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The Best Novels of All Time
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Rank	Number of Times Listed	Title and Author
1	6	THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2	6	ULYSSES by James Joyce
3	6	THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
4	6	ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
5	5	THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
6	5	CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
7	5	LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
8	5	BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
9	5	BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
10	4	THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
11	4	TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
12	4	THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
13	4	A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
14	4	ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
15	4	TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
16	4	INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
17	4	A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
18	4	GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
19	4	AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
20	4	A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
21	4	A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
22	4	LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
23	4	THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
24	3	1984 by George Orwell
25	3	DAVID COPPERFIELD by Charles Dickens
26	3	EMMA by Jane Austen
27	2	TESS Of The D'URBERVILLES, Thomas Hardy
28	3	THE SCARLET LETTER by Nathaniel Hawthorne
29	3	WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte
30	3	THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
31	3	SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
32	3	JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte
33	3	BELOVED by Toni Morrison
34	3	ANNA KAREINA by Leo Tolstoy
35	3	THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
36	3	NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
37	3	ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
38	3	NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
39	3	HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
40	3	UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
41	3	THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
42	3	HERZOG by Saul Bellow
43	3	THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS by Kenneth Grahame
44	3	U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
45	3	FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
46	3	AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
47	3	NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR by George Orwell
48	3	WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
49	3	THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
50	3	THE WOMAN IN WHITE by Wilkie Collins
51	3	THINGS FALL APART by Chinua Achebe
52	3	TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
53	3	MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
54	3	LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
55	3	THE MAGUS by John Fowles
56	2	THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
57	2	DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes
58	2	TOM JONES by Henry Fielding
59	2	WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy
60	2	MOBY-DICK by Herman Melville
61	2	MADAME BOVARY by Gustave Flaubert
62	2	WINNIE THE POOH by A(lan) A(lexander) Milne
63	2	GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens
64	2	THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV by Feodor Dostoevsky
65	2	TRISTAM SHANDY by Laurence Sterne
66	2	LITTLE WOMEN by Louisa M. Alcott
67	2	VANITY FAIR by William Makepeace Thackeray
68	2	PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen
69	2	IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME by Marcel Proust
70	2	THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
71	2	THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
72	2	GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
73	2	THE AWAKENING by Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
74	2	DUNE by Frank Herbert
75	2	A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
76	2	ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll
77	2	CLARISSA by Samuel Richardson
78	2	THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
79	2	A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving
80	2	THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO by Alexandre Dumas
81	2	THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY by Henry James
82	2	THE AWAKENING by Kate Chopin
83	2	OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck
84	2	ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
85	2	GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
86	2	CHARLOTE'S WEB by E. B. White
87	2	ROBINSON CRUSOE by Daniel Defoe
88	2	CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Feodor Dostoevsky
89	2	THE STAND by Stephen King
90	2	REBECCA by Daphne du Maurier
91	2	I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
92	2	HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
93	2	TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
94	2	THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
95	2	BLEAK HOUSE by Charles Dickens
96	2	ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
97	2	ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner
98	2	THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
99	2	AUSTERLITZ by W. G. Sebald
100	2	THE TRAIL by Franz Kafka

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How We Compiled The List

We gathered rankings from the following lists:

Random House Reader
Random House Board
The Radcliffe List
Time Magazine
Guardian Unlimited
BBC

We then ranked the books according to the number of times the book appeared on the above lists.

The books that were listed on all six books were compared with the other books receiving six books.

We averaged the rankings and came up with the average placement on all six lists.

For example, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald received the following votes:

Random House Readers - 13
Random House Board - 2
Radcliffe List - 1
Time Magazine - 20
Guardian Unlimited - 48
BBC - 43

This resulted with an average score of 21.166 resulting in a first place.