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WritbyWhit's Top 100 Books of All-Time

From WritbyWhit: Inspired by the 2018 PBS special The Great American Read, I assembled more than 170 best-of-books lists and aggregated them along with sales, ratings, awards, & book charts to create one master list of the all-time books. While these are mostly novels, there are some non-fiction books and even a few children's picture books. Here are the results:
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Holy Bible King James Version
Holy Bible King James Version
1
Little Red Book (Chairman Mao)
Little Red Book
2
Chairman Mao
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
3
J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
4
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
5
Miguel De Cervantes
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
6
Harper Lee
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
7
George Orwell
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings
8
J.R.R. Tolkien
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
9
Vladimir Nabokov
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
10
Lewis Carroll
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
11
James Joyce
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
12
Joseph Heller
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
13
John Steinbeck
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
14
Gabriel García Márquez
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
15
Leo Tolstoy
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit
16
J.R.R. Tolkien
Charlotte's Web (E. B. White)
Charlotte's Web
17
E. B. White
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
18
Charlotte Bronte
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick
19
Herman Melville
Harry Potter (J. K. Rowling)
Harry Potter
20
J. K. Rowling
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
21
Jane Austen
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
22
William Golding
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
23
Mark Twain
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
24
C.S. Lewis
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
25
Joseph Conrad
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind
26
Margaret Mitchell
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
27
Homer
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
28
Emily Bronte
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
29
Toni Morrison
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
30
Jack Kerouac
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
31
Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
32
George Orwell
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
33
Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
34
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
The Diary of a Young Girl
35
Anne Frank
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
36
William Faulkner
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
37
Charles Dickens
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five
38
Kurt Vonnegut
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
39
Ernest Hemingway
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince
40
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
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