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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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Malone Dies (Samuel Beckett)
Malone Dies
121
Samuel Beckett
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities
122
Robert Musil
Mason & Dixon
Mason & Dixon
123
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
124
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master Builder (Henrik Ibsen)
The Master Builder
125
Henrik Ibsen
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Meditations
126
Marcus Aurelius
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
The Metamorphosis
127
Franz Kafka
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
128
George Eliot
A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
129
William Shakespeare
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
130
Herman Melville
Molloy (Samuel Beckett)
Molloy
131
Samuel Beckett
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs. Dalloway
132
Virginia Woolf
Music for Chameleons
Music for Chameleons
133
The Naked Lunch
The Naked Lunch
134
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nausea
135
Jean-Paul Sartre
No Longer Human (Osamu Dazai)
No Longer Human
136
Osamu Dazai
Notes From the Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Notes From the Underground
137
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Oblomov (Ivan Goncarov)
Oblomov
138
Ivan Goncarov
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
139
Homer
Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)
Oedipus at Colonus
140
Sophocles
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Oedipus Rex
141
Sophocles
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men
142
John Steinbeck
The Old Capital Yasunari Kawabata
The Old Capital Yasunari Kawabata
143
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea
144
Ernest Hemingway
Omensetter's Luck
Omensetter's Luck
145
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
146
Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
147
Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
148
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Orestia (Aeschylus)
Orestia
149
Aeschylus
Orfeo (Richard Powers)
Orfeo
150
Richard Powers
Othello (William Shakespeare)
Othello
151
William Shakespeare
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
152
Vladimir Nabokov
The Pale King
The Pale King
153
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
154
John Milton
A Parisian Affair and Other Short Stories by Guy De Maupassant
A Parisian Affair and Other Short Stories by Guy De Maupassant
155
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
156
The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague
157
Albert Camus
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
158
James Joyce
The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
The Recognitions
159
William Gaddis
The Republic (Plato)
The Republic
160
Plato
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