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 | 2,786 reads |
 The Catcher in the Rye
| 3.6 | 2,145 reads |
 1984
| 4.21 | 4,204 reads |
 Catch-22
| 3.98 | 758 reads |
 Lolita
| 3.88 | 855 reads |
 To Kill a Mockingbird
| 4.16 | 2,764 reads |
 The Grapes of Wrath
| 3.78 | 627 reads |
 The Fellowship of the Ring
| 4.39 | 2,638 reads |
 To the Lighthouse
| 3.75 | 231 reads |
 The Sound and the Fury
| 3.7 | 167 reads |
 Invisible Man
| 3.83 | 200 reads |
 The Sun Also Rises
| 3.63 | 407 reads |
 Beloved
| 3.9 | 369 reads |
 Animal Farm
| 4.04 | 3,329 reads |
 Lord of the Flies
| 3.55 | 2,072 reads |
 One Hundred Years of Solitude
| 4.09 | 792 reads |
 Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
| 3.56 | 500 reads |
 Gone with the Wind
| 4.03 | 321 reads |
 Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition
| 3.83 | 173 reads |
 Crime and Punishment
| 4.26 | 913 reads |
 Mrs Dalloway
| 3.74 | 261 reads |
 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
| 3.67 | 711 reads |
 Slaughterhouse 5
| 4.09 | 1,507 reads |
 War and Peace
| 4.01 | 268 reads |
 Pride and Prejudice
| 4.17 | 1,836 reads |
 The Brothers Karamazov
| 4.37 | 377 reads |
 Wuthering Heights
| 3.62 | 976 reads |
 The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha
| 3.82 | 300 reads |
 A Passage to India
| 3.41 | 73 reads |
 The Complete Chronicles of Narnia
| 4.12 | 589 reads |
 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
| 3.9 | 734 reads |
 Great Expectations
| 3.52 | 563 reads |
 Things Fall Apart
| 3.64 | 427 reads |
 Heart of Darkness
| 3.3 | 643 reads |
 Anna Karenina
| 3.99 | 531 reads |
 Madame Bovary
| 3.59 | 259 reads |
 Jane Eyre
| 4.01 | 1,141 reads |
 Middlemarch
| 4.15 | 131 reads |
 Midnight's Children
| 4.03 | 142 reads |
 In Search of Lost Time
| 5 | 2 reads |
 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
| 4.05 | 490 reads |
 On the Road
| 3.34 | 458 reads |
 Pale Fire
| 4.29 | 97 reads |
 The Odyssey
| 3.8 | 936 reads |
 Absalom, Absalom!
| 3.9 | 46 reads |
 The Trial
| 3.95 | 415 reads |
 Brave New World
| 3.88 | 2,019 reads |
 Les Misérables
| 4.2 | 347 reads |
 Frankenstein
| 3.84 | 1,728 reads |
 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
| 3.9 | 26 reads |
 The Stranger
| 3.94 | 1,389 reads |
 A Clockwork Orange
| 3.9 | 696 reads |
 A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
| 3.6 | 218 reads |
 Under the Volcano
| 3.73 | 18 reads |
 Gulliver's Travels
| 3.43 | 300 reads |
 Emma
| 3.95 | 560 reads |
 The Idiot
| 4.04 | 197 reads |
 Hamlet
| 4.03 | 996 reads |
 The Divine Comedy
| 4.18 | 32 reads |
 The Magic Mountain
| 3.91 | 45 reads |
 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
| 3.67 | 198 reads |
 Atonement
| 3.87 | 315 reads |
 Watchmen
| 4.44 | 991 reads |
 Never Let Me Go
| 3.81 | 906 reads |
 Vanity Fair
| 3.51 | 56 reads |
 The Illiad
| 3.89 | 13 reads |
 Native Son
| 4.03 | 85 reads |
 Brideshead Revisited
| 3.84 | 93 reads |
 I, Claudius
| 4.14 | 70 reads |
 Infinite Jest
| 4.22 | 238 reads |
 The Big Sleep
| 3.76 | 221 reads |
 Possession
| 3.99 | 70 reads |
 One Thousand and One Nights
| 3.88 | 10 reads |
 The Age of Innocence
| 3.99 | 121 reads |
 Their Eyes Were Watching God
| 3.92 | 305 reads |
 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
| 4.3 | 5,370 reads |
 All the King's Men
| 3.99 | 58 reads |
 The Blind Assassin
| 3.99 | 156 reads |
 Le Rouge et le Noir
| 3.38 | 56 reads |
 Ragtime
| 3.79 | 54 reads |
 Light In August
| 3.76 | 45 reads |
 The Golden Bowl
| 3 | 2 reads |
 The French lieutenant's woman
| 3.83 | 29 reads |
 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
| 4.05 | 205 reads |
 The Count of Monte Cristo
| 4.31 | 794 reads |
 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
| 3.72 | 84 reads |
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
| 4.24 | 2,716 reads |
 The Aeneid
| 3.7 | 102 reads |
 Blood Meridian
| 4.13 | 369 reads |
 White Noise
| 3.78 | 201 reads |
 David Copperfield
| 3.97 | 223 reads |
 Naked Lunch
| 3.1 | 119 reads |
 Leaves of Grass
| 3.95 | 120 reads |
 Snow Crash
| 3.94 | 836 reads |
 The Call of the Wild
| 3.64 | 420 reads |
 Tropic of Cancer
| 3.23 | 66 reads |
 Neuromancer
| 3.83 | 943 reads |
 Revolutionary Road
| 4.24 | 59 reads |
 Oedipus Rex
| 3.6 | 182 reads |
 The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
| 3.63 | 61 reads |
