Top 100 works on r/classicliterature Subreddit ranks are by the number of posts/comments naming the work. Goodreads Classics (rank from “Most Shelved”); Western Canon = listed in Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon. Click a heading to sort.

r/classicliterature Rank	Title	r/literature	Goodreads	Modern Library	Western Canon
1	Wuthering Heights	12	6	—	✓
2	Crime and Punishment	4	33	—	✓
3	Moby Dick	3	45	—	✓
4	The Count of Monte Cristo	36	24	—	—
5	East of Eden	24	62	—	—
6	Jane Eyre	26	4	—	✓
7	The Brothers Karamazov	8	85	—	✓
8	Frankenstein	14	11	—	✓
9	War and Peace	13	58	—	✓
10	Anna Karenina	15	27	—	✓
11	The Picture of Dorian Gray	47	14	—	✓
12	Ulysses	1	—	1	✓
13	Pride and Prejudice	27	1	—	✓
14	The Iliad	21	50	—	✓
15	The Odyssey	18	25	—	✓
16	Don Quixote	22	69	—	✓
17	1984	6	5	13	✓
18	Les Misérables	52	34	—	✓
19	Middlemarch	46	—	—	✓
20	The Great Gatsby	11	3	2	✓
21	Dracula	41	22	—	✓
22	Lolita	2	48	4	✓
23	The Grapes of Wrath	43	39	10	✓
24	Great Expectations	88	20	—	✓
25	The Catcher in the Rye	10	7	64	✓
26	One Hundred Years of Solitude	17	79	—	✓
27	Blood Meridian	7	—	—	✓
28	A Tale of Two Cities	82	19	—	✓
29	Notes from Underground	49	—	—	✓
30	The Idiot	54	—	—	✓
31	Stoner	35	—	—	—
32	The Master and Margarita	45	—	—	✓
33	Animal Farm	63	8	31	—
34	The Stranger	40	64	—	✓
35	In Search of Lost Time	23	—	—	✓
36	The Divine Comedy	30	—	—	✓
37	The Lord of the Rings	16	59	—	—
38	Rebecca	150	54	—	—
39	Madame Bovary	77	67	—	✓
40	Of Mice and Men	80	13	—	—
41	The Bible	19	—	—	✓
42	The Metamorphosis	34	56	—	—
43	David Copperfield	124	75	—	✓
44	To Kill a Mockingbird	38	2	—	—
45	The Sound and the Fury	33	—	6	✓
46	Brave New World	28	26	5	✓
47	Tess of the d'Urbervilles	150	65	—	✓
48	Bleak House	131	—	—	✓
49	Infinite Jest	5	—	—	—
50	Paradise Lost	31	—	—	✓
51	White Nights	250	—	—	—
52	Heart of Darkness	37	55	67	—
53	Emma	132	16	—	✓
54	Hamlet	25	28	—	✓
55	The Sun Also Rises	58	81	45	✓
56	The Old Man and the Sea	73	36	—	—
57	Little Women	159	12	—	✓
58	Catch-22	55	52	7	—
59	The Bell Jar	57	57	—	—
60	Fahrenheit 451	83	18	—	—
61	A Christmas Carol	174	30	—	—
62	As I Lay Dying	62	—	35	✓
63	Beloved	70	—	—	—
64	Lord of the Flies	80	10	41	—
65	Gravity's Rainbow	9	—	—	✓
66	The Three Musketeers	256	—	—	—
67	Slaughterhouse-Five	42	43	18	—
68	Mrs. Dalloway	71	91	—	✓
69	The Road	29	—	—	—
70	The Magic Mountain	117	—	—	✓
71	A Farewell to Arms	114	95	74	✓
72	The Death of Ivan Ilyich	122	—	—	—
73	Lonesome Dove	94	—	—	—
74	Finnegans Wake	32	—	77	✓
75	To the Lighthouse	85	—	15	✓
76	Dubliners	51	—	—	✓
76	The Hobbit	118	29	—	—
78	Oliver Twist	134	53	—	✓
79	Jude the Obscure	196	—	—	✓
80	The Tenant of Wildfell Hall	370	—	—	—
81	The Trial	65	—	—	✓
82	The Scarlet Letter	123	21	—	✓
83	Romeo and Juliet	76	9	—	—
84	Absalom, Absalom!	68	—	—	✓
84	Demons	144	—	—	—
86	The Aeneid	113	—	—	✓
87	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	98	17	—	✓
88	Persuasion	264	23	—	✓
89	Candide	142	89	—	✓
90	Cannery Row	214	—	—	—
91	Siddhartha	106	98	—	—
92	Macbeth	66	31	—	—
93	The Woman in White	761	—	—	✓
94	Sense and Sensibility	279	15	—	—
95	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	60	—	3	✓
96	Vanity Fair	353	—	—	✓
97	Treasure Island	305	51	—	✓
98	Giovanni's Room	162	—	—	—
99	Anne of Green Gables	240	44	—	—
100	Villette	381	—	—	✓