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200-ish Books to Read Before You Die

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
The Catcher in the Rye
1984
Catch-22
Lolita
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Grapes of Wrath
The Fellowship of the Ring
To the Lighthouse
The Sound and the Fury
Invisible Man
The Sun Also Rises
Beloved
Animal Farm
Lord of the Flies
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
Gone with the Wind
Ulysses
Crime and Punishment
Mrs Dalloway
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Slaughterhouse 5
War and Peace
Pride and Prejudice
The Brothers Karamazov
Wuthering Heights
The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha
A Passage to India
The Complete Chronicles of Narnia
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Great Expectations
Things Fall Apart
Heart of Darkness
Anna Karenina
Madame Bovary
Jane Eyre
Middlemarch
Midnight's Children
In Search of Lost Time
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
On the Road
Pale Fire
The Odyssey
Absalom, Absalom!
The Trial
Brave New World
Les Misérables
Frankenstein
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
The Stranger
A Clockwork Orange
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Under the Volcano
Gulliver's Travels
Emma
The Idiot
Hamlet
The Divine Comedy
The Magic Mountain
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Atonement
Watchmen
Never Let Me Go
Vanity Fair
The Illiad
Native Son
Brideshead Revisited
I, Claudius
Infinite Jest
The Big Sleep
Possession
One Thousand and One Nights
The Age of Innocence
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
All the King's Men
The Blind Assassin
Le Rouge et le Noir
Ragtime
Light In August
The Golden Bowl
The French lieutenant's woman
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Aeneid
Blood Meridian
White Noise
David Copperfield
Naked Lunch
Leaves of Grass
Snow Crash
The Call of the Wild
Tropic of Cancer
Neuromancer
Revolutionary Road
Oedipus Rex
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
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