/lit/ Top 100 Lists

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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
Collected 2014-2017 Top 100


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

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


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