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The Uber-List of the Top 200 Books of All Time | Books Are Our Superpower

The Uber-List of the Top 200 Books of All Time | Books Are Our SuperpowerHow many of these books have you read?
  1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  2. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott ⊗
  3. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
  4. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
  5. Money by Martin Amis
  6. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood ⊗
  7. Emma by Jane Austen
  8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ⊗
  9. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
  10. The Black Sheep by HonorĂ© de Balzac
  11. Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
  12. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
  13. Herzog by Saul Bellow
  14. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume ⊗
  15. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ⊗
  16. The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch
  17. Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontĂ«
  18. Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontĂ«
  19. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
  20. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov ⊗
  21. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan ⊗
  22. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess ⊗
  23. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino ⊗
  24. The Plague by Albert Camus ⊗
  25. The Stranger by Albert Camus ⊗
  26. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote ⊗
  27. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
  28. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarrĂ©
  29. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ⊗
  30. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  31. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler ⊗
  32. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  33. Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
  34. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie ⊗
  35. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho ⊗
  36. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  37. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad ⊗
  38. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
  39. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
  40. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl ⊗
  41. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  42. Underworld by Don DeLillo
  43. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  44. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  45. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens ⊗
  46. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  47. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens ⊗
  48. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
  49. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  50. Deliverance by James Dickey
  51. Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli
  52. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  53. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ⊗
  54. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  55. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ⊗
  56. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
  57. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas ⊗
  58. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas ⊗
  59. Middlemarch by George Eliot
  60. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot ⊗
  61. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  62. L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
  63. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
  64. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  65. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  66. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
  67. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ⊗
  68. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  69. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  70. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
  71. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
  72. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  73. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
  74. Neuromancer by William Gibson
  75. Lord of the Flies by William Golding ⊗
  76. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  77. The Tin Drum by GĂ¼nter Grass
  78. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
  79. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
  80. The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
  81. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
  82. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
  83. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  84. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
  85. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ⊗
  86. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller ⊗
  87. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  88. Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
  89. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway ⊗
  90. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway ⊗
  91. Dune by Frank Herbert ⊗
  92. The Iliad by Homer
  93. The Odyssey by Homer
  94. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo ⊗
  95. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ⊗
  96. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  97. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  98. The Ambassadors by Henry James
  99. The Golden Bowl by Henry James
  100. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
  101. Dubliners by James Joyce
  102. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  103. Ulysses by James Joyce
  104. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  105. The Trial by Franz Kafka ⊗
  106. On the Road by Jack Kerouac ⊗
  107. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey ⊗
  108. It by Stephen King ⊗
  109. The Stand by Stephen King ⊗
  110. The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
  111. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ⊗
  112. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle ⊗
  113. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
  114. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis ⊗
  115. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
  116. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
  117. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli ⊗
  118. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
  119. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
  120. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  121. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCallers
  122. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
  123. Atonement by Ian McEwan
  124. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  125. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
  126. Paradise Lost by John Milton
  127. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  128. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
  129. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons ⊗
  130. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  131. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  132. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
  133. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
  134. 1984 by George Orwell ⊗
  135. Animal Farm by George Orwell ⊗
  136. U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos
  137. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
  138. Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
  139. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy ⊗
  140. Republic by Plato
  141. The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe by Edgar Allen Poe
  142. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
  143. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
  144. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  145. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
  146. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
  147. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
  148. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
  149. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
  150. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
  151. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling ⊗
  152. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
  153. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry ⊗
  154. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger ⊗
  155. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
  156. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  157. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ⊗
  158. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
  159. East of Eden by John Steinbeck ⊗
  160. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  161. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck ⊗
  162. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
  163. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
  164. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson ⊗
  165. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson ⊗
  166. Dracula by Bram Stoker ⊗
  167. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  168. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
  169. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  170. Walden by Henry David Thoreau ⊗
  171. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  172. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien ⊗
  173. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  174. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  175. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  176. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
  177. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain ⊗
  178. The Art of War by Sun Tzu ⊗
  179. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
  180. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne ⊗
  181. The Aeneid by Virgil
  182. Candide by Voltaire ⊗
  183. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut ⊗
  184. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  185. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
  186. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
  187. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  188. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
  189. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells ⊗
  190. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells ⊗
  191. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
  192. Charlotte’s Web by EB White ⊗
  193. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  194. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ⊗
  195. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  196. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  197. Native Son by Richard Wright
  198. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
  199. One Thousand and One Nights by (Anon)