/lit/ Top 100 Lists

Title	Author	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	Avg / % Listed (2014->2021)
1984	Orwell	25	31	22	21	19	25	15	19	22.1
2666	Bolaño	39	99	56	29	22	34	24	15	39.8
60 Stories	Barthelme					95				760.0
A Canticle for Leibowitz	Miller Jr.		100							800.0
A Clockwork Orange	Burgess	92			98				55	217.8
A Confederacy of Dunces	Toole	48	53	46	88	49	59	26		60.2
A Farewell to Arms	Hemingway							93	46	278.0
A Hero of Our Time	Lermontov	77		67				76		195.6
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce	35		65	38	20	31	12	67	43.8
A Scanner Darkly	Dick							99		792.0
A Tale of Two Cities	Dickens							88	92	360.0
Absalom, Absalom!	Faulkner		73				82	51	79	142.5
Ada, or Ardor	Nabokov						66	96		324.0
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Twain								68	544.0
Aeneid	Virgil	85			63	82	89			159.5
Against Nature	Huysmans			53	94	45				170.7
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Carroll					83	97	81	73	167.0
American Psycho	Ellis	47	44	60	90	88	65	80	51	65.6
Animal Farm	Orwell	70				72			83	200.0
Anna Karenina	Tolstoy	10	21	14	17	34	20	21	28	20.6
Antifragile	Taleb		86							688.0
Arcades Project	Benjamin			88						704.0
As I Lay Dying	Faulkner					87	88	69	48	146.0
Being and Time	Heidegger		22							176.0
Beyond Good and Evil	Nietzsche			96	80	92				238.2
Blood Meridian	McCarthy	9	15	17	11	23	8	8	4	11.9
Bottom's Dream	Schmidt						61			488.0
Brave New World	Huxley	31	39	59	40	38	71	65		56.0
Bronze Age Mindset	Bronze Age Pervert		54							432.0
Buddenbrooks	Mann		62							496.0
Candide	Voltaire	78		97		85				231.1
Cannery Row	Steinbeck							78		624.0
Capital	Marx	53	63	26	57					99.5
Catch 22	Heller	27	32	45	27	42	35	10	14	29.0
Confessions	Augustine	86		31	59	51				113.5
Confessions of a Mask	Mishima			81						648.0
Correction	Bernhard			66	43					218.0
Crime and Punishment	Dostoevsky	5	5	4	2	10	12	5	13	7.0
Critique of Pure Reason	Kant	72	48	93						189.3
Cryptonomicon	Stephenson					98				784.0
Dandelion Wine	Bradbury								77	616.0
Dead Souls	Gogol					61	93	95	71	160.0
Demons	Dostoevsky	34	75	78						166.2
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	Dick							92	60	304.0
Don Quixote	Cervantes	7	8	6	12	8	11	11	8	8.9
Dubliners	Joyce	56	88	27	22	15	19	14	40	35.1
Dune	Herbert	32		71		53	74	83	29	76.0
East of Eden	Steinbeck	29		37	36	89	44	41	84	58.8
Essays	Montaigne			63	52					230.0
Ethics	Spinoza		94							752.0
Extinction	Bernhard		45							360.0
Fanged Noumena	Land					66				528.0
Farenheit 451	Bradbury					70		77		294.0
Faust	Goethe	26	76	30	28	46	33		65	49.6
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Thompson	52							59	222.0
Fear and Trembling	Kierkegaard			68	75					286.0
Ferdydurke	Gombrowicz	51								408.0
Fictions	Borges	16	17	41	20	16	9	19	11	18.6
Fight Club	Palahniuk								87	696.0
Finnegan's Wake	Joyce	95		75	81	30	39			102.4
For Whom the Bell Tolls	Hemingway	80						53		266.0
Foucault's Pendulum	Eco		77							616.0
Frankenstein	Shelley	57		100						314.0
Franny & Zooey	Salinger						87		88	350.0
Gravity's Rainbow	Pynchon	13	55	10	8	4	7	6	7	13.8
Growth of the Soil	Hamsun			76						608.0
Hamlet	Shakespeare	23	23	20	14	25	30	38	21	24.3
Heart of Darkness	Conrad	62		57	70	56	62	61	43	67.1
History of Charles XII	Voltaire		27							216.0
Hopscotch	Cortázar			52					86	276.0
House of Leaves	Danielewski		69							552.0
Hunger	Hamsun	71			42	59	54	60	72	79.6
I Am a Cat	Sōseki								99	792.0
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler	Calvino				100		47	50		175.1
Illuminatus!	Wilson; Shea								95	760.0
In Search of Lost Time	Proust	24	24	24	19	14	22	29	45	25.1
Industrial Society and its Future	Kaczynski	54	11							130.0
Infinite Jest	Wallace	6	16	11	10	3	3	1	1	6.4
Invisible Cities	Calvino	90	89	85	54	84	81	57	22	70.3
J R	Gaddis		36		77	57	75			185.8
Jerusalem	Moore					48	29			154.0
Journey to the End of the Night	Céline	46	46	39	35		60	52	10	47.0
Kafka on the Shore	Murakami			95			86	73		225.8
King Lear	Shakespeare			98	91		79			238.2
Kokoro	Sōseki			69						552.0
Leaves of Grass	Whitman					86			53	278.0
Les Misérables	Hugo	58	42	35	46	71	99	35		63.0
Libra	DeLillo	82								656.0
Life and Fate	Grossman				99					792.0
Light in August	Faulkner								70	560.0
Lolita	Nabokov	8	7	8	6	6	5	8	5	6.6
London Bridge	Céline		90							720.0
Lord of the Flies	Golding					100			66	332.0
Macbeth	Shakespeare	84								672.0
Madame Bovary	Flaubert	73	64	51	93	44	69	54		73.1
Malone Dies	Beckett								76	608.0
Mason & Dixon	Pynchon	59			71	43	43	33	25	60.9
Meditations	Aurelias	45		40	65	36	63	79		72.9
Meditations	Descartes					62				496.0
Mein Kampf	Hitler	20	1							42.0
Metamorphoses	Ovid		91	94						370.0
Middlemarch	Eliot						84			672.0
Moby Dick	Melville	2	3	1	1	1	2	2	6	2.3
Modernity and Cultural Decline	Woodley et al		30							240.0
Molloy	Beckett					60				480.0
Mrs. Dalloway	Woolf						90			720.0
Nausea	Sartre				64		100			328.0
Neuromancer	Gibson					97				776.0
No Longer Human	Dazai	75	70	34	76	50	73	55		70.7
Notes from Underground	Dostoevsky	21	25	18	23		32	44	26	30.9
Oblomov	Goncharov						98			784.0
Of Mice and Men	Steinbeck				74			85		318.0
On the Heights of Despair	Cioran		49							392.0
On The Road	Kerouac								57	456.0
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Márquez	30	28	25	26	26	17	23	23	24.8
Pale Fire	Nabokov			72	47	24	36	70	81	73.3
Pan	Hamsun		92			77				338.0
Paradise Lost	Milton	65	93	55	24	68	46	37	98	60.8
Pedro Páramo	Rulfo	79	9							176.0
Phenomenology of Spirit	Hegel	97		44	50					169.8
Platonic Dialogues	Plato					21				168.0
Process and Reality	Whitehead			29						232.0
Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction	Salinger		78							624.0
Roadside Picnic	Strugatzky, A. & B.							89	85	348.0
Satantango	Krasznahorkai		33							264.0
Siddhartha	Hesse	91		62	45	64	24	25	27	55.2
Slaughterhouse-Five	Vonnegut	50	56		62		78	39	24	68.7
Society of the Spectacle	Debord							90		720.0
Solaris	Lem								62	496.0
Sometimes a Great Notion	Kesey				67					536.0
Steppenwolf	Hesse	68	79		66	96	40	42	93	79.0
Stoner	Williams	17	10	13	7	7	10	9	38	13.9
Storm of Steel	Jünger			48	97					290.0
Story of the Eye	Bataille		50							400.0
Summa Theologica	Aquinas			74						592.0
Suttree	McCarthy								74	592.0
Take Five	Mano		51							408.0
Tao Te Ching	Laozi		43							344.0
The Aleph	Borges							81		648.0
The Anatomy of Melancholy	Burton					75				600.0
The Bhagavad Gita	Vyasa	69	74	73						192.0
The Book of Disquiet	Pessoa	37	34	16	32	47	58	48	41	39.1
The Book of the New Sun	Wolfe	40		32	31	17	41	27		41.8
The Brothers Karamazov	Dostoevsky	3	4	3	3	9	4	3	3	4.0
The Canterbury Tales	Chaucer						80	100		360.0
The Castle	Kafka					79	95			348.0
The Catcher in the Rye	Salinger	22	37	43	37	58	52	16	17	35.3
The Changing Light at Sandover	Merrill		57							456.0
The Confidence-Man	Melville		87							696.0
The Count of Monte Cristo	Dumas	44	40	36	34	90	51	59	100	56.8
The Crying of Lot 49	Pynchon	93		87	86	52	42	45	47	73.8
The Death of Ivan Ilych	Tolstoy						70			560.0
The Death of Virgil	Broch	81								648.0
The Decline of the West	Spengler	96		90	78					234.7
The Divine Comedy	Alighieri	14	38	7	16	13	16	30	32	20.8
The Ego & His Own	Stirner							71		568.0
The Elementary Particles	Houellebecq	74	65	77	96					156.0
The Epic of Gilgamesh	Sin-Leqi-Unninni	87								696.0
The Faerie Queene	Spenser					94				752.0
The Fall	Camus					76			91	334.0
The Flowers of Evil	Baudelaire							91		728.0
The Fountainhead	Rand		95							760.0
The Glass Bead Game	Hesse				79					632.0
The Golden Bowl	James		80	89						338.0
The Good Earth	Buck								96	768.0
The Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck	76		84	84		77		56	120.6
The Great Gatsby	Fitzgerald	43			58		92	46	20	82.9
The Gulag Archipelago	Solzhenitsyn					65				520.0
The Histories	Herodotus	67								536.0
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Adams								90	720.0
The Hobbit	Tolkien				60			72	44	156.4
The Holy Bible		1	2	2	4	5	6	22	64	13.3
The Idiot	Dostoevsky	36	66	33	48	80	45	58		59.8
The Iliad	Homer	4	6	9	9	11	15	18	94	20.8
The Leopard	Lampedusa				82					656.0
The Lord of the Rings	Tolkien	19	18	38	51	33	48	63		44.1
The Magic Mountain	Mann	88		61	49	39	53	75		81.1
The Major Works	Browne		81							648.0
The Making of Americans	Stein		41							328.0
The Man Without Qualities	Musil			49		73	83			182.2
The Master and Margarita	Bulgakov	28	14	50	56	27	23	20	34	31.5
The Metamorphosis	Kafka	55	58	42	55	81	26	47	49	51.6
The Naked Lunch	Burroughs				89	74	96	74	50	122.6
The Name of the Rose	Eco			99	95			86		248.9
The Odyssey	Homer	11	29	12	15	28	21	31	31	22.3
The Old Man and The Sea	Hemingway	66				67		34	97	132.0
The Opposing Shore	Gracq		82							656.0
The Pale King	Wallace					63	67		69	176.9
The Passion According to G.H.	Lispector		83							664.0
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Wilde	63			61	54	38	64	16	65.8
The Plague	Camus								35	280.0
The Portrait of a Lady	James		84							672.0
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas	Machado de Assis	83								664.0
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas	Assis		59			40				198.0
The Prince	Machiavelli			92						736.0
The Quran			19	91						220.0
The Recognitions	Gaddis			28	44	18	27	56		55.4
The Red & The Black	Stendhal	98		70	92					231.1
The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times	Guénon		71							568.0
The Remains of the Day	Ishiguro							87		696.0
The Republic	Plato	41	26	23	39		68			63.0
The Rings of Saturn	Sebald					78				624.0
The Road	McCarthy					69				552.0
The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea	Mishima	42		47	68					139.6
The Savage Detectives	Bolaño	60		86		31	55	43	63	75.1
The Secret History	Tartt		96							768.0
The Simarillion	Tolkien								42	336.0
The Sirens of Titan	Vonnegut							67		536.0
The Sorrows of Young Werther	Goethe				87					696.0
The Sound and the Fury	Faulkner	38		64	33	37	49	36	18	44.9
The Stranger	Camus	18	12	21	13	32	13	13	2	15.5
The Sun Also Rises	Hemingway			80	53	93	72	62	52	91.6
The Tartar Steppe	Buzzati		60							480.0
The Temple of the Golden Pavillion	Mishima	99				99			58	227.6
The Trial	Kafka		47		30	12	14	28	9	31.1
The Trilogy	Beckett	94	67		69		28			129.0
The Tropic of Cancer	Miller							84		672.0
The Tunnel	Gass	64		58	72		76			135.0
The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Kundera							98		784.0
The Unconsoled	Ishiguro		52							416.0
The Wasp Factory	Banks								80	640.0
The Waste Land	Eliot						91			728.0
The Waves	Woolf				85	91	50	49	33	98.6
The World as Will and Representation	Schopenhauer			79						632.0
Thus Spoke Zarathustra	Nietzsche	33	72	19	25		56	97	82	62.7
To the Lighthouse	Woolf	61	61	54	73	41	57	94	75	64.5
Tristram Shandy	Sterne			83	83		64			204.4
Ubik	Dick								61	488.0
Ubu Roi	Jarry		35							280.0
Ulysses	Joyce	15	20	5	5	2	1	4	12	8.0
Under the Volcano	Lowry			82			85			334.0
V.	Pynchon		68		41	35	37	40	30	55.8
Valis	Dick								78	624.0
Voss	White		85							680.0
Walden	Thoreau	89							89	356.0
War and Peace	Tolstoy	12	13	15	18	29	18	32	36	21.6
Watership Down	Adams							66		528.0
White Fragility	DiAngelo		97							776.0
White Noise	DeLillo					55	94	17	37	101.5
Wuthering Heights	Brontë	49						68	39	138.7
Zeno's Conscience	Svevo	100								800.0
Zhuangzi	Zhuangzi		98							784.0