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Inteliquest?s World?s 100 Greatest Books of All-Time

I’ve read the ones in bold.

  1. The Iliad by Homer
  2. The Odyssey by Homer
  3. The Aeneid by Virgil
  4. Beowulf by Unknown
  5. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
  6. The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
  7. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  8. Don Quixote by Cervantes
  9. Paradise Lost by John Milton
  10. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
  11. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  12. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
  13. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
  14. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
  15. Candide by Voltaire
  16. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  17. The Tragedy of Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  18. The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
  19. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
  20. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  21. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  22. The Red and the Black by Stendahl
  23. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
  24. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
  25. Carmen by Prosper Merimee
  26. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  27. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  28. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
  29. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  30. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  31. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  32. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  33. Camille by Alexandre Dumas Fils
  34. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  35. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  36. Idyls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson
  37. Silas Marner by George Eliot
  38. Middlemarch by George Eliot
  39. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
  40. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
  41. Crime and Punishment by Fedor Dostoyevsky
  42. The Brothers Karamazov by Fedor Dostoyevsky
  43. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  44. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
  45. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  46. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
  47. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  48. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
  49. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  50. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  51. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
  52. Tess of the D’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
  53. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
  54. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
  55. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  56. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  57. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
  58. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  59. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
  60. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
  61. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
  62. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
  63. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  64. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  65. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  66. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  67. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
  68. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  69. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  70. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  71. The Republic by Plato
  72. The Prince by Machiavelli
  73. The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
  74. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
  75. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  76. Das Kapital by Karl Marx
  77. The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
  78. Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
  79. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
  80. The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
  81. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  82. Othello by William Shakespeare
  83. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
  84. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
  85. Tartuffe by Moliere
  86. Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
  87. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
  88. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  89. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
  90. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
  91. Our Town by Thornton Wilder
  92. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
  93. The Nicomachaen Ethics by Aristotle
  94. Meditations by Rene Descartes
  95. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
  96. The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer
  97. Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  98. Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  99. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  100. How We Think by John Dewey

Top 100 Novels of the Century by the Modern Library?s Editorial Board

I?ve read the ones in bold.

  1. ULYSSES by James Joyce
  2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
  4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
  5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
  6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
  7. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
  8. DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
  9. SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
  10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
  11. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
  12. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
  13. 1984 by George Orwell
  14. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
  15. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
  16. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
  17. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
  18. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
  19. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
  20. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
  21. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
  22. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O?Hara
  23. U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
  24. WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
  25. A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
  26. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
  27. THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
  28. TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  29. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
  30. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
  31. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
  32. THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
  33. SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
  34. A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
  35. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
  36. ALL THE KING?S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
  37. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
  38. HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
  39. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
  40. THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
  41. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
  42. DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
  43. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell
  44. POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
  45. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
  46. THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
  47. NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
  48. THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
  49. WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
  50. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
  51. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
  52. PORTNOY?S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
  53. PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
  54. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
  55. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
  56. THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
  57. PARADE?S END by Ford Madox Ford
  58. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
  59. ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
  60. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
  61. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
  62. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
  63. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
  64. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
  65. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
  66. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
  67. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
  68. MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
  69. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
  70. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell
  71. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes
  72. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul
  73. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
  74. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
  75. SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
  76. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark
  77. FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
  78. KIM by Rudyard Kipling
  79. A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
  80. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
  81. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
  82. ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
  83. A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
  84. THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen
  85. LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
  86. RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
  87. THE OLD WIVES? TALE by Arnold Bennett
  88. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
  89. LOVING by Henry Green
  90. MIDNIGHT?S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
  91. TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
  92. IRONWEED by William Kennedy
  93. THE MAGUS by John Fowles
  94. WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
  95. UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
  96. SOPHIE?S CHOICE by William Styron
  97. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
  98. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
  99. THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
  100. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington

Waterstone?s Top 100 Books of the Century

I?ve read the ones in bold.

  1. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  2. 1984 by George Orwell
  3. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  4. Ulysses by James Joyce
  5. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  6. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  7. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  8. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  9. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  10. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
  11. Wild Swans by Jung Chang
  12. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  13. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  14. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  15. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  16. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  17. Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
  18. The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
  19. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  20. The Outsider by Albert Camus
  21. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
  22. The Trial by Franz Kafka
  23. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  24. The Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  25. Midnight?s Children by Salman Rushdie
  26. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
  27. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  28. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
  29. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  30. If This is a Man by Primo Levi
  31. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  32. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
  33. A la Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
  34. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  35. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  36. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  37. Possession by A.S. Byatt
  38. The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  39. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
  40. Watership Down by Richard Adams
  41. Sophie?s World by Jostein Gaarder
  42. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
  43. Love in a Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  44. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  45. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  46. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  47. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
  48. Howard?s End by E.M. Forster
  49. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  50. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
  51. Dune by Frank Herbert
  52. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
  53. Perfume by Patrick S?skind
  54. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
  55. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
  56. Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
  57. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  58. The Handmaid?s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  59. Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
  60. The Magus by John Fowles
  61. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
  62. The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
  63. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  64. Tales from the City by Armistead Maupin
  65. The French Lieutenant?s Woman by John Fowles
  66. Captain Corelli?s Mandolin by Louis de Berni?res
  67. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
  68. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
  69. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
  70. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
  71. It by Stephen King
  72. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
  73. The Stand by Stephen King
  74. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
  75. Paddy Clarke ha ha ha by Roddy Doyle
  76. Matilda by Roald Dahl
  77. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
  78. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
  79. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
  80. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
  81. Lady Chatterley?s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
  82. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
  83. Complete Cookery Course by Delia Smith
  84. An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
  85. The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
  86. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
  87. 2001 – a Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
  88. The Tin Drum by G?nter Grass
  89. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  90. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
  91. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  92. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
  93. The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
  94. Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
  95. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
  96. The Van by Roddy Doyle
  97. The BFG by Roald Dahl
  98. Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
  99. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
  100. The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evan