4chan’s Literature Board’s Aggregate Top 100 Books for the Decade 2014 - 2024

This is one of the 743 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.

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For 10 years now, 4chan has ranked the 100 best books ever. A Reddit user combined them all to create the Final 4chan List of Greatest Books: An Aggregate of Every List Published From 2014 to 2024.

Voter count:
It's hard to figure out how many people actually voted in the poll, but since this is an aggregation of an aggregation of a decade of these polls I am going to assume at least 500 people

This list was originally published in 2024 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
7 Moby-Dick Herman Melville 1851 American English
18 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880 Russian Russian
14 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1955 American English
11 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 Russian Russian
1 Ulysses James Joyce 1922 Irish English
333 Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace 1996 American English
8 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605 Spanish Spanish
198 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy 1985 American English
255 Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon 1973 American English
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
924 Stoner John Williams 1965 American English
23 The Stranger Albert Camus 1942 French French
29 The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
10 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1877 Russian Russian
37 The Iliad Homer -750 Greek Ancient greek
13 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869 Russian Russian
24 The Odyssey Homer -740 Greek Ancient greek
20 The Trial Franz Kafka 1925 Czech German
2 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust 1913 French French
72 Hamlet William Shakespeare 1600 British English
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombian Spanish
6 Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell 1949 British English
341 Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 Russian Russian
232 2666 Roberto Bolaño 2004 Chilean Spanish
96 Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808 German German
1075 The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe 1980 American English
338 Dubliners James Joyce 1914 Irish English
33 Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961 American English
48 Journey to the End of The Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1932 French French
4 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951 American English
200 The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa 1982 Portuguese Portuguese
9 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 1929 American English
34 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 Russian Russian
17 The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1959 English English
66 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka 1915 Czech German
89 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1916 Irish English
222 Thus Spake Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche 1883 German German
57 The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869 Russian Russian
126 Paradise Lost John Milton 1667 British English
194 East of Eden John Steinbeck 1952 American English
1443 Mason & Dixon Thomas Pynchon 1997 American English
71 Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov 1962 American English
87 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
88 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1890 Irish English
203 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 1980 American English
169 Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 1922 German German
209 Hunger Knut Hamsun 1890 Norwegian Norwegian
25 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann 1924 German German
31 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1899 British English
1717 No Longer Human Osamu Dazai 1948 Japanese Japanese
51 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
100 Dune Frank Herbert 1965 American English
40 Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1862 French French
171 Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse 1927 German German
569 American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis 1991 American English
27 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 1927 British English
220 The Republic Plato -379 Greek Ancient greek
559 The Recognitions William Gaddis 1955 American English
454 V Thomas Pynchon 1963 American English
85 Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 1969 American English
4402 The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea Yukio Mishima 1963 Japanese Japanese
3 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 American English
15 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847 British English
94 Demons Fyodor Dostoevsky 1872 Russian Russian
312 Meditations Marcus Aurelius 161 Roman Greek
43 Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 1936 American English
82 The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil 1930 Austrian German
133 Confessions Augustine 397 Roman Latin
54 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway 1952 American English
354 The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño 1998 Chilean Spanish
146 The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien 1937 British English
258 Finnegans Wake James Joyce 1939 Irish English
440 The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon 1966 American English
21 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1857 French French
63 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway 1926 American English
252 The Waves Virginia Woolf 1931 British English
202 Invisible Cities Italo Calvino 1972 Italian Italian
52 The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne 1759 British English
318 If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino 1979 Italian Italian
26 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939 American English
249 A Hero of Our Time Mikhail Lermontov 1840 Russian Russian
79 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 1930 American English
103 Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol 1842 Russian Russian
257 Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs 1959 American English
39 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818 British English
35 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
114 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco 1980 Italian Italian
326 Das Kapital Karl Marx 1867 German German
362 White Noise Don DeLillo 1985 American English
123 Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo 1955 Mexican Spanish
1486 Kokoro Natsume Sōseki 1914 Japanese Japanese
1295 Phenomenology of Mind G. W. F. Hegel 1807 German German
968 Storm of Steel Ernst Jünger 1920 German German
4050 The Tunnel William H. Gass 1995 American English
3845 JR William Gaddis 1975 American English
8217 The Unabomber Manifesto Theodore Kaczynski 1995 American English
457 Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1781 German German
55 Animal Farm George Orwell 1945 British English
656 The Elementary Particles Michel Houellebecq 1998 French French