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The Greatest Fiction Books in a New Light - Page 3

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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Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
81
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms
82
Ernest Hemingway
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
83
Daniel Defoe
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Waiting for Godot
84
Samuel Beckett
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles
85
Thomas Hardy
All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
All the King's Men
86
Robert Penn Warren
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale
87
Margaret Atwood
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
88
Ken Kesey
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone
89
Sophocles
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
90
Thomas Mann
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Vanity Fair
91
William Makepeace Thackeray
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
92
Vladimir Nabokov
The Tin Drum (Günter Grass)
The Tin Drum
93
Günter Grass
Rabbit, Run (John Updike)
Rabbit, Run
94
John Updike
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (J.K. Rowling)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
95
J.K. Rowling
The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
The Big Sleep
96
Raymond Chandler
Collected Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges)
Collected Fictions
97
Jorge Luis Borges
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
98
Jane Austen
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
The Metamorphosis
99
Franz Kafka
The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
The Good Soldier
100
Ford Madox Ford
Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
Charlotte's Web
101
E.B. White
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
102
Mikhail Bulgakov
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange
103
Anthony Burgess
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
The Call of the Wild
104
Jack London
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
An American Tragedy
105
Theodore Dreiser
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
106
Oscar Wilde
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
107
Michael Chabon
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka (Franz Kafka)
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka
108
Franz Kafka
The Waste Land (T.S. Eliot)
The Waste Land
109
T.S. Eliot
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
Fathers and Sons
110
Ivan Turgenev
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor (Flannery O'Connor)
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
111
Flannery O'Connor
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince
112
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)
The Wind in the Willows
113
Kenneth Grahame
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Blood Meridian
114
Cormac McCarthy
Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)
Austerlitz
115
W.G. Sebald
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Middlesex
116
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
117
Douglas Adams
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow
118
Thomas Pynchon
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
119
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of the Night
120
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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