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
| 1,623 reads |
| #2 |  The Catcher in the Rye
| 1,331 reads |
| #3 |  1984
| 2,433 reads |
| #4 |  Catch-22
| 474 reads |
| #5 |  Lolita
| 523 reads |
| #6 |  To Kill a Mockingbird
| 1,659 reads |
| #7 |  The Grapes of Wrath
| 368 reads |
| #8 |  The Fellowship of the Ring
| 1,618 reads |
| #9 |  To the Lighthouse
| 134 reads |
| #10 |  The Sound and the Fury
| 107 reads |
| #11 |  Invisible man
| 113 reads |
| #12 |  The Sun Also Rises
| 233 reads |
| #13 |  Beloved
| 222 reads |
| #14 |  Animal farm
| 1,972 reads |
| #15 |  Lord of the Flies
| 1,237 reads |
| #16 |  One Hundred Years of Solitude
| 469 reads |
| #17 |  Moby-Dick
| 291 reads |
| #18 |  Gone with the Wind
| 193 reads |
| #19 |  Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition
| 110 reads |
| #20 |  Crime and Punishment
| 526 reads |
| #21 |  Mrs Dalloway
| 153 reads |
| #22 |  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
| 419 reads |
| #23 |  Slaughterhouse 5
| 933 reads |
| #24 |  War and Peace
| 180 reads |
| #25 |  Pride and Prejudice
| 1,155 reads |
| #26 |  The Brothers Karamazov
| 202 reads |
| #27 |  Wuthering Heights
| 603 reads |
| #28 |  The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha
| 188 reads |
| #29 |  A Passage to India
| 49 reads |
| #30 |  The Chronicles of Narnia
| 359 reads |
| #31 |  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
| 453 reads |
| #32 |  Great Expectations
| 373 reads |
| #33 |  Things Fall Apart
| 240 reads |
| #34 |  Heart of Darkness
| 378 reads |
| #35 |  Anna Karenina
| 319 reads |
| #36 |  Madame Bovary
| 155 reads |
| #37 |  Jane Eyre
| 674 reads |
| #38 |  Middlemarch
| 93 reads |
| #39 |  Midnight's Children
| 82 reads |
| #40 |  In Search of Lost Time
| 2 reads |
| #41 |  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
| 283 reads |
| #42 |  On the Road
| 261 reads |
| #43 |  Pale Fire
| 61 reads |
| #44 |  The Odyssey
| 573 reads |
| #45 |  Absalom, Absalom!
| 26 reads |
| #46 |  The Trial
| 216 reads |
| #47 |  Brave New World
| 1,212 reads |
| #48 |  Les Misérables
| 206 reads |
| #49 |  Frankenstein
| 1,049 reads |
| #50 |  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
| 11 reads |
| #51 |  The Stranger
| 741 reads |
| #52 |  A Clockwork Orange
| 406 reads |
| #53 |  A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
| 142 reads |
| #54 |  Under the Volcano
| 13 reads |
| #55 |  Gulliver's Travels
| 171 reads |
| #56 |  Emma
| 356 reads |
| #57 |  The idiot
| 96 reads |
| #58 |  Hamlet
| 630 reads |
| #59 |  The Divine Comedy
| 18 reads |
| #60 |  The Magic Mountain
| 27 reads |
| #61 |  Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
| 100 reads |
| #62 |  Atonement
| 198 reads |
| #63 |  Watchmen
| 644 reads |
| #64 |  Never Let Me Go
| 538 reads |
| #65 |  Vanity Fair
| 42 reads |
| #66 |  The Illiad The Illiad
| 5 reads |
| #67 |  Native son, and
| 50 reads |
| #68 |  Brideshead Revisited
| 56 reads |
| #69 |  I, Claudius
| 43 reads |
| #70 |  Infinite Jest
| 131 reads |
| #71 |  The Big Sleep
| 135 reads |
| #72 |  Possession
| 44 reads |
| #73 |  One Thousand and One Nights
| 10 reads |
| #74 |  The Age of Innocence
| 72 reads |
| #75 |  Their Eyes Were Watching God
| 181 reads |
| #76 |  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
| 3,260 reads |
| #77 |  All the King's Men
| 38 reads |
| #78 |  The Blind Assassin
| 94 reads |
| #79 |  Le Rouge et le Noir
| 32 reads |
| #80 |  Ragtime
| 28 reads |
| #81 |  Light In August
| 26 reads |
| #82 |  The Golden Bowl
| 2 reads |
| #83 |  The French lieutenant's woman
| 16 reads |
| #84 |  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
| 120 reads |
| #85 |  The Count of Monte Cristo
| 435 reads |
| #86 |  The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
| 50 reads |
| #87 |  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
| 1,676 reads |
| #88 |  The Aeneid
| 60 reads |
| #89 |  Blood Meridian
| 223 reads |
| #90 |  White Noise
| 124 reads |
| #91 |  David Copperfield
| 132 reads |
| #92 |  Naked Lunch
| 82 reads |
| #93 |  Leaves of Grass
| 72 reads |
| #94 |  Snow Crash
| 556 reads |
| #95 |  The Call of the Wild
| 265 reads |
| #96 |  Tropic of Cancer
| 35 reads |
| #97 |  Neuromancer
| 591 reads |
| #98 |  Revolutionary Road
| 39 reads |
| #99 |  Oedipus Rex
| 105 reads |
| #100 |  The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
| 35 reads |
