Some years ago, some contributor provided this list over at Reddit. I'm not sure exactly how the poll was worded, but this is the contributor's "top" 100 books.
I've highlighted in bold those that I have had in my personal library at least for some years before I ran out of shelves and donated them to others.
- Ulysses, Joyce
- Hamlet, Shakespeare
- Moby Dick, Melville
- In Search of Lost Time, Proust
- The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky
- Don Quixote, Cervantes
- Anna Karenina, Tolstoy
- Lolita, Nabokov
- Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon
- Blood Meridian, McCarthy
- Ficciones, Borges
- 100 Years of Solitude, Garcia Marquez
- Infinite Jest, Wallace
- Stoner, Williams -- I've seen this book fairly often at discount book stores, have paged through it, at the recommendation of the owner of the story, but have never bought it or read more than a few pages.
- The Trilogy, Beckett
- The Divine Comedy, Dante
- The Trial, Kafka
- East of Eden, Steinbeck
- King Lear, Shakespeare
- Odyssey, Homer
- To the Lighthouse, Woolf
- Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
- War and Peace, Tolstoy
- The Recognitions, Gaddis
- 2666, Bolano
- Catch-22, Heller
- Journey to the End of the Night, Celine
- Pale Fire, Nabokov
- The Magic Mountain, Mann
- Paradise Lost, Milton
- Middlemarch, Elliot
- Mason & Dixon, Pynchon
- Iliad, Homer
- The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro
- The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner
- The Stranger, Camus
- The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde
- Macbeth, Shakespeare
- If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Calvino
- Wuthering Heights, Brontë
- The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
- Aeneid, Vergil
- Frankenstein, Shelley
- Siddhartha, Hesse
- Beloved, Morrison
- The Waves, Woolf
- Othello, Shakespeare
- Giovanni's Room, Balwin
- Madame Bovary, Flaubert
- Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu
- Heart of Darkness, Conrad
- The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck
- Slaughterhouse-V, Vonnegut
- Invisible Cities, Calvino
- The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien
The Flowers of Evil, Baudelaire - Leaves of Grass, Whitman
- The Plague, Camus
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Mishima - The Savage Detectives, Bolano
- Pride and Prejudice, Austen
- Absalom, Absalom, Faulkner
- Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf
- Invisible Man, Ellison
- Native Son, Wright
- Jane Eyre, Brontë
- The Tunnel, Gass
- Dubliners, Joyce
- J R, Gaddis
- The Man Without Qualities, Musil
- Suttree, McCarthy
- Finnegans Wake, Joyce
- The Metamorphosis, Kafka
- The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov
- Satantango, Krasznahorkai
- Oresteia, Aeschylus
The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway - Underworld, DeLillo
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas
- Under the Volcano, Lowry
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway - Midnight's Children, Rushdie
- Les Miserables, Hugo
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce - The Rings of Saturn, Sebald
- My Struggle, Knausgaard
- The Left Hand of Darkness, LeGuin
- The Last Samurai, DeWitt
- Metamorphoses, Ovid
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain - Night Wood, Barnes
- Faust, Goethe
Post-Humous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, Machado de Assisi - Things Fall Apart, Achebe
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman, Sterne - The Tartar Steppe, Buzzati
- Life: A User's Manual, Perec
- Dead Souls, Gogol
- Emma, Austen
To this list I would add:
- Fear and Loathing In America or Hell's Angels, Hunter S Thompson
- Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
- The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
- A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe
- The Portrait of A Lady, Henry James
- The Beast in the Jungle, Henry James
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John Le Carré
The Rings of Saturn also showed up at this link at The [London] Telegraph.
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