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This book is on the following 82 lists:

• 1st on One Hundred Best American Novels, 1770 to 1985 (The American Scholar)
• 2nd on Best Books Listed for High School Students (William J. Bennett)
• 2nd on Quintessential American Fiction, According to the Rest of the World (Literary Hub)
• 2nd on The Celebrity Reading List (Gardiner Public Library)
• 3rd on D. G. Myers’ 50 Greatest English Language Novels (D. G. Myers)
• 3rd on The Complete 500: OCLC (OCLC)
• 4th on For The Love of Books (For The Love of Books)
• 4th on The Best Southern Novels of All Time (Oxford American)
• 5th on All-Time Classics, According to Academics (The Commercial Appeal )
• 5th on Children's Literature Association's Eleven Best American Children's Books Of The Past 200 Years (Children's Literature Association)
• 7th on The Top 10: The Greatest Books of All Time (The Top 10 (Book))
• 10th on The 100 Greatest Novels (greatbooksguide.com)
• 14th on The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time (The Novel 100)
• 17th on Top 50 Books (The Folio Society)
• 18th on Our Users' Top 100 Favorite Books of All Time (The Greatest Books Users)
• 20th on Top 25 Pre-20th Century Classics (The Guardian)
• 29th on Readers’ Top 100 Novels Of All Time (Guardian)
• 42nd on The Telegraph’s 100 Novels Everyone Should Read (Telegraph)
• 45th on The 100 Favorite Novels of Librarians (Bookman.com)
• 48th on Top 50 Books (The Daily Telegraph)
• 59th on R/ClassicLiterature's Top 100 Favorite Books (R/ClassicLiterature)
• 62nd on Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 Novels (Entertainment Weekly)
• 70th on 100 Best Books (Montana State University)
• 73rd on 100 Must-Read Classics, as Chosen by our Readers (Penguin (UK))
• 73rd on The 100 Stories that Shaped the World (BBC)
• 75th on El Pais Favorite Books of 100 Spanish Authors (El Pais)
• 82nd on 100 Essential Books (Bravo! Magazine)
• 82nd on TrueLit's Top 100 Favorite Books (2023) (/r/TrueLit)
• 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List (1,000 Books to Read Before You Die(Book))
• 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read (The Guardian)
• 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (The Book)
• 100 Best Novels Written in English (The Guardian)
• 100 Greatest Books of All Time (Steve Donoghue)
• 100 Life-Changing Books (National Book Award)
• 101 Significant Books (Good Reading: A Guide for Serious Readers)
• 150 Great Reads (The Spokesman-Review Spokane Chronicle )
• 200 Books That Shaped 200 Years of Literature (The Center for Fiction)
• 222 Best Books of All Time That Deserve a Spot on Your Bookshelf, With Picks from Bestselling Authors and Indie Booksellers (Parade)
• 500 Must Read Books (The Daily Telegraph)
• 501 Must-Read Books (LibraryThing)
• 50 Books to (Re-)Read at 50 (nextavenue)
• 50 Greatest Books of All Time (Globe and Mail)
• An Expert's 200-Book List (The Detroit Free Press)
• As if You Don't Have Enough to Read, Fiction Edition (New York Times)
• Best Books (Fiction, Prose) : Experts Choose Their Favourites (The Book "Best Books")
• Books That Shaped America (Library of Congress)
• Classics Revisited (Kenneth Rexroth)
• Fifty French Writers Choose Their Favorite 10 Books - Honourable Mention (On en garde 10 ! Pour la littérature)
• Finest Works of Fiction (Martin Seymour-Smith and Editors)
• Five Books to Read on a Desert Island (Tampa Bay Times)
• From Zero to Well-Read in 100 Books (Jeff O'Neal at Bookriot.com)
• Great Books (The Learning Channel)
• Great Books of the Western World (Great Books Foundation)
• Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher (Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher)
• Harold Bloom's The Western Canon (The Western Canon (Book) by Harold Bloom)
• Have You Read 100 Great Books? (The Jasper Lee Company)
• How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Reading List (Thomas C. Foster)
• Inteliquest's World's 100 Greatest Books of All-Time (InteliQuest)
• IWU Select 100 Must-Read Books (IWU (Faculty, Staff, and Students))
• Masterpieces of World Literature (Frank N. Magill)
• Recommended Books (Academy of Achievement)
• Select 100 (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
• Six Professors from "Esteemed" Universities Favorite Books (Democrat and Chronicle (Newspaper))
• The 100 Best Books in the World (AbeBooks.de (in German))
• The 100 Best Novels Of All Time (Runners-Up) (The Guardian)
• The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written (Easton Press)
• The 100 Greatest Novels (Nezavisimaya Gazeta (Russian Newspaper))
• The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time: The List (The Observer)
• The 80 Books Every Man Should Read (Esquire)
• The American Library Association's Recommended Reading (The American Library Association )
• The Book of Great Books: A Guide to 100 World Classics (Book)
• The College Board: 101 Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers (The College Board, an American not-for-profit organization)
• The Dream of the Great American Novel (Book)
• The Graphic Canon (Book)
• The Great Books Podcast from John J. Miller (The National Review )
• The New Lifetime Reading Plan (The New Lifetime Reading Plan)
• 'The perfect library': the 196 books selected by 133 personalities (XLSemanal and Zenda)
• The Well-Educated Mind (Book)
• Top 100 Works in World Literature (Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute)
• Världsbiblioteket (The World Library) (Tidningen Boken)
• What Our Children Should Read (The Birmingham Post)
• William H. F. Lamont’s 100 Best Novels (1947) (archive.org)