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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

#101

Little Women

#1 of 3 in Little Women

198 • 1,919 Readers • 449 pages 4

#102

As I Lay Dying

1930 • 564 Readers • 231 pages 3.6

#103

Candide

1738 • 673 Readers • 208 pages 3.8

#104

Death Comes for the Archbishop

1927 • 119 Readers • 306 pages 4.1

#105

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

1927 • 97 Readers 3.8

#106

Dune

#1 of 9 in Dune

1965 • 5,948 Readers • 704 pages 4.3

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#107

Wide Sargasso Sea

1966 • 349 Readers • 189 pages 3.4

#108

American Pastoral

#6 of 9 in Complete Nathan Zuckerman

1997 • 251 Readers • 434 pages 3.6

#109

The Power and the Glory

1940 • 140 Readers • 221 pages 3.8

#110

The Crying of Lot 49

1965 • 471 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

#111

The Old Man and the Sea

1952 • 1,981 Readers • 127 pages 3.7

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#112

Portnoy's Complaint

1969 • 162 Readers • 296 pages 3.4

#113

Dracula

24 • 2,726 Readers • 440 pages 3.9

#114

The Portrait of a Lady

#1 of 2 in The Portrait of a Lady (2 volumes)

1881 • 214 Readers • 649 pages 3.7

#115

The Picture of Dorian Grey

1890 • 3,104 Readers • 186 pages 4.1

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#116

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1901 • 723 Readers • 484 pages 3.9

#117

The Corrections

2001 • 415 Readers • 676 pages 3.8

#118

A Confederacy of Dunces

1978 • 724 Readers • 338 pages 3.9

#119

The Metamorphosis

1915 • 2,234 Readers • 106 pages 3.8

#120

Red Harvest

#1 of 4 in The Continental Op

1927 • 129 Readers • 215 pages 3.9

#121

Gravity's Rainbow

1973 • 595 Readers • 760 pages 4.2

#122

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

1749 • 93 Readers • 975 pages 3.5

#123

The Painted Bird

101 Readers 3.6

#124

Antigone

#3 of 3 in The Theban Plays

-441 • 297 Readers • 128 pages 3.6

#125

Go Tell It on the Mountain

1953 • 320 Readers • 184 pages 3.9

#126

A House for Mr Biswas

1961 • 94 Readers • 590 pages 3.8

#127

An American Tragedy

#140 of 55 in LOA

1900 • 118 Readers • 502 pages 3.8

#128

The Color Purple

#1 of 3 in The Color Purple Collection

1976 • 1,201 Readers • 288 pages 4.2

#129

Play It as It Lays

1970 • 312 Readers • 227 pages 3.7

#130

Charlotte's Web

1,148 Readers 4

#131

The Good Soldier

1915 • 130 Readers • 222 pages 3.3

#132

Demons

195 • 379 Readers • 768 pages 4.2

#133

Lucky Jim

1954 • 122 Readers • 276 pages 3.4

#134

Ubik

1969 • 740 Readers • 285 pages 4

#135

The Adventures of Augie March

1953 • 93 Readers • 386 pages 3.9

#136

Rabbit, Run

#1 of 6 in Rabbit Angstrom

1960 • 162 Readers • 337 pages 3.6

#137

The Book Thief

2005 • 2,839 Readers • 552 pages 4.3

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#138

White Teeth

2001 • 446 Readers • 448 pages 3.8

#139

Siddhartha

1922 • 1,466 Readers • 152 pages 3.9

#140

The Golden Notebook

1962 • 159 Readers • 676 pages 3.8

#141

Dead Souls

1842 • 314 Readers • 520 pages 3.8

#142

The Heart of the Matter

1948 • 82 Readers • 272 pages 3.8

#143

The Moviegoer

1961 • 138 Readers • 242 pages 3.3

#144

The Outsiders

1967 • 1,330 Readers • 229 pages 3.9

#145

The Confessions of Nat Turner

1920 • 43 Readers • 454 pages 2.3

#146

Orlando

1919 • 457 Readers • 333 pages 3.8

#147

The Little Prince

1 • 2,596 Readers • 136 pages 4.2

#148

The Canterbury Tales

1400 • 43 Readers • 672 pages 3.4

#149

Appointment in Samarra

1934 • 72 Readers 3.7

#150

The Giver

#1 of 4 in The Giver

1993 • 2,472 Readers • 202 pages 4

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