TOP 100 Fiction Books of all time, in order
Submitted by FormerZen on Wed, 06/02/2010 - 03:15
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- Author Title
- George Orwell 1984
- Joseph Heller Catch-22
- J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
- F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
- James Joyce Ulysses
- J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings
- Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
- Margaret Mitchell Gone With the Wind
- Harper lee To Kill a Mocking Bird
- Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
- Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse
- John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
- C.S. Lewis The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- George Orwell Animal Farm
- William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury
- Aldous Huxley Brave New World
- Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
- Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
- Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange
- Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
- George Eliot Middlemarch
- Jack Kerouac On the Road
- William Golding The Lord of the Flies
- Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
- Toni Morrison Beloved
- Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Marcel Proust A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time)
- J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit
- Charles Dickens Great Expectations
- E.M. Forster A Passage to India
- Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five
- JK Rowling Harry Potter Series
- Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
- Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children
- Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
- Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers
- Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary
- A.A. Milne Winnie the Pooh
- Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
- Richard Wright Native Son
- Robert Graves I, Claudius
- Joseph Conrad The Heart of Darkness
- James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy
- Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited
- Franz Kafka The Trial
- Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises
- Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov
- Chinue Achebe Things Fall Apart
- Daphne du Maurier Rebecca
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in a Time of Cholera
- Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
- Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Louisa May Allcott Little Women
- Phillip Pullman His Dark Materials
- William Faulkner Light in August
- Herman Melville Moby Dick
- Doris Leasing The Golden Notebook
- Frank Herbert Dune
- John Irvine A Prayer for Owen Meaney
- Louis de Bernieres Captain Corelli's Mandolin
- James Baldwin Go Tell the Mountain
- Carson McCullers The Heart is a Lonley Hunter
- Mary Shelley Frankenstein
- William Faulkner As I Lay Dying
- Joseph Conrad Nostromo
- Malcolm Lowry Under the Volcano
- Henry James The Ambassadors
- Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
- Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Albert Camus The Stranger
- Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner
- Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms
- Robert Penn Warren All the Kings men
- Sebastian Faulks Birdsong
- Audrey Niffenegger The Time Travelers Wife
- Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow
- Dan Brown The Da Vinci Code
- Lewis Carol Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Nathaniel West The Day of the Locust
- Stephen King The Stand
- Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway
- John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
- Gunter Grass The Tin Drum
- Ken Follett The Pillars of the Earth
- D.H. Lawrence Women in Love
- Philip Roth Portnoy's Complaint
- Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer
- E.M. Forster Howard's End
- Yann Martel Life of Pi
- Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha
- Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea
- Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
- John Dos Passos USA (trilogy)
- Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier
- Richard Adams Watership Down
- Roald Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Ian McEwan Atonement
This is based on about 15 "top 100" lists released in the past 10 years, with a simple algorithm applied to ensure that each book appears at least 3 times, and allocates appropriate weighting based on position in the list. Certainly open to debate, as any "top" list is, but certainly as close as I can get to a formulae to determine this, without personal prejudice (although I removed the Bible as its fictional qualities are open to more debate)