| Titles | Order |
| Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy | 171 points |
| The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck | 43 ∙ 36 points |
| The Tin Drum by Günter Grass | 108 ∙ 14 points |
| Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert | 160 points |
| War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | 150 points |
| Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | 131 points |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain | 126 points |
| Hamlet by William Shakespeare | 111 points |
| The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 110 points |
| In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | 107 points |
| Stories by Anton Chekhov | 105 points |
| Middlemarch by George Eliot | 100 points |
| Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | 91 points |
| Moby Dick by Herman Melville | 88 points |
| Great Expectations by Charles Dickens | 87 points |
| Ulysses by James Joyce | 85 points |
| The Odyssey by Homer | 81 points |
| Dubliners by James Joyce | 79 points |
| Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 72 points |
| King Lear by William Shakespeare | 72 points |
| Emma by Jane Austen | 67 points |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 66 points |
| The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner | 63 points |
| To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf | 62 points |
| The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 61 points |
| Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor | 55 points |
| The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne | 54 points |
| Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen | 52 points |
| Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë | 52 points |
| The Holy Bible | 50 points |
| Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov | 49 points |
| Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner | 47 points |
| The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James | 45 points |
| To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee | 44 points |
| The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer | 43 points |
| Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad | 42 points |
| Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf | 42 points |
| Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison | 41 points |
| Bleak House by Charles Dickens | 40 points |
| The Trial by Franz Kafka | 40 points |
| Beloved by Toni Morrison | 40 points |
| Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë | 39 points |
| The Stranger by Albert Camus | 38 points |
| All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren | 35 points |
| The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford | 32 points |
| The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger | 32 points |
| Persuasion by Jane Austen | 31 points |
| Macbeth by William Shakespeare | 31 points |
| The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides by Aeschylus | 30 points |
| The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne | 30 points |
| The Red and the Black by Stendhal | 28 points |
| Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy by John Updike | 28 points |
| Collected Stories by Isaac Babel | 27 points |
| Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 27 points |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce | 27 points |
| Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | 26 points |
| Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut | 26 points |
| The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever | 24 points |
| Paradise Lost by John Milton | 24 points |
| The Aeneid by Virgil | 24 points |
| Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy | 23 points |
| Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | 23 points |
| Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol | 22 points |
| The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann | 22 points |
| The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty | 22 points |
| The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov | 21 points |
| Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens | 21 points |
| As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner | 21 points |
| The Hamlet by William Faulkner | 21 points |
| The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway | 21 points |
| The Iliad by Homer | 21 points |
| The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio | 20 points |
| Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 20 points |
| The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead | 20 points |
| The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal | 20 points |
| The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway | 19 points |
| Independent People by Halldór Laxness | 19 points |
| The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by Richard Burton | 18 points |
| Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 18 points |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston | 18 points |
| The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition by Stephen King | 18 points |
| The Tempest by William Shakespeare | 18 points |
| Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson | 17 points |
| Don Juan by Lord Byron | 17 points |
| Tom Jones by Henry Fielding | 17 points |
| A Passage to India by E. M. Forster | 17 points |
| Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson | 17 points |
| Candide by Voltaire | 17 points |
| Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges | 16 points |
| The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler | 16 points |
| Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell | 16 points |
| Mr. Bridge by Evan S. Connell | 16 points |
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy | 16 points |
| The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka | 16 points |
| The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri | 56 points |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell | 16 points |
| Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift | 16 points |
| The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West | 16 points |
| A Death in the Family by James Agee | 15 points |
| Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino | 15 points |
| The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson | 15 points |
| Howards End by E. M. Forster | 15 points |
| The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene | 15 points |
| Selected Stories by Alice Munro | 15 points |
| A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell | 15 points |
| The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark | 15 points |
| Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr | 14 points |
| Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare | 14 points |
| David Copperfield by Charles Dickens | 13 points |
| Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser | 13 points |
| The Bear by William Faulkner | 13 points |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway | 13 points |
| Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson | 13 points |
| The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | 13 points |
| Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter | 13 points |
| Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles | 13 points |
| East of Eden by John Steinbeck | 13 points |
| The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson | 13 points |
| Daniel Deronda by George Eliot | 12 points |
| Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 12 points |
| The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard | 12 points |
| So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell | 12 points |
| Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison | 12 points |
| Germinal by Émile Zola | 12 points |
| Ask the Dust by John Fante | 11 points |
| Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford | 11 points |
| The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro | 11 points |
| The Ambassadors by Henry James | 11 points |
| Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger | 11 points |
| Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray | 11 points |
| Native Son by Richard Wright | 11 points |
| The Bhagavad Gita : The song of God by Anonymous | 10 points |
| The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe | 10 points |
| Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe | 10 points |
| The Untouchable by John Banville | 10 points |
| Ill Seen Ill Said by Samuel Beckett | 10 points |
| Book of Leviathan by Peter Blegvad | 10 points |
| The Outward Room by Millen Brand | 10 points |
| Casa Guidi Windows by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 10 points |
| Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote | 10 points |
| The Golden Argosy: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language by Charles Grayson | 10 points |
| The Professor's House by Willa Cather | 10 points |
| The Awakening by Kate Chopin | 10 points |
| Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee | 10 points |
| Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee | 10 points |
| Geek Love by Katherine Dunn | 10 points |
| Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich | 10 points |
| J R by William Gaddis | 10 points |
| I, Claudius by Robert Graves | 10 points |
| The Golden Bowl by Henry James | 10 points |
| Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence | 10 points |
| The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis | 10 points |
| Embers by Sándor Márai | 10 points |
| The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville | 10 points |
| The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter | 10 points |
| The Homecoming by Harold Pinter | 10 points |
| In Diamond Square by Mercè Rodoreda | 10 points |
| Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare | 10 points |
| The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | 10 points |
| L'Assommoir by Émile Zola | 10 points |
| Nana by Émile Zola | 10 points |
| The Complete Fables by Aesop | 9 points |
| Mahābhārata (John D. Smith ed.) by Vyasa | 9 points |
| The Zoo Story by Edward Albee | 9 points |
| The American Dream by Edward Albee | 9 points |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee | 9 points |
| Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac | 9 points |
| The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos | 9 points |
| The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler | 9 points |
| The Fall by Albert Camus | 9 points |
| Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather | 9 points |
| The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermoût | 9 points |
| Selected Stories by Andre Dubus | 9 points |
| The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot | 9 points |
| Medea [in Translation] by Euripides | 9 points |
| Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon | 9 points |
| 1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray | 9 points |
| The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy | 9 points |
| The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst | 9 points |
| A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen | 9 points |
| Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann | 9 points |
| Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend by Thomas Mann | 9 points |
| Bourgeois Gentleman / Doctor in Spite of Himself / Learned Ladies / Misanthrope / Pretentious Young Ladies / Tartuffe by Molière | 9 points |
| Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec | 9 points |
| Wheat that Springeth Green (New York Review Books Classics) by J. F. Powers | 9 points |
| Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym | 9 points |
| Henry V by William Shakespeare | 9 points |
| Othello by William Shakespeare | 9 points |
| Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson | 9 points |
| The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson | 9 points |
| The Master by Colm Tóibín | 9 points |
| Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset | 9 points |
| The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West | 9 points |
| A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams | 9 points |
| Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac | 8 points |
| Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges | 8 points |
| Bullet Park by John Cheever | 8 points |
| Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov | 8 points |
| Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee | 8 points |
| Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad | 8 points |
| The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad | 8 points |
| The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies | 8 points |
| Hard Times by Charles Dickens | 8 points |
| The Ice Age by Margaret Drabble | 8 points |
| Bacchae [Greek text] by Euripides | 8 points |
| Light in August by William Faulkner | 8 points |
| Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding | 8 points |
| The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald | 8 points |
| The Sheltered Life by Ellen Glasgow | 8 points |
| Red Dragon by Thomas Harris | 8 points |
| The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway | 8 points |
| Almost Paradise by Susan Isaacs | 8 points |
| Shining Through by Susan Isaacs | 8 points |
| Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson | 8 points |
| The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera | 8 points |
| The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis | 8 points |
| Man's Fate by André Malraux | 8 points |
| Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant | 8 points |
| The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien | 8 points |
| Norwood by Charles Portis | 8 points |
| The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie | 8 points |
| Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini | 8 points |
| The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott | 8 points |
| Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald | 8 points |
| The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein | 8 points |
| Sophie's Choice by William Styron | 8 points |
| Golpo Guchho by Rabindranath Tagore | 8 points |
| Sketches from a Hunter's Album by Ivan Turgenev | 8 points |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain | 8 points |
| The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde | 8 points |
| Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory | 7 points |
| Little Women by Louisa May Alcott | 7 points |
| Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen | 7 points |
| Nightwood by Djuna Barnes | 7 points |
| Herzog by Saul Bellow | 7 points |
| My Ántonia by Willa Cather | 7 points |
| The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler | 7 points |
| The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov | 7 points |
| The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute | 7 points |
| Letourneau's Used Auto Parts by Carolyn Chute | 7 points |
| Merry Men by Carolyn Chute | 7 points |
| The Hours by Michael Cunningham | 7 points |
| U.S.A. by John Dos Passos | 7 points |
| The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble | 7 points |
| The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant by Mavis Gallant | 7 points |
| The Comedians by Graham Greene | 7 points |
| The Evening of the Holiday by Shirley Hazzard | 7 points |
| Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen | 7 points |
| The Thin Red Line by James Jones | 7 points |
| One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey | 7 points |
| Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré | 7 points |
| Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry | 7 points |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers | 7 points |
| Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller | 7 points |
| The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu | 7 points |
| Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov | 7 points |
| McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris | 7 points |
| The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien | 7 points |
| Metamorphoses [in translation] by Ovid | 7 points |
| The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick | 7 points |
| Gargantua And Pantagruel by François Rabelais | 7 points |
| The Burning Plain, and Other Stories by Juan Rulfo | 7 points |
| The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald | 7 points |
| The Lorax by Dr. Seuss | 7 points |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith | 7 points |
| Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson | 7 points |
| The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien | 7 points |
| A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole | 7 points |
| Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope | 7 points |
| The Color Purple by Alice Walker | 7 points |
| Charlotte's Web by E. B. White | 7 points |
| The Dreamer Wakes by Cao Xuequin | 7 points |
| Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates | 7 points |
| The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker | 6 points |
| Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett | 6 points |
| Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard | 6 points |
| The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles | 6 points |
| Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown | 6 points |
| Collected Stories by Raymond Carver | 6 points |
| The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary | 6 points |
| Troilus and Cressida by Geoffrey Chaucer | 6 points |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 6 points |
| The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 6 points |
| A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley | 6 points |
| Underworld by Don DeLillo | 3 points |
