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Greatest Books Top 500: The 2021 Update: Uppers & Downers - Page 2

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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Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
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The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid (Virgil)
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Collected Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges)
Collected Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges)
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The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
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David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne)
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Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
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The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
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Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
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Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
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Candide (Voltaire)
Candide (Voltaire)
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The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
54
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
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Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
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A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
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The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
58
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
59
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma (Jane Austen)
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
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The Complete Stories (Franz Kafka)
The Complete Stories (Franz Kafka)
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Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
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The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
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Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
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Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
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Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone (Sophocles)
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As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
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The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
69
The Possessed (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Possessed (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
70
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
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Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
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Complete Tales & Poems (Edgar Allan Poe)
Complete Tales & Poems (Edgar Allan Poe)
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The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
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Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
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On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
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The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
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Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
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Orlando (Virginia Woolf)
Orlando (Virginia Woolf)
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The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
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