I added a bunch of books from the yearly award lists and updated the rankings. 

I just added The New York Public Library’s Books of the Century which was a really cool list originally published in 1995

Since it’s the end of the decade there have been a lot of new “Best of” lists lately. I recently added 5 and I’m adding many more soon.

• Top 10 Fiction Books of the Decade(2010) by Entertainment Weekly
• The 40 Best Novels of the 2010s by Paste Magazine
• The Best Fiction Books of the 2010s by Time
• The 100 best books of the 21st century by The Guardian
• 100 Novels That Shaped Our World by BBC

I also added a new link to The Greatest Books Since 2010.

I finally finishing adding all the books from The Book “1001 Books to Read Before You Die” by Peter Boxall. I highly recommend the book and I think it’s a great and well researched list. 

The list has a pretty high weight so it has had a pretty major change on the rankings, although there’s so many books on the list, many of the top books rankings won’t change much.

More changes coming soon!

I am currently in the process of adding a 1001 long list of books from a really good list that should significantly change the rankings. It should take me another week to finish adding it and then I’ll update the rankings after It’s complete.

I have also been working on adding more author data like gender and nationality so I can create country or gender specific lists. 

I have also started working on adding genres/categories so you will be able to filter by genres like sci-fi, fantasy, etc. 

This list is pretty interesting. They hired a polling service, to “conduct a demographically and statistically representative survey asking Americans to name their most-loved novel”. 7200 people participated in the survey. 

Then a “advisory panel of 13 literary industry professionals” tallied and organized it into a list of 100 books.

The list can be seen here: http://thegreatestbooks.org/lists/181

The original article and list can be found here: http://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/books/#/

After a lot of thought I adjusted my algorithm a bit. In addition to adding a couple of new lists, the rankings have changed. In Search of Lost Time is again #1, and we even have a new #2!

I could not find an official list, but I got it from LibraryThing. http://thegreatestbooks.org/lists/124

This is a list I partially added last year, and I just now finished it. It’s very challenging adding lists from different languages. I’m sorry it took so long!

I am going to be adding a bunch of new lists soon, as well as working on updating the site. 

And there’s a new #1!

I got rid of the “There’s a chance this list might be biased” list con. I’ve gotten a few e-mails over the years about this. I think every list can be biased and it seemed very arbitrary. 

Removing this and recalculating the scores made Don Quixote the #1 book of all time!