The 505 Most Mentioned Books on the “Books to Read Before You Die Lists”
Of 50 sites and 6,000 book references, these are those which had at least three mentions.
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I compiled the information on 50 internet sites, with lists of books to read, in total there were over 6,000 book references. This list contained only those mentioned at least 3 times, but there are 2,436 books mentioned either one or two times.
This is the summary of the most mentioned book on the “Books to Read Before You Die Lists”, they are in order of mentions and alphabetical order
You can check the links and a brief description of the top 100, in the “The Ultimate 100 Books To Read Before You Die List” article.
Rank - Title- Author - Number of mentions
1.- 1984 by George Orwell — 35 times
2.- The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald — 34 times
3.- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger — 30 times
4.- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller — 28 times
5.- One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez — 28 times
6.- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen — 27 times
7.- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee — 26 times
8.- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov — 25 times
9.- The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck — 24 times
10.- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison — 23 times
11.- Beloved by Toni Morrison — 22 times
12.- Moby Dick by Herman Melville — 22 times
13.- On The Road by Jack Kerouac — 21 times
14.- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain — 21 times
15.- Ulysses by James Jones — 21 times
16.- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë — 21 times
17.- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley — 20 times
18.- Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky — 20 times
19.- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens — 20 times
20.- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë — 20 times
21.- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy — 19 times
22.- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie — 19 times
23.- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut — 19 times
24.- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll — 18 times
25.- Animal Farm by George Orwell — 18 times
26.- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley — 18 times
27.- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell — 18 times
28.- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood — 18 times
29.- The Stranger by Albert Camus — 18 times
30.- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe — 18 times
31.- War and Peace…
