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Best Books According to /Lit/

Taken from multiple 4chan /lit/ lists, this massive collection details all the books a bunch of random people (presumably mostly white, male, postsecondary-educated) people think are the greatest works of literature ever written.
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1984 (George Orwell)
1984
1
George Orwell
2666 (Roberto Bolano)
2666
2
Roberto Bolano
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
3
William Faulkner
Ada or Ardor (Vladimir Nabokov)
Ada or Ardor
4
Vladimir Nabokov
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
5
Mark Twain
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
6
Virgil
The Aleph and Other Stories (Jorge Luis Borges)
The Aleph and Other Stories
7
Jorge Luis Borges
Alice Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
Alice Through the Looking Glass
8
Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
9
Lewis Carroll
All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
All the King's Men
10
Robert Penn Warren
American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
American Psycho
11
Bret Easton Ellis
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
12
George Orwell
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
13
Leo Tolstoy
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone
14
Sophocles
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
15
William Faulkner
As You Like It (William Shakespeare)
As You Like It
16
William Shakespeare
Autobiography of Red (Anne Carson)
Autobiography of Red
17
Anne Carson
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
18
Baltasar and Blimunda (José Saramago)
Baltasar and Blimunda
19
José Saramago
Beware of Pity
Beware of Pity
20
The Bible (Anonymous)
The Bible
21
Anonymous
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Blood Meridian
22
Cormac McCarthy
Blow-Up and Other Stories
Blow-Up and Other Stories
23
The Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa)
The Book of Disquiet
24
Fernando Pessoa
The Book of the New Sun (Gene Wolfe)
The Book of the New Sun
25
Gene Wolfe
Bottom's Dream (Arno Schmidt)
Bottom's Dream
26
Arno Schmidt
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
27
Aldous Huxley
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
28
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Butcher's Crossing (John Williams)
Butcher's Crossing
29
John Williams
By Night in Chile (Roberto Bolano)
By Night in Chile
30
Roberto Bolano
The Cannibal
The Cannibal
31
The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
32
Chaucer
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
33
Franz Kafka
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
34
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
35
J.D. Salinger
Chess Story
Chess Story
36
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange
37
Anthony Burgess
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Nikolai Gogol)
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
38
Nikolai Gogol
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces
39
John Kennedy Toole
Confessions of Zeno
Confessions of Zeno
40
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