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66 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 13 Apr \ on: The Top 500 Must-Read Books of World Literature (The Economist) the_stacker_muse BooksAndArticles econ

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RankTitleAuthorEst. Reading Time
1One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez~7h 40m
2The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald~2h 51m
3UlyssesJames Joyce~14h 54m
4The Catcher in the RyeJ.D. Salinger~4h 36m
5Absalom, Absalom!William Faulkner~7h 00m
6RebeccaDaphne du Maurier~8h 05m
7The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne~4h 50m
8Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell~6h 30m
9Moby-DickHerman Melville~12h 40m
10Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë~10h 15m
11Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë~7h 20m
12Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes~20h 30m
13Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky~13h 15m
14Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy~18h 45m
15The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck~10h 30m
16War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy~27h 30m
17LolitaVladimir Nabokov~7h 15m
18To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee~6h 15m
19Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert~8h 45m
20The OdysseyHomer~8h 30m
21Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens~11h 00m
22The Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner~6h 15m
23The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky~19h 30m
24Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad~2h 15m
25Invisible ManRalph Ellison~10h 45m
26The IliadHomer~11h 15m
27Catch-22Joseph Heller~9h 15m
28MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot~17h 15m
29BelovedToni Morrison~6h 45m
30The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri~12h 00m
31Les MisérablesVictor Hugo~25h 00m
32Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift~6h 45m
33The TrialFranz Kafka~5h 15m
34In Search of Lost TimeMarcel Proust~75h 00m
35Mrs. DallowayVirginia Woolf~4h 15m
36The StrangerAlbert Camus~2h 45m
37DublinersJames Joyce~4h 30m
38A Farewell to ArmsErnest Hemingway~5h 45m
39Brave New WorldAldous Huxley~5h 30m
40To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf~4h 45m
41Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen~7h 30m
42The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway~5h 00m
43Huckleberry FinnMark Twain~6h 30m
44CandideVoltaire~2h 15m
45The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka~1h 30m
46FrankensteinMary Shelley~5h 15m
47Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe~4h 15m
48A Portrait of the ArtistJames Joyce~5h 45m
49FiccionesJorge Luis Borges~4h 00m
50The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway~1h 30m
51Lord of the FliesWilliam Golding~4h 45m
52Alice in WonderlandLewis Carroll~2h 30m
53Fahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury~4h 00m
54Animal FarmGeorge Orwell~2h 15m
55Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut~4h 15m
56DraculaBram Stoker~10h 30m
57David CopperfieldCharles Dickens~18h 45m
58Tess of the d'UrbervillesThomas Hardy~10h 15m
59A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens~9h 15m
60EmmaJane Austen~10h 15m
61Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe~7h 30m
62Lord of the RingsJ.R.R. Tolkien~26h 00m
63The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde~5h 30m
64Vanity FairW.M. Thackeray~18h 30m
65Anna of the Five TownsArnold Bennett~5h 45m
66The Age of InnocenceEdith Wharton~6h 45m
67Portrait of a LadyHenry James~13h 00m
68Tristram ShandyLaurence Sterne~14h 45m
69Tom JonesHenry Fielding~19h 30m
70The Red and the BlackStendhal~11h 15m
71Sense and SensibilityJane Austen~8h 45m
72Little WomenLouisa May Alcott~11h 30m
73The HobbitJ.R.R. Tolkien~7h 15m
74The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas~25h 00m
75Gone with the WindMargaret Mitchell~20h 45m
76The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer~12h 00m
77On the RoadJack Kerouac~7h 30m
78The Handmaid's TaleMargaret Atwood~7h 45m
79Midnight's ChildrenSalman Rushdie~13h 45m
80The Golden NotebookDoris Lessing~14h 30m
81The Secret GardenFrances H. Burnett~5h 15m
82A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens~1h 45m
83Treasure IslandR.L. Stevenson~5h 00m
84The JungleUpton Sinclair~8h 30m
85UtopiaThomas More~3h 00m
86CandideVoltaire~2h 15m
87The PrinceNiccolò Machiavelli~2h 30m
88Wealth of NationsAdam Smith~22h 30m
89Das KapitalKarl Marx~30h 00m
90The Double HelixJames Watson~3h 45m
91The Elements of StyleStrunk & White~1h 15m
92Harry Potter (#1)J.K. Rowling~6h 30m
93The BibleVarious~70h 00m
94The RepublicPlato~8h 00m
95The Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov~9h 15m
96The Big SleepRaymond Chandler~4h 15m
97Death of a SalesmanArthur Miller~2h 00m
98Waiting for GodotSamuel Beckett~2h 00m
99HamletWillia
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