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R/ClassicLiterature, 100 Books

Hello everybody! Last month I have launched a poll to find the 100 favourite books of this subreddit, inspired by similar contests over at r/TrueLit and 4chan's /lit/. With 163 people participating in the poll, 1425 votes being cast and 504 different books being entered, I'm happy to finally share the results.

It was actually incredibly close at the top: our #1 Moby Dick got 485 points, while our #5 The Count Of Monte Cristo got just 36 less. The point difference between #5 and #6 is nearly twice as big as the difference between #1 and #5.

In the second image I have added images showing how many votes have been cast for books released in each century and written in each language. These percentages were calculated by counting up all of your votes, so not just the books that made the top 100.

In the third image I've added the top 20 authors with the most votes. This is largely similar to the top 20 books, since most authors have just one or two books that are particularly popular, but it does raise authors like Shakespeare and Dickens who have many popular works.

This list was originally published in 2026 and was added to this site 4 months ago.