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    Quote Originally Posted by Drkshadow03 View Post
    Anyone care to share how many of these they've read?
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    1. The Bible
    2. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
    3. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
    4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    5. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    6. Ulysses by James Joyce
    7. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
    8. Don Quixote by Cervantes
    9. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
    10. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    11. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
    12. The Odyssey by Homer
    13. Paradise Lost by John Milton
    14. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
    15. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
    16. Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire

    17. The Illiad by Homer
    18. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
    19. Essays by Montaigne
    20. The Stranger by Albert Camus
    21. The Oresteia by Aeschylus

    22. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
    23. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
    24. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

    25. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    26. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
    27. Emma by Jane Austen
    28. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
    29. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
    30. Eugene Onegin by Pushkin

    31. Watership Down by Richard Adams
    32. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
    33. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
    34. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
    35. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
    36. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
    37. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

    38. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
    39. The Trial by Franz Kafka
    40. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
    41. Shahnameh by Ferdowsi
    42. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
    43. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
    44. Fictions by J.L. Borges

    45. El Aleph by J.L. Borges
    46. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
    47. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    48. The Magus by John Fowles
    49. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
    50. Testament by R.C. Hutchinson
    51. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
    52. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
    53. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
    54. Oedipus the King by Sophocles

    55. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
    56. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    57. The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin
    58. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
    59. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake

    60. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
    61. Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
    62. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    63. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
    64. No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
    65. Othello by William Shakespeare
    66. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

    67. Vanity Fair by William Thackerey
    68. Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
    69. Voss by Patrick White
    70. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
    71. Manfred by Lord Byron
    72. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
    73. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
    74. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
    75. Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
    76. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
    77. 1984 by George Orwell
    78. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
    79. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago
    80. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
    81. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
    82. Tristam Shandy by Laurence Sterne
    83. The Tree of Man by Patrick White
    84. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
    85. A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin
    86. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
    87. 2666 by Robert Bolano
    88. Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
    89. If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
    90. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
    91. The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad
    92. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
    93. The Castle by Franz Kafka
    94. I Canti by Giacomo Leopardi
    95. Man’s Fate by André Malraux
    96. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
    97. Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
    98. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
    99. Confessions by Rousseau
    100. The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
    Also, as someone else has already pointed out A Dream of Red Mansions is the same book as The Story of a Stone. Desolation might want to take one of those off and put the next highest book up that didn't make the list.
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    Yay, new list! Good work, Desolation!

    I've bolded the ones I've read -

    1. The Bible
    2. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
    3. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
    4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    5. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    6. Ulysses by James Joyce
    7. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
    8. Don Quixote by Cervantes
    9. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
    10. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    11. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
    12. The Odyssey by Homer
    13. Paradise Lost by John Milton
    14. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
    15. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
    16. Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire
    17. The Illiad by Homer
    18. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
    19. Essays by Montaigne
    20. The Stranger by Albert Camus
    21. The Oresteia by Aeschylus
    22. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
    23. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
    24. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
    25. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    26. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
    27. Emma by Jane Austen
    28. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
    29. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
    30. Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
    31. Watership Down by Richard Adams
    32. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
    33. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
    34. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
    35. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
    36. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
    37. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    38. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
    39. The Trial by Franz Kafka
    40. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
    41. Shahnameh by Ferdowsi
    42. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
    43. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
    44. Fictions by J.L. Borges
    45. El Aleph by J.L. Borges
    46. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
    47. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    48. The Magus by John Fowles
    49. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
    50. Testament by R.C. Hutchinson
    51. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
    52. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
    53. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
    54. Oedipus the King by Sophocles
    55. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
    56. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    57. The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin
    58. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
    59. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
    60. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
    61. Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
    62. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    63. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
    64. No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
    65. Othello by William Shakespeare
    66. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
    67. Vanity Fair by William Thackerey
    68. Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
    69. Voss by Patrick White
    70. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
    71. Manfred by Lord Byron
    72. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
    73. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
    74. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
    75. Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
    76. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
    77. 1984 by George Orwell
    78. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
    79. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago
    80. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
    81. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
    82. Tristam Shandy by Laurence Sterne
    83. The Tree of Man by Patrick White
    84. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
    85. A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin
    86. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
    87. 2666 by Robert Bolano
    88. Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
    89. If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
    90. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
    91. The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad
    92. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
    93. The Castle by Franz Kafka
    94. I Canti by Giacomo Leopardi
    95. Man’s Fate by André Malraux
    96. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
    97. Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
    98. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
    99. Confessions by Rousseau
    100. The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
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    1. The Bible
    2. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
    3. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
    4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    5. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    6. Ulysses by James Joyce
    7. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
    8. Don Quixote by Cervantes

    9. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
    10. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    11. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
    12. The Odyssey by Homer
    13. Paradise Lost by John Milton

    14. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
    15. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
    16. Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire
    17. The Illiad by Homer
    18. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

    19. Essays by Montaigne
    20. The Stranger by Albert Camus
    21. The Oresteia by Aeschylus

    22. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
    23. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
    24. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
    25. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    26. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
    27. Emma by Jane Austen
    28. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
    29. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
    30. Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
    31. Watership Down by Richard Adams
    32. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
    33. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
    34. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
    35. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
    36. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
    37. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    38. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
    39. The Trial by Franz Kafka
    40. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien

    41. Shahnameh by Ferdowsi
    42. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
    43. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
    44. Fictions by J.L. Borges

    45. El Aleph by J.L. Borges
    46. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
    47. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    48. The Magus by John Fowles
    49. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
    50. Testament by R.C. Hutchinson
    51. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
    52. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
    53. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

    54. Oedipus the King by Sophocles
    55. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
    56. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    57. The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin
    58. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
    59. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
    60. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
    61. Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
    62. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    63. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
    64. No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
    65. Othello by William Shakespeare
    66. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

    67. Vanity Fair by William Thackerey
    68. Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
    69. Voss by Patrick White
    70. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
    71. Manfred by Lord Byron
    72. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
    73. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
    74. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

    75. Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
    76. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
    77. 1984 by George Orwell
    78. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
    79. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago
    80. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
    81. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

    82. Tristam Shandy by Laurence Sterne
    83. The Tree of Man by Patrick White
    84. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
    85. A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin
    86. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
    87. 2666 by Robert Bolano
    88. Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
    89. If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
    90. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
    91. The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad
    92. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
    93. The Castle by Franz Kafka
    94. I Canti by Giacomo Leopardi
    95. Man’s Fate by André Malraux
    96. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
    97. Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
    98. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
    99. Confessions by Rousseau
    100. The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
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    The New LitNet Top 100 Books
    1. The Bible
    2. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
    3. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
    4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    5. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    6. Ulysses by James Joyce
    7. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
    8. Don Quixote by Cervantes
    9. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
    10. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    11. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
    12. The Odyssey by Homer
    13. Paradise Lost by John Milton
    14. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
    15. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
    16. Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire
    17. The Illiad by Homer
    18. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
    19. Essays by Montaigne
    20. The Stranger by Albert Camus
    21. The Oresteia by Aeschylus
    22. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
    23. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
    24. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
    25. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    26. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
    27. Emma by Jane Austen
    28. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
    29. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
    30. Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
    31. Watership Down by Richard Adams
    32. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
    33. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
    34. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
    35. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
    36. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
    37. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    38. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
    39. The Trial by Franz Kafka
    40. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
    41. Shahnameh by Ferdowsi
    42. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
    43. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
    44. Fictions by J.L. Borges
    45. El Aleph by J.L. Borges
    46. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
    47. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    48. The Magus by John Fowles
    49. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
    50. Testament by R.C. Hutchinson
    51. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
    52. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
    53. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
    54. Oedipus the King by Sophocles
    55. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
    56. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    57. The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin
    58. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
    59. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
    60. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
    61. Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
    62. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    63. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
    64. No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
    65. Othello by William Shakespeare
    66. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
    67. Vanity Fair by William Thackerey
    68. Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
    69. Voss by Patrick White
    70. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
    71. Manfred by Lord Byron
    72. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
    73. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
    74. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
    75. Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
    76. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
    77. 1984 by George Orwell
    78. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
    79. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago
    80. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
    81. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
    82. Tristam Shandy by Laurence Sterne
    83. The Tree of Man by Patrick White
    84. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
    85. A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin
    86. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
    87. 2666 by Robert Bolano
    88. Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
    89. If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
    90. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
    91. The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad
    92. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
    93. The Castle by Franz Kafka
    94. I Canti by Giacomo Leopardi
    95. Man’s Fate by André Malraux
    96. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
    97. Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
    98. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
    99. Confessions by Rousseau
    100. The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
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    1. The Bible
    2. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
    3. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
    4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    5. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    6. Ulysses by James Joyce
    7. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
    8. Don Quixote by Cervantes
    9. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
    10. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    11. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
    12. The Odyssey by Homer
    13. Paradise Lost by John Milton
    14. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
    15. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
    16. Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire
    17. The Illiad by Homer
    18. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
    19. Essays by Montaigne
    20. The Stranger by Albert Camus
    21. The Oresteia by Aeschylus

    22. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
    23. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
    24. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
    25. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    26. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
    27. Emma by Jane Austen
    28. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
    29. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
    30. Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
    31. Watership Down by Richard Adams
    32. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

    33. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
    34. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
    35. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
    36. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

    37. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    38. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
    39. The Trial by Franz Kafka
    40. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
    41. Shahnameh by Ferdowsi
    42. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
    43. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
    44. Fictions by J.L. Borges
    45. El Aleph by J.L. Borges
    46. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
    47. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    48. The Magus by John Fowles
    49. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
    50. Testament by R.C. Hutchinson
    51. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
    52. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
    53. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
    54. Oedipus the King by Sophocles
    55. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
    56. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

    57. The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin
    58. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
    59. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
    60. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
    61. Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
    62. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    63. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
    64. No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
    65. Othello by William Shakespeare
    66. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

    67. Vanity Fair by William Thackerey
    68. Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
    69. Voss by Patrick White
    70. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
    71. Manfred by Lord Byron
    72. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

    73. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
    74. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

    75. Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
    76. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
    77. 1984 by George Orwell

    78. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
    79. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago
    80. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
    81. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

    82. Tristam Shandy by Laurence Sterne
    83. The Tree of Man by Patrick White
    84. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
    85. A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin
    86. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
    87. 2666 by Robert Bolano
    88. Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
    89. If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
    90. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
    91. The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad
    92. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
    93. The Castle by Franz Kafka
    94. I Canti by Giacomo Leopardi
    95. Man’s Fate by André Malraux
    96. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
    97. Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
    98. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
    99. Confessions by Rousseau
    100. The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer

    47/100
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    I've read 26. Disappointed not to see "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino on there.
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    I've managed to make my way through 91 of these. Someone should do a top 100 books of the last 50 years or so. Maybe the post-war world. 1945-present. I'd be interested to see what a list of top contemporary literature appeared as on here...

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    1. The Bible
    2. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
    3. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
    4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    5. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    6. Ulysses by James Joyce
    7. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
    8. Don Quixote by Cervantes
    9. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
    10. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    11. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
    12. The Odyssey by Homer
    13. Paradise Lost by John Milton
    14. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
    15. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
    16. Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire
    17. The Illiad by Homer

    18. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
    19. Essays by Montaigne
    20. The Stranger by Albert Camus
    21. The Oresteia by Aeschylus

    22. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
    23. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
    24. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
    25. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    26. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
    27. Emma by Jane Austen
    28. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

    29. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
    30. Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
    31. Watership Down by Richard Adams
    32. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
    33. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

    34. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
    35. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
    36. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
    37. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

    38. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
    39. The Trial by Franz Kafka
    40. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien

    41. Shahnameh by Ferdowsi
    42. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
    43. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
    44. Fictions by J.L. Borges

    45. El Aleph by J.L. Borges
    46. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
    47. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    48. The Magus by John Fowles
    49. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
    50. Testament by R.C. Hutchinson
    51. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
    52. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
    53. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
    54. Oedipus the King by Sophocles

    55. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
    56. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    57. The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin
    58. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
    59. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
    60. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

    61. Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
    62. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    63. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
    64. No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
    65. Othello by William Shakespeare
    66. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

    67. Vanity Fair by William Thackerey
    68. Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
    69. Voss by Patrick White
    70. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
    71. Manfred by Lord Byron
    72. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
    73. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
    74. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
    75. Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
    76. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
    77. 1984 by George Orwell
    78. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
    79. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago
    80. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
    81. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
    82. Tristam Shandy by Laurence Sterne
    83. The Tree of Man by Patrick White
    84. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
    85. A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin
    86. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
    87. 2666 by Robert Bolano
    88. Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
    89. If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
    90. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
    91. The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad
    92. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
    93. The Castle by Franz Kafka
    94. I Canti by Giacomo Leopardi

    95. Man’s Fate by André Malraux
    96. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
    97. Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
    98. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
    99. Confessions by Rousseau
    100. The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer

    I promised to cut someone if Austen wasn't in the top 10...
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    1. The Bible
    2. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
    3. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
    4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    5. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    6. Ulysses by James Joyce
    7. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
    8. Don Quixote by Cervantes
    9. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
    10. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    11. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
    12. The Odyssey by Homer
    13. Paradise Lost by John Milton
    14. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
    15. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
    16. Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire
    17. The Illiad by Homer
    18. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
    19. Essays by Montaigne
    20. The Stranger by Albert Camus
    21. The Oresteia by Aeschylus
    22. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
    23. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
    24. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
    25. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    26. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
    27. Emma by Jane Austen
    28. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
    29. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
    30. Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
    31. Watership Down by Richard Adams
    32. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
    33. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
    34. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
    35. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
    36. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
    37. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    38. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
    39. The Trial by Franz Kafka
    40. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
    41. Shahnameh by Ferdowsi
    42. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
    43. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
    44. Fictions by J.L. Borges
    45. El Aleph by J.L. Borges
    46. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
    47. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    48. The Magus by John Fowles
    49. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
    50. Testament by R.C. Hutchinson
    51. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
    52. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
    53. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
    54. Oedipus the King by Sophocles
    55. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
    56. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    57. The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin
    58. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
    59. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
    60. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
    61. Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
    62. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    63. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
    64. No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
    65. Othello by William Shakespeare
    66. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
    67. Vanity Fair by William Thackerey
    68. Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
    69. Voss by Patrick White
    70. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
    71. Manfred by Lord Byron
    72. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
    73. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
    74. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
    75. Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
    76. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
    77. 1984 by George Orwell
    78. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
    79. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago
    80. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
    81. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
    82. Tristam Shandy by Laurence Sterne
    83. The Tree of Man by Patrick White
    84. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
    85. A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin
    86. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
    87. 2666 by Robert Bolano
    88. Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
    89. If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
    90. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
    91. The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad
    92. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
    93. The Castle by Franz Kafka
    94. I Canti by Giacomo Leopardi
    95. Man’s Fate by André Malraux
    96. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
    97. Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
    98. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
    99. Confessions by Rousseau
    100. The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer

    23/100.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mortalterror View Post
    Also, as someone else has already pointed out A Dream of Red Mansions is the same book as The Story of a Stone. Desolation might want to take one of those off and put the next highest book up that didn't make the list.
    Sorry about that. I didn't have time to reorder the list before I left for the holidays. I will fix it when I get home to my computer next week. For anyone who might be curious, I think the next book on the list would have been Julius Caesar by Shakespeare.

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    This is a very interesting list but I confess to having read only a few and mainly from the second half of the list. Not all of what I've read would I rate highly. Henry Miller a writer to compare with FD!- in the name of the wee man!

    I've read 36. The Bible more than once. I'm not counting Lord of the Rings because I was seventeen and gave up after a hundred pages realising that I was ten years too old for it. I did read Watership Down (I must have been really stuck for something to read that week!). I wouldn't call it a bad book but I definitely prefer the curried version. There are some great bits of literature in that list though. I guess the inclusion of some dubious texts is because of the proportional representation aspect of your democratic voting system .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post

    Still I am glad that LoTR is not in the top 10.

    Bless that comment. And your name. Mostly the comment. People who are always right tend to have an inflated ego.


    I see that Atlas Shrugged remains. Wonder how much Rand pundits paid the editor for this...
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    1. The Bible
    2. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
    3. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
    4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    5. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    6. Ulysses by James Joyce
    7. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
    8. Don Quixote by Cervantes
    9. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
    10. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    11. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
    12. The Odyssey by Homer
    13. Paradise Lost by John Milton
    14. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
    15. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
    16. Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire
    17. The Illiad by Homer
    18. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
    19. Essays by Montaigne
    20. The Stranger by Albert Camus
    21. The Oresteia by Aeschylus
    22. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
    23. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
    24. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
    25. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    26. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
    27. Emma by Jane Austen
    28. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
    29. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
    30. Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
    31. Watership Down by Richard Adams
    32. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
    33. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
    34. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
    35. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
    36. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
    37. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    38. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
    39. The Trial by Franz Kafka
    40. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
    41. Shahnameh by Ferdowsi
    42. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
    43. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
    44. Fictions by J.L. Borges
    45. El Aleph by J.L. Borges
    46. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
    47. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    48. The Magus by John Fowles
    49. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
    50. Testament by R.C. Hutchinson
    51. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
    52. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
    53. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
    54. Oedipus the King by Sophocles
    55. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
    56. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    57. The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin
    58. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
    59. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
    60. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
    61. Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
    62. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    63. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
    64. No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
    65. Othello by William Shakespeare
    66. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
    67. Vanity Fair by William Thackerey
    68. Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
    69. Voss by Patrick White
    70. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
    71. Manfred by Lord Byron
    72. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
    73. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
    74. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
    75. Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
    76. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
    77. 1984 by George Orwell
    78. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
    79. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago
    80. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
    81. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
    82. Tristam Shandy by Laurence Sterne
    83. The Tree of Man by Patrick White
    84. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
    85. A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin
    86. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
    87. 2666 by Robert Bolano
    88. Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
    89. If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
    90. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
    91. The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad
    92. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
    93. The Castle by Franz Kafka
    94. I Canti by Giacomo Leopardi
    95. Man’s Fate by André Malraux
    96. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
    97. Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
    98. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
    99. Confessions by Rousseau
    100. The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer

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    I had about 80 or so, just counting up the ones I haven't read, basically all the contemporary-ish American novels that came after #50 on the list, before 50 I hadn't read only like 3 or 4. That being said, this is hardly a good list as nobody actually voted.

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    I meant to. Actually, the only ones on the list that I'm really interested in are the ones in the top 12. I am currently reading "Anna Karenina."
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