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The Preditors & Editors / Critters Best Ever Readers' Poll honors the best works ever published and their creators. Vote for your favorites!

Entries for each category are listed in order by score by default. Click the name for more information about that entry.

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Vote 1-10 for any of the following (1=worst ever ... 10=best ever; decimals are okay):

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Vote#Score#VotesTitleAuthorType[*]
17.9702 Collected Works of William FaulknerWilliam FaulknerC
17.9702 Cry, The Beloved CountryAlan Paton
17.9702 The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck
37.7724 CONFEDERACY OF DUNCESJohn Kennedy Toole
47.5681 Devil's CubGeorgette Heyer
47.5681 As Meat Loves SaltMaria McCann
47.5681 As Meat Loves SaltMaria McCann
47.5681 The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky
57.0224 One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel Garcia Marquez
66.9703 The Lord of the FliesWilliam Golding
66.9702 Still Life with WoodpeckerTom Robbins
76.91612 The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald
86.5681 The Quiet AmericanGraham Greene
86.5681 Les MiserablesVictor Hugo
86.5681 Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert
86.5681 Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens
96.5667 Breakfast of ChampionsKurt Vonnegut
106.4702 The Violent Bear it AwayFlannery O'Connor
106.4702 Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper
116.1075 Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen
125.8689 Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad
135.5681 Far From the Madding CrowdThomas Hardy
135.5681 Martin EdenJack London
135.5681 The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway
135.5681 I, ClaudiusRobert Graves
135.5681 Of Human BondageW. Somerset Maugham
144.9702 Jonathon Livingston SeagullRichard Bach
154.5681 CreationGore Vidal
154.5681 The CitadelA.J. Cronin
164.4702 Skin of a LionMichael Ondaatje
174.3974 Dandelion WineRay Bradbury
183.5681 Lord JimJoseph Conrad
192.5681 Catcher in the RyeJ.D. Salinger
201.9702 Tropic of CancerHenry Miller
21-0.4321 Angels and DemonsDan Brown
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