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where would i find a list with the top 100 books ever?

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1. There are many lists, of the top 100 novels, sci-fi books, of each century, etc. If you use a search engine (like Yahoo), you can get a list of sites that have lists of the top 100 books. But the best one I have found for reference is the University of Montana department of English list, for the top 100 of all time. Here it is: 1. THE COLLECTED WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 2. THE BIBLE 3. DON QUIXOTE, Miguel de Cervantes 4. ILIAD/ ODYSSEY, Homer 5. METAMORPHOSES, Ovid 6. FINNEGAN'S WAKE, James Joyce 7. ORESTEIAN TRILOGY, Aeschylus 8. TAO TE CHING, Lao Tzu 9. THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 10. ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Lewis Carroll 11. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, Virginia Woolf 12. ULYSSES, James Joyce 13. PALE FIRE, Vladimir Nabokov 14. DIVINE COMEDY, Dante Alighieri 15. COLLECTED POEMS, Wallace Stevens 16. ARABIAN NIGHTS, Anonymous 17. WAR AND PEACE, Leo Tolstoy 18. BELOVED, Toni Morrison 19. COLLECTED FICTIONS, Jorge Luis Borges 20. CANTERBURY TALES, Geoffrey Chaucer 21. ANECDOTES OF DESTINY, Isak Dinesen 22. THEBAN TRILOGY, Sophocles 23. MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND HARMONY, Roberto Calasso 24. KATHASARITSAGARA, Somadeva 25. SHORT STORIES, Anton Chekov 26. BHAGAVAD GITA, Anonymous 27. 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE, Gabriel García Márquez 28. GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES 29. INVISIBLE MAN, Ralph Ellison 30. ABSALOM, ABSALOM!, William Faulkner 31. WOMEN IN LOVE, D.H. Lawrence 32. LOLITA, Vladimir Nabokov 33. DIALOGUES, Plato 34. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST, Marcel Proust 35. THE TIN DRUM, Günter Grass 36. COLLECTED SHORT STORIES, Flannery O'Connor 37. GREAT EXPECTATIONS, Charles Dickens 38. THREE NOVELS, Samuel Beckett 39. THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS, Sigmund Freud 40. HEART OF DARKNESS, Joseph Conrad 41. FOUR QUARTETS, T.S. Eliot 42. MADAME BOVARY, Gustave Flaubert 43. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN, Salman Rushdie 44. TRISTRAM SHANDY, Laurence Sterne 45. COLLECTED POEMS, W.B. Yeats 46. THE GOLDEN BOUGH, James G. Frazer 47. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, Oscar Wilde 48. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Jane Austen 49. THE BLACK PRINCE, Iris Murdoch 50. THE MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN SARAGOSSA, Jan Potaki 51. THE BACCHAE, Euripides 52. VANITY FAIR, William Thackeray 53. METAMORPHOSIS, Franz Kafka 54. THE AENEID, Vergil 55. TRISTAN AND ISEULT, Anonymous 56. COLLECTED POEMS, William Blake 57. THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald 58. ENDGAME/ WAITING FOR GODOT, Samuel Beckett 59. COLLECTED POEMS, Emily Dickinson 60. MOBY DICK, Herman Melville 61. THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE, Willliam James 62. MY ANTONIA, Willa Cather 63. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, J.D. Salinger 64. FATHERS AND CHILDREN, Ivan Turgenev 65. LIVES OF A CELL, Lewis Thomas 66. A DOLL'S HOUSE, Henrik Ibsen 67. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, Kenneth Grahame 68. A FAREWELL TO ARMS, Ernest Hemingway 69. CHARLOTTE'S WEB, E.B. White 70. HUCKLEBERRY FINN, Mark Twain 71. LEAVES OF GRASS, Walt Whitman 72. IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER, Italo Calvino 73. JANE EYRE, Charlotte Brontë 74. THE STORYTELLER, Mario Vargas Llosa 75. EPIC OF GILGAMESH, Anonymous 76. THE IDIOT, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 77. CATCH 22, Joseph Heller 78. WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Emily Brontë 79. TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES,Thomas Hardy 80. THE MAGUS, John Fowles 81. CEREMONY, Leslie Silko 82. WALDEN, Henry David Thoreau 83. NATIVE SON, Richard Wright 84. NATURE, Ralph Waldo Emerson 85. FAUST, Johann Wolfgang van Goethe 86. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Harper Lee 87. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, Charles Darwin 88. PARADISE LOST, John Milton 89. TOM JONES, Henry Fielding 90. THE GOLDEN A S S, Apuleius 91. THE ART OF MEMORY, Francis Yeats 92. MIDDLEMARCH, George Eliot 93. AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD, Peter Matthiessen 94. INNER CHAPTERS, Chuang Tzu 95. CANDIDE, Voltaire 96. THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY, Friedrich Nietzsche 97. PASSAGE TO INDIA, E.M. Forster 98. THE SEA, THE SEA, Iris Murdoch 99. TRISTES TROPIQUES, Claude Lévi-Strauss 100. THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, Zora Neale Hurston