/lit/'s Top 100 Books

1.
Hamlet
Hamlet 4.03 avg rating — 1,020,285 ratings
2.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,357,403 ratings
3.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,884 ratings
4.
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland 4.03 avg rating — 395,723 ratings
5.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,451,479 ratings
5.
East of Eden
East of Eden 4.43 avg rating — 602,402 ratings
7.
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating — 200,864 ratings
8.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,614 ratings
9.
The Picture of Dorian Grey
The Picture of Dorian Grey 4.13 avg rating — 1,783,325 ratings
10.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,732,412 ratings
11.
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,801,020 ratings
11.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,294 ratings
13.
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again 4.29 avg rating — 4,346,524 ratings
13.
American Psycho
American Psycho 3.80 avg rating — 349,256 ratings
15.
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text 3.46 avg rating — 96,904 ratings
16.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,319,042 ratings
17.
The Iliad
The Iliad
by: Homer
3.92 avg rating — 494,741 ratings
17.
The Man Without Qualities: Volume I
The Man Without Qualities: Volume I 4.28 avg rating — 3,334 ratings
17.
Of Human Bondage
Of Human Bondage 4.15 avg rating — 60,348 ratings
20.
The Book of Disquiet
The Book of Disquiet 4.40 avg rating — 35,775 ratings
20.
Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! 3.99 avg rating — 47,021 ratings
20.
Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf 4.13 avg rating — 206,786 ratings
20.
The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3)
The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3) 4.18 avg rating — 20,498 ratings
24.
Ficciones
Ficciones 4.40 avg rating — 75,870 ratings
24.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 3.93 avg rating — 9,669 ratings
24.
On the Beach
On the Beach 3.98 avg rating — 48,168 ratings
27.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost 3.85 avg rating — 177,972 ratings
28.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,316,000 ratings
29.
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West 4.16 avg rating — 204,558 ratings
30.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo 4.32 avg rating — 992,206 ratings
31.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,349 ratings
32.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,860 ratings
33.
Gravity’s Rainbow
Gravity’s Rainbow 4.01 avg rating — 46,905 ratings
34.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,064 ratings
35.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,414 ratings
36.
Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,362 ratings
37.
Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,404 ratings
38.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,227,585 ratings
39.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,070,201 ratings
40.
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead 4.19 avg rating — 78,037 ratings
41.
Siddhartha
Siddhartha 4.08 avg rating — 847,012 ratings
42.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,428 ratings
43.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,816 ratings
44.
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso 4.08 avg rating — 167,126 ratings
45.
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita 4.28 avg rating — 401,163 ratings
46.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 357,028 ratings
47.
White Noise
White Noise 3.86 avg rating — 123,858 ratings
48.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 545,813 ratings
49.
In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time 4.34 avg rating — 13,696 ratings
50.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms 3.82 avg rating — 344,530 ratings
51.
The Crying of Lot 49
The Crying of Lot 49 3.69 avg rating — 93,759 ratings
52.
As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying 3.72 avg rating — 182,503 ratings
53.
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis 3.90 avg rating — 1,338,801 ratings
54.
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises 3.79 avg rating — 482,112 ratings
55.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass 4.11 avg rating — 114,648 ratings
56.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) 4.47 avg rating — 11,066,285 ratings
57.
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 753,995 ratings
58.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,712 ratings
59.
On the Road
On the Road 3.61 avg rating — 438,564 ratings
60.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1 (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, #1)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1 (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 4,319 ratings
61.
The Holy Bible: King James Version
The Holy Bible: King James Version
by: Anonymous
4.44 avg rating — 308,898 ratings
62.
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies 3.70 avg rating — 3,117,970 ratings
63.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 3.64 avg rating — 161,014 ratings
64.
Light in August
Light in August 3.94 avg rating — 65,247 ratings
65.
Dead Souls
Dead Souls 3.98 avg rating — 93,274 ratings
66.
Suttree
Suttree 4.20 avg rating — 27,026 ratings
67.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,223 ratings
68.
Malone Dies
Malone Dies 3.85 avg rating — 5,617 ratings
69.
VALIS
VALIS 3.92 avg rating — 32,019 ratings
70.
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 257,794 ratings