| Title | Author | Year | Lists out of 8 |
| 1984 | George Orwell | 1948 | 7 |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1939 | 7 |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 | 7 |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 6 | |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 1955 | 6 |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac | 1957 | 6 |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 1951 | 6 |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | 1929 | 6 |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | 1926 | 6 |
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | 1963 | 5 |
| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | 5 | |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | 1946 | 5 |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1987 | 5 |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 5 | |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 1961 | 5 |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 1936 | 5 |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | 1952 | 5 |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 | 5 |
| One Flew Over the Cockoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | 1962 | 5 |
| Slaughterhouse Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 1969 | 5 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1960 | 5 |
| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | 1927 | 5 |
| A Passage to India | E.M. Forster | 1924 | 4 |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | 4 | |
| An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser | 1925 | 4 |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | 4 | |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | 4 | |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | 1946 | 4 |
| Farenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 4 | |
| Light in August | William Faulkner | 1932 | 4 |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London | 4 | |
| The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | 4 | |
| The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1954 | 4 |
| Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller | 1934 | 4 |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | 4 | |
| A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | 3 | |
| A House for Mr. Biswas | V.S. Naipaul | 1962 | 3 |
| Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner | 3 | |
| All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren | 1946 | 3 |
| Blood Meridian | Cormac McCarthy | 1986 | 3 |
| Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather | 1927 | 3 |
| Go Tell it on the Mountain | James Baldwin | 1953 | 3 |
| I, Claudius | Robert Graves | 1934 | 3 |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | 3 | |
| Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | 1981 | 3 |
| Naked Lunch | William Borroughs | 1959 | 3 |
| Native Son | Richard Wright | 1940 | 3 |
| Of Human Bondage | W. Somerset Maugham | 3 | |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 3 | |
| Siddharta | Hermann Hesse | 3 | |
| Sons and Lovers | D.H. Lawrence | 3 | |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 3 | |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | 3 | |
| The French Lieutenant's Woman | John Fowles | 1969 | 3 |
| The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | 3 | |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers | 1940 | 3 |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | 3 | |
| The Moviegoer | Walker Percy | 1961 | 3 |
| The Sheltering Sky | Paul Bowles | 1949 | 3 |
| Under the Volcano | Malcolm Lowry | 1947 | 3 |
| Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys | 1966 | 3 |
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
The Reading List (Top 61)
Here are the top 61 books on my list. These books were each on at least 3 of the 8 lists I went through. The top 3 books (1984, The Grapes of Wrath, and The Great Gatsby) were each on 7 of the 8 lists.
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