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Greatest Books Top 500: The 2021 Update: Uppers & Downers - Page 7

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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A House for Mr. Biswas (V.S. Naipaul)
A House for Mr. Biswas (V.S. Naipaul)
242
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
243
Dubliners (James Joyce)
Dubliners (James Joyce)
244
Brighton Rock (Graham Greene)
Brighton Rock (Graham Greene)
245
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
246
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
247
Disgrace (J.M. Coetzee)
Disgrace (J.M. Coetzee)
248
Nine Stories (J.D. Salinger)
Nine Stories (J.D. Salinger)
249
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (Lewis Carroll)
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (Lewis Carroll)
250
The End of the Affair (Graham Greene)
The End of the Affair (Graham Greene)
251
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)
252
The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)
The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)
253
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
254
The Shipping News (Annie Proux)
The Shipping News (Annie Proux)
255
Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)
Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)
256
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
257
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
258
2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)
259
Henderson the Rain King (Saul Bellow)
Henderson the Rain King (Saul Bellow)
260
Persuasion (Jane Austen)
Persuasion (Jane Austen)
261
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
262
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
263
White Noise (Don Delillo)
White Noise (Don Delillo)
264
Molloy (Samuel Beckett)
Molloy (Samuel Beckett)
265
The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
266
Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
267
Season of Migration to the North (Tayeb Salih, Trans. Denys Johnson-Davies)
Season of Migration to the North (Tayeb Salih, Trans. Denys Johnson-Davies)
268
The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes)
The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes)
269
The Line of Beauty (Alan Hollinghurst)
The Line of Beauty (Alan Hollinghurst)
270
I, Claudius (Robert Graves)
I, Claudius (Robert Graves)
271
The Suppliants (Aeschylus)
The Suppliants (Aeschylus)
272
The Persians (Aeschylus)
The Persians (Aeschylus)
273
The Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus)
The Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus)
274
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
275
Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham)
Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham)
276
Malone Dies (Samuel Beckett)
Malone Dies (Samuel Beckett)
277
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
278
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
279
The Man Who Loved Children (Christina Stead)
The Man Who Loved Children (Christina Stead)
280
Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
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