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Well, I just went through a bunch definitive book lists off of list of bests.I put about 6 of them into a spreadsheet, and sorted them by how many appearances they made on the list of 600 books. Below are the ones that appeared on the list more than two times. (The ones in bold are the ones I've read. The ones underlined I either own or plan to read very soon.)
This is what I came up with:
Five or More Times
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by JD Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Four times
1984 by George Orwell
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
ULYSSES by James Joyce
Three Times
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickins
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
BELOVED by Toni Morrison
Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Native Son by Richard Wright
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
THE MAGUS by John Fowles
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
For those of you like myself who like to read Science/Speculative Fiction, here is another list I made:
5 or more times
Dune by Frank Herbert, 1966
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, 1986
Gateway by Frederik Pohl, 1978
Neuromancer by William Gibson, 1985
Four times
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke, 1974
Ringworld by Larry Niven, 1971
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein, 1960
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, 1962
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman, 1976
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1970
Timescape Written by Gregory Benford
Three times
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1961
American Gods by Neil Gaiman, 2002
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, 1993 (tie)
Fahrenheit 451 Written by Ray Bradbury
Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman, 1998
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Written by Douglas Adams
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, 1968
Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, 1963
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner, 1969
Startide Rising by David Brin, 1984
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester, 1953
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov, 1973
To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer, 1972
Two times
1984 by George Orwell
A Case of Conscience by James Blish, 1959
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge, 2000
Alice in Wonderland Written by Lewis Carroll
Boy's Life, Robert R. McCammon
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Cat’s Cradle Written by Kurt Vonnegut
Childhood's End Written by Arthur C. Clarke
Deathbird Stories Written by Harlan Ellison
Dhalgren Written by Samuel Delany
Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein, 1956
Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh, 1982
Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dragonflight Written by Anne McCaffrey
Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre, 1979
Fairyland, Paul J. McAuley
Flowers for Algernon Written by Daniel Keyes
Gloriana, Michael Moorcock
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling, 2001
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
Hyperion by Dan Simmons, 1990
I Am Legend Written by Richard Matheson
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, 2005
Little, Big, John Crowley
Mission of Gravity Written by Hal Clement
More Than Human Written by Theodore Sturgeon
ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2004
Perfume, Patrick Süskind
Red Mars Written by Kim Stanley Robinson
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash Written by Neal Stephenson
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card, 1987
The Child Garden Geoff Ryman
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975
The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke, 1980
THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, 1967
The Postman Written by David Brin
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge, 1981
The Stars My Destination Written by Alfred Bester
The Time Machine by HG Wells
The Time Ships, Stephen Baxter
The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
Way Station by Clifford D. Simak, 1964
This is what I came up with:
Five or More Times
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by JD Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Four times
1984 by George Orwell
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
ULYSSES by James Joyce
Three Times
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickins
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
BELOVED by Toni Morrison
Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Native Son by Richard Wright
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
THE MAGUS by John Fowles
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
For those of you like myself who like to read Science/Speculative Fiction, here is another list I made:
5 or more times
Dune by Frank Herbert, 1966
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, 1986
Gateway by Frederik Pohl, 1978
Neuromancer by William Gibson, 1985
Four times
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke, 1974
Ringworld by Larry Niven, 1971
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein, 1960
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, 1962
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman, 1976
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1970
Timescape Written by Gregory Benford
Three times
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1961
American Gods by Neil Gaiman, 2002
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, 1993 (tie)
Fahrenheit 451 Written by Ray Bradbury
Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman, 1998
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Written by Douglas Adams
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, 1968
Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, 1963
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner, 1969
Startide Rising by David Brin, 1984
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester, 1953
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov, 1973
To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer, 1972
Two times
1984 by George Orwell
A Case of Conscience by James Blish, 1959
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge, 2000
Alice in Wonderland Written by Lewis Carroll
Boy's Life, Robert R. McCammon
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Cat’s Cradle Written by Kurt Vonnegut
Childhood's End Written by Arthur C. Clarke
Deathbird Stories Written by Harlan Ellison
Dhalgren Written by Samuel Delany
Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein, 1956
Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh, 1982
Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dragonflight Written by Anne McCaffrey
Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre, 1979
Fairyland, Paul J. McAuley
Flowers for Algernon Written by Daniel Keyes
Gloriana, Michael Moorcock
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling, 2001
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
Hyperion by Dan Simmons, 1990
I Am Legend Written by Richard Matheson
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, 2005
Little, Big, John Crowley
Mission of Gravity Written by Hal Clement
More Than Human Written by Theodore Sturgeon
ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2004
Perfume, Patrick Süskind
Red Mars Written by Kim Stanley Robinson
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash Written by Neal Stephenson
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card, 1987
The Child Garden Geoff Ryman
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975
The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke, 1980
THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, 1967
The Postman Written by David Brin
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge, 1981
The Stars My Destination Written by Alfred Bester
The Time Machine by HG Wells
The Time Ships, Stephen Baxter
The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
Way Station by Clifford D. Simak, 1964
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