1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books
2. http://www.alistofbooks.com/
3. http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-books-of-all-time-_fiction_
4. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/100-novels-everyone-should-read/
5. http://thegreatestbooks.org/
6. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1.Best_Books_Ever
The only requirement for my list is the book should be at least on the 4 out of those 6 lists. Here is the result in the chronological order:
No | Title | Author | Year | Country | Genre | Format |
1 | Odyssey | Homer | -800 | Greece | epic | poem |
2 | Don Quixote | Cervantes | 1615 | Spain | novel | |
3 | Robinson Crusoe | Defoe | 1719 | United Kingdom | historical | novel |
4 | Pride and Prejudice | Austen | 1813 | United Kingdom | novel | |
5 | Frankenstein | Shelley | 1818 | United Kingdom | gothic novel, horror, soft science fiction | novel |
6 | Wuthering Heights | Bronte | 1847 | United Kingdom | novel | |
7 | Jane Eyre | Bronte | 1847 | United Kingdom | novel | |
8 | David Copperfield | Dickens | 1850 | United Kingdom | bildungsroman* | novel |
9 | Moby-Dick | Melville | 1851 | United States | adventure, epic, sea, encyclopedic | novel |
10 | Great Expectations | Dickens | 1861 | United Kingdom | novel | |
11 | Les Miserables | Hugo | 1862 | France | epic, historical | novel |
12 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Carroll | 1865 | United Kingdom | children's fiction | novel |
13 | Crime and Punishment | Dostoyevsky | 1866 | Russia | psychological, philosophical | novel |
14 | War and Peace | Tolstoy | 1867 | Russia | historical | novel |
15 | Anna Karenina | Tolstoy | 1877 | Russia | realist | novel |
16 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Twain | 1884 | United Kingdom | satirical | novel |
17 | Heart of Darkness | Conrad | 1899 | United Kingdom | novella | |
18 | Ulysses | Joyce | 1920 | Ireland | modernist | novel |
19 | The Great Gatsby | Fitzgerald | 1925 | United States | novel | |
20 | Brave New World | Huxley | 1932 | United Kingdom | science fiction, dystopian** | novel |
21 | Gone with the Wind | Mitchell | 1936 | United States | historical | novel |
22 | The Hobbit | Tolkien | 1937 | United Kingdom | high fantasy, juvenile fantasy | novel |
23 | The Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck | 1939 | United States | realist | novel |
24 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | Orwell | 1949 | United Kingdom | dystopian, political fiction, social science fiction | novel |
25 | The Chronicles of Narnia | Lewis | 1950 | United Kingdom | children's fantasy, Christian literature | novel |
26 | The Catcher in the Rye | Salinger | 1951 | United States | realistic fiction, coming-of-age fiction | novel |
27 | Charlotte's Web | White | 1952 | United States | children's fiction | novel |
28 | The Old Man and the Sea | Hemingway | 1952 | United States | short novel | |
29 | The Lord of the Rings | Tolkien | 1954 | United Kingdom | fantasy | novel |
30 | Lolita | Nabokov | 1955 | France | novel | |
31 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Lee | 1960 | United States | southern Gothic | novel |
32 | Catch-22 | Heller | 1961 | United States | black humor, absurdist, satire, war, historical | novel |
33 | Dune | Herbert | 1965 | United States | soft science-fiction | novel |
34 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Marquez | 1967 | Columbia | magic realism | novel |
35 | Watership Down | Adams | 1972 | United Kingdom | fantasy | novel |
36 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Adams | 1979 | United Kingdom | comedy, science fiction | novel |
37 | The Handmaid's Tale | Atwood | 1985 | Canada | dystopian novel, science fiction, speculative | novel |
38 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Rowling | 1998 | United Kingdom | fantasy | novel |
**dystopian: A dystopia is an unpleasant (typically repressive) society, often propagandized as being utopian (Wikipedia)