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So, I partitioned the novels into groups of 10- the top 10 are all ranked '1,' but the 1's are all ranked equally.
| Rank | Title |
Author |
| 1 | Beloved | Morrison |
| 1 | Blindness | Saramago |
| 1 | Catch-22 | Heller |
| 1 | Galapagos | Vonnegut |
| 1 | Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck |
| 1 | Kim | Kipling |
| 1 | Midnight's Children | Rushdie |
| 1 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Marquez |
| 1 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Lee | 1 | War and Peace | Tolstoy |
| 2 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Hemingway |
| 2 | East of Eden | Steinbeck |
| 2 | Love in the Time of Cholera | Marquez |
| 2 | Nineteen Eighty-four | Orwell |
| 2 | Satanic Verses | Rushdie |
| 2 | Cat's Cradle | Vonnegut |
| 2 | Farenheit 451 | Bradbury |
| 2 | Jane Eyre | Bronte |
| 2 | The Trial | Kafka |
| 2 | The Rabbit Quadrilogy | Updike |
| 3 | The Three Musketeers | Dumas |
| 3 | Orient Express | Dos Passos |
| 3 | Anna Karenina | Tolstoy |
| 3 | Slaughterhouse Five | Vonnegut |
| 3 | The Handmaid's Tale | Atwood |
| 3 | Charlotte's Web | White |
| 3 | The Old Man and the Sea | Hemingway |
| 3 | The Blind Assassin | Atwood |
| 3 | The Sirens of Titan | Vonnegut |
| 3 | Night | Wiesel |
| 4 | Portnoy's Complaint | Roth |
| 4 | Oryx and Crake | Atwood |
| 4 | White Noise | DeLillo |
| 4 | 20 Years After | Dumas |
| 4 | The English Patient | Ondaatje |
| 4 | Pride and Prejudice | Austen |
| 4 | Metamorphisis | Kafka |
| 4 | Catcher in the Rye | Salinger |
| 4 | The Plague | Camus |
| 4 | A Farewell to Arms | Hemingway |
| 5 | Grendel | Gardner |
| 5 | Lolita | Nabokov |
| 5 | The Sound and the Fury | Faulkner |
| 5 | Little Women | Alcott |
| 5 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Twain |
| 5 | The Jungle | Sinclair |
| 5 | The Phantom Tollbooth | Juster |
| 5 | The Stranger | Camus |
| 5 | The Great Gatsby | Fitzgerald |
| 5 | Dune | Herbert |
| 6 | The Bell Jar | Plath |
| 6 | Crime and Punishment | Dostoyevsky |
| 6 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Stowe |
| 6 | Song of Solomon | Morrison |
| 6 | Billy Budd | Melville |
| 6 | Dracula | Stoker |
| 6 | The Hobbit | Tolkein |
| 6 | The Little Prince | Saint-Exupery |
| 6 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Dodgson |
| 6 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Twain |
| 7 | Ivanhoe | Scott |
| 7 | The Cave | Saramago |
| 7 | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Orczy |
| 7 | Brave New World | Huxley |
| 7 | Watership Down | Adams |
| 7 | Animal Farm | Orwell |
| 7 | Of Mice and Men | Steinbeck |
| 7 | Player Piano | Vonnegut |
| 7 | A Study in Scarlet | Doyle |
| 7 | The Lover | Duras |
| 8 | The Natural | Malamud |
| 8 | All the Names | Saramago |
| 8 | Death with Interruptions | Saramago |
| 8 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Hardy |
| 8 | Pigs in Heaven | Kingsolver |
| 8 | Immortality | Kundera |
| 8 | The Age of Innocence | Wharton |
| 8 | Jurassic Park | Crichton |
| 8 | The Jungle Book | Kipling |
| 8 | The Crying of Lot 49 | Pynchon |
| 9 | Waiting for the Barbarians | Coetzee |
| 9 | The Collector | Fowles |
| 9 | A Prayer for Owen Meany | Irving |
| 9 | On the Road | Kerouac |
| 9 | Enchantress of Florence | Rushdie |
| 9 | Bel Canto | Patchett |
| 9 | Frankenstein | Shelley |
| 9 | Lord Valentine's Castle | Silverberg |
| 9 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Kundera |
| 9 | Children of the Alley | Mahfouz |
| 10 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay | Chabon |
| 10 | The Life and Times of Joseph K | Coetzee |
| 10 | Corelli's Mandolin | De Bernieres |
| 10 | Fade | Cormier |
| 10 | The Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne |
| 10 | Siddhartha | Hesse |
| 10 | Wonder Boys | Chabon |
| 10 | Witches of Eastwick | Updike |
| 10 | Snow Falling on Cedars | Guterson |
| 10 | The Joy Luck Club | Tan |
