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Goodreads 2020 Update: Books You Need to Read to Be Considered Well-Read - Page 2

"Contemporary or classic novels, plays, poem and short story anthologies, that any serious reader should read at least once in his or her life." (Goodreads)
This challenge is perhaps a tad less "anglocentric" than the "BBC's 100 Best Books" challenge posted a few hours ago. But it might be interesting to compare this user-voted list vs that from an authoritative source like the BBC.
This is the state of the list in July 2020. Some duplicates have been removed.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Lewis Carroll)
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War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
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The Agricola and the Germania (Tacitus)
The Agricola and the Germania (Tacitus)
44
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
45
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
46
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
47
The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry)
The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry)
48
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
49
Night (Elie Wiesel)
Night (Elie Wiesel)
50
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
51
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
52
The Bible: Authorized King James Version With Apocrypha (Various)
The Bible: Authorized King James Version With Apocrypha (Various)
53
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
54
Brave New World Revisited (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World Revisited (Aldous Huxley)
55
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
56
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
57
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
58
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
59
Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
60
Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
61
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
62
Othello (William Shakespeare)
Othello (William Shakespeare)
63
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
64
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
65
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
66
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
67
Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
68
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
69
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone (Sophocles)
70
The Chronicles of Narnia (7 Books) (C. S. Lewis)
The Chronicles of Narnia (7 Books) (C. S. Lewis)
71
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
72
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
73
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey (Homer)
74
Germania (Tacitus)
Germania (Tacitus)
75
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
76
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
77
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
78
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
79
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm)
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm)
80
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
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