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    No mention of Dostoevsky's The Idiot anywhere on thread. Fancy that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gladys View Post
    No mention of Dostoevsky's The Idiot anywhere on thread. Fancy that.
    I really liked it, but I'd probably put Crime and Punishment and Brothers Karamazov above it.
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    No offense to anybody but this list is absolutely ATROCIOUS compared to the last one that was up back in like 2008. In my opinion half the books are complete trash, Tolkien although a legend should not have any of his books in the top 10,000 of all time and it is patently obvious that most of you equate quantity with quality. As one poster said, The Idiot was not listed and that book buries most of the crap here with aesthetic style, ascetic characters, intriguing plot, unprecedented dialogue and climactic conclusion. That is just my view. Sorry if I offended anyone but I needed a cathartic outlet. I've been too stressed lately and this was just the lump of solid coal on top of the abysmally baked cake.
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    Could you be specific about the "trash" and why? "Most of you"? Quantity.? "Like 2008"?
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    Top 3 of the top 10 are just ridiculous IMO. Though the rest of the top 10 are OK for me. There are some unexpected interesting books throughout the list like Essays by Montaigne and two Borges masterpieces along with If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino, Meditations and some other stuff. But many atrocious choices as well: Ayn Rand, Ferdowsi (who even knows Ferdowsi here, his book is extremely childish and barbaric), Patrick White, Tolkien?

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    Perhaps you do not know White yet. I would recommend you tackle him. Saying "who even knows" is an admission of ignorance not a critical judgement. I didn't know him but I assume that those who chose him must find something of value in him. But if you have found him barbaric then you have found him barbaric. Homer is barbaric. So is McCarthy. So is Shakespeare in some texts. It ain't really about being nice and civilised either in language or morality.

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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 (own it)
    6. Ulysses by James Joyce
    7. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
    8. Don Quixote by Cervantes (own it)
    9. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (own it)
    10. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (own it)
    11. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (own it)
    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 (own it)
    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. The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin
    25. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
    26. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    27. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
    28. Emma by Jane Austen
    29. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (own it)
    30. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (own it)
    31. Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
    32. Watership Down by Richard Adams
    33. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
    34. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
    35. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
    36. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
    37. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
    38. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (own it)
    39. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
    40. The Trial by Franz Kafka (own it)
    41. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
    42. Shahnameh by Ferdowsi
    43. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
    44. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (own it)
    45. Fictions by J.L. Borges (own it)
    46. El Aleph by J.L. Borges
    47. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
    48. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    49. The Magus by John Fowles
    50. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
    51. Testament by R.C. Hutchinson
    52. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
    53. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
    54. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (own it; have read pieces here and there)
    55. Oedipus the King by Sophocles
    56. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
    57. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    58. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
    59. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake (own it)
    60. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
    61. Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
    62. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (own it)
    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 (own it)
    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 (own it; have read The Fountainhead)
    79. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramagos
    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. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (own it)
    86. 2666 by Robert Bolano
    87. Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
    88. If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino (own it)
    89. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
    90. The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad
    91. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
    92. The Castle by Franz Kafka (own it)
    93. I Canti by Giacomo Leopardi
    94. Man’s Fate by André Malraux
    95. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
    96. Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
    97. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
    98. Confessions by Rousseau
    99. The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer (own it; have read bits)
    100. Julius Caesar by Shakespeare (own it)

    Amazing how many I own but have not read!

    Question: are the George R. R. Martin books really that good? I don't read a lot of popular fiction, but I see it made this list.

    Some other lists I've used to guide my reading choices:


    I would add Virgil, Ovid, and Goethe to the list.
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    Just looked up the French list there. Like all lists there is something to appeal to a male's inherent autism and often there are new considerations to feed the brain but Asterix the Gaul at number 23! I think that is carrying Francocentrism a wee bit far. I'd have put it at number 49.

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    "Popular fiction" sometimes gets a bad name but what exactly is unpopular fiction - to gloss Mr Shaw a bit. Some very good books don't sell well when they come out: some do. What can we say about that. Not much probably. My young fellow reads fairly widely and I recently saw a Martin novel in his room. He said he was enjoying it. Should I be worried doc?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ennison View Post
    Just looked up the French list there. Like all lists there is something to appeal to a male's inherent autism and often there are new considerations to feed the brain but Asterix the Gaul at number 23! I think that is carrying Francocentrism a wee bit far. I'd have put it at number 49.
    That LeMonde list is based on a poll conducted at French reseller Fnac. I was in Lyon back in December, at a Fnac, purchasing a Houellebecq novel, when a fellow approached me and started raving about these ultimate French culture comics. He then proceeded to lead me to a section filled with Asterix books, pulling them from the shelves and giving me hyperenthusiastic discourses on the background of each and why they are so entertaining to the French people. It was quite amusing and educational!
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    Interesting German list of the top 100 books. I am glad to see The Jungle Books is up there.

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    The ones I have read:

    Quote Originally Posted by Desolation View Post
    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. The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin
    25. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
    26. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    27. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
    28. Emma by Jane Austen
    29. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
    30. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
    31. Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
    32. Watership Down by Richard Adams
    33. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
    34. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
    35. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
    36. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
    37. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
    38. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    39. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
    40. The Trial by Franz Kafka
    41. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
    42. Shahnameh by Ferdowsi
    43. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
    44. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
    45. Fictions by J.L. Borges
    46. El Aleph by J.L. Borges
    47. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
    48. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    49. The Magus by John Fowles
    50. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
    51. Testament by R.C. Hutchinson
    52. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
    53. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
    54. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
    55. Oedipus the King by Sophocles
    56. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
    57. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    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 Saramagos
    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. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
    86. 2666 by Robert Bolano
    87. Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
    88. If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
    89. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
    90. The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad
    91. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
    92. The Castle by Franz Kafka
    93. I Canti by Giacomo Leopardi
    94. Man’s Fate by André Malraux
    95. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
    96. Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
    97. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
    98. Confessions by Rousseau
    99. The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
    100. Julius Caesar by Shakespeare


    Thank you for voting, everyone. It's been great working with your favorite books.
    A number of the books I've read don't belong on the list (Ayn Rand, Proust, The Stranger, among others) Some I have read major parts of (Proust, Chaucer, Dante, Decameron), but not beginning to end. I have probably read The Arrow of Gold by Conrad, since I pretty much read all of his fiction. I just don't have any particular memory of it.
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    Wow! Very impressive mr WyattGwyon. I'm reading kids' books at the moment and reinforcing what I thought. There ain't no such thing as adult literature

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