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Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleUlysses by James JoyceGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Tunnel by William H. GassPalinuro de México by Fernando del Paso
The Shandian Spawn
169 books — 49 voters
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleUlysses by James JoyceThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence SternePalinuro de México by Fernando del PasoTake Five by D. Keith Mano
Rabelais' Codpiece
135 books — 143 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraRobinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The 100 Greatest Novels Ever, as picked in 1898 by Clement K. Shorter, not You
108 books — 19 voters
The Restored Finnegans Wake by James JoyceThe Faerie Queene by Edmund SpenserThe Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein
Flavorwire's 50 Incredibly Tough Books for Extreme Readers
50 books — 105 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleUlysses by James JoyceThe Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List
100 books — 1,710 voters
Les Misérables by Victor HugoWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Over a 1000 Pages
230 books — 231 voters

The Forever War by Joe HaldemanThe Stars My Destination by Alfred BesterBabel-17 by Samuel R. DelanyLast and First Men by Olaf StapledonDownward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg
SF Masterworks
197 books — 722 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Modern-day Classics
363 books — 191 voters

Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable by Samuel BeckettThe Death of Virgil by Hermann BrochFoucault’s Pendulum by Umberto EcoUlysses by James JoyceIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
DIFFICULT BUT REWARDING
158 books — 69 voters
The Iliad / The Odyssey by HomerWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustThe Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
The Telegraph: The Perfect Library
100 books — 28 voters

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleLes Misérables by Victor HugoWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyMiddlemarch by George Eliot
Big Fat Fiction - Best of the Heavyweights
292 books — 156 voters
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasLes Misérables by Victor HugoWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleMiddlemarch by George Eliot
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,703 books — 6,872 voters

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal... by Samuel JohnsonMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe 39 Steps by John Buchan
Books Set in Scotland
1,000 books — 666 voters
Proust and Signs by Gilles DeleuzeThe Life and Work of Marcel Proust by Neville JasonThe Cambridge Companion to Proust by Richard BalesProust's Overcoat by Lorenza FoschiniProust's Way by Roger Shattuck
Books on Proust
59 books — 24 voters

Swann’s Way by Marcel ProustUlysses by James JoyceInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleMason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
10 Notorious Literary Slogs That Are Worth The Effort
10 books — 23 voters