionary Road
|
| #99 |  Oedipus Rex
|
| #100 |  The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
|
