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Greatest Books Top 500: The 2021 Update: Uppers & Downers - Page 5

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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161
MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
162
Lost Illusions (Honoré De Balzac)
Lost Illusions (Honoré De Balzac)
163
Pedro Páramo (Juan Rulfo)
Pedro Páramo (Juan Rulfo)
164
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark)
165
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
166
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
167
The Ambassadors (Henry James)
The Ambassadors (Henry James)
168
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
169
Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)
Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)
170
Confessions of Zeno (Italo Svevo)
Confessions of Zeno (Italo Svevo)
171
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
172
Women in Love (D. H. Lawrence)
Women in Love (D. H. Lawrence)
173
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
174
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
175
The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
176
Rabbit Redux (John Updike)
Rabbit Redux (John Updike)
177
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
178
The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa)
The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa)
179
2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
180
Eugénie Grandet (Honoré De Balzac)
Eugénie Grandet (Honoré De Balzac)
181
A Room With a View (E.M. Forster)
A Room With a View (E.M. Forster)
182
The Sea, the Sea (Irish Murdoch)
The Sea, the Sea (Irish Murdoch)
183
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Wolfe)
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Wolfe)
184
The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
185
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
186
The Princesse De Clèves (Madame De Lafayette)
The Princesse De Clèves (Madame De Lafayette)
187
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
188
The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague (Albert Camus)
189
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
190
The Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens)
The Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens)
191
The Stories of John Cheever (John Cheever)
The Stories of John Cheever (John Cheever)
192
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
193
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
194
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
195
1919 (John Dos Passos)
1919 (John Dos Passos)
196
The 42nd Parallel (John Dos Passos)
The 42nd Parallel (John Dos Passos)
197
The Big Money (John Dos Passos)
The Big Money (John Dos Passos)
198
Independent People (Halldór Laxness, Tr. J.A. Thompson)
Independent People (Halldór Laxness, Tr. J.A. Thompson)
199
The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)
The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)
200
The World According to Garp (John Irving)
The World According to Garp (John Irving)
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