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The Top Books of All Time

This list is from Books.org but voted on by the readers of Goodreads. The point is these are supposed to be the top books (novels and plays and poems and short story collections) of all time.
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The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
1
Homer
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
2
Jane Austen
The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Fellowship of the Ring
3
J.R.R. Tolkien
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
4
George Orwell
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
5
Virginia Woolf
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
6
Charlotte Bronte
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
7
Harper Lee
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs. Dalloway
8
Virginia Woolf
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
9
George Orwell
Charlotte's Web (E. B. White)
Charlotte's Web
10
E. B. White
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms
11
Ernest Hemingway
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
12
Aldous Huxley
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
13
Miguel De Cervantes
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
14
James Joyce
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
15
F. Scott Fitzgerald
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
16
Leo Tolstoy
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Les Miserables
17
Victor Hugo
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
18
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
19
William Shakespeare
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
20
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
21
George Eliot
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
22
Mark Twain
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
23
Vladimir Nabokov
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
24
Homer
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
25
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
26
Lewis Carroll
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
27
Emily Bronte
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
28
J.D. Salinger
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
29
Charles Dickens
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
30
Joseph Conrad
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
31
Jonathan Swift
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
32
Joseph Heller
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
33
Ralph Ellison
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass
34
Walt Whitman
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
35
Voltaire
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
36
Virgil
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
37
James Joyce
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
38
Jane Austen
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five
39
Kurt Vonnegut
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
40
Chinua Achebe
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