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
| 2,786 reads |
| #2 |  The Catcher in the Rye
| 2,145 reads |
| #3 |  1984
| 4,204 reads |
| #4 |  Catch-22
| 758 reads |
| #5 |  Lolita
| 855 reads |
| #6 |  To Kill a Mockingbird
| 2,764 reads |
| #7 |  The Grapes of Wrath
| 627 reads |
| #8 |  The Fellowship of the Ring
| 2,638 reads |
| #9 |  To the Lighthouse
| 231 reads |
| #10 |  The Sound and the Fury
| 167 reads |
| #11 |  Invisible Man
| 200 reads |
| #12 |  The Sun Also Rises
| 407 reads |
| #13 |  Beloved
| 369 reads |
| #14 |  Animal Farm
| 3,329 reads |
| #15 |  Lord of the Flies
| 2,072 reads |
| #16 |  One Hundred Years of Solitude
| 792 reads |
| #17 |  Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
| 500 reads |
| #18 |  Gone with the Wind
| 321 reads |
| #19 |  Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition
| 173 reads |
| #20 |  Crime and Punishment
| 913 reads |
| #21 |  Mrs Dalloway
| 261 reads |
| #22 |  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
| 711 reads |
| #23 |  Slaughterhouse 5
| 1,507 reads |
| #24 |  War and Peace
| 268 reads |
| #25 |  Pride and Prejudice
| 1,836 reads |
| #26 |  The Brothers Karamazov
| 377 reads |
| #27 |  Wuthering Heights
| 976 reads |
| #28 |  The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha
| 300 reads |
| #29 |  A Passage to India
| 73 reads |
| #30 |  The Complete Chronicles of Narnia
| 589 reads |
| #31 |  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
| 734 reads |
| #32 |  Great Expectations
| 563 reads |
| #33 |  Things Fall Apart
| 427 reads |
| #34 |  Heart of Darkness
| 643 reads |
| #35 |  Anna Karenina
| 531 reads |
| #36 |  Madame Bovary
| 259 reads |
| #37 |  Jane Eyre
| 1,141 reads |
| #38 |  Middlemarch
| 131 reads |
| #39 |  Midnight's Children
| 142 reads |
| #40 |  In Search of Lost Time
| 2 reads |
| #41 |  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
| 490 reads |
| #42 |  On the Road
| 458 reads |
| #43 |  Pale Fire
| 97 reads |
| #44 |  The Odyssey
| 936 reads |
| #45 |  Absalom, Absalom!
| 46 reads |
| #46 |  The Trial
| 415 reads |
| #47 |  Brave New World
| 2,019 reads |
| #48 |  Les Misérables
| 347 reads |
| #49 |  Frankenstein
| 1,728 reads |
| #50 |  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
| 26 reads |
| #51 |  The Stranger
| 1,389 reads |
| #52 |  A Clockwork Orange
| 696 reads |
| #53 |  A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
| 218 reads |
| #54 |  Under the Volcano
| 18 reads |
| #55 |  Gulliver's Travels
| 300 reads |
| #56 |  Emma
| 560 reads |
| #57 |  The Idiot
| 197 reads |
| #58 |  Hamlet
| 996 reads |
| #59 |  The Divine Comedy
| 32 reads |
| #60 |  The Magic Mountain
| 45 reads |
| #61 |  Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
| 198 reads |
| #62 |  Atonement
| 315 reads |
| #63 |  Watchmen
| 991 reads |
| #64 |  Never Let Me Go
| 906 reads |
| #65 |  Vanity Fair
| 56 reads |
| #66 |  The Illiad
| 13 reads |
| #67 |  Native Son
| 85 reads |
| #68 |  Brideshead Revisited
| 93 reads |
| #69 |  I, Claudius
| 70 reads |
| #70 |  Infinite Jest
| 238 reads |
| #71 |  The Big Sleep
| 221 reads |
| #72 |  Possession
| 70 reads |
| #73 |  One Thousand and One Nights
| 10 reads |
| #74 |  The Age of Innocence
| 121 reads |
| #75 |  Their Eyes Were Watching God
| 305 reads |
| #76 |  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
| 5,370 reads |
| #77 |  All the King's Men
| 58 reads |
| #78 |  The Blind Assassin
| 156 reads |
| #79 |  Le Rouge et le Noir
| 56 reads |
| #80 |  Ragtime
| 54 reads |
| #81 |  Light In August
| 45 reads |
| #82 |  The Golden Bowl
| 2 reads |
| #83 |  The French lieutenant's woman
| 29 reads |
| #84 |  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
| 205 reads |
| #85 |  The Count of Monte Cristo
| 794 reads |
| #86 |  The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
| 84 reads |
| #87 |  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
| 2,716 reads |
| #88 |  The Aeneid
| 102 reads |
| #89 |  Blood Meridian
| 369 reads |
| #90 |  White Noise
| 201 reads |
| #91 |  David Copperfield
| 223 reads |
| #92 |  Naked Lunch
| 119 reads |
| #93 |  Leaves of Grass
| 120 reads |
| #94 |  Snow Crash
| 836 reads |
| #95 |  The Call of the Wild
| 420 reads |
| #96 |  Tropic of Cancer
| 66 reads |
| #97 |  Neuromancer
| 943 reads |
| #98 |  Revolutionary Road
| 59 reads |
| #99 |  Oedipus Rex
| 182 reads |
| #100 |  The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
| 61 reads |
