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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 (William Faulkner)
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A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
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Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
47
One Thousand and One Nights
One Thousand and One Nights
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Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom!
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The Aeneid
The Aeneid
50
Candide
Candide
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Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
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The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
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Native Son
Native Son
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Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
55
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R.Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R.Tolkien)
56
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
57
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
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Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
59
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
60
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
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Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass
62
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm
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Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart
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The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
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The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
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The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
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Tristram Shandy
Tristram Shandy
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Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Under the Volcano
Under the Volcano
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Tom Jones
Tom Jones
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The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
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Their Eyes Were Watching (Zora Neale Hurston)
Their Eyes Were Watching (Zora Neale Hurston)
75
American Pastoral
American Pastoral
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Hamlet
Hamlet
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Stories: Anton Chekhov
Stories: Anton Chekhov
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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
80
Old Man and the Sea
Old Man and the Sea
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