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The Greatest Fiction Books in a New Light

This is quite a solid list of "classic" reads. It comprises works of fiction that appear on 7 or more of the 119 "best of" book lists used by the algorithm at thegreatestbooks.org. The top 25 are each on 30 or more lists (books are ranked in descending order of list appearances; books with the same number of appearances are further separated by their original score at the site). This new list uses a snapshot of the site as at mid-February 2019.
This ranking system variant seems to favour novels over drama, poetry & collections of short stories; English over other languages; 20th century over other eras. It tips the balance away from books that originally scored highly from just a single list e.g. that of a Scandinavian jury.
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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
1
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
2
James Joyce
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
3
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
4
Vladimir Nabokov
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
5
Miguel De Cervantes
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
6
Herman Melville
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
7
Marcel Proust
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Nineteen Eighty-Four
8
George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
9
J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
10
John Steinbeck
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
11
Mark Twain
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
12
Leo Tolstoy
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
13
Homer
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
14
Jane Austen
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
15
Gustave Flaubert
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
16
Joseph Conrad
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
17
Joseph Heller
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
18
Dante Alighieri
Iliad (Homer)
Iliad
19
Homer
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
20
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
21
Emily Bronte
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
22
William Faulkner
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
23
Ralph Ellison
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
24
Toni Morrison
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
25
Lewis Carroll
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
26
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
27
Leo Tolstoy
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
28
Albert Camus
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
29
Harper Lee
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
30
Salman Rushdie
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
31
Virginia Woolf
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
32
Jonathan Swift
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
33
Charlotte Bronte
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
34
Ernest Hemingway
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
35
Mary Shelley
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
36
Charles Dickens
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
37
Franz Kafka
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
38
Jack Kerouac
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
39
Charles Dickens
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
40
George Eliot
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