/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.)  

Collected 2014-2017 Top 100

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  /lit/ top 100 books circa 2014
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  /lit/ top 100 books circa 2015
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  /lit/ top 100 books circa 2016
• /lit/ top 100 books circa 2017
  /lit/ top 100 books circa 2017
• /lit/ top 100 books circa 2018
  /lit/ top 100 books circa 2018
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  /lit/ top 100 authors circa 2015

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

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

Title		2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	Avg / % Listed
1984	22	21	19	25	15	19	20.2
2666	56	29	22	34	24	15	30.0
60 Stories			95				570.0
A Clockwork Orange		98				55	229.5
A Confederacy of Dunces	46	88	49	59	26		64.3
A Farewell to Arms					93	46	208.5
A Hero of Our Time	67				76		214.5
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	65	38	20	31	12	67	38.8
A Scanner Darkly					99		594.0
A Tale of Two Cities					88	92	270.0
Absalom, Absalom				82	51	79	141.3
Ada, or Ardor				66	96		243.0
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn						68	408.0
Aeneid		63	82	89			156.0
Against Nature	53	94	45				208.5
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland			83	97	81	73	125.3
American Psycho	60	90	88	65	80	51	72.3
Animal Farm			72			83	232.5
Anna Karenina	14	17	34	20	21	28	22.3
Arcades Project	88						528.0
As I lay Dying			87	88	69	48	109.5
Beyond Good and Evil	96	80	92				178.7
Blood Meridian	17	11	23	8	8	4	11.8
Bottom's Dream				61			366.0
Brave New World	59	40	38	71	65		65.5
Candide	97		85				273.0
Cannery Row					78		468.0
Capital	26	57					124.5
Catch 22	45	27	42	35	10	14	28.8
Confessions	31	59	51				94.0
Confessions of a Mask	81						486.0
Correction	66	43					163.5
Crime and Punishment	4	2	10	12	5	13	7.7
Critique of Pure Reason	93						558.0
Cryptonomicon			98				588.0
Dandelion Wine						77	462.0
Dead Souls			61	93	95	71	120.0
Demons	78						468.0
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?					92	60	228.0
Don Quixote	6	12	8	11	11	8	9.3
Dubliners	27	22	15	19	14	40	22.8
Dune	71		53	74	83	29	74.4
East of Eden	37	36	89	44	41	84	55.2
Elementary Particles	77	96					259.5
Essays by Montaigne	63	52					172.5
Fanged Noumena			66				396.0
Farenheit 451			70		77		220.5
Faust	30	28	46	33		65	48.5
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas						59	354.0
Fear and Trembling	68	75					214.5
Fictions (Borges)	41	20	16	9	19	11	19.3
Fight Club						87	522.0
Finnegan's Wake	75	81	30	39			84.4
For Whom the Bell Tolls					53		318.0
Frankenstein	100						600.0
Franny & Zooey				87		88	262.5
Gravity's Rainbow	10	8	4	7	6	7	7.0
Growth of the Soil	76						456.0
Hamlet	20	14	25	30	38	21	24.7
Heart of Darkness	57	70	56	62	61	43	58.2
Hopscotch	52					86	516.0
Hunger		42	59	54	60	72	68.9
I Am a Cat						99	594.0
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler		100		47	50		131.3
Illuminatus!						95	570.0
In Search of Lost Time	24	19	14	22	29	45	25.5
Infinite Jest	11	10	3	3	1	1	4.8
Invisible Cities	85	54	83	81	57	22	63.7
J.R.		77	57	75			139.3
Jerusalem			48	29			115.5
Journey to the End of the Night	39	35		60	52	10	47.0
Kafka on the Shore	95			86	73		169.3
King Lear	98	91		79			178.7
Kokoro	69						414.0
Leaves of Grass			86			53	208.5
Les Misérables	35	46	71	99	35		68.6
Life and Fate		99					594.0
Light in August						70	420.0
Lolita	8	6	6	5	8	5	6.3
Lord of the Flies			100			66	249.0
Madame Bovary	51	93	44	69	54		97.5
Malone Dies						76	456.0
Mason & Dixon		71	43	43	33	25	51.6
Meditations Aurelias	40	65	36	63	79		67.9
Meditations Descartes			62				372.0
Metamorphoses (Ovid)	94						564.0
Middlemarch				84			504.0
Moby Dick	1	1	1	2	2	6	2.2
Molloy			60				360.0
Mrs. Dalloway				90			540.0
Nausea		64		100			246.0
Neuromancer			97				582.0
No Longer Human	34	76	50	73	55		69.1
Notes From Underground	18	23		32	44	26	34.3
Oblomov				98			588.0
Of Mice and Men		74			85		238.5
On The Road						57	342.0
One Hundred Years of Solitude	25	26	26	17	23	23	23.3
Pale Fire	72	47	24	36	70	81	55.0
Pan			77				462.0
Paradise Lost	55	24	68	46	37	98	54.7
Phenomenology of Spirit	44	50					141.0
Platonic Dialogues			21				126.0
Process and Reality	29						174.0
Rings of Saturn			78				468.0
Roadside Picnic					89	85	261.0
Siddhartha	62	45	64	24	25	27	41.2
Slaughterhouse-Five		62		78	39	24	76.1
Society of the Spectacle					90		540.0
Solaris						62	372.0
Sometimes a Great Notion		67					402.0
Steppenwolf		66	96	40	42	93	80.9
Stoner	13	7	7	10	9	38	14.0
Storm of Steel	48	97					217.5
Summa Theologica	74						444.0
Suttree						74	444.0
Temple of the Golden Pavillion			99			58	235.5
The Aleph					81		486.0
The Anatomy of Melancholy			75				450.0
The Bhagavad Gita	73						438.0
The Book of Disquiet	16	32	47	58	48	41	40.3
The Book of the New Sun	32	31	17	41	27		35.5
The Brothers Karamazov	3	3	9	4	3	3	4.2
The Canterbury Tales				80	100		270.0
The Castle			79	95			261.0
The Catcher in the Rye	43	37	58	52	16	17	37.2
The Count of Monte Cristo	36	34	90	51	59	100	61.7
The Crying of Lot 49	87	86	52	42	45	47	59.8
The Death of Ivan Ilych				70			420.0
The Decline of the West	90	78					252.0
The Divine Comedy	7	16	13	16	30	32	19.0
The Ego & His Own					71		426.0
The Faerie Queene			94				564.0
The Fall			76			91	250.5
The Flowers of Evil					91		546.0
The Glass Bead Game		79					474.0
The Golden Bowl	89
The Good Earth						96	576.0
The Grapes of Wrath	84	84		77		56	112.9
The Great Gatsby		58		92	46	20	81.0
The Gulag Archipelago			65				390.0
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy						90	540.0
The Hobbit		60			72	44	117.3
The Holy Bible	2	4	5	6	22	64	17.2
The Idiot	33	48	80	45	58		63.4
The Iliad	9	9	11	15	18	94	26.0
The Leopard		82					492.0
The Lord of the Rings	38	51	33	48	63		55.9
The Magic Mountain	61	49	39	53	75		66.5
The Man Without Qualities	49		73	83			136.7
The Master and Margarita	50	56	27	23	20	34	35.0
The Metamorphosis (Kafka)	42	55	81	26	47	49	50.0
The Naked Lunch		89	74	96	74	50	91.9
The Name of the Rose	99	95			86		186.7
The Odyssey	12	15	28	21	31	31	23.0
The Old Man and The Sea			67		34	97	132.0
The Pale King			63	67		69	132.7
The Picture of Dorian Gray		61	54	38	64	16	55.9
The Plague						35	210.0
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubano			40				240.0
The Prince	92						552.0
The Quran	91						546.0
The Recognitions	28	44	18	27	56		41.5
The Red & The Black	70	92					552.0
The Remains of the Day					87		522.0
The Republic	23	39		68			86.7
The Road			69				414.0
The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea	47	68					172.5
The Savage Detectives	86		31	55	43	63	66.7
The Simarillion						42	252.0
The Sirens of Titan					67		402.0
The Sorrows of Young Werther		87					522.0
The Sound and the Fury	64	33	37	49	36	18	39.5
The Stranger	21	13	32	13	13	2	15.7
The Sun Also Rises	80	53	93	72	62	52	68.7
The Trial		30	12	14	28	9	22.3
The Trilogy (Beckett)		69		28			145.5
The Tropic of Cancer					84		504.0
The Tunnel	58	72		76			137.3
The Unbearable Lightness of Being					98		588.0
The Wasp Factory						80	480.0
The Waste Land				91			546.0
The Waves		85	91	50	49	33	73.9
The World as Will and Representation	79						474.0
Thus Spoke Zarathustra	19	25		56	97	82	67.0
To the Lighthouse	54	73	41	57	94	75	81.6
Tristram Shandy	83	83		64			153.3
Ubik						61	366.0
Ulysses	5	5	2	1	4	12	4.8
Under the Volcano	82			85			250.5
V.		41	35	37	40	30	43.9
Valis						78	468.0
Walden						89	534.0
War and Peace	15	18	29	18	32	36	24.7
Watership Down					66		396.0
White Noise			55	94	17	37	76.1
Wuthering Heights					68	39	160.5

69% of the books from the 2014 list made it onto the 2015 list.Facts about the similarities and differences between the 2014 poll results and the 2015 poll results are as follows:

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)