/lit/ Top 100 Lists

In 2014 and 2015, polls of posters' favorite books were conducted on /lit/.  In 2015, the poll asked for a list of both the responder's three favorite books and three favorite authors.  The responses to these polls generated the below infographics.  

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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
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  /lit/ top 100 authors circa 2015

Title	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014
1984	21	19	25	15	19
2666	29	22	34	24	15
60 Stories		95
A Clockwork Orange	98				55
A Confederacy of Dunces	88	49	59	26
A Farewell to Arms				93	46
A Hero of Our Time				76
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	38	20	31	12	67
A Scanner Darkly				99
A Tale of Two Cities				88	92
Absalom, Absalom			82	51	79
Ada, or Ardor			66	96
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn					68
Aeneid	63	82	89
Against Nature	94	45
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland		83	97	81	73
American Psycho	90	88	65	80	51
Animal Farm		72			83
Anna Karenina	17	34	20	21	28
As I lay Dying		87	88	69	48
Beyond Good and Evil	80	92
Blood Meridian	11	23	8	8	4
Bottom's Dream			61
Brave New World	40	38	71	65
Candide		85
Cannery Row				78
Capital	57
Catch 22	27	42	35	10	14
Confessions	59	51
Correction	43
Crime and Punishment	2	10	12	5	13
Cryptonomicon		98
Dandelion Wine					77
Dead Souls		61	93	95	71
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?				92	60
Don Quixote	12	8	11	11	8
Dubliners	22	15	19	14	40
Dune		53	74	83	29
East of Eden	36	89	44	41	84
Elementary Particles	96
Essays by Montaigne	52
Fanged Noumena		66
Farenheit 451		70		77
Faust	28	46	33		65
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas					59
Fear and Trembling	75
Fictions	20	16	9	19	11
Fight Club					87
Finnegan's Wake	81	30	39
For Whom the Bell Tolls				53
Franny & Zooey			87		88
Gravity's Rainbow	8	4	7	6	7
Hamlet	14	25	30	38	21
Heart of Darkness	70	56	62	61	43
Hopscotch					86
Hunger	42	59	54	60	72
I Am a Cat					99
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler	100		47	50
Illuminatus!					95
In Search of Lost Time	19	14	22	29	45
Infinite Jest	10	3	3	1	1
Invisible Cities	54	83	81	57	22
J.R.	77	57	75
Jerusalem		48	29
Journey to the End of the Night	35		60	52	10
Kafka on the Shore			86	73
King Lear	91		79
Leaves of Grass		86			53
Les Misérables	46	71	99	35
Life and Fate	99
Light in August					70
Lolita	6	6	5	8	5
Lord of the Flies		100			66
Madame Bovary	93	44	69	54
Malone Dies					76
Man Without Qualities		73
Mason & Dixon	71	43	43	33	25
Meditations Aurelias	65	36	63	79
Meditations Descartes		62
Middlemarch			84
Moby Dick	1	1	2	2	6
Molloy		60
Mrs. Dalloway			90
Nausea	64		100
Neuromancer		97
No Longer Human	76	50	73	55
Notes From Underground	23		32	44	26
Oblomov			98
Of Mice and Men	74			85
On The Road					57
One Hundred Years of Solitude	26	26	17	23	23
Pale Fire	47	24	36	70	81
Pan		77
Paradise Lost	24	68	46	37	98
Phenomenology of Spirit	50
Platonic Dialogues		21
Rings of Saturn		78
Roadside Picnic				89	85
Siddhartha	45	64	24	25	27
Slaughterhouse-Five	62		78	39	24
Society of the Spectacle				90
Solaris					62
Sometimes a Great Notion	67
Steppenwolf	66	96	40	42	93
Stoner	7	7	10	9	38
Storm of Steel	97
Suttree					74
Temple of the Golden Pavillion		99			58
The Aleph				81
The Anatomy of Melancholy		75
The Book of Disquiet	32	47	58	48	41
The Book of the New Sun	31	17	41	27
The Brothers Karamazov	3	9	4	3	3
The Canterbury Tales			80	100
The Castle		79	95
The Catcher in the Rye	37	58	52	16	17
The Count of Monte Cristo	34	90	51	59	100
The Crying of Lot 49	86	52	42	45	47
The Death of Ivan Ilych			70
The Decline of the West	78
The Divine Comedy	16	13	16	30	32
The Ego & His Own				71
The Faerie Queene		94
The Fall		76			91
The Flowers of Evil				91
The Glass Bead Game	79
The Good Earth					96
The Grapes of Wrath	84		77		56
The Great Gatsby	58		92	46	20
The Gulag Archipelago		65
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy					90
The Hobbit	60			72	44
The Holy Bible	4	5	6	22	64
The Idiot	48	80	45	58
The Iliad	9	11	15	18	94
The Leopard	82
The Lord of the Rings	51	33	48	63
The Magic Mountain	49	39	53	75
The Man Without Qualities			83
The Master and Margarita	56	27	23	20	34
The Metamorphosis	55	81	26	47	49
The Naked Lunch	89	74	96	74	50
The Name of the Rose	95			86
The Odyssey	15	28	21	31	31
The Old Man and The Sea		67		34	97
The Pale King		63	67		69
The Picture of Dorian Gray	61	54	38	64	16
The Plague					35
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubano		40
The Recognitions	44	18	27	56
The Red & The Black	92
The Remains of the Day				87
The Republic	39		68
The Road		69
The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea	68
The Savage Detectives		31	55	43	63
The Simarillion					42
The Sirens of Titan				67
The Sorrows of Young Werther	87
The Sound and the Fury	33	37	49	36	18
The Stranger	13	32	13	13	2
The Sun Also Rises	53	93	72	62	52
The Trial	30	12	14	28	9
The Trilogy (Beckett)	69		28
The Tropic of Cancer				84
The Tunnel	72		76
The Unbearable Lightness of Being				98
The Wasp Factory					80
The Waste Land			91
The Waves	85	91	50	49	33
Thus Spoke Zarathustra	25		56	97	82
To the Lighthouse	73	41	57	94	75
Tristram Shandy	83		64
Ubik					61
Ulysses	5	2	1	4	12
Under the Volcano			85
V.	41	35	37	40	30
Valis					78
Walden					89
War and Peace	18	29	18	32	36
Watership Down				66
White Noise		55	94	17	37
Wuthering Heights				68	39

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)