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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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
7 Moby-Dick Herman Melville 1851 American English
198 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy 1985 American English
1 Ulysses James Joyce 1922 Irish English
18 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880 Russian Russian
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombian Spanish
2 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust 1913 French French
255 Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon 1973 American English
924 Stoner John Williams 1965 American English
45 Fictions Jorge Luis Borges 1944 Argentinian Spanish
10 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1877 Russian Russian
72 Hamlet William Shakespeare 1600 British English
232 2666 Roberto Bolaño 2004 Chilean Spanish
333 Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace 1996 American English
27 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 1927 British English
20 The Trial Franz Kafka 1925 Czech German
49 Beloved Toni Morrison 1987 American English
14 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1955 American English
194 East of Eden John Steinbeck 1952 American English
12 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813 British English
9 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 1929 American English
34 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 Russian Russian
33 Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961 American English
204 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro 1989 British English
559 The Recognitions William Gaddis 1955 American English
151 Molloy Samuel Beckett 1951 Irish French
30 Middlemarch George Eliot 1871 British English
202 Invisible Cities Italo Calvino 1972 Italian Italian
15 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847 British English
8 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605 Spanish Spanish
39 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818 British English
17 The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1959 English English
23 The Stranger Albert Camus 1942 French French
36 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 1952 American English
40 Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1862 French French
2414 The Melancholy of Resistance László Krasznahorkai 1989 Hungarian Hungarian
85 Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 1969 American English
88 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1890 Irish English
96 Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808 German German
21 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1857 French French
532 The Passion According to G.H. Clarice Lispector 1964 Brazilian Portuguese
261 Austerlitz W. G. Sebald 2001 German German
48 Journey to the End of The Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1932 French French
215 The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson 1959 American English
2876 Septology Jon Fosse 2019 Norwegian Norwegian
896 My Struggle Karl Ove Knausgård 2009 Norwegian Norwegian
29 The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
25 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann 1924 German German
361 The Left Hand Of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin 1969 American English
87 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
1717 No Longer Human Osamu Dazai 1948 Japanese Japanese
274 Life, a User's Manual Georges Perec 1978 French French
289 Nightwood Djuna Barnes 1936 American English
1143 A Month In The Country J. L. Carr 1980 British English
37 The Iliad Homer -750 Greek Ancient greek
3 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 American English
362 White Noise Don DeLillo 1985 American English
6 Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell 1949 British English
165 Giovanni's Room James Baldwin 1956 American English
31 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1899 British English
200 The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa 1982 Portuguese Portuguese
169 Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 1922 German German
54 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway 1952 American English
4 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951 American English
2615 The Neapolitan Novels Elena Ferrante 2011 Italian Italian
101 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera 1984 Czech Czech
2304 Solenoid Mircea Cărtărescu 2015 Romanian Romanian
857 The Woman in the Dunes Kobo Abé 1962 Japanese Japanese
1374 The Sea of Fertility Yukio Mishima 1965 Japanese Japanese
525 Gormenghast Mervyn Peake 1950 British English
68 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 1937 American English
1250 The Cairo Trilogy Naguib Mahfouz 1956 Egyptian Arabic
1472 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver 1981 American English
213 Life and Fate Vasily Grossman 1980 Russian Russian
75 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James 1881 American English
126 Paradise Lost John Milton 1667 British English
28 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 1847 British English
16 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 American English
123 Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo 1955 Mexican Spanish
76 Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855 American English
70 The Aeneid Virgil -19 Roman Latin
100 Dune Frank Herbert 1965 American English
22 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884 American English
103 Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol 1842 Russian Russian
349 The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor Flannery O'Connor 1971 American English
52 The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne 1759 British English
156 Poems of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson 1890 American English
64 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981 Indian English
993 Blindness José Saramago 1995 Portuguese Portuguese
494 The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien 1967 Irish English
1075 The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe 1980 American English
631 Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985 American English
353 Hopscotch Julio Cortazar 1963 Argentinian Spanish
259 Disgrace J. M. Coetzee 1999 South African English
1019 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders 2017 American English
117 The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers 1940 American English
869 Woodcutters Thomas Bernhard 1984 Austrian German
2652 Ariel Sylvia Plath 1965 American English
147 Confessions of Zeno Italo Svevo 1923 Italian Italian
740 The Goldfinch Donna Tartt 2013 American English
858 The Sellout Paul Beatty 2015 American English