TrueLit's Top 100 Favorite Books (2023)

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The TrueLit subreddit, one of the best forums on the internet for discussing literature, released their Top 100 Favorite Books list. It looks like over 300 members voted.

This list was originally published in 2023 and was added to this site almost 2 years ago.

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Cover of 'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

Cover of 'Blood Meridian' by Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

Cover of 'Ulysses' by James Joyce

Ulysses

Cover of 'The Brothers Karamazov' by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Cover of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel García Márquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

Cover of 'In Search of Lost Time' by Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

Cover of 'Gravity's Rainbow' by Thomas Pynchon

Gravity's Rainbow

Cover of 'Stoner' by John Williams

Stoner

Cover of 'Fictions' by Jorge Luis Borges

Fictions

Jorge Luis Borges

Cover of 'Anna Karenina' by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

Cover of 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

Cover of '2666' by Roberto Bolaño

2666

Roberto Bolaño

Cover of 'Infinite Jest' by David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

Cover of 'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse

Cover of 'The Trial' by Franz Kafka

The Trial

Cover of 'Beloved' by Toni Morrison

Beloved

Cover of 'Lolita' by Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Cover of 'East of Eden' by John Steinbeck

East of Eden

Cover of 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Cover of 'The Sound and the Fury' by William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

Cover of 'The Master and Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

Cover of 'Catch-22' by Joseph Heller

Catch-22

Cover of 'The Remains of the Day' by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day

Cover of 'The Recognitions' by William Gaddis

The Recognitions

Cover of 'Molloy' by Samuel Beckett

Molloy

Cover of 'Middlemarch' by George Eliot

Middlemarch

Cover of 'Invisible Cities' by Italo Calvino

Invisible Cities

Cover of 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights

Cover of 'Don Quixote' by Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes

Cover of 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

Cover of 'The Lord Of The Rings' by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Lord Of The Rings

J. R. R. Tolkien

Cover of 'The Stranger' by Albert Camus

The Stranger

Cover of 'Invisible Man' by Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

Cover of 'Les Misérables' by Victor Hugo

Les Misérables

Cover of 'The Melancholy of Resistance' by László Krasznahorkai

The Melancholy of Resistance

László Krasznahorkai

Cover of 'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five

Cover of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Cover of 'Faust' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cover of 'Madame Bovary' by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Cover of 'The Passion According to G.H.' by Clarice Lispector

The Passion According to G.H.

Clarice Lispector

Cover of 'Austerlitz' by W. G. Sebald

Austerlitz

Cover of 'Journey to the End of The Night' by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Journey to the End of The Night

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Cover of 'The Haunting of Hill House' by Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson

Cover of 'Septology' by Jon Fosse

Septology

Cover of 'My Struggle' by Karl Ove Knausgård

My Struggle

Karl Ove Knausgård

Cover of 'The Divine Comedy' by Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

Cover of 'The Magic Mountain' by Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain

Cover of 'The Left Hand Of Darkness' by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Left Hand Of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

Cover of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' by Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

Cover of 'No Longer Human' by Osamu Dazai

No Longer Human

Cover of 'Life, a User's Manual' by Georges Perec

Life, a User's Manual

Cover of 'Nightwood' by Djuna Barnes

Nightwood

Cover of 'A Month In The Country' by J. L. Carr

A Month In The Country

Cover of 'The Iliad' by Homer

The Iliad

Cover of 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Cover of 'White Noise' by Don DeLillo

White Noise

Cover of 'Nineteen Eighty Four' by George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty Four

Cover of 'Giovanni's Room' by James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room

Cover of 'Heart of Darkness' by Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

Cover of 'The Book of Disquiet' by Fernando Pessoa

The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa

Cover of 'Siddhartha' by Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha

Cover of 'The Old Man and the Sea' by Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

Cover of 'The Catcher in the Rye' by J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

Cover of 'The Neapolitan Novels' by Elena Ferrante

The Neapolitan Novels

Cover of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' by Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Cover of 'Solenoid' by Mircea Cărtărescu

Solenoid

Mircea Cărtărescu

Cover of 'The Woman in the Dunes' by Kobo Abé

The Woman in the Dunes

Cover of 'The Sea of Fertility' by Yukio Mishima

The Sea of Fertility

Cover of 'Gormenghast' by Mervyn Peake

Gormenghast

Cover of 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' by Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

Cover of 'The Cairo Trilogy' by Naguib Mahfouz

The Cairo Trilogy

Cover of 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love' by Raymond Carver

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Cover of 'Life and Fate' by Vasily Grossman

Life and Fate

Vasily Grossman

Cover of 'The Portrait of a Lady' by Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady

Cover of 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton

Paradise Lost

Cover of 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

Cover of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

Cover of 'Pedro Páramo' by Juan Rulfo

Pedro Páramo

Cover of 'Leaves of Grass' by Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

Cover of 'The Aeneid' by Virgil

The Aeneid

Cover of 'Dune' by Frank Herbert

Dune

Cover of 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' by Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Cover of 'Dead Souls' by Nikolai Gogol

Dead Souls

Cover of 'The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor' by Flannery O'Connor

The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor

Cover of 'The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy' by Laurence Sterne

The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy

Laurence Sterne

Cover of 'Poems of Emily Dickinson' by Emily Dickinson

Poems of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Cover of 'Midnight's Children' by Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children

Cover of 'Blindness' by José Saramago

Blindness

Cover of 'The Third Policeman' by Flann O'Brien

The Third Policeman

Cover of 'The Book of the New Sun' by Gene Wolfe

The Book of the New Sun

Cover of 'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry

Lonesome Dove

Cover of 'Hopscotch' by Julio Cortazar

Hopscotch

Cover of 'Disgrace' by J. M. Coetzee

Disgrace

Cover of 'Lincoln in the Bardo' by George Saunders

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

Cover of 'The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter' by Carson McCullers

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

Cover of 'Woodcutters' by Thomas Bernhard

Woodcutters

Thomas Bernhard

Cover of 'Ariel' by Sylvia Plath

Ariel

Cover of 'Confessions of Zeno' by Italo Svevo

Confessions of Zeno

Cover of 'The Goldfinch' by Donna Tartt

The Goldfinch

Cover of 'The Sellout' by Paul Beatty

The Sellout