200-ish Books to Read Before You Die
- Updated 24 days ago
- 150 Books
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
| 3.96 | 999 reads | |
| #102 |  As I Lay Dying
| 3.6 | 214 reads | |
| #103 |  Candide
| 3.79 | 383 reads | |
| #104 |  Death Comes for the Archbishop
| 4.17 | 32 reads | |
| #105 |  The Bridge of San Luis Rey
| 3.78 | 45 reads | |
| #106 |  Dune
| 4.29 | 3,406 reads | |
| #107 |  Wide Sargasso Sea
| 3.44 | 143 reads | |
| #108 |  American Pastoral
| 3.69 | 87 reads | |
| #109 |  The Power and the Glory
| 3.76 | 54 reads | |
| #110 |  The Crying of Lot 49
| 3.82 | 227 reads | |
| #111 |  The Old Man and the Sea
| 3.7 | 1,218 reads | |
| #112 |  Portnoy's Complaint
| 3.4 | 65 reads | |
| #113 |  Dracula
| 3.86 | 1,467 reads | |
| #114 |  The Portrait of a Lady
| 3.71 | 47 reads | |
| #115 |  The Picture of Dorian Grey
| 4.06 | 1,617 reads | |
| #116 |  For Whom the Bell Tolls
| 3.87 | 265 reads | |
| #117 |  The Corrections
| 3.8 | 187 reads | |
| #118 |  A Confederacy of Dunces
| 3.85 | 329 reads | |
| #119 |  The Metamorphosis
| 3.8 | 1,188 reads | |
| #120 |  Red Harvest
| 3.86 | 48 reads | |
| #121 |  Gravity's Rainbow
| 4.13 | 105 reads | |
| #122 |  The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
| 3.5 | 25 reads | |
| #123 |  The Painted Bird
| 3.6 | 23 reads | |
| #124 |  Antigone
| 3.63 | 213 reads | |
| #125 |  Go Tell It on the Mountain
| 3.96 | 95 reads | |
| #126 |  A House for Mr Biswas
| 3.75 | 20 reads | |
| #127 |  An American Tragedy
| 3.76 | 32 reads | |
| #128 |  The Color Purple
| 4.16 | 498 reads | |
| #129 |  Play It as It Lays
| 3.73 | 85 reads | |
| #130 |  Charlotte's Web
| 3.97 | 931 reads | |
| #131 |  The Good Soldier
| 3.34 | 35 reads | |
| #132 |  Demons
| 4.17 | 70 reads | |
| #133 |  Lucky Jim
| 3.35 | 44 reads | |
| #134 |  Ubik
| 3.99 | 354 reads | |
| #135 |  The Adventures of Augie March
| 3.86 | 18 reads | |
| #136 |  Rabbit, Run
| 3.61 | 74 reads | |
| #137 |  The Book Thief
| 4.32 | 1,446 reads | |
| #138 |  White Teeth
| 3.82 | 172 reads | |
| #139 |  Siddhartha
| 3.94 | 827 reads | |
| #140 |  The Golden Notebook
| 3.88 | 31 reads | |
| #141 |  Dead Souls
| 3.74 | 99 reads | |
| #142 |  The Heart of the Matter
| 3.79 | 30 reads | |
| #143 |  The Moviegoer
| 3.29 | 40 reads | |
| #144 |  The Outsiders
| 3.94 | 970 reads | |
| #145 |  The Confessions of Nat Turner
| 2.33 | 6 reads | |
| #146 |  Orlando
| 3.79 | 128 reads | |
| #147 |  The Little Prince
| 4.23 | 1,793 reads | |
| #148 |  The Canterbury Tales
| 3.33 | 20 reads | |
| #149 |  Appointment in Samarra
| 3.7 | 15 reads | |
| #150 |  The Giver
| 3.99 | 1,803 reads |