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Timeless Classics for Reading Challengers
What current books do you think will be classics in 50 or 100 or 200 years? Vote on books written since 2000 that our grandchildren or great-great-grandchildren may love to read.
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The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act
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3.82 avg rating — 59,660 ratings
score: 90,
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| 200 |
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And the Ass Saw the Angel
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3.85 avg rating — 11,174 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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3.64 avg rating — 161,820 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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| 204 |
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The Graveyard Book
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 562,058 ratings
score: 88,
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| 204 |
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Crime (Ray Lennox, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 5,860 ratings
score: 88,
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1 person voted
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| 206 |
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The Hike
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Drew Magary (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 27,951 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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| 207 |
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Hunger
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4.04 avg rating — 63,086 ratings
score: 86,
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| 208 |
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Orphan X (Orphan X, #1)
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Gregg Hurwitz (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 54,620 ratings
score: 84,
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1 person voted
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| 208 |
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The Demon
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3.90 avg rating — 3,504 ratings
score: 84,
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1 person voted
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| 208 |
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Coin Locker Babies
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3.80 avg rating — 9,501 ratings
score: 84,
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| 211 |
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The Trial
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3.94 avg rating — 380,717 ratings
score: 83,
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| 211 |
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The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
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3.43 avg rating — 6,990 ratings
score: 83,
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1 person voted
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| 213 |
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Blood and Guts in High School
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3.46 avg rating — 6,927 ratings
score: 82,
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1 person voted
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| 213 |
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Snuff
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.22 avg rating — 66,233 ratings
score: 82,
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1 person voted
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| 215 |
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All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
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Bryn Greenwood (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 199,651 ratings
score: 81,
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1 person voted
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| 215 |
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Darkness at Noon
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4.12 avg rating — 33,100 ratings
score: 81,
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1 person voted
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| 217 |
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The 120 Days of Sodom
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3.07 avg rating — 14,530 ratings
score: 80,
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| 217 |
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Queer
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3.50 avg rating — 22,148 ratings
score: 80,
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1 person voted
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| 219 |
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The Sympathizer
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Viet Thanh Nguyen (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 134,299 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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| 219 |
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The Children Act
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 83,094 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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| 219 |
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Story of the Eye
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3.65 avg rating — 24,621 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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| 219 |
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Lolita
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3.87 avg rating — 925,681 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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| 219 |
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The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
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3.91 avg rating — 74,094 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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| 219 |
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The Information
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3.61 avg rating — 6,454 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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| 225 |
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Tropic of Capricorn (Tropic, #2)
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3.81 avg rating — 21,130 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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| 225 |
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Moon Tiger
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3.91 avg rating — 18,622 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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| 227 |
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The Grifters
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3.93 avg rating — 12,013 ratings
score: 77,
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1 person voted
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| 228 |
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Crash
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3.59 avg rating — 28,691 ratings
score: 76,
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1 person voted
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| 229 |
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Ham on Rye
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4.14 avg rating — 116,485 ratings
score: 75,
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1 person voted
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| 229 |
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Cat’s Cradle
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4.15 avg rating — 430,610 ratings
score: 75,
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1 person voted
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| 231 |
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Breakfast of Champions
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4.06 avg rating — 276,340 ratings
score: 74,
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1 person voted
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Tampa
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Alissa Nutting (Goodreads Author)
3.33 avg rating — 55,232 ratings
score: 73,
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1 person voted
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| 232 |
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,459,199 ratings
score: 73,
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1 person voted
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| 232 |
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Save Yourself
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Kelly Braffet (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 3,913 ratings
score: 73,
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1 person voted
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| 235 |
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The Fall
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4.03 avg rating — 129,663 ratings
score: 72,
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1 person voted
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The Fever
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Megan Abbott (Goodreads Author)
3.10 avg rating — 26,582 ratings
score: 72,
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1 person voted
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Clown Girl
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Monica Drake (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 5,422 ratings
score: 71,
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1 person voted
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Diary
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 80,554 ratings
score: 71,
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1 person voted
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Mar 17, 2018 07:37AM
The Time Traveler's Wife is twice on the list :-)
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Agnieszka wrote: "The Time Traveler's Wife is twice on the list :-)"Fixed
The Harry Potter Boxed set was removed because it does not meet the criteria. Several of the books were published before 2000.
Quite a few of these books were written well *before* 2000!
The Brothers Karamazov was written more than 100 years before 2000!
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