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
 The Great Gatsby
| 3.74 |
 The Catcher in the Rye
| 3.6 |
 1984
| 4.21 |
 Catch-22
| 3.98 |
 Lolita
| 3.88 |
 To Kill a Mockingbird
| 4.16 |
 The Grapes of Wrath
| 3.78 |
 The Fellowship of the Ring
| 4.39 |
 To the Lighthouse
| 3.75 |
 The Sound and the Fury
| 3.7 |
 Invisible Man
| 3.83 |
 The Sun Also Rises
| 3.63 |
 Beloved
| 3.9 |
 Animal Farm
| 4.04 |
 Lord of the Flies
| 3.55 |
 One Hundred Years of Solitude
| 4.09 |
 Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
| 3.56 |
 Gone with the Wind
| 4.03 |
 Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition
| 3.83 |
 Crime and Punishment
| 4.26 |
 Mrs Dalloway
| 3.74 |
 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
| 3.67 |
 Slaughterhouse 5
| 4.09 |
 War and Peace
| 4.01 |
 Pride and Prejudice
| 4.17 |
 The Brothers Karamazov
| 4.37 |
 Wuthering Heights
| 3.62 |
 The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha
| 3.82 |
 A Passage to India
| 3.41 |
 The Complete Chronicles of Narnia
| 4.12 |
 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
| 3.9 |
 Great Expectations
| 3.52 |
 Things Fall Apart
| 3.64 |
 Heart of Darkness
| 3.3 |
 Anna Karenina
| 3.99 |
 Madame Bovary
| 3.59 |
 Jane Eyre
| 4.01 |
 Middlemarch
| 4.15 |
 Midnight's Children
| 4.03 |
 In Search of Lost Time
| 5 |
 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
| 4.05 |
 On the Road
| 3.34 |
 Pale Fire
| 4.29 |
 The Odyssey
| 3.8 |
 Absalom, Absalom!
| 3.9 |
 The Trial
| 3.95 |
 Brave New World
| 3.88 |
 Les Misérables
| 4.2 |
 Frankenstein
| 3.84 |
 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
| 3.9 |
 The Stranger
| 3.94 |
 A Clockwork Orange
| 3.9 |
 A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
| 3.6 |
 Under the Volcano
| 3.73 |
 Gulliver's Travels
| 3.43 |
 Emma
| 3.95 |
 The Idiot
| 4.04 |
 Hamlet
| 4.03 |
 The Divine Comedy
| 4.18 |
 The Magic Mountain
| 3.91 |
 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
| 3.67 |
 Atonement
| 3.87 |
 Watchmen
| 4.44 |
 Never Let Me Go
| 3.81 |
 Vanity Fair
| 3.51 |
 The Illiad
| 3.89 |
 Native Son
| 4.03 |
 Brideshead Revisited
| 3.84 |
 I, Claudius
| 4.14 |
 Infinite Jest
| 4.22 |
 The Big Sleep
| 3.76 |
 Possession
| 3.99 |
 One Thousand and One Nights
| 3.88 |
 The Age of Innocence
| 3.99 |
 Their Eyes Were Watching God
| 3.92 |
 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
| 4.3 |
 All the King's Men
| 3.99 |
 The Blind Assassin
| 3.99 |
 Le Rouge et le Noir
| 3.38 |
 Ragtime
| 3.79 |
 Light In August
| 3.76 |
 The Golden Bowl
| 3 |
 The French lieutenant's woman
| 3.83 |
 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
| 4.05 |
 The Count of Monte Cristo
| 4.31 |
 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
| 3.72 |
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
| 4.24 |
 The Aeneid
| 3.7 |
 Blood Meridian
| 4.13 |
 White Noise
| 3.78 |
 David Copperfield
| 3.97 |
 Naked Lunch
| 3.1 |
 Leaves of Grass
| 3.95 |
 Snow Crash
| 3.94 |
 The Call of the Wild
| 3.64 |
 Tropic of Cancer
| 3.23 |
 Neuromancer
| 3.83 |
 Revolutionary Road
| 4.24 |
 Oedipus Rex
| 3.6 |
 The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
| 3.63 |
