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The Greatest Fiction Books in a New Light - Page 2

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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As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
41
William Faulkner
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
A Passage to India
42
E.M. Forster
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
43
Aldous Huxley
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway
44
Virginia Woolf
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
45
James Joyce
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
46
Geoffrey Chaucer
One Thousand and One Nights (Anonymous)
One Thousand and One Nights
47
Anonymous
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
48
William Faulkner
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
49
Virgil
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
50
Voltaire
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Les Miserables
51
Victor Hugo
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
52
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Native Son (Richard Wright)
Native Son
53
Richard Wright
Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
Portrait of a Lady
54
Henry James
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R.Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings
55
J.R.R.Tolkien
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
56
William Golding
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind
57
Margaret Mitchell
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five
58
Kurt Vonnegut
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Atonement
59
Ian McEwan
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black
60
Stendhal
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass
61
Walt Whitman
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Oedipus Rex
62
Sophocles
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
63
George Orwell
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
64
Chinua Achebe
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple
65
Alice Walker
The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
The Corrections
66
Jonathan Franzen
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
The Road
67
Cormac McCarthy
Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)
Tristram Shandy
68
Laurence Sterne
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
69
John Milton
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
70
Ernest Hemingway
Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
Under the Volcano
71
Malcolm Lowry
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
Tom Jones
72
Henry Fielding
The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
The Age of Innocence
73
Edith Wharton
Their Eyes Were Watching (Zora Neale Hurston)
Their Eyes Were Watching
74
Zora Neale Hurston
American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
American Pastoral
75
Philip Roth
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Díaz)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
76
Junot Díaz
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
77
William Shakespeare
Stories: Anton Chekhov (Anton Chekhov)
Stories: Anton Chekhov
78
Anton Chekhov
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe (Edgar Allen Poe)
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
79
Edgar Allen Poe
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea
80
Ernest Hemingway
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