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The Average Goodreads Member Has Only Read 16 Out of These 101 Books
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The Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time List" represents a list of 100 literary novels recommended by the Goodreads Serious Literature Group for voting by all Goodreads Members via Listopia.
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1984 (George Orwell)
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Adam Bede
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The Adventures of Augie March
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
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The Alexandria Quartet
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All the King's Men
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
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An American Tragedy
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Anna Karenina
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The Awakening
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Blindness
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Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
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Brideshead Revisited
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Bridge of Sighs
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The Brothers Karamazov
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Cancer Ward
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Candide
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Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
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The Catcher in the Rye
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Cat's Eye
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Darconville's Cat (Alexander Theroux)
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David Copperfield
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Dead Souls
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
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The Death of Virgil
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The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman (J.P. Donleavy)
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Don Quixote
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East of Eden
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Ficciones
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Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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The Forsyte Saga
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Gilead
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The Grapes of Wrath
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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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