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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 (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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Ulysses
Ulysses
3
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
4
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
5
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
6
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
7
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
8
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four
9
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye
10
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath
11
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
12
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
13
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
14
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
15
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary
16
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
17
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
18
The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy
19
Iliad
Iliad
20
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
21
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
22
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury
23
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
24
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
25
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
26
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
27
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
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The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
29
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
30
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
31
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse
32
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels
33
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
34
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
35
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
36
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
37
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
38
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
39
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
40
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
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