/lit/ Top 100 Lists

From 2014, polls of posters' favorite books have been conducted every year on /lit/. The responses to these polls generated the below infographics. After 2017, lists continued to be created, but without polls.

(In 2015, the poll also asked for a list of the responder's and three favorite authors. This was not continued from 2016 onwards.)

Facts about the similarities and differences between the 2014 poll results and the 2015 poll results are as follows:

• 69% of the books from the 2014 list made it onto the 2015 list.

• The highest placing new additions to the 2015 list are:
  1. Confederacy of Dunces (26)
  2. Book of the New Sun (27)
  3. Les Miserables (35)
  4. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (50)
  5. For Whom the Bell Tolls (53)

• The highest placing books to drop off the 2014 list are:
  1. The Plague (35)
  2. The Silmarillion (42)
  3. Leaves of Grass (53)
  4. Harry Potter series (54)
  5. A Clockwork Orange (55)
     

• Of the books that stayed on the list, the greatest gains were made by:
  1. The Iliad (94 to 18)
  2. The Old Man and the Sea (97 to 34)
  3. Paradise Lost (98 to 37)
  4. Portrait of the Artist (67 to 12)
  5. Steppenwolf (93 to 42)

• The greatest losses were:
  1. Dune (29 to 83)
  2. The Picture of Dorian Gray (16 to 64)
  3. A Farewell to Arms (46 to 93)
  4. Journey to the End of the Night (10 to 52)
  5. Invisible Cities (22 to 57)

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  Top Novels 2020
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  2020 (modified/fake without trolls)

Title	Author	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	Avg / % Listed (Pre-2020)
1984	Orwell	31	22	21	19	25	15	19	20.2
2666	Bolaño	99	56	29	22	34	24	15	30.0
60 Stories	Barthelme				95				570.0
A Canticle for Leibowitz	Miller Jr.	100
A Clockwork Orange	Burgess			98				55	229.5
A Confederacy of Dunces	Toole	53	46	88	49	59	26		64.3
A Farewell to Arms	Hemingway						93	46	208.5
A Hero of Our Time	Lermontov		67				76		214.5
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce		65	38	20	31	12	67	38.8
A Scanner Darkly	Dick						99		594.0
A Tale of Two Cities	Dickens						88	92	270.0
Absalom, Absalom!	Faulkner	73				82	51	79	141.3
Ada, or Ardor	Nabokov					66	96		243.0
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Twain							68	408.0
Aeneid	Virgil			63	82	89			156.0
Against Nature	Huysmans		53	94	45				208.5
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Carroll				83	97	81	73	125.3
American Psycho	Ellis	44	60	90	88	65	80	51	72.3
Animal Farm	Orwell				72			83	232.5
Anna Karenina	Tolstoy	21	14	17	34	20	21	28	22.3
Antifragile	Taleb	86
Arcades Project	Benjamin		88						528.0
As I Lay Dying	Faulkner				87	88	69	48	109.5
Being and Time	Heidegger	22
Beyond Good and Evil	Nietzsche		96	80	92				178.7
Blood Meridian	McCarthy	15	17	11	23	8	8	4	11.8
Bottom's Dream	Schmidt					61			366.0
Brave New World	Huxley	39	59	40	38	71	65		65.5
Bronze Age Mindset	Bronze Age Pervert	54
Buddenbrooks	Mann	62
Candide	Voltaire		97		85				273.0
Cannery Row	Steinbeck						78		468.0
Capital	Marx	63	26	57					124.5
Catch 22	Heller	32	45	27	42	35	10	14	28.8
Confessions	Augustine		31	59	51				94.0
Confessions of a Mask	Mishima		81						486.0
Correction	Bernhard		66	43					163.5
Crime and Punishment	Dostoevsky	5	4	2	10	12	5	13	7.7
Critique of Pure Reason	Kant	48	93						558.0
Cryptonomicon	Stephenson				98				588.0
Dandelion Wine	Bradbury							77	462.0
Dead Souls	Gogol				61	93	95	71	120.0
Demons	Dostoevsky	75	78						468.0
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	Dick						92	60	228.0
Don Quixote	Cervantes	8	6	12	8	11	11	8	9.3
Dubliners	Joyce	88	27	22	15	19	14	40	22.8
Dune	Herbert		71		53	74	83	29	74.4
East of Eden	Steinbeck		37	36	89	44	41	84	55.2
Essays	Montaigne		63	52					172.5
Ethics	Spinoza	94
Extinction	Bernhard	45
Fanged Noumena	Land				66				396.0
Farenheit 451	Bradbury				70		77		220.5
Faust	Goethe	76	30	28	46	33		65	48.5
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Thompson							59	354.0
Fear and Trembling	Kierkegaard		68	75					214.5
Fictions	Borges	17	41	20	16	9	19	11	19.3
Fight Club	Palahniuk							87	522.0
Finnegan's Wake	Joyce		75	81	30	39			84.4
For Whom the Bell Tolls	Hemingway						53		318.0
Foucault's Pendulum	Eco	77
Frankenstein	Shelley		100						600.0
Franny & Zooey	Salinger					87		88	262.5
Gravity's Rainbow	Pynchon	55	10	8	4	7	6	7	7.0
Growth of the Soil	Hamsun		76						456.0
Hamlet	Shakespeare	23	20	14	25	30	38	21	24.7
Heart of Darkness	Conrad		57	70	56	62	61	43	58.2
History of Charles XII	Voltaire	27
Hopscotch	Cortázar		52					86	516.0
House of Leaves	Danielewski	69
Hunger	Hamsun			42	59	54	60	72	68.9
I Am a Cat	Sōseki							99	594.0
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler	Calvino			100		47	50		131.3
Illuminatus!	Wilson; Shea							95	570.0
Industrial Society and its Future	Kaczynski	11
In Search of Lost Time	Proust	24	24	19	14	22	29	45	25.5
Infinite Jest	Wallace	16	11	10	3	3	1	1	4.8
Invisible Cities	Calvino	89	85	54	84	81	57	22	63.7
J R	Gaddis	36		77	57	75			139.3
Jerusalem	Moore				48	29			115.5
Journey to the End of the Night	Céline	46	39	35		60	52	10	47.0
Kafka on the Shore	Murakami		95			86	73		169.3
King Lear	Shakespeare		98	91		79			178.7
Kokoro	Sōseki		69						414.0
Leaves of Grass	Whitman				86			53	208.5
Les Misérables	Hugo	42	35	46	71	99	35		68.6
Life and Fate	Grossman			99					594.0
Light in August	Faulkner							70	420.0
Lolita	Nabokov	7	8	6	6	5	8	5	6.3
London Bridge	Céline	90
Lord of the Flies	Golding				100			66	249.0
Madame Bovary	Flaubert	64	51	93	44	69	54		97.5
Malone Dies	Beckett							76	456.0
Mason & Dixon	Pynchon			71	43	43	33	25	51.6
Meditations	Aurelias		40	65	36	63	79		67.9
Meditations	Descartes				62				372.0
Mein Kampf	Hitler	1
Metamorphoses	Ovid	91	94						564.0
Middlemarch	Eliot					84			504.0
Moby Dick	Melville	3	1	1	1	2	2	6	2.2
Modernity and Cultural Decline	Woodley et al	30
Molloy	Beckett				60				360.0
Mrs. Dalloway	Woolf					90			540.0
Nausea	Sartre			64		100			246.0
Neuromancer	Gibson				97				582.0
No Longer Human	Dazai	70	34	76	50	73	55		69.1
Notes from Underground	Dostoevsky	25	18	23		32	44	26	34.3
Oblomov	Goncharov					98			588.0
Of Mice and Men	Steinbeck			74			85		238.5
On the Heights of Despair	Cioran	49
On The Road	Kerouac							57	342.0
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Márquez	28	25	26	26	17	23	23	23.3
Pale Fire	Nabokov		72	47	24	36	70	81	55.0
Pan	Hamsun	92			77				462.0
Paradise Lost	Milton	93	55	24	68	46	37	98	54.7
Pedro Páramo	Rulfo	9
Phenomenology of Spirit	Hegel		44	50					141.0
Platonic Dialogues	Plato				21				126.0
Process and Reality	Whitehead		29						174.0
Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction	Salinger	78
Roadside Picnic	Strugatzky, A. & B.						89	85	261.0
Satantango	Krasznahorkai	33
Siddhartha	Hesse		62	45	64	24	25	27	41.2
Slaughterhouse-Five	Vonnegut	56		62		78	39	24	76.1
Society of the Spectacle	Debord						90		540.0
Solaris	Lem							62	372.0
Sometimes a Great Notion	Kesey			67					402.0
Steppenwolf	Hesse	79		66	96	40	42	93	80.9
Stoner	Williams	10	13	7	7	10	9	38	14.0
Storm of Steel	Jünger		48	97					217.5
Story of the Eye	Bataille	50
Summa Theologica	Aquinas		74						444.0
Suttree	McCarthy							74	444.0
Take Five	Mano	51
Tao Te Ching	Laozi	43
The Aleph	Borges						81		486.0
The Anatomy of Melancholy	Burton				75				450.0
The Bhagavad Gita	Vyasa	74	73						438.0
The Book of Disquiet	Pessoa	34	16	32	47	58	48	41	40.3
The Book of the New Sun	Wolfe		32	31	17	41	27		35.5
The Brothers Karamazov	Dostoevsky	4	3	3	9	4	3	3	4.2
The Canterbury Tales	Chaucer					80	100		270.0
The Castle	Kafka				79	95			261.0
The Catcher in the Rye	Salinger	37	43	37	58	52	16	17	37.2
The Changing Light at Sandover	Merrill	57
The Confidence-Man	Melville	87
The Count of Monte Cristo	Dumas	40	36	34	90	51	59	100	61.7
The Crying of Lot 49	Pynchon		87	86	52	42	45	47	59.8
The Death of Ivan Ilych	Tolstoy					70			420.0
The Decline of the West	Spengler		90	78					252.0
The Divine Comedy	Alighieri	38	7	16	13	16	30	32	19.0
The Ego & His Own	Stirner						71		426.0
The Elementary Particles	Houellebecq	65	77	96					259.5
The Faerie Queene	Spenser				94				564.0
The Fall	Camus				76			91	250.5
The Flowers of Evil	Baudelaire						91		546.0
The Fountainhead	Rand	95
The Glass Bead Game	Hesse			79					474.0
The Golden Bowl	James	80	89						534.0
The Good Earth	Buck							96	576.0
The Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck		84	84		77		56	112.9
The Great Gatsby	Fitzgerald			58		92	46	20	81.0
The Gulag Archipelago	Solzhenitsyn				65				390.0
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Adams							90	540.0
The Hobbit	Tolkien			60			72	44	117.3
The Holy Bible		2	2	4	5	6	22	64	17.2
The Idiot	Dostoevsky	66	33	48	80	45	58		63.4
The Iliad	Homer	6	9	9	11	15	18	94	26.0
The Leopard	Lampedusa			82					492.0
The Lord of the Rings	Tolkien	18	38	51	33	48	63		55.9
The Magic Mountain	Mann		61	49	39	53	75		66.5
The Major Works	Browne	81
The Making of Americans	Stein	41
The Man Without Qualities	Musil		49		73	83			136.7
The Master and Margarita	Bulgakov	14	50	56	27	23	20	34	35.0
The Metamorphosis	Kafka	58	42	55	81	26	47	49	50.0
The Naked Lunch	Burroughs			89	74	96	74	50	91.9
The Name of the Rose	Eco		99	95			86		186.7
The Odyssey	Homer	29	12	15	28	21	31	31	23.0
The Old Man and The Sea	Hemingway				67		34	97	132.0
The Opposing Shore	Gracq	82
The Pale King	Wallace				63	67		69	132.7
The Passion According to G.H.	Lispector	83
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Wilde			61	54	38	64	16	55.9
The Plague	Camus							35	210.0
The Portrait of a Lady	James	84
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas	Assis	59			40				240.0
The Prince	Machiavelli		92						552.0
The Quran		19	91						546.0
The Recognitions	Gaddis		28	44	18	27	56		41.5
The Red & The Black	Stendhal		70	92					552.0
The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times	Guénon	71
The Remains of the Day	Ishiguro						87		522.0
The Republic	Plato	26	23	39		68			86.7
The Rings of Saturn	Sebald				78				468.0
The Road	McCarthy				69				414.0
The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea	Mishima		47	68					172.5
The Savage Detectives	Bolaño		86		31	55	43	63	66.7
The Secret History	Tartt	96
The Simarillion	Tolkien							42	252.0
The Sirens of Titan	Vonnegut						67		402.0
The Sorrows of Young Werther	Goethe			87					522.0
The Sound and the Fury	Faulkner		64	33	37	49	36	18	39.5
The Stranger	Camus	12	21	13	32	13	13	2	15.7
The Sun Also Rises	Hemingway		80	53	93	72	62	52	68.7
The Tartar Steppe	Buzzati	60
The Temple of the Golden Pavillion	Mishima				99			58	235.5
The Trial	Kafka	47		30	12	14	28	9	22.3
The Trilogy	Beckett	67		69		28			145.5
The Tropic of Cancer	Miller						84		504.0
The Tunnel	Gass		58	72		76			137.3
The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Kundera						98		588.0
The Unconsoled	Ishiguro	52
The Wasp Factory	Banks							80	480.0
The Waste Land	Eliot					91			546.0
The Waves	Woolf			85	91	50	49	33	73.9
The World as Will and Representation	Schopenhauer		79						474.0
Thus Spoke Zarathustra	Nietzsche	72	19	25		56	97	82	67.0
To the Lighthouse	Woolf	61	54	73	41	57	94	75	81.6
Tristram Shandy	Sterne		83	83		64			153.3
Ubik	Dick							61	366.0
Ubu Roi	Jarry	35
Ulysses	Joyce	20	5	5	2	1	4	12	4.8
Under the Volcano	Lowry		82			85			250.5
V.	Pynchon	68		41	35	37	40	30	43.9
Valis	Dick							78	468.0
Voss	White	85
Walden	Thoreau							89	534.0
War and Peace	Tolstoy	13	15	18	29	18	32	36	24.7
Watership Down	Adams						66		396.0
White Fragility	DiAngelo	97
White Noise	DeLillo				55	94	17	37	76.1
Wuthering Heights	Brontë						68	39	160.5
Zhuangzi	Zhuangzi	98

/lit/ top 100 books circa 2019 (fake list)

/lit/ top 100 books circa 2019 (real list)

Collected 2014-2017 Top 100