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RYM's Top 100 Favorite Books of Fiction

The members of Rate Your Music listed their favorite novels, novellas, short stories, plays, you name it, the only restriction is that it is considered a non-poetry work of fiction. How many have you read?
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
1
James Joyce
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
2
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
Ficciones
3
Jorge Luis Borges
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
4
Franz Kafka
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow
5
Thomas Pynchon
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Nineteen Eighty-Four
6
George Orwell
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest
7
David Foster Wallace
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
8
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
9
Miguel De Cervantes
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
The Metamorphosis
10
Franz Kafka
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
11
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities
12
Robert Musil
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five
13
Kurt Vonnegut
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
14
Albert Camus
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
15
J.D. Salinger
The Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa)
The Book of Disquiet
16
Fernando Pessoa
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
17
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
18
Vladimir Nabokov
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Waiting for Godot
19
Samuel Beckett
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
20
Leo Tolstoy
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
21
Hunter S. Thompson
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
22
Vladimir Nabokov
Othello (William Shakespeare)
Othello
23
William Shakespeare
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces
24
John Kennedy Toole
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
25
Jonathan Swift
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
26
Joseph Heller
The Hobbit or There and Back Again (J. R. R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit or There and Back Again
27
J. R. R. Tolkien
Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)
Breakfast of Champions
28
Kurt Vonnegut
In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
In Cold Blood
29
Truman Capote
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
King Lear
30
William Shakespeare
Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
Naked Lunch
31
William S. Burroughs
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
32
Virginia Woolf
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
33
Franz Kafka
Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)
Norwegian Wood
34
Haruki Murakami
Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh)
Trainspotting
35
Irvine Welsh
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
36
Haruki Murakami
Blindness (Jose Saramago)
Blindness
37
Jose Saramago
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
38
William Shakespeare
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
39
Mark Haddon
American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
American Psycho
40
Bret Easton Ellis
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