/lit/'s Top 100 Books — DECADE

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1

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

2

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

3

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

4

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

5

Ulysses

James Joyce

6

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

7

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes

8

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

9

Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

10

Holy Bible

Various

11

Stoner

John Williams

12

The Stranger

Albert Camus

13

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

14

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

15

The Iliad

Homer

16

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

17

The Odyssey

Homer

18

The Trial

Franz Kafka

19

In Search of Lost Time

Marcel Proust

20

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

21

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

22

1984

George Orwell

23

Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky

24

2666

Roberto Bolaño

25

Faust

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

26

The Book of the New Sun

Gene Wolfe

27

Dubliners

James Joyce

28

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

29

Journey to the End of the Night

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

30

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

31

Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa

32

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

33

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

34

The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien

35

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

36

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

37

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche

38

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky

39

Paradise Lost

John Milton

40

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

41

Mason & Dixon

Thomas Pynchon

42

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

43

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

44

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

45

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

46

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

47

Hunger

Knut Hamsun

48

The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann

49

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

50

No Longer Human

Osamu Dazai

51

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

52

Dune

Frank Herbert

53

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

54

Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse

55

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

56

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

57

The Republic

Plato

58

The Recognitions

William Gaddis

59

V.

Thomas Pynchon

60

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

61

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Yukio Mishima

62

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

63

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

64

Demons

Fyodor Dostoevsky

65

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

66

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner

67

The Man Without Qualities

Robert Musil

68

Confessions

Saint Augustine

69

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

70

The Savage Detectives

Roberto Bolaño

71

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

72

Finnegans Wake

James Joyce

73

The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

74

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

75

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

76

The Waves

Virginia Woolf

77

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

78

Tristram Shandy

Laurence Sterne

79

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Italo Calvino

80

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

81

A Hero of Our Time

Mikhail Lermontov

82

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

83

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol

84

Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs

85

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

86

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

87

The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

88

Das Kapital

Karl Marx

89

White Noise

Don DeLillo

90

Pedro Páramo

Juan Rulfo

91

Kokoro

Natsume Sōseki

92

Phenomenology of Spirit

G.W.F. Hegel

93

Storm of Steel

Ernst Jünger

94

The Tunnel

William H. Gass

95

JR

William Gaddis

96

Bhagavad Gita

Vyasa

97

Industrial Society and Its Future

Theodore Kaczynski

98

Critique of Pure Reason

Immanuel Kant

99

Animal Farm

George Orwell

100

The Elementary Particles

Michel Houellebecq