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The Very Best Books According to Goodreads - Page 2

There is no definitive Western canon. It's only an agreed-upon concept that the most important, significant, and worthy works of literature ought to be ranked and preserved based on their merit. So how do you even determine, of those books, which ones are truly the best of the best? Well, here's one option, according to Goodreads.
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The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit
41
J.R.R. Tolkien
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
42
Jonathan Swift
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
43
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
44
Albert Camus
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
45
Robert Louis Stevenson
Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
Rebecca
46
Daphne Du Maurier
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
47
Ernest Hemingway
The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene)
The Power and the Glory
48
Graham Greene
Beowulf (Anonymous)
Beowulf
49
Anonymous
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
50
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
51
Alexandre Dumas
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
52
William Faulkner
A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)
A Doll's House
53
Henrik Ibsen
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
54
Ralph Ellison
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
55
Jack Kerouac
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
56
Vladimir Nabokov
The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
The House of the Spirits
57
Isabel Allende
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale
58
Margaret Atwood
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
59
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Native Son (Richard Wright)
Native Son
60
Richard Wright
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
61
James Joyce
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
62
George Eliot
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea
63
Ernest Hemingway
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
64
John Steinbeck
Kindred (Octavia Butler)
Kindred
65
Octavia Butler
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R.Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings
66
J.R.R.Tolkien
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
67
Toni Morrison
A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Flannery O'Connor)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
68
Flannery O'Connor
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
Wide Sargasso Sea
69
Jean Rhys
The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)
The Bluest Eye
70
Toni Morrison
Demons (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Demons
71
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs. Dalloway
72
Virginia Woolf
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces
73
John Kennedy Toole
Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison)
Song of Solomon
74
Toni Morrison
Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
Death of a Salesman
75
Arthur Miller
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Edward Albee)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
76
Edward Albee
Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
Siddhartha
77
Hermann Hesse
The Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
The Inferno
78
Dante Alighieri
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
79
Gabriel García Márquez
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
80
John Milton
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