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The aggregated results of the Top 100 lists from 2014-2024

  1. 1Cover of Ulysses

    Ulysses

    James Joyce · 1920 · 39 lists

  2. 2Cover of Lolita

    Lolita

    Vladimir Nabokov · 1955 · 38 lists

  3. 3Cover of One Hundred Years of Solitude

    One Hundred Years of Solitude

    Gabriel García Márquez · 1967 · 33 lists

  4. 4Cover of The Catcher in the Rye

    The Catcher in the Rye

    J.D. Salinger · 1951 · 32 lists

  5. 5Cover of The Grapes of Wrath

    The Grapes of Wrath

    John Steinbeck · 1939 · 32 lists

  6. 6Cover of Heart of Darkness

    Heart of Darkness

    Joseph Conrad · 1899 · 29 lists

  7. 7Cover of In Search of Lost Time

    In Search of Lost Time

    Marcel Proust · 1913 · 29 lists

  8. 8Cover of War and Peace

    War and Peace

    Leo Tolstoy · 1869 · 29 lists

  9. 9Cover of Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë · 1847 · 29 lists

  10. 10Cover of Don Quixote

    Don Quixote

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1615 · 27 lists

  11. 11Cover of Madame Bovary

    Madame Bovary

    Gustave Flaubert · 1856 · 26 lists

  12. 12Cover of The Sound and the Fury

    The Sound and the Fury

    William Faulkner · 1929 · 26 lists

  13. 13Cover of To The Lighthouse

    To The Lighthouse

    Virginia Woolf · 1927 · 25 lists

  14. 14Cover of Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina

    Leo Tolstoy · 1876 · 24 lists

  15. 15Cover of The Lord of the Rings

    The Lord of the Rings

    J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954 · 23 lists

  16. 16Cover of The Stranger

    The Stranger

    Albert Camus · 1942 · 23 lists

  17. 17Cover of Crime and Punishment

    Crime and Punishment

    Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866 · 22 lists

  18. 18Cover of The Brothers Karamazov

    The Brothers Karamazov

    Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880 · 22 lists

  19. 19Cover of The Sun Also Rises

    The Sun Also Rises

    Ernest Hemingway · 1926 · 22 lists

  20. 20Cover of The Trial

    The Trial

    Franz Kafka · 1925 · 21 lists

  21. 21Cover of Frankenstein

    Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley · 1818 · 20 lists

  22. 22Cover of The Magic Mountain

    The Magic Mountain

    Thomas Mann · 1924 · 18 lists

  23. 23Cover of The Master and Margarita

    The Master and Margarita

    Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967 · 18 lists

  24. 24Cover of Brave New World

    Brave New World

    Aldous Huxley · 1932 · 17 lists

  25. 25Cover of Absalom, Absalom!

    Absalom, Absalom!

    William Faulkner · 1936 · 16 lists

  26. 26Cover of Les Misérables

    Les Misérables

    Victor Hugo · 1862 · 16 lists

  27. 27Cover of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    James Joyce · 1916 · 15 lists

  28. 28Cover of Animal Farm

    Animal Farm

    George Orwell · 1945 · 15 lists

  29. 29Cover of The Old Man and the Sea

    The Old Man and the Sea

    Ernest Hemingway · 1952 · 15 lists

  30. 30Cover of Blood Meridian

    Blood Meridian

    Cormac McCarthy · 1985 · 14 lists

  31. 31Cover of Dune

    Dune

    Frank Herbert · 1965 · 14 lists

  32. 32Cover of A Confederacy of Dunces

    A Confederacy of Dunces

    John Kennedy Toole · 1980 · 13 lists

  33. 33Cover of Pale Fire

    Pale Fire

    Vladimir Nabokov · 1962 · 13 lists

  34. 34Cover of White Noise

    White Noise

    Don DeLillo · 1984 · 13 lists

  35. 35Cover of 2666

    2666

    Roberto Bolaño · 2004 · 12 lists

  36. 36Cover of Dead Souls

    Dead Souls

    Nikolai Gogol · 1842 · 12 lists

  37. 37Cover of Gravity's Rainbow

    Gravity's Rainbow

    Thomas Pynchon · 1973 · 12 lists

  38. 38Cover of Journey to the End of the Night

    Journey to the End of the Night

    Louis-Ferdinand Céline · 1932 · 12 lists

  39. 39Cover of Infinite Jest

    Infinite Jest

    David Foster Wallace · 1996 · 11 lists

  40. 40Cover of The Name of the Rose

    The Name of the Rose

    Umberto Eco · 1985 · 11 lists

  41. 41Cover of The Picture of Dorian Gray

    The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Oscar Wilde · 1891 · 11 lists

  42. 42Cover of Faust

    Faust

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808 · 9 lists

  43. 43Cover of The Waves

    The Waves

    Virginia Woolf · 1931 · 9 lists

  44. 44Cover of Hamlet

    Hamlet

    William Shakespeare · 1623 · 8 lists

  45. 45Cover of Hunger

    Hunger

    Knut Hamsun · 1890 · 8 lists

  46. 46Cover of Naked Lunch

    Naked Lunch

    William Burroughs · 1959 · 8 lists

  47. 47Cover of Steppenwolf

    Steppenwolf

    Hermann Hesse · 1927 · 8 lists

  48. 48Cover of The Man Without Qualities

    The Man Without Qualities

    Robert Musil · 1979 · 8 lists

  49. 49Cover of East of Eden

    East of Eden

    John Steinbeck · 1952 · 7 lists

  50. 50Cover of Finnegans Wake

    Finnegans Wake

    James Joyce · 1928 · 7 lists

  51. 51Cover of Invisible Cities

    Invisible Cities

    Italo Calvino · 1972 · 7 lists

  52. 52Cover of If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler

    If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler

    Italo Calvino · 1982 · 6 lists

  53. 53Cover of The Book of Disquiet

    The Book of Disquiet

    Fernando Pessoa · 1982 · 6 lists

  54. 54Cover of The Idiot

    The Idiot

    Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1869 · 6 lists

  55. 55Cover of The Recognitions

    The Recognitions

    William Gaddis · 1955 · 6 lists

  56. 56Cover of Confessions

    Confessions

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1782 · 5 lists

  57. 57Cover of Siddhartha

    Siddhartha

    Hermann Hesse · 1922 · 5 lists

  58. 58Cover of The Hobbit

    The Hobbit

    J.R.R. Tolkien · 1937 · 5 lists

  59. 59Cover of V.

    V.

    Thomas Pynchon · 1600 · 5 lists

  60. 60Cover of American Psycho

    American Psycho

    Bret Easton Ellis · 1991 · 4 lists

  61. 61Cover of Kokoro

    Kokoro

    Natsume Soseki · 1914 · 4 lists

  62. 62Cover of Mason & Dixon

    Mason & Dixon

    Thomas Pynchon · 1997 · 4 lists

  63. 63Cover of Notes from the Underground

    Notes from the Underground

    Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1864 · 4 lists

  64. 64Cover of The Crying of Lot 49

    The Crying of Lot 49

    Thomas Pynchon · 1965 · 4 lists

  65. 65Cover of Stoner

    Stoner

    John Williams · 1965 · 3 lists

  66. 66Cover of Storm of Steel

    Storm of Steel

    Ernst Jünger · 1920 · 3 lists

  67. 67Cover of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Lewis Carroll · 1865 · 2 lists

  68. 68Cover of The Divine Comedy

    The Divine Comedy

    Dante Alighieri · 1321 · 2 lists

  69. 69Cover of A Hero of Our Time

    A Hero of Our Time

    Mikhail Lermontov · 2001 · 0 lists

  70. 70Cover of As I Lay Dying

    As I Lay Dying

    William Faulkner · 1915 · 0 lists

  71. 71Cover of Bhagavad Gita

    Bhagavad Gita

    Anonymous · 1944 · 0 lists

  72. 72Cover of Catch-22

    Catch-22

    Joseph Heller · 1961 · 0 lists

  73. 73Cover of Critique of Pure Reason

    Critique of Pure Reason

    Immanuel Kant · 2016 · 0 lists

  74. 74Cover of Das Kapital

    Das Kapital

    Karl Marx · 1867 · 0 lists

  75. 75Cover of Demons

    Demons

    Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2000 · 0 lists

  76. 76Cover of Dubliners

    Dubliners

    James Joyce · 1914 · 0 lists

  77. 77Cover of Industrial Society and Its Future

    Industrial Society and Its Future

    Theodore Kaczynski · 1995 · 0 lists

  78. 78Cover of JR

    JR

    William Gaddis · 1975 · 0 lists

  79. 79Cover of Meditations

    Meditations

    Marcus Aurelius · 170 · 0 lists

  80. 80Cover of Moby-Dick

    Moby-Dick

    Herman Melville · 1851 · 0 lists

  81. 81Cover of Nineteen Eighty-Four

    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    George Orwell · 1948 · 0 lists

  82. 82Cover of No Longer Human

    No Longer Human

    Osamu Dazai · 1948 · 0 lists

  83. 83Cover of Paradise Lost

    Paradise Lost

    John Milton · 1667 · 0 lists

  84. 84Cover of Pedro Paramo

    Pedro Paramo

    Juan Rulfo · 1955 · 0 lists

  85. 85Cover of Phenomenology of Spirit

    Phenomenology of Spirit

    G.W.F. Hegel · 1979 · 0 lists

  86. 86Cover of Slaughterhouse-Five

    Slaughterhouse-Five

    Kurt Vonnegut · 1969 · 0 lists

  87. 87Cover of The Bible

    The Bible

    Anonymous · 0 lists

  88. 88Cover of The Book of the New Sun

    The Book of the New Sun

    Gene Wolfe · 1983 · 0 lists

  89. 89Cover of The Count of Monte Cristo

    The Count of Monte Cristo

    Alexandre Dumas · 1844 · 0 lists

  90. 90Cover of The Elementary Particles

    The Elementary Particles

    Michel Houellebecq · 1982 · 0 lists

  91. 91Cover of The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · 0 lists

  92. 92Cover of The Iliad

    The Iliad

    Homer · -800 · 0 lists

  93. 93Cover of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

    Laurence Sterne · 1759 · 0 lists

  94. 94Cover of The Metamorphosis

    The Metamorphosis

    Franz Kafka · 1915 · 0 lists

  95. 95Cover of The Odyssey

    The Odyssey

    Homer · -800 · 0 lists

  96. 96Cover of The Republic

    The Republic

    Plato · 375 · 0 lists

  97. 97Cover of The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

    The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

    Yukio Mishima · 1963 · 0 lists

  98. 98Cover of The Savage Detectives

    The Savage Detectives

    Roberto Bolaño · 1998 · 0 lists

  99. 99Cover of The Tunnel

    The Tunnel

    William H. Gass · 1955 · 0 lists

  100. 100Cover of Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    Friedrich Nietzsche · 2011 · 0 lists