| 01 | Ulysses | 80.5 |
| 02 | The Great Gatsby | 65.1 |
| 03 | Don Quixote | 52.0 |
| 04 | Beloved | 50.3 |
| 05 | 1984 | 39.2 |
| 06 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | 39.0 |
| 07 | Crime and Punishment | 36.8 |
| 08 | Anna Karenina | 34.9 |
| 09 | Pride and Prejudice | 31.9 |
| 10 | Penguin Random House | 30.3 |
| 11 | modernlibrary.com | 28.7 |
| 12 | Moby-Dick | 26.8 |
| 13 | War and Peace | 26.4 |
| 14 | The Catcher in the Rye | 26.0 |
| 15 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 25.4 |
| 16 | The Brothers Karamazov | 20.8 |
| 17 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) | 18.1 |
| 18 | top 10 list ranked by “best for everyone” | 17.9 |
| 19 | list by genre | 17.7 |
| 20 | Madame Bovary | 16.9 |
| 21 | Time Magazine (Unranked) | 16.1 |
| 22 | Invisible Man | 15.0 |
| 23 | To the Lighthouse | 14.7 |
| 24 | Things Fall Apart | 14.6 |
| 25 | Lolita | 14.1 |
| 26 | list of modern literary classics | 13.3 |
| 27 | list based on popular rankings and awards | 13.2 |
| 28 | Wuthering Heights | 12.8 |
| 29 | Normal People | 12.5 |
| 30 | A Little Life | 12.2 |