/lit/ Top 100 Lists

From 2014, polls of posters' favorite books have been conducted every year on /lit/. The responses to these polls generated the below infographics. After 2017, lists continued to be created, but without polls.

(In 2015, the poll also asked for a list of the responder's and three favorite authors. This was not continued from 2016 onwards.)

Facts about the similarities and differences between the 2014 poll results and the 2015 poll results are as follows:

69% of the books from the 2014 list made it onto the 2015 list.

The highest placing new additions to the 2015 list are:
1. Confederacy of Dunces (26)
2. Book of the New Sun (27)
3. Les Miserables (35)
4. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (50)
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls (53)

The highest placing books to drop off the 2014 list are:
1. The Plague (35)
2. The Silmarillion (42)
3. Leaves of Grass (53)
4. Harry Potter series (54)
5. A Clockwork Orange (55)

Of the books that stayed on the list, the greatest gains were made by:
1. The Iliad (94 to 18)
2. The Old Man and the Sea (97 to 34)
3. Paradise Lost (98 to 37)
4. Portrait of the Artist (67 to 12)
5. Steppenwolf (93 to 42)

The greatest losses were:
1. Dune (29 to 83)
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray (16 to 64)
3. A Farewell to Arms (46 to 93)
4. Journey to the End of the Night (10 to 52)
5. Invisible Cities (22 to 57)


Title	Author	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	Avg / % Listed
1984	Orwell	31	22	21	19	25	15	19	21.7
2666	Bolaño	99	56	29	22	34	24	15	39.9
60 Stories	Barthelme				95				665
A Canticle for Leibowitz	Miller Jr.	100							700
A Clockwork Orange	Burgess			98				55	267.8
A Confederacy of Dunces	Toole	53	46	88	49	59	26		62.7
A Farewell to Arms	Hemingway						93	46	243.3
A Hero of Our Time	Lermontov		67				76		250.3
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce		65	38	20	31	12	67	45.3
A Scanner Darkly	Dick						99		693
A Tale of Two Cities	Dickens						88	92	315
Absalom, Absalom!	Faulkner	73				82	51	79	124.7
Ada, or Ardor	Nabokov					66	96		283.5
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Twain							68	476
Aeneid	Virgil			63	82	89			182
Against Nature	Huysmans		53	94	45				149.3
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Carroll				83	97	81	73	146.1
American Psycho	Ellis	44	60	90	88	65	80	51	68.3
Animal Farm	Orwell				72			83	271.3
Anna Karenina	Tolstoy	21	14	17	34	20	21	28	22.1
Antifragile	Taleb	86							602
Arcades Project	Benjamin		88						616
As I Lay Dying	Faulkner				87	88	69	48	127.8
Being and Time	Heidegger	22							154
Beyond Good and Evil	Nietzsche		96	80	92				208.4
Blood Meridian	McCarthy	15	17	11	23	8	8	4	12.3
Bottom's Dream	Schmidt					61			427
Brave New World	Huxley	39	59	40	38	71	65		60.7
Bronze Age Mindset	Bronze Age Pervert	54							378
Buddenbrooks	Mann	62							434
Candide	Voltaire		97		85				318.5
Cannery Row	Steinbeck						78		546
Capital	Marx	63	26	57					113.6
Catch 22	Heller	32	45	27	42	35	10	14	29.3
Confessions	Augustine		31	59	51				109.7
Confessions of a Mask	Mishima		81						567
Correction	Bernhard		66	43					190.8
Crime and Punishment	Dostoevsky	5	4	2	10	12	5	13	7.3
Critique of Pure Reason	Kant	48	93						246.8
Cryptonomicon	Stephenson				98				686
Dandelion Wine	Bradbury							77	539
Dead Souls	Gogol				61	93	95	71	140
Demons	Dostoevsky	75	78						267.8
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	Dick						92	60	266
Don Quixote	Cervantes	8	6	12	8	11	11	8	9.1
Dubliners	Joyce	88	27	22	15	19	14	40	32.1
Dune	Herbert		71		53	74	83	29	86.8
East of Eden	Steinbeck		37	36	89	44	41	84	64.4
Essays	Montaigne		63	52					201.3
Ethics	Spinoza	94							658
Extinction	Bernhard	45							315
Fanged Noumena	Land				66				462
Farenheit 451	Bradbury				70		77		257.3
Faust	Goethe	76	30	28	46	33		65	54.1
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Thompson							59	413
Fear and Trembling	Kierkegaard		68	75					250.3
Fictions	Borges	17	41	20	16	9	19	11	19
Fight Club	Palahniuk							87	609
Finnegan's Wake	Joyce		75	81	30	39			98.4
For Whom the Bell Tolls	Hemingway						53		371
Foucault's Pendulum	Eco	77							539
Frankenstein	Shelley		100						700
Franny & Zooey	Salinger					87		88	306.3
Gravity's Rainbow	Pynchon	55	10	8	4	7	6	7	13.9
Growth of the Soil	Hamsun		76						532
Hamlet	Shakespeare	23	20	14	25	30	38	21	24.4
Heart of Darkness	Conrad		57	70	56	62	61	43	67.9
History of Charles XII	Voltaire	27							189
Hopscotch	Cortázar		52					86	241.5
House of Leaves	Danielewski	69							483
Hunger	Hamsun			42	59	54	60	72	80.4
I Am a Cat	Sōseki							99	693
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler	Calvino			100		47	50		153.2
Illuminatus!	Wilson; Shea							95	665
Industrial Society and its Future	Kaczynski	11							77
In Search of Lost Time	Proust	24	24	19	14	22	29	45	25.3
Infinite Jest	Wallace	16	11	10	3	3	1	1	6.4
Invisible Cities	Calvino	89	85	54	84	81	57	22	67.4
J R	Gaddis	36		77	57	75			91.4
Jerusalem	Moore				48	29			134.8
Journey to the End of the Night	Céline	46	39	35		60	52	10	47.1
Kafka on the Shore	Murakami		95			86	73		197.6
King Lear	Shakespeare		98	91		79			208.4
Kokoro	Sōseki		69						483
Leaves of Grass	Whitman				86			53	243.3
Les Misérables	Hugo	42	35	46	71	99	35		63.8
Life and Fate	Grossman			99					693
Light in August	Faulkner							70	490
Lolita	Nabokov	7	8	6	6	5	8	5	6.4
London Bridge	Céline	90							630
Lord of the Flies	Golding				100			66	290.5
Madame Bovary	Flaubert	64	51	93	44	69	54		72.9
Malone Dies	Beckett							76	532
Mason & Dixon	Pynchon			71	43	43	33	25	60.2
Meditations	Aurelius		40	65	36	63	79		79.2
Meditations	Descartes				62				434
Mein Kampf	Hitler	1							7
Metamorphoses	Ovid	91	94						323.8
Middlemarch	Eliot					84			588
Moby Dick	Melville	3	1	1	1	2	2	6	2.3
Modernity and Cultural Decline	Woodley et al	30							210
Molloy	Beckett				60				420
Mrs. Dalloway	Woolf					90			630
Nausea	Sartre			64		100			287
Neuromancer	Gibson				97				679
No Longer Human	Dazai	70	34	76	50	73	55		69.6
Notes from Underground	Dostoevsky	25	18	23		32	44	26	32.7
Oblomov	Goncharov					98			686
Of Mice and Men	Steinbeck			74			85		278.3
On the Heights of Despair	Cioran	49							343
On The Road	Kerouac							57	399
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Márquez	28	25	26	26	17	23	23	24
Pale Fire	Nabokov		72	47	24	36	70	81	64.2
Pan	Hamsun	92			77				295.8
Paradise Lost	Milton	93	55	24	68	46	37	98	60.1
Pedro Páramo	Rulfo	9							63
Phenomenology of Spirit	Hegel		44	50					164.5
Platonic Dialogues	Plato				21				147
Process and Reality	Whitehead		29						203
Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction	Salinger	78							546
Roadside Picnic	Strugatzky, A. & B.						89	85	304.5
Satantango	Krasznahorkai	33							231
Siddhartha	Hesse		62	45	64	24	25	27	48
Slaughterhouse-Five	Vonnegut	56		62		78	39	24	72.5
Society of the Spectacle	Debord						90		630
Solaris	Lem							62	434
Sometimes a Great Notion	Kesey			67					469
Steppenwolf	Hesse	79		66	96	40	42	93	80.9
Stoner	Williams	10	13	7	7	10	9	38	13.4
Storm of Steel	Jünger		48	97					253.8
Story of the Eye	Bataille	50							350
Summa Theologica	Aquinas		74						518
Suttree	McCarthy							74	518
Take Five	Mano	51							357
Tao Te Ching	Laozi	43							301
The Aleph	Borges						81		567
The Anatomy of Melancholy	Burton				75				525
The Bhagavad Gita	Vyasa	74	73						257.3
The Book of Disquiet	Pessoa	34	16	32	47	58	48	41	39.4
The Book of the New Sun	Wolfe		32	31	17	41	27		41.4
The Brothers Karamazov	Dostoevsky	4	3	3	9	4	3	3	4.1
The Canterbury Tales	Chaucer					80	100		315
The Castle	Kafka				79	95			304.5
The Catcher in the Rye	Salinger	37	43	37	58	52	16	17	37.1
The Changing Light at Sandover	Merrill	57							399
The Confidence-Man	Melville	87							609
The Count of Monte Cristo	Dumas	40	36	34	90	51	59	100	58.6
The Crying of Lot 49	Pynchon		87	86	52	42	45	47	69.8
The Death of Ivan Ilych	Tolstoy					70			490
The Decline of the West	Spengler		90	78					294
The Divine Comedy	Alighieri	38	7	16	13	16	30	32	21.7
The Ego & His Own	Stirner						71		497
The Elementary Particles	Houellebecq	65	77	96					185.1
The Faerie Queene	Spenser				94				658
The Fall	Camus				76			91	292.3
The Flowers of Evil	Baudelaire						91		637
The Fountainhead	Rand	95							665
The Glass Bead Game	Hesse			79					553
The Golden Bowl	James	80	89						295.8
The Good Earth	Buck							96	672
The Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck		84	84		77		56	131.7
The Great Gatsby	Fitzgerald			58		92	46	20	94.5
The Gulag Archipelago	Solzhenitsyn				65				455
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Adams							90	630
The Hobbit	Tolkien			60			72	44	136.9
The Holy Bible		2	2	4	5	6	22	64	15
The Idiot	Dostoevsky	66	33	48	80	45	58		64.2
The Iliad	Homer	6	9	9	11	15	18	94	23.1
The Leopard	Lampedusa			82					574
The Lord of the Rings	Tolkien	18	38	51	33	48	63		48.8
The Magic Mountain	Mann		61	49	39	53	75		77.6
The Major Works	Browne	81							567
The Making of Americans	Stein	41							287
The Man Without Qualities	Musil		49		73	83			159.4
The Master and Margarita	Bulgakov	14	50	56	27	23	20	34	32
The Metamorphosis	Kafka	58	42	55	81	26	47	49	51.1
The Naked Lunch	Burroughs			89	74	96	74	50	107.2
The Name of the Rose	Eco		99	95			86		217.8
The Odyssey	Homer	29	12	15	28	21	31	31	23.9
The Old Man and The Sea	Hemingway				67		34	97	154
The Opposing Shore	Gracq	82							574
The Pale King	Wallace				63	67		69	154.8
The Passion According to G.H.	Lispector	83							581
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Wilde			61	54	38	64	16	65.2
The Plague	Camus							35	245
The Portrait of a Lady	James	84							588
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas	Assis	59			40				173.3
The Prince	Machiavelli		92						644
The Quran		19	91						192.5
The Recognitions	Gaddis		28	44	18	27	56		48.4
The Red & The Black	Stendhal		70	92					283.5
The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times	Guénon	71							497
The Remains of the Day	Ishiguro						87		609
The Republic	Plato	26	23	39		68			68.3
The Rings of Saturn	Sebald				78				546
The Road	McCarthy				69				483
The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea	Mishima		47	68					201.3
The Savage Detectives	Bolaño		86		31	55	43	63	77.8
The Secret History	Tartt	96							672
The Simarillion	Tolkien							42	294
The Sirens of Titan	Vonnegut						67		469
The Sorrows of Young Werther	Goethe			87					609
The Sound and the Fury	Faulkner		64	33	37	49	36	18	46.1
The Stranger	Camus	12	21	13	32	13	13	2	15.1
The Sun Also Rises	Hemingway		80	53	93	72	62	52	80.1
The Tartar Steppe	Buzzati	60							420
The Temple of the Golden Pavillion	Mishima				99			58	274.8
The Trial	Kafka	47		30	12	14	28	9	27.2
The Trilogy	Beckett	67		69		28			127.6
The Tropic of Cancer	Miller						84		588
The Tunnel	Gass		58	72		76			160.2
The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Kundera						98		686
The Unconsoled	Ishiguro	52							364
The Wasp Factory	Banks							80	560
The Waste Land	Eliot					91			637
The Waves	Woolf			85	91	50	49	33	86.2
The World as Will and Representation	Schopenhauer		79						553
Thus Spoke Zarathustra	Nietzsche	72	19	25		56	97	82	68.3
To the Lighthouse	Woolf	61	54	73	41	57	94	75	65
Tristram Shandy	Sterne		83	83		64			178.9
Ubik	Dick							61	427
Ubu Roi	Jarry	35							245
Ulysses	Joyce	20	5	5	2	1	4	12	7
Under the Volcano	Lowry		82			85			292.3
V.	Pynchon	68		41	35	37	40	30	48.8
Valis	Dick							78	546
Voss	White	85							595
Walden	Thoreau							89	623
War and Peace	Tolstoy	13	15	18	29	18	32	36	23
Watership Down	Adams						66		462
White Fragility	DiAngelo	97							679
White Noise	DeLillo				55	94	17	37	88.8
Wuthering Heights	Brontë						68	39	187.3
Zhuangzi	Zhuangzi	98							686

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