- Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
- Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Dante Alighieri - Inferno
- Isaac Asimov - Foundation
- Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
- Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
- William Peter Blatty - The Ninth Configuration
- Howard, Ungart, and Thomas Bobpop - Where Foot Meets Mouth
- Robert Boyle - The Sceptical Chymist
- Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
- Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
- William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac - And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
- Albert Camus - The Stranger
- Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Anton Chekhov - The Duel
- Richard Connel - The Most Dangerous Game
- Douglas Coupland - Microserfs
- Timothy Dexter - A Pickle for the Knowing Ones
- Phillip K. Dick - Paycheck
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot
- Lili Elbe - Man into Woman
- Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
- Viktor E. Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning
- Neil Gaiman - Anansi Boys
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wall-Paper
- William Golding - Lord of the Flies
- Sadegh Hedayat - The Blind Owl
- Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
- S.E. Hilton - The Outsiders
- Homer - The Odyssey
- Herman Hesse - Siddhartha
- Nick Hornby - High Fidelity
- Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
- Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House
- Christopher Isherwood - Goodbye to Berlin
- James Joyce - Ulysses
- Jack Kerouac - On the Road
- Milan Kundera - Immortality
- Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
- H.P. Lovecraft - The Call of Cthulu
- Cormac McCarthy - The Road
- Herman Melville - Moby Dick
- Alan Moore and David Gibbons - Watchmen
- Vladimir Nabokov - Invitation to a Beheading
- George Orwell - Animal Farm
- Thomas Paine - Common Sense
- Isaac Paulson - Weisent Wong
- Fernando Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet
- Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
- Edgar Allen Poe - The Raven
- Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - Good Omens
- Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
- J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
- J.D. Salinger - A Perfect Day for a Bananafish
- David Sedaris - Naked
- David Sedaris - The SantaLand Diaries
- William Shakespeare - Macbeth
- William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
- William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
- John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
- Donna Tartt - The Secret History
- Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
- Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Harrison Bergeron
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Slaughterhouse Five
- H.G. Wells - The Invisible Man
- Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
According to scores, here's the best to worst:
- A Confederacy of Dunces (100)
- Slaughterhouse Five (100)
- The Catcher in the Rye (100)
- Lord of the Flies (100)
- Gravity's Rainbow (99) [I'd say it's about tied with Ulysses]
- Ulysses (99)
- A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (99)
- A Perfect Day for a Bananafish (98)
- The Road (98)
- Naked (98)
- The Ninth Configuration (97)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (97)
- Man into Woman (97)
- Brave New World (96)
- Invitation to a Beheading (96)
- The SantaLand Diaries (96)
- The Stranger (95)
- Fahrenheit 451 (94)
- MacBeth (94)
- Inferno (94)
- The Raven (93)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (92)
- The Bell Jar (92)
- Weisent Wong (91)
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (90)
- Waiting for Godot (90)
- And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (90)
- Animal Farm (89)
- The Secret History (89)
- Good Omens (89)
- Watchmen (89)
- The Handmaid's Tale (88)
- The Great Gatsby (87)
- The Idiot (87)
- The Yellow Wallpaper (86)
- Harrison Bergeron (85)
- Man's Search for Meaning (84)
- Things Fall Apart (83)
- Siddhartha (83)
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being (82)
- Goodbye to Berlin (82)
- Microserfs (81)
- The Blind Owl (81)
- Moby Dick (80)
- On the Road (79)
- High Fidelity (78)
- The Outsiders (78)
- Romeo and Juliet (78)
- Common Sense (78)
- Anansi Boys (77)
- To the Lighthouse (77)
- Of Mice and Men (76)
- Immortality (75)
- Invisible Man (73)
- A Doll's House (72)
- Paycheck (71)
- The Most Dangerous Game (68)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (68)
- The Old Man and the Sea (63)
- The Duel (60)
- The Invisible Man (58)
- Wuthering Heights (54)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's (52)
- The Book of Disquiet (51)
- The Sceptical Chymist (44)
- War and Peace (38)
- The Call of Cthulu (38)
- The Odyssey (32)
- Foundation (21)
- Where Foot Meets Mouth (N/A)
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