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Rank
Book
Author
1
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
2
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
3
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
4
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
5
Ulysses
James Joyce
6
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
7
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
8
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
9
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
10
Holy Bible
unknown
11
Stoner
John Williams
12
The Stranger
Albert Camus
13
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
14
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
15
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
15
The Iliad
Homer
16
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
17
The Odyssey
Homer
18
The Trial
Franz Kafka
19
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
20
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
21
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
22
1984
George Orwell
23
Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
24
2666
Roberto Bolaño
25
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
26
The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe
27
Dubliners
James Joyce
28
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
29
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
30
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
31
Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
32
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
33
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
34
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
35
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
36
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
37
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
38
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
39
Paradise Lost
John Milton
40
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
41
Mason & Dixon
Thomas Pynchon
42
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
43
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
44
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
45
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
46
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
47
Hunger
Knut Hamsun
48
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
49
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
50
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai
51
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
52
Dune
Frank Herbert
53
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
54
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
55
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
56
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
57
Republic
Plato
58
The Recognitions
William Gaddis
59
V.
Thomas Pynchon
60
Slaughterhouse Five
Kurt Vonnegut
61
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
Yukio Mishima
62
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
63
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
64
Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky
65
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
66
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner
67
Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil
68
Confessions
Augustine
69
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
70
The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño
70
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (trilogy)
Samuel Beckett
71
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
72
Finnegan's Wake
James Joyce
73
The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
74
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
75
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
76
The Waves
Virginia Woolf
77
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
78
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne
79
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino
80
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
81
A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov
82
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
83
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
84
The Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs
85
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
86
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
87
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
88
Das Kapital
Karl Marx
89
White Noise
Don Delillo
90
Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo
91
Kokoro
Natsume Sōseki
92
Phenomenology of Spirit
G.W.F. Hegel
93
Storm of Steel
Ernst Jünger
94
The Tunnel
William H. Gass
95
JR
William Gaddis
96
Bhagavad Gita
Maharishi Ved Vyasa
97
Industrial Society and Its Future
Ted Kaczynski
98
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
99
Animal Farm
George Orwell
100
The Elementary Particles
Michelle Houllebecq
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admaioremdeietc
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Jan 27, 2026
I’m not sure if this is intentional, but there’s only one book, not 100?
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