Ultimate Reading List - Modified

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L
1	Book title	Author	Total mentions	Guardian	BBC	Amazon	Harvard	Modern library	Times	Telegraph	Art of manliness	Year Read

2	The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	8	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	2003
3	Catch-22	Joseph Heller	8	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	2017
4	To Kill A Mockingbird	Harper Lee	7	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	2004
5	On the Road	Jack Kerouac	7	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
6	The Catcher in the Rye	JD Salinger	6	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	2018
7	Midnight's Children	Salman Rushdie	6	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	2020
8	The Lord Of The Rings	J. R. R. Tolkien	6	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
9	Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	6	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
10	The Grapes Of Wrath	John Steinbeck	5	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	2023
11	1984	George Orwell	5	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
12	Ulysses	James Joyce	5	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
13	Alice's Adventures In Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	5	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	2019
14	Lord of the Flies	William Golding	5	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	2018
15	Crime And Punishment	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	4	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
16	Animal Farm	George Orwell	4	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	2014
17	Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	4	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
18	The Stranger	Albert Camus	4	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	2019
19	Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	4	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	2017
20	Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë	4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
21	Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe	4	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
22	A Passage to India	EM Forster	4	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
23	One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel García Márquez	4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	2015
24	Moby-Dick	Herman Melville	4	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	2019
25	Slaughterhouse-Five	Kurt Vonnegut	4	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	2020
26	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Muriel Spark	4	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
27	Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison	4	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
28	Beloved	Toni Morrison	4	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
29	Mrs Dalloway	Virginia Woolf	4	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
30	Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	3	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
31	Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	3	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
32	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	3	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
33	Brideshead Revisited	Evelyn Waugh	3	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
34	Middlemarch	George Eliot	3	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
35	Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy	3	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
36	Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	3	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
37	His Dark Materials	Philip Pullman	3	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
38	The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas	3	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
39	A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME	Anthony Powell	3	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
40	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter	Carson McCullers	3	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
41	David Copperfield	Charles Dickens	3	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
42	White Noise	Don DeLillo	3	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
43	The Age of Innocence	Edith Wharton	3	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
44	Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë	3	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
45	The Sun Also Rises	Ernest Hemingway	3	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	2014
46	Scoop	Evelyn Waugh	3	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
47	TROPIC OF CANCER	Henry Miller	3	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	2022
48	Atonement	Ian McEwan	3	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
49	UNDER THE NET	Iris Murdoch	3	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
50	If on a Winter's Night a Traveller	Italo CalviNo	3	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
51	The Call of the Wild	Jack London	3	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
52	GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN	James Baldwin	3	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
53	WIDE SARGASSO SEA	Jean Rhys	3	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
54	The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame	3	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
55	Lucky Jim	Kingsley Amis	3	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
56	Little Women	Louisa M Alcott	3	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
57	The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood	3	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
58	Housekeeping	Marilynne Robinson	3	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
59	Don Quixote	Miguel De Cervantes	3	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
60	PortNoy's Complaint	Philip Roth	3	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
61	The Big Sleep	Raymond Chandler	3	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	2018
62	I, CLAUDIUS	Robert Graves	3	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
63	A Bend in the River	V. S. Naipaul	3	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
64	To the Lighthouse	Virginia Woolf	3	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
65	Pale Fire	Vladimir Nabokov	3	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
66	The Sound and the Fury	William Faulkner	3	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	2017
67	The Secret History	Donna Tartt	2	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
68	Dune	Frank Herbert	2	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	2018
69	Love In The Time Of Cholera	Gabriel García Márquez	2	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	2015
70	The Magus	John Fowles	2	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
71	A Prayer For Owen Meany	John Irving	2	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
72	The Hobbit	JRR Tolkien	2	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	~2001
73	Gone with the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	2	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
74	Watership Down	Richard Adams	2	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
75	Charlie And The Chocolate Factory	Roald Dahl	2	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	2022
76	Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson	2	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	2022
77	Cold Comfort Farm	Stella Gibbons	2	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
78	Good Omens	Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman	2	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
79	Tess Of The D'Urbervilles	Thomas Hardy	2	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
80	Watchmen	Alan Moore	2	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
81	A CLOCKWORK ORANGE	Anthony Burgess	2	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
82	Blood Meridian	Cormac McCarthy	2	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
83	The Rainbow	D. H. Lawrence	2	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
84	The Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri	2	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
85	THE MALTESE FALCON	Dashiell Hammett	2	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
86	Infinite Jest	David Foster Wallace	2	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	2021
87	The Golden Notebook	Doris Lessing	2	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
88	Charlotte's Web	E. B. White	2	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	?
89	RAGTIME	E.L. Doctorow	2	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
90	THE HOUSE OF MIRTH	Edith Wharton	2	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
91	THE DEATH OF THE HEART	Elizabeth Bowen	2	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
92	All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Remarque	2	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
93	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Ernest Hemingway	2	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
94	A FAREWELL TO ARMS	Ernest Hemingway	2	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	2013
95	A HANDFUL OF DUST	Evelyn Waugh	2	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
96	The Good Soldier	Ford Madox Ford	2	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
97	The Trial	Franz Kafka	2	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	2020
98	THE HEART OF THE MATTER	Graham Greene	2	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
99	The Tin Drum	Gunter Grass	2	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
100	Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert	2	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No