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[Rev. Rye]

4Chan's /lit/ board has made a survey of the board's 100 favourite books every year for at least the last 9 years. 33 have made every single list:

Top 10 on average:

• Moby Dick
  
• The Brothers Karamazov
  
• Crime and Punishment
  
• Lolita
  
• Infinite Jest
  
• Ulysses
  
• Don Quixote
  

Top 20 on average:

• Blood Meridian
  
• The Bible
  
• Stoner
  
• Gravity's Rainbow
  
• The Stranger
  
• The Iliad
  
• Ficciones
  
• Anna Karenina
  
• The Divine Comedy
  

Top 30 on average:

• 1984
  
• War and Peace
  
• The Odyssey
  
• 100 Years of Solitude
  
• In Search of Lost Time
  
• Hamlet
  

Top 50 on average:

• Master and Margarita
  
• Catcher in the Rye
  
• Catch-22
  
• Dubliners
  
• 2666
  
• The Book of Disquiet
  
• The Metamorphosis
  

Bottom 50 on average:

• The Count of Monte Cristo
  
• Paradise Lost
  
• To the Lighthouse
  
• American Psycho