The Ultimate Reading List

The following is a list of books that have the most combined awards and are named on the most lists.

Title - Author, Awards/Lists

6
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

5
Grapes of Wrath, The - John Steinbeck 1, 8, 9, 10, 12
Great Gatsby, The - F. Scott Fitzgerald 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Lolita - Vladmir Nabokov 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Native Son - Richard Wright 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison* 4, 9, 10, 11, 12
Ulysses - James Joyce 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

4
1984 - George Orwell 8, 9, 10, 12
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway 8, 9, 10, 12
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - J. Joyce 8, 9, 10, 12
Age of Innocence, The - Edith Wharton 1, 8, 9, 10
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren 1, 8, 9, 10
Beloved - Toni Morrison* 1, 9, 10, 12
Brave New World- Aldous Huxley 8, 9, 10, 12
Catch-22- Joseph Heller 8, 9, 10, 12
Catcher in the Rye  - JD Salinger 8, 9, 10, 12
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 8, 9, 10, 12
On the Road - Jack Kerouac 8, 9, 10, 11
Sophie's Choice - William Styron 2, 8, 9, 10
Sound and the Fury, The - William Faulkner 8, 9, 10, 12
Sun Also Rises, The - Ernest Hemingway 8, 9, 10, 12
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 1, 9, 10, 12
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf 8, 9, 10, 11
White Noise - Don DeLillo 2, 9, 10, 12

1-Pulitzer Prize
2-National Book Award
3-Pen/Faulkner Award
4-National Book Critic’s Circle Award for Fiction
5-Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
6-Book Sense Book Award
7-Man Booker Prize
8-American Library’s Top 100 Novels
9-Modern Library 100 Best Books
10-Library Journal’s Most Influential Fiction of the 20th Century
11-New York Library’s Books of the Century
12-Harvard Bookstore’s 100 Best Books
13-New York Times Editor’s Choice