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List of Books Considered the Greatest

Based on several lists and trimmed down to a nice, tidy 101 books, this is a list of works of fiction considered the greatest ever written.
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Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
1
William Faulkner
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2
Mark Twain
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
3
Virgil
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
4
Lewis Carroll
Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Americanah
5
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
6
Leo Tolstoy
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
7
William Faulkner
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
8
Toni Morrison
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
9
Charles Dickens
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
10
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
11
Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
12
Geoffrey Chaucer
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
13
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
14
J.D. Salinger
Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko)
Ceremony
15
Leslie Marmon Silko
Collected Fictions
Collected Fictions
16
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple
17
Alice Walker
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor (Flannery O'Connor)
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
18
Flannery O'Connor
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka (Franz Kafka)
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka
19
Franz Kafka
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe (Edgar Allen Poe)
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
20
Edgar Allen Poe
The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Nikolai Gogol)
The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol
21
Nikolai Gogol
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
22
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
23
Fyodor Dostoevsky
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
24
Charles Dickens
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
25
Nikolai Gogol
Demons (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Demons
26
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
27
Dante Alighieri
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
28
Miguel De Cervantes
Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin)
Dream of the Red Chamber
29
Cao Xueqin
Dubliners (James Joyce)
Dubliners
30
James Joyce
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
East of Eden
31
John Steinbeck
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
32
Jane Austen
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
33
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
34
Ernest Hemingway
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
35
Mary Shelley
Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
Go Tell It on the Mountain
36
James Baldwin
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
The God of Small Things
37
Arundhati Roy
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
38
John Steinbeck
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
39
Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
40
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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