Amazon's top 100 books: no Don Quixote or Moby Dick

Its books to read before you die has some surprising omissions, including Robinson Crusoe, Ulysses and Frankenstein

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AMAZON has published a list of 100 books to read in a lifetime that includes such classics as Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Lord of The Rings by JRR Tolkien and Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. But the list is as notable for its omissions as it is for its inclusions.

The list compiled by the international electronic retailer, which began in 1995 as an online book store, does not include Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy or Ulysses by James Joyce. Also missing from the 100 is the book regarded by many as the greatest novel of them all, Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

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