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
 Little Women
| 3.95 |
 As I Lay Dying
| 3.59 |
 Candide
| 3.79 |
 Death Comes for the Archbishop
| 4.18 |
 The Bridge of San Luis Rey
| 3.91 |
 Dune
| 4.29 |
 Wide Sargasso Sea
| 3.39 |
 American Pastoral
| 3.68 |
 The Power and the Glory
| 3.87 |
 The Crying of Lot 49
| 3.78 |
 The Old Man and the Sea
| 3.69 |
 Portnoy's Complaint
| 3.44 |
 Dracula
| 3.86 |
 The Portrait of a Lady
| 3.61 |
 The Picture of Dorian Grey
| 4.07 |
 For Whom the Bell Tolls
| 3.85 |
 The Corrections
| 3.81 |
 A Confederacy of Dunces
| 3.89 |
 The Metamorphosis
| 3.8 |
 Red Harvest
| 3.84 |
 Gravity's Rainbow
| 4.14 |
 The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
| 3.39 |
 The Painted Bird
| 3.75 |
 Antigone
| 3.59 |
 Go Tell It on the Mountain
| 3.92 |
 A House for Mr Biswas
| 4 |
 An American Tragedy
| 3.76 |
 The Color Purple
| 4.18 |
 Play It as It Lays
| 3.75 |
 Charlotte's Web
| 3.94 |
 The Good Soldier
| 3.31 |
 Demons
| 4.13 |
 Lucky Jim
| 3.34 |
 Ubik
| 4 |
 The Adventures of Augie March
| 3.86 |
 Rabbit, Run
| 3.61 |
 The Book Thief
| 4.33 |
 White Teeth
| 3.83 |
 Siddhartha
| 3.95 |
 The Golden Notebook
| 3.91 |
 Dead Souls
| 3.81 |
 The Heart of the Matter
| 3.75 |
 The Moviegoer
| 3.35 |
 The Outsiders
| 3.93 |
 The Confessions of Nat Turner
| 2.5 |
 Orlando: A Biography
| 3.75 |
 The Little Prince
| 4.22 |
 The Canterbury Tales
| 3 |
 Appointment in Samarra
| 4 |
 The Giver
| 4 |
