The Great Gatsby (1925)
0.3530Canon Score · ranked #19 all time
Aggregated from 10 of 14 authoritative lists, weighted by authority and adjusted for each list's scope and age. How scoring works →
About the book
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
Why it ranks #19
Every list on which The Great Gatsby appears, with its position as published.
| List | Authority | Position |
|---|---|---|
| The Novel 100 (Burt) | Editorial list | #20 / 100 |
| OCLC/WorldCat Top 500 Novels (2019) | Editorial list | #34 / 500 |
| BBC Big Read Top 200 (2003) | Editorial list | #43 / 200 |
| Le Monde 100 Books of the Century | Critics' canon | #46 / 100 |
| PBS Great American Read (2018) | Editorial list | #47 / 100 |
| Guardian 1000 Novels (2009) | Critics' canon | Selected |
| 1001 Books You Must Read (union) | Critics' canon | Selected |
| Bloom, The Western Canon (1994) | Editorial list | Selected |
| Observer 100 Greatest Novels (2003) | Editorial list | Selected |
| Telegraph 100 Novels (2009) | Editorial list | Selected |