Aggregating the following lists then weighing them against one another, I came up with a list of the books everyone should read before they die
- Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels
- www.thegreatestbooks.org
- r/books user unknowns own aggregated list on the "I Tried To Make The Definitive "Top 100 Books To Read" List" thread
| #1 |  The Great Gatsby
| 3.74 | 2,786 reads | |
| #2 |  The Catcher in the Rye
| 3.6 | 2,145 reads | |
| #3 |  1984
| 4.21 | 4,200 reads | |
| #4 |  Catch-22
| 3.98 | 758 reads | |
| #5 |  Lolita
| 3.88 | 855 reads | |
| #6 |  To Kill a Mockingbird
| 4.16 | 2,764 reads | |
| #7 |  The Grapes of Wrath
| 3.78 | 627 reads | |
| #8 |  The Fellowship of the Ring
| 4.39 | 2,638 reads | |
| #9 |  To the Lighthouse
| 3.75 | 231 reads | |
| #10 |  The Sound and the Fury
| 3.7 | 167 reads | |
| #11 |  Invisible Man
| 3.83 | 200 reads | |
| #12 |  The Sun Also Rises
| 3.63 | 407 reads | |
| #13 |  Beloved
| 3.9 | 369 reads | |
| #14 |  Animal Farm
| 4.04 | 3,329 reads | |
| #15 |  Lord of the Flies
| 3.55 | 2,072 reads | |
| #16 |  One Hundred Years of Solitude
| 4.09 | 792 reads | |
| #17 |  Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
| 3.56 | 500 reads | |
| #18 |  Gone with the Wind
| 4.03 | 321 reads | |
| #19 |  Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition
| 3.83 | 173 reads | |
| #20 |  Crime and Punishment
| 4.26 | 913 reads | |
| #21 |  Mrs Dalloway
| 3.74 | 261 reads | |
| #22 |  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
| 3.67 | 711 reads | |
| #23 |  Slaughterhouse 5
| 4.09 | 1,507 reads | |
| #24 |  War and Peace
| 4.01 | 268 reads | |
| #25 |  Pride and Prejudice
| 4.17 | 1,836 reads | |
| #26 |  The Brothers Karamazov
| 4.37 | 377 reads | |
| #27 |  Wuthering Heights
| 3.62 | 976 reads | |
| #28 |  The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha
| 3.82 | 300 reads | |
| #29 |  A Passage to India
| 3.41 | 73 reads | |
| #30 |  The Complete Chronicles of Narnia
| 4.12 | 589 reads | |
| #31 |  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
| 3.9 | 734 reads | |
| #32 |  Great Expectations
| 3.52 | 563 reads | |
| #33 |  Things Fall Apart
| 3.64 | 427 reads | |
| #34 |  Heart of Darkness
| 3.3 | 643 reads | |
| #35 |  Anna Karenina
| 3.99 | 531 reads | |
| #36 |  Madame Bovary
| 3.59 | 259 reads | |
| #37 |  Jane Eyre
| 4.01 | 1,141 reads | |
| #38 |  Middlemarch
| 4.15 | 131 reads | |
| #39 |  Midnight's Children
| 4.03 | 142 reads | |
| #40 |  In Search of Lost Time
| 5 | 2 reads | |
| #41 |  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
| 4.05 | 490 reads | |
| #42 |  On the Road
| 3.34 | 458 reads | |
| #43 |  Pale Fire
| 4.29 | 97 reads | |
| #44 |  The Odyssey
| 3.8 | 936 reads | |
| #45 |  Absalom, Absalom!
| 3.9 | 46 reads | |
| #46 |  The Trial
| 3.95 | 415 reads | |
| #47 |  Brave New World
| 3.88 | 2,019 reads | |
| #48 |  Les Misérables
| 4.2 | 347 reads | |
| #49 |  Frankenstein
| 3.84 | 1,728 reads | |
| #50 |  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
| 3.9 | 26 reads | |
| #51 |  The Stranger
| 3.94 | 1,389 reads | |
| #52 |  A Clockwork Orange
| 3.9 | 696 reads | |
| #53 |  A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
| 3.6 | 218 reads | |
| #54 |  Under the Volcano
| 3.73 | 18 reads | |
| #55 |  Gulliver's Travels
| 3.43 | 300 reads | |
| #56 |  Emma
| 3.95 | 560 reads | |
| #57 |  The Idiot
| 4.04 | 197 reads | |
| #58 |  Hamlet
| 4.03 | 995 reads | |
| #59 |  The Divine Comedy
| 4.18 | 32 reads | |
| #60 |  The Magic Mountain
| 3.91 | 45 reads | |
| #61 |  Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
| 3.67 | 198 reads | |
| #62 |  Atonement
| 3.87 | 315 reads | |
| #63 |  Watchmen
| 4.44 | 991 reads | |
| #64 |  Never Let Me Go
| 3.81 | 906 reads | |
| #65 |  Vanity Fair
| 3.51 | 56 reads | |
| #66 |  The Illiad
| 3.89 | 13 reads | |
| #67 |  Native Son
| 4.03 | 85 reads | |
| #68 |  Brideshead Revisited
| 3.84 | 93 reads | |
| #69 |  I, Claudius
| 4.14 | 70 reads | |
| #70 |  Infinite Jest
| 4.22 | 238 reads | |
| #71 |  The Big Sleep
| 3.76 | 221 reads | |
| #72 |  Possession
| 3.99 | 70 reads | |
| #73 |  One Thousand and One Nights
| 3.88 | 10 reads | |
| #74 |  The Age of Innocence
| 3.99 | 121 reads | |
| #75 |  Their Eyes Were Watching God
| 3.92 | 305 reads | |
| #76 |  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
| 4.3 | 5,370 reads | |
| #77 |  All the King's Men
| 3.99 | 58 reads | |
| #78 |  The Blind Assassin
| 3.99 | 156 reads | |
| #79 |  Le Rouge et le Noir
| 3.38 | 56 reads | |
| #80 |  Ragtime
| 3.79 | 54 reads | |
| #81 |  Light In August
| 3.76 | 45 reads | |
| #82 |  The Golden Bowl
| 3 | 2 reads | |
| #83 |  The French lieutenant's woman
| 3.83 | 29 reads | |
| #84 |  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
| 4.05 | 205 reads | |
| #85 |  The Count of Monte Cristo
| 4.31 | 794 reads | |
| #86 |  The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
| 3.72 | 84 reads | |
| #87 |  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
| 4.24 | 2,716 reads | |
| #88 |  The Aeneid
| 3.7 | 102 reads | |
| #89 |  Blood Meridian
| 4.13 | 369 reads | |
| #90 |  White Noise
| 3.78 | 201 reads | |
| #91 |  David Copperfield
| 3.97 | 223 reads | |
| #92 |  Naked Lunch
| 3.1 | 119 reads | |
| #93 |  Leaves of Grass
| 3.95 | 120 reads | |
| #94 |  Snow Crash
| 3.94 | 836 reads | |
| #95 |  The Call of the Wild
| 3.64 | 420 reads | |
| #96 |  Tropic of Cancer
| 3.23 | 66 reads | |
| #97 |  Neuromancer
| 3.83 | 943 reads | |
| #98 |  Revolutionary Road
| 4.24 | 59 reads | |
| #99 |  Oedipus Rex
| 3.6 | 182 reads | |
| #100 |  The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
| 3.63 | 61 reads |
