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This book is on the following 127 lists:

• 1st on One Hundred Best American Novels, 1770 to 1985 (The American Scholar)
• 1st on Radcliffe's 100 Best Novels (Radcliffe Publishing Course)
• 1st on The 50 best books of the past 100 years (The Times)
• 2nd on Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 Novels (Entertainment Weekly)
• 2nd on The Greatest 20th Century Novels (Waterstone)
• 2nd on The Modern Library | 100 Best Novels (Modern Library)
• 3rd on 100 Must-Read Classics, as Chosen by our Readers (Penguin (UK))
• 3rd on As if You Don't Have Enough to Read, Fiction Edition (New York Times)
• 3rd on Koen Book Distributors Top 100 Books of the Past Century (themodernnovel.com)
• 3rd on The Celebrity Reading List (Gardiner Public Library)
• 4th on All-Time Classics, According to Academics (The Commercial Appeal )
• 4th on Our Users' Top 100 Favorite Books of All Time (The Greatest Books Users)
• 4th on Quintessential American Fiction, According to the Rest of the World (Literary Hub)
• 4th on Taking off the Reading Gloves (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
• 4th on The Top 10: The Greatest Books of All Time (The Top 10 (Book))
• 5th on D. G. Myers’ 50 Greatest English Language Novels (D. G. Myers)
• 5th on The Ideal Library (Book)
• 6th on America’s 100 Favorite Books (WordsRated)
• 6th on "Our Readable Century", The Best Books of the 20th Century (January Magazine)
• 6th on The new modern classics — the nation’s favourite 20th century novels (The Times)
• 10th on The 100 Favorite Novels of Librarians (Bookman.com)
• 11th on The 100 Best Novels Of All Time In English (The Guardian)
• 12th on 50 Books to Read Before You Die (Complex)
• 12th on Edmonton's Top 100 (Edmonton Journal)
• 12th on Waterstone's Books of the Century (LibraryThing)
• 13th on Books Of The Century (Library Journal)
• 13th on The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels: The Readers' List (The Modern Library)
• 15th on 50 Classics You Must Read Before You Die (Gyldendal (Denmark Publisher))
• 16th on Readers’ Top 100 Novels Of All Time (Guardian)
• 17th on The 16 Greatest Books of All Time (NYU Local)
• 19th on R/ClassicLiterature's Top 100 Favorite Books (R/ClassicLiterature)
• 19th on Top 50 Books (The Daily Telegraph)
• 20th on The 100 Best Books from 1900 to the Present (Yedioth Ahronoth)
• 20th on The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time (The Novel 100)
• 22nd on 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction (Larry McCaffery)
• 23rd on 100 Essential Books (Bravo! Magazine)
• 23rd on The 100 Greatest Novels (greatbooksguide.com)
• 33rd on The 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century (Folha de São Paulo)
• 34th on The Complete 500: OCLC (OCLC)
• 38th on The 500 best books of all time from Culture Café users (Culture Café)
• 38th on The Telegraph’s 100 Novels Everyone Should Read (Telegraph)
• 43rd on The Big Read (BBC)
• 44th on Harvard Book Store Staff's Favorite 100 Books (Harvard Book Store)
• 46th on Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century (Le Monde)
• 47th on 'The perfect library': the 196 books selected by 133 personalities (XLSemanal and Zenda)
• 50th on My Favourite Book - Australian Big Read (Australian Big Read)
• 53rd on Top 100 Books, As Chosen By Canadians (The Gazette(Newspaper))
• 55th on TrueLit's Top 100 Favorite Books (2023) (/r/TrueLit)
• 57th on Big Read (Bulgarian) (Bulgaria)
• 62nd on 4chan’s Literature Board’s Aggregate Top 100 Books for the Decade 2014 - 2024 (Reddit)
• 68th on The Greatest Books of All Time (Reader's Digest)
• 76th on The 100 Most Important Translations (Notos Magazine (Turkey))
• 81st on The 100 Best Books of World Literature (ABC.es)
• 89th on El Pais Favorite Books of 100 Spanish Authors (El Pais)
• 95th on The 101 Favorite Novels of 'Le Monde' Readers (Le Monde)
• 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 20th-Century American Books (Hungry Mind Review)
• 100 Best Novels Written in English (The Guardian)
• 100 Books, 100 Companions (Zeit Online)
• 100 Books to Love (Sunday Times)
• 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.com (USA))
• 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.com (UK))
• 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die (BBC Radio Oxford)
• 100 Life-Changing Books (National Book Award)
• 100 Most Influential Books of the Century (Boston Public Library)
• 125 Books We Love for Adults (NY Public Library)
• 12 Novels Considered the Greatest Book Ever Written (Encyclopedia Britannica)
• 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)
• 50 Books That Defined Their Era (Guardian)
• 50 Books to Read Before You Die (Barnes and Noble)
• 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)
• Arts: The Critics' Century 1900-2000 (The Observer (Newspaper))
• Best Beach Reads Of All Time (Book Riot)
• Best Books (Fiction, Prose) : Experts Choose Their Favourites (The Book "Best Books")
• Best Books Listed for High School Students (William J. Bennett)
• Best Foreign Work of Fiction Chosen by Francophone Writers (French literary magazine Transfuge)
• Bill Gate's Book Recommendations (Bill Gates)
• Books That Shaped America (Library of Congress)
• Books that Shaped the Century (LOGOS 20th Century Books Project)
• Daily Telegraph's 100 Books of the Century, 1900-1999 (Daily Telegraph)
• David Bowie's Top 100 Favorite Books (David Bowie)
• Everything You Should Read without Being a Library Rat (Book by Luiz Carlos Lisboa)
• Ezra Klein Show's Most Recommended Books (Ezra Klein Show)
• For The Love of Books (For The Love of Books)
• 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)
• 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)
• Nancy Pearl's 100 Good Reads, Decade by Decade (Book Lust (Book))
• Recommended Books (Academy of Achievement)
• Select 100 (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
• Susan Choi's Book Choices from "The Writer's Library" (The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives (Book))
• Sylvia Plath's Recommended Books (Sylvia Plath)
• The 100 Greatest American Novels, 1893 – 1993 (Jeff O'Neal at Bookriot.com)
• The 100 Greatest Novels (Nezavisimaya Gazeta (Russian Newspaper))
• The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time: The List (The Observer)
• The Best Books of All Time, as Chosen by the Good Housekeeping Team (Good Housekeeping)
• The Best Classics (The Times)
• The Booklist Century: 100 Books, 100 Years (BookList)
• The Book of Great Books: A Guide to 100 World Classics (Book)
• The Books You've Always Meant to Read (Waterstones)
• 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 American Novels (The Atlantic)
• The Great American Read (PBS)
• The Great Books Podcast from John J. Miller (The National Review )
• The Guardian's Essential Library (The Guardian)
• The New York Public Library's Books of the Century (New York Public Library)
• The Ultimate Book Bucket List: The 75 Best Books Of All Time (Refinery29)
• The Well-Educated Mind (Book)
• TIME Magazine All Time 100 Novels (TIME Magazine)
• Top 100 Books (Lincoln Journal Star)
• Top Books Recommended on Cambridge Reading Lists (Oxbridge)
• What are the Goncourt Winners’ Favorite Books? (Télérama)