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Greatest Books Top 500: The 2021 Update: Uppers & Downers - Page 12

This is my annual update of the thegreatestbooks.org Top 500, obviously using the latest version of the source list. The latter is now using "130 'best of' book lists from a variety of great sources", including many of your favourites.
How has the list altered over the past year? Immediately noticeable was that some classic works, such as Shakespeare's plays and those of ancient Greece & Rome, have made great strides upwards. Amazingly 'Macbeth' has jumped upwards by 140 places (from 301 to 161). Modern works, if anything, tend to be drifting slightly downwards.
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New Grub Street (George Gissing)
New Grub Street (George Gissing)
442
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
443
Complete Poems of John Keats (John Keats)
Complete Poems of John Keats (John Keats)
444
Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
445
Phèdre (Jean Racine)
Phèdre (Jean Racine)
446
The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam (Omar Khayyam)
The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam (Omar Khayyam)
447
Silas Marner (George Eliot)
Silas Marner (George Eliot)
448
The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope)
The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope)
449
Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier)
Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier)
450
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Luigi Pirandello)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Luigi Pirandello)
451
The Savage Detectives (Roberto Bolaño)
The Savage Detectives (Roberto Bolaño)
452
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Yukio Mishima)
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Yukio Mishima)
453
The Secret Agent (Joseph Conrad)
The Secret Agent (Joseph Conrad)
454
Life: A User's Manual (Georges Perec, Trans. David Bellos)
Life: A User's Manual (Georges Perec, Trans. David Bellos)
455
The Alexandria Quartet (Lawrence Durrell)
The Alexandria Quartet (Lawrence Durrell)
456
A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
457
A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Flannery O'Connor)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Flannery O'Connor)
458
Under the Net (Iris Murdoch)
Under the Net (Iris Murdoch)
459
The Nibelungenlied (Anonymous)
The Nibelungenlied (Anonymous)
460
Mourning Becomes Electra (Eugene O'Neill)
Mourning Becomes Electra (Eugene O'Neill)
461
The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles)
462
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (Chris Ware)
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (Chris Ware)
463
Scoop (Evelyn Waugh)
Scoop (Evelyn Waugh)
464
In Our Time (Ernest Hemingway)
In Our Time (Ernest Hemingway)
465
The Lusiads (Luïs Vaz De Camoes)
The Lusiads (Luïs Vaz De Camoes)
466
Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)
Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)
467
Suite Française (Irène Némirovsky)
Suite Française (Irène Némirovsky)
468
Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
469
Waiting for the Barbarians (J.M. Coetzee)
Waiting for the Barbarians (J.M. Coetzee)
470
The Quiet American (Graham Greene)
The Quiet American (Graham Greene)
471
Cider With Rosie (Laurie Lee)
Cider With Rosie (Laurie Lee)
472
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (Eudora Welty)
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (Eudora Welty)
473
London Fields (Martin Amis)
London Fields (Martin Amis)
474
The White Tiger (Aravind Adiga)
The White Tiger (Aravind Adiga)
475
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
476
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
477
The Shining (Stephen King)
The Shining (Stephen King)
478
Dom Casmurro (Machado De Assis)
Dom Casmurro (Machado De Assis)
479
Some Prefer Nettles (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki)
Some Prefer Nettles (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki)
480
The Human Stain (Philip Roth)
The Human Stain (Philip Roth)
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