Books!

Well, I just went through a bunch definitive book lists off of list of bests.I put about 6 of them into a spreadsheet, and sorted them by how many appearances they made on the list of 600 books. Below are the ones that appeared on the list more than two times. (The ones in bold are the ones I've read. The ones underlined I either own or plan to read very soon.)

This is what I came up with:

Five or More Times


A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by JD Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Four times


1984 by George Orwell
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
ULYSSES by James Joyce

Three Times

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickins
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
BELOVED by Toni Morrison
Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Native Son by Richard Wright
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
THE MAGUS by John Fowles
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams


For those of you like myself who like to read Science/Speculative Fiction, here is another list I made:

5 or more times

Dune by Frank Herbert, 1966       
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, 1986   
Gateway by Frederik Pohl, 1978       
Neuromancer by William Gibson, 1985

Four times

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke, 1974               
Ringworld by Larry Niven, 1971           
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein, 1960               
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, 1962                   
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman, 1976           
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1970                   
Timescape Written by Gregory Benford

Three times

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1961                   
American Gods by Neil Gaiman, 2002           
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, 1993 (tie)               
Fahrenheit 451 Written by Ray Bradbury           
Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman, 1998           
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley       
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Written by Douglas Adams                   
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, 1968           
Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, 1963               
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner, 1969           
Startide Rising by David Brin, 1984           
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester, 1953               
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov, 1973               
To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer, 1972   
          
Two times

1984 by George Orwell   
A Case of Conscience by James Blish, 1959   
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess   
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge, 2000   
Alice in Wonderland Written by Lewis Carroll   
Boy's Life, Robert R. McCammon   
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley   
Cat’s Cradle Written by Kurt Vonnegut   
Childhood's End Written by Arthur C. Clarke   
Deathbird Stories Written by Harlan Ellison   
Dhalgren Written by Samuel Delany   
Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein, 1956   
Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh, 1982   
Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson   
Dragonflight Written by Anne McCaffrey   
Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre, 1979   
Fairyland, Paul J. McAuley   
Flowers for Algernon Written by Daniel Keyes   
Gloriana, Michael Moorcock   
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling, 2001   
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling   
Hyperion by Dan Simmons, 1990   
I Am Legend Written by Richard Matheson   
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, 2005   
Little, Big, John Crowley   
Mission of Gravity Written by Hal Clement   
More Than Human Written by Theodore Sturgeon   
ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute   
Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2004   
Perfume, Patrick Süskind   
Red Mars Written by Kim Stanley Robinson   
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut   
Snow Crash Written by Neal Stephenson   
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card, 1987   
The Child Garden Geoff Ryman   
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett   
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975   
The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke, 1980   
THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood   
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, 1967   
The Postman Written by David Brin   
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge, 1981   
The Stars My Destination Written by Alfred Bester   
The Time Machine by HG Wells   
The Time Ships, Stephen Baxter   
The War of the Worlds by HG Wells   
Way Station by Clifford D. Simak, 1964