Lit Nets Top 100 Books

[Dark Muse]

Though this will probably be quite the project, I thought it could be fun.

I thought it would be fun if Lit Net created its own Top 100 Book list, made up of nominations by lit net members.

What books do you think should be on a top 100 list?

Each member can have up to 5 nominations if you post less than 5, that is ok, but if you post more than 5, I will only count the first 5 posted.

I will try and keep track and count of all the posts, and tally it up to make a Top 100 list created by the lit net members.

[kelby_lake]

Sounds fun:
Lolita
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
A Tale of Two Cities
The Glass Menagerie (are we allowed plays, by the way? If not, I'll edit)

[Dark Muse]

I will be generous and allow plays in. No reason why they should be discounted.

[Annamariah]

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Count of Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery

Why must we choose just five? It's far too difficult! :D

[Pensive]

A very good idea but are books supposed to be originally in English only?

[LitNetIsGreat]

Frankenstein
Wuthering Heights
Madam Bovary
Gulliver’s Travels
On The Road

From what I have read these would be my five I think, in terms of greatness, not my top five personal favourites, though I do love them all.

[kilted exile]

Hard Times - Dickens
The Idiot - Dostoevsky
Paradise Lost - Milton
Beowulf
Moll Flanders -Defoe

**Edit: Can we also include five books we feel should not be included? A kind of minus point for each book as well.....**

[wessexgirl]

Middlemarch - George Eliot
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
L'Assomoir - Emile Zola
King Lear - Shakespeare



Oh, I wanted Wuthering Heights too. It's so difficult choosing only 5.

[Dark Muse]

A very good idea but are books supposed to be originally in English only?

Hehe no, it can be works that were translated. I thought that would be nice for a change. As many book lits to focus only on English

[Pensive]

Okay, then. Just five? A very difficult choice for me...

To Kill a Mockingbird
Siddhartha
Wuthering Heights
A Bridge to Terabithia
The Hotel new Hampshire (I was having second thoughts regarding Crime and Punishment but then its ending was too much for me to put it here)

BTW, these do not have to be the books I enjoyed the most (I have enjoyed some really crappy books too and what I loved the best about them was the chance they gave me to criticize them :p)

[Dark Muse]

**Edit: Can we also include five books we feel should not be included? A kind of minus point for each book as well.....**

Haha maybe we can create a sort of seperate anti-list.

ok here are my own nominations

1. Siddhartha
2. Catcher in the Rye
3. The Magus
4. The Fountianhead
5. No Exit

[Agatha]

My list:
1.The Red and the Black by Stendhal
2.Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
3.I Claudius by Graves
4.War and Peace by Tolstoy
5.Master and Margarita by Bulgakov

[DeadAsDreams]

I Am Legend
Journey To The End Of The Night
As I Lay Dying
Nausea
To Kill A Mockingbird

[bazarov]

Brothers Karamazov
Don Quijote
War and Peace
Les Miserables
Crime and Punishment

[John Goodman]

The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Catch-22 - Heller
Lolita - Nabokov
A Clockwork Orange - Burgess

This really isn't what I think are the best books of all time, just the first five I thought of when coming up with great books.

[Logos]

.... I will try and keep track and count of all the posts, and tally it up to make a Top 100 list created by the lit net members. Cool idea Dark Muse, I've stickied the thread so it remains easy to find on first page of threads :)

[Dark Muse]

Thanks a lot

[JBI]

Can we do this another way? how about each person just names 10 favorites, and then we add them all to a word document, and see the occurrences of each name? That way, everyone can say what they want.

[Virgil]

Though this will probably be quite the project, I thought it could be fun.

I thought it would be fun if Lit Net created its own Top 100 Book list, made up of nominations by lit net members.

What books do you think should be on a top 100 list?

Each member can have up to 5 nominations if you post less than 5, that is ok, but if you post more than 5, I will only count the first 5 posted.

I will try and keep track and count of all the posts, and tally it up to make a Top 100 list created by the lit net members.

What a fabulous idea DM!!!! I wish I had thought of it. I do think that five is too small a number. I think you need to build up a significant quantity. I would have asked for twenty from everyone. But such is life. Here are my five, though it's really hard to pick only five.

The Divine Comedy
Moby Dick by Herman Meville
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Anna Karinina by Leo Tolstoy
King Lear by William Shakespeare


Oh please let us pick more. ;)

[Etienne]

Candide by Voltaire
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais
Petersburg by Bely
Petersburg Tales by Gogol
Don Quixote by Cervantes

I don't think it should be much representative with only 5 books per member though... 10 or 20 would be more like it.

EDIT: Seems like I'm not the only one of this opinion, let it be 20 or 25!

[mayneverhave]

Hamlet

The Brothers Karamazov

Ulysses

The Sound and the Fury

The Great Gatsby

[papayahed]

I'm thinking we should have a larger list as well 10-20.

100 years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
The Sound and the Fury
Junky
On the Road

[Jozanny]

Can we list books other members list? Are you doing this like the most tallied 100 titles Dark?

[Kafka's Crow]

King Lear by William Shakespeare
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
Ulysses by James Joyce
Molloy by Samuel Beckett

[Leabhar]

Crime and Punishment
The Grapes of Wrath
War and Peace
Growth of the Soil
Hamlet

[Virgil]

What a fabulous idea DM!!!! I wish I had thought of it. I do think that five is too small a number. I think you need to build up a significant quantity. I would have asked for twenty from everyone. But such is life. Here are my five, though it's really hard to pick only five.

The Divine Comedy
Moby Dick by Herman Meville
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Anna Karinina by Leo Tolstoy
King Lear by William Shakespeare


Oh please let us pick more. ;)

OMG, what have I done? I've forgotten Light In August by William Faulkner. DM, you must expand this to beyond five.

[Kafka's Crow]

OMG, what have I done? I've forgotten Light In August by William Faulkner. DM, you must expand this to beyond five.

And I had to keep out Hamlet, War and Peace, Madame Bovary, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A Long Days Journey into Night, A Streetcar Named Desire, Lolita, Malone Dies, The Unnamable... The list would never end. I think it is better to keep it to five. This makes it more difficult which is half the fun!

[kilted exile]

I also like keeping it to 5 per member. There are numerous posters around here who take pride in the elitist label when it comes to lit - here it is in its purest form

[andave_ya]

Brothers Karamazov
Don Quijote
War and Peace
Les Miserables
Crime and Punishment

NICE!! I don't like Tolstoy so much as to put War and Peace in the first five, though, so I'll replace it with LOTR. Les Mis is next on my to-read list and I can't wait to get started on it. I just saw the movie so I'm sure I'll love it ;)

[Jozanny]

Okay, I've done this before but

mine are

Madame Bovary, Flaubert
The Golden Bowl, James
Heart of Darkness, Conrad
Brideshead Revisited, Waugh
and
Grendel, by Gardner

although this was extremely difficult, I left out Proust and some others for various reasons, and picked the most emotional of impact but not too contemporary.

[Rawrealism]

First Post, first topic, first time ever making a list of this sort.
I want to include novels that I belive should be included that would not normaly be mentioned. This is not a top 5 book list, simply a list of what are imo, 5 top 100 novels... anyways...

Anyways, my list:

Dead Souls- Nikolai Gogol
Epitaph of a Small Winner-Machado de Assis
Titus Groan- Mervyn Peake
Things Fall Apart- Chinua Achebe
Cities of Salt -Abdelrahman Munif

Five novels that I feel should be included.

[Dark Muse]

I can understand people wanting to list more books. But I think that making the list too big, would make it more difficult to create a cummiltive list of the 100 Best.


Can we list books other members list? Are you doing this like the most tallied 100 titles Dark?

Yes, you can list books that have already been listed. I am going to keep a tally, and the books with the most nominations are going to make it onto the list.

[armenian]

dostoevsky - notes from underground
camus - the fall
- the stranger
kafka - metamorphoisis
burguess (sp) - A clockwork orange

[JacobF]

War and Peace
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo and Juliet
Beowulf
Pride and Prejudice

[Big Al]

Five, eh? Hm...Well, forget objectivity and "greatness" and all that. Here are my favorites:

The Mysterious Stranger - Twain
The Divine Comedy - Dante
Catch-22 - Heller
Blood Meridian - McCarthy
The Brothers Karmazov - Dostoevsky (even if its central ideology is spiritualism over rationalism)

[bazarov]

NICE!! I don't like Tolstoy so much as to put War and Peace in the first five, though, so I'll replace it with LOTR. Les Mis is next on my to-read list and I can't wait to get started on it. I just saw the movie so I'm sure I'll love it ;)

Les Miserables - Long, but great.
There is a movie?:p

[johann cruyff]

Les Miserables - Long, but great.
There is a movie?:p

I have an Alan Ford special on Les Miserables:D (around 300 pages long)

Anyway, here are my nominations(considering that some books, like TBK, don't need my vote do make it on the list):

The Glass Bead Game - Hesse
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
The Robbers - Schiller
The Trial - Kafka
Master and Margarita - Bulgakov

[AdoreroDio]

Les Miserable
The Bible
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

[TheFifthElement]

The Magic Toyshop: Angela Carter
If nobody speaks of remarkable things: Jon Mcgregor
Catch 22: Joseph Heller
Slaughterhouse 5: Kurt Vonnegut
Fight Club: Chuck Palahniuk

[spooky]

lord of the flies
great expectations
it
the picture of dorian gray
dracula

[vheissu]

Only five? Some of my favourites then...

The Magus - John Fowles
Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
V - Thomas Pynchon
Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
The name of the rose - Umberto Eco

[Hank Stamper]

on the road
1984
perfume
american pyscho
captain corelli's mandolin

[patrickbeverley]

Bleak House – Dickens
The Tin Drum – Grass
Mrs Dalloway – Woolf
Generation X – Coupland
Persuasion – Austen

[Niamh]

Humm this is a toughy!
Persuasion- Jane Austen
North and South- Elizabeth Gaskell
The Caucasian Chalk Circle- Bertholt Brecht
Oedipus Rex- Sophocles
east of Eden- John Stienbeck

[Pensive]

east of Eden- John Stienbeck

:thumbs_up'

Yes, that's a good one too. Is in my top ten. :)

[Virgil]

Humm this is a toughy!
Persuasion- Jane Austen
North and South- Elizabeth Gaskell
The Caucasian Chalk Circle- Bertholt Brecht
Oedipus Rex- Sophocles
east of Eden- John Stienbeck

Of all the great Irish writers you dont even pick one? :p

[book_jones]

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder


These are good representatives of my favorite books. There are several more I want to put on there, but I guess if it means that much to me I could just start a new account and post different books that way.

[eyemaker]

Okay, I guess I have to decide well. this is very tough.. Hmmp
Crime and Punishment- Dostoevsky
Pride and Prejudice_ Austen
The Great Gatsby- Fitzgerald
War and Peace- Tolstoy
Anna Karenina- Tolstoy :)

[Niamh]

Of all the great Irish writers you dont even pick one? :p

:blush:I know, but excluding J.M.Synge and his plays, its Irish Poets i love the most! Yeats, Kinsella, Kavanagh, Colum, Heaney, Durkin, Clarke, Moore...

[Jozanny]

:blush:I know, but excluding J.M.Synge and his plays, its Irish Poets i love the most! Yeats, Kinsella, Kavanagh, Colum, Heaney, Durkin, Clarke, Moore...

Niamh please tell me you don't mean Thomas Kinsella?:blush:

[Niamh]

I like some of his poems. There is nothing wrong with that. He is a good poet.

[Jozanny]

I like some of his poems. There is nothing wrong with that. He is a good poet.

You misjudged my question. I know Thomas Kinsella, and it caught me by surprise that a fan would link him with Yeats.:blush:

[Niamh]

Well it was only a list of Irish poets i like. There are a lot more than just them. And i didnt put them into any order. Truth be told i wouldnt consider him as highly as Yeats, but he is a good Irish poet. There are some unkown poets like Caprini and Anette Kinsella that i would like maybe a little bit more. :)

[tractatus]

5 is very less! Please increase at least to 10. So we have more precise list.
I will think on my list btw.

[Nossa]

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Importance of being Ernest - Oscar Wilde
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich-Maria Remarque
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
There are just to name a few. There are other authors that I like, but if I have to choose only five, I think I'll go for the ones above :D

[Sloan]

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Night by Elie Wiesel
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anthem by Ayn Rand

[Charles Darnay]

Les Misérables
A Tale of Two Cities
Light in August
Invisible Cities
The Little Prince

[SirRaustusBear]

The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Lord of the Flies by William Golding

[toro913]

The Stranger - Camus
Midnight's Children - Rushdie
Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Herzog - Bellow
Deptford Trilogy - Davies

[Oniw17]

Catch 22-Heller
The Good Earth-Pearl S. Buck
The Republic-Plato

[Alyoshka]

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoj
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway

[Dori]

Les Miserables by V. Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by V. Hugo
Lolita by V. Nabokov
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang

[bazarov]

Nice, Dori; especially Turgenev :D

[JBI]

Shakespeare - Complete works of, or Hamlet if I must choose 1 play
Dante - Comedia
Ramayana
Leopardi - Canti+Operette Morali+Pensieri (not readily available in full translation, though a Tutti Poesa e Prosa is not uncommon for an Italian bookstore to have)
The Bible - KJV for all about a few books, but some, like Job, I prefer in the original.

[PabloQ]

When assembling a list of 100, limiting to 5 per person reduces the chances of a comprehensive list we can all argue about.:)
1. A Prayer for Owen Meany
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
4. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
5. The Octopus by Frank Norris

Really unfair what I have to leave off the list because it's only 5. This is a great idea, but with 60 or so responses you have from some of the most prolific poster on lit net, I doubt there are 100 different titles as yet. Ten each would create a larger sample (and more work for you DM), but in the end we'd have a better list that would include the usual suspects plus some pleasant surprises.
Anyway, thanks for doing this. It is fun. It will be more fun when we start tearing each other up about what makes the final list.

[hhc]

Don Quijote-Miguel de Cervantes
King Lear-William Shakespeare
The Sound and the Fury-William Faulkner
For Whom the Bell Tolls-Ernest Hemingway
100 Years of Solitude-Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I'd REALLY like to go on, but...
Anyway, they're the first five that came to my mind!!;)

[stlukesguild]

The Bible
The Divine Comedy- Dante
Don Quixote- Cervantes
King Lear- Shakespeare
The Odyssey- Homer

[stlukesguild]

JBI- you've really been hooked on Leopardi, haven't you?

[wilbur lim]

The Literature Network is reputed going to be eminent.

[Erichtho]

Amerika - Kafka
Empedokles - Hölderlin
Life is a Dream - Calderón
Oblomov - Gontcharov
Satyricon- Petronius

I would like to name so many more...Goethe, Homer, Ovid, Milton etc.

[Hira]

Though this will probably be quite the project, I thought it could be fun.

I thought it would be fun if Lit Net created its own Top 100 Book list, made up of nominations by lit net members.

What books do you think should be on a top 100 list?

Each member can have up to 5 nominations if you post less than 5, that is ok, but if you post more than 5, I will only count the first 5 posted.

I will try and keep track and count of all the posts, and tally it up to make a Top 100 list created by the lit net members.

Wonderful idea Dark Muse. Here are my nominations (5 is way too difficult)

1) Les Miserables ~ Victor Hugo
2) Anna Karenina ~ Leo Tolstoy
3) The Great Gatsby ~ F.Scott Fitzgerald
4) The Rainbow ~ D.H.Lawrence
5) The Age of Innocence ~ Edith Wharton

[JBI]

JBI- you've really been hooked on Leopardi, haven't you?
The more I read, the more brilliant he seems:


E come il vento
Odo stormir tra queste piante, io quello
Infinito silenzio a questa voce
Vo comparando; e mi sovvien l'eterno,
E le morte stagioni, e la presente
E viva, e'l suon di lei. Cosi tra questa
Immensita s'annega il pensier mio:
E'l naufragar m'e dolce in questo mare.

And when I hear the wind come blowing through
The trees, I pit its voice against that boundless
Silence and summon up eternity,
And the dead seasons, and the present one,
Alive with all its sound. And thus it is
In this immensity my thought is drowned
And sweet to me the foundering in this sea.

L'infinito ln. 9-15 tr. Ottavio M. Casale

[anton]

Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata
Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke
Prometheus Unbound, Percy Bysshe Shelley
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse

[chaplin]

Lolita- Nabokov
Anna Karenina- Tolstoy
Invisible Man- Ellison
Fathers and Sons- Turgenev
Dead Souls- Gogol

[VardamanBundren]

1. The Brothers Karamazov-Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. The Sound and the Fury-William Faulkner
3. To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
4. As I Lay Dying-William Faulkner
5. Catch-22-Joseph Heller

[aeroport]

I'm trying to choose very carefully, so I'll only list the three right now that I know I'll never change my mind about.
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
The Portrait of a Lady - James
Moby-Dick - Melville

[andave_ya]

I'm trying to choose very carefully, so I'll only list the three right now that I know I'll never change my mind about.
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
The Portrait of a Lady - James
Moby-Dick - Melville


:D When I started reading Portrait of a Lady two weeks ago I thought about you.

[Emil Miller]

The Moon and Sixpence - Maugham
The Great Gatsby - Scott Fitzgerald
Bel Ami - Maupassant
Buddenbrooks - Mann
L'assommoir - Zola

[ntropyincarnate]

1. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
2. A Tale of Two Cities
3. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
4. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
5. The Know-It-All - AJ Jacobs :D

[wessexgirl]

The Moon and Sixpence - Maugham
The Great Gatsby - Scott Fitzgerald
Bel Ami - Maupassant
Buddenbrooks - Mann
L'assommoir - Zola

Yay, I wondered if I was going to be the only one who chose L'Assomoir. :thumbs_up

[thedharmabum]

The great Gatsby-Francis Scott Fitzgerald
The sun also rises-Ernest Hemingway
The Dharma bums-John Louis Kerouac
The catcher in the rye-Jerome David Salinger
A confederacy of dunces-John Kennedy Toole

Out of pure respect, I include the following:

Fear & loathing in Las Vegas- Hunter Steadman Thompson
Breakfast of champions-Kurt Vonnegut
Big two-hearted river parts 1&2-Ernest Hemingway (form the Nick Adams stories)
To kill a mockingbird-Nelle Harper Lee
Fight club-Chuck Palhanuik

Feel free to comment...

[Dark Muse]

Hehe glad to see at least one other person went for Catcher In The Rye

[Etienne]

The great Gatsby-Francis Scott Fitzgerald
The sun also rises-Ernest Hemingway
The Dharma bums-John Louis Kerouac
The catcher in the rye-Jerome David Salinger
A confederacy of dunces-John Kennedy Toole

Out of pure respect, I include the following:

Fear & loathing in Las Vegas- Hunter Steadman Thompson
Breakfast of champions-Kurt Vonnegut
Big two-hearted river parts 1&2-Ernest Hemingway (form the Nick Adams stories)
To kill a mockingbird-Nelle Harper Lee
Fight club-Chuck Palhanuik

Feel free to comment...

All American literature? Do you mostly keep only to America or do you just prefer American novels among those you've read?

[Hank Stamper]

Fear & loathing in Las Vegas- Hunter Steadman Thompson


Feel free to comment...

The S in Hunter S Thompson stands for Stockton not Steadman

I think you're getting confused with Ralph Steadman :D

[thedharmabum]

Actually have become more of an American literature fan over the years and years of reading.
As for the HST mistake,
I stand corrected it is Stockton and not Steadman
How many of you knew that J.D. Salinger's name was Jerome David?

[Emil Miller]

Yay, I wondered if I was going to be the only one who chose L'Assomoir. :thumbs_up

Of all the great novels that Zola wrote, L'assommoir is his masterpiece; just as Buddenbrooks is Thomas Mann's. If they don't touch your heart, then you haven't got one.

[Emil Miller]

Hard Times - Dickens
The Idiot - Dostoevsky
Paradise Lost - Milton
Beowulf
Moll Flanders -Defoe

**Edit: Can we also include five books we feel should not be included? A kind of minus point for each book as well.....**

It could be the start World War Three

[wessexgirl]

Of all the great novels that Zola wrote, L'assommoir is his masterpiece; just as Buddenbrooks is Thomas Mann's. If they don't touch your heart, then you haven't got one.

I agree about Zola. I think some people misunderstand him, with all the social observation/experimentation he was aiming for with his realism. The clear-eyed observer of society may tell it how it is, but as you say, if he doesn't move you, you must be made of stone. I'm collecting all his Rougon-Macquart novels. I haven't read Mann, but I was considering reading Death in Venice recently. Too many books, not enough time...:)

[Emil Miller]

I agree about Zola. I think some people misunderstand him, with all the social observation/experimentation he was aiming for with his realism. The clear-eyed observer of society may tell it how it is, but as you say, if he doesn't move you, you must be made of stone. I'm collecting all his Rougon-Macquart novels. I haven't read Mann, but I was considering reading Death in Venice recently. Too many books, not enough time...:)

I have read most of the Rougon-Macquart series and I enjoyed all of them, as they contain some of the finest writing in French literature. An interesting point about them is that each book, although an integral part of the series,
is able to stand alone. If you enjoy them as much as I did, you have much to look forward to.
As for Death in Venice, it is an excellent introduction to Thomas Mann and I can also recommend Felix Krull, which is light-hearted and very amusing.

[kelby_lake]

All American literature? Do you mostly keep only to America or do you just prefer American novels among those you've read?

I'm really into American literature at the moment :)

[tscherff]

sometimes a great notion--kesey
sound and the fury--faulkner
absalom absalom--faulkner
catch 22---heller
in search of lost time---proust

i'm a big faulkner fan!

[Dark Muse]

Sense this thread had seemed to have quieted down, I decided to start to work on putting together the list. And after taking the books with the highest number of nomminations and adding them to the offical list, there are still openings on the list left.

So this is going to make some of you very happy.

Everyone may now have an additional 10 nomminations.

You may nomminate something which has already been nomminated, but you may not duplicate your own nomminations.

[Jozanny]

Sense this thread had seemed to have quieted down, I decided to start to work on putting together the list. And after taking the books with the highest number of nomminations and adding them to the offical list, there are still openings on the list left.

I thought the list you were making was LN's top 100? After 92 posts you don't have 100 titles? Or am I missing something?

[Dark Muse]

Well I am trying to make this the most representive list I can. So I do have more than 100 nominations, but I do not wish to just randomly pick several books which have only been nominated once and add them to the list. I have taken all those which have had multiple nomminations and added them, but they did not total 100

[Etienne]

Ok so my 10 other top:

Tolstoy - War and Peace
Borges - Fictions
Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Garcia Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude
Rulfo - Pedro Paramo
Döblin - Berlin Alexanderplatz
Gide - The Counterfeiters
Nabokov - Lolita
Gonbrowicz - Bakakaï
Gontcharov - Oblomov
Valery - Monsieur Teste.

That's not 11, only 10, trust me on faith.

Ok what about 20 more?

[Dark Muse]

LOL, at least I am giving you all some additional picks.

[Jozanny]

Well I am trying to make this the most representive list I can. So I do have more than 100 nominations, but I do not wish to just randomly pick several books which have only been nominated once and add them to the list. I have taken all those which have had multiple nomminations and added them, but they did not total 100

I see. I am too tired to add more to my five this evening, and I'd have to go back and find my post...wait, I think I can manage five more:

The Tin Drum, Grass
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hugo
The Wild Palms, Faulkner
Tristram Shandy, Sterne
The Man Without Qualities, Musil

[Dark Muse]

And I knew I got a lot of people thinking I should have allowed more the first time around, so I thought I would open it up a bit more for them

[stlukesguild]

Well... if we're adding an additional 5 (or in some cases an additional 10+) I would follow my first 5..

The Bible
The Divine Comedy- Dante
Don Quixote- Cervantes
King Lear- Shakespeare
The Odyssey- Homer

with the following:

Shakespeare- MacBeth
Shakespeare- Hamlet
Homer- The Odyssey
Milton- Paradise Lost
Chaucer- Canterbury Tales
J.L. Borges- Labyrinths/Ficciones
Laurence Sterne- Tristam Shandy
William Blake- Collected Poems
Baudelaire- Flowers of Evil
Proust- In Search of Lost Time
Montaigne- Essays
Spencer- Amors (Sonnets and Epithalimion)
Shakespeare- A Midsummers' Night Dream
Goethe- Faust
Whitman- Leaves of Grass

That's my top 20... for today. Tomorrow might be quite different... although the first 10 would probably be quite consistent... only the order would change.

[qspeechc]

Äargh!! It's so difficult to pick just 5!! I must think more about this!
Oops, can we give more? These are the ones that jump out to me a the moment:

Shakespeare: "Hamlet"
Dostevsky: "Crime and Punishment"
Camus: "The Myth of Sissyphus" (sp?)
Gogol: "Dead Souls"
Shaw: "Plays Pleasant"
Orwell: "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
Milton: "Paradise Lost"
Dostoevsky: "Notes From the Underground"
Camus: "The Stranger"
Sartre: "Nausea"

I how I wish I could add more!

[kelby_lake]

Sounds fun:
Lolita
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
A Tale of Two Cities
The Glass Menagerie (are we allowed plays, by the way? If not, I'll edit)

And I'll add:
Metamorphosis
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Brideshead Revisited
Les Enfants Terribles
1984
Animal Farm
Giovanni's Room
The Last Tycoon
Vanity Fair
The Devil's Dictionary

[Hank Stamper]

my additional ten

crime and punishment
wuthering heights
jane eyre
the picture of dorian gray
the master and margarita
lolita
the sun also rises
dracula
north and south
great expectations

[papayahed]

I'm thinking we should have a larger list as well 10-20.

100 years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
The Sound and the Fury
Junky
On the Road

My next 5:

In Cold Blood
The Old Man and the Sea
Blindness
Jurrasic Park
Henry IV Part 1

[thelastmelon]

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Süskind
Candide - Voltaire
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Changes: A Love Story - Ama Ata Aidoo
Jerusalem - Selma Lagerlöf

[PabloQ]

1. A Prayer for Owen Meany
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
4. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
5. The Octopus by Frank Norris



To my original submission, I'll add.
The Odyssey Homer
Hamlet Shakespeare
Moby-Dick Melville
Of Mice and Men Steinbeck
As I Lay Dying Faulkner
Dead Souls Gogol
The House of Mirth Wharton
The Divine Comedy Dante
The Bible
The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway

[rtc143]

Slaughter-House Five- Vonnegut
The Giver-Lowry
The Gambler-Dostoyevsky
The Trees of Pride- Chesterton
Tale of Two Cities- Dickens

[Dark Muse]

Haha maybe ok here are my own nominations

1. Siddhartha
2. Catcher in the Rye
3. The Magus
4. The Fountianhead
5. No Exit

Well I am still working on my 10, but here is what I have so far.

1. Middlesex
2. The House of Mirth
3. The Red Tent
4. The Legend of Nightfall
5. The Stranger
6. Ashes of a God
7. Decent of Inanna
8. The Divine Comedy

[Emil Miller]

The Moon and Sixpence - Maugham
The Great Gatsby - Scott Fitzgerald
Bel Ami - Maupassant
Buddenbrooks - Mann
L'assommoir - Zola

If you need another 10, then I suggest:

L'Education Sentimentale - Flaubert
Les Celibataires - de Montherlant
The White Gaurd - Bulgakov
Une Vie - Maupassant
Of Human Bondage - Maugham
Therese Desqueyroux - Mauriac
La Bete Humaine - Zola
McTeague - Norris
Sister Carrie - Dreiser
Oblomov - Goncharov
The Da Vinci Code - Brown


Oops! That makes eleven, so I guess the last one will have to be left out.

[Etienne]

Leave the Da Vinci Code out, what's it doing there anyways?

[ladyflorange]

Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor
The Beach - Alex Garland
An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger

[Dark Muse]

Leave the Da Vinci Code out, what's it doing there anyways?

I know a lot of people really hate that book, and though I would not rank among the best things I ever read, I enjoyed it, and for me it was a real page turner. Once I started reading I did not want to put it down again.

[Etienne]

Alright, I can concede that someone might enjoy reading it, but there is a distance between that and a top list, especially that the rest of the list was nice.

[bazarov]

Alright, I can concede that someone might enjoy reading it, but there is a distance between that and a top list, especially that the rest of the list was nice.

And finally we agree. :)

[carrotcake]

To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne
Othello - Shakespeare

[Hank Stamper]

Leave the Da Vinci Code out, what's it doing there anyways?

British humour

read the rest of his list

[Etienne]

British humour

read the rest of his list

What i was wondering, makes sense :lol:

[Annamariah]

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Count of Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery

Those were the first five I chose, now I'll get to pick ten more (thank you so much!)

I really have to think about this - maybe I'll do this in two parts.

I'll add at least these to my list:

The Holy Bible
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
A Little Princess by F.H. Burnett
Eight Cousins by L.M. Alcott

[Taliesin]

Hmmmh

For five, for starters, I guess

"Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel" by Milorad Pavić.
"Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov.
"The Visit" by Dürrenmatt
"The Hours" by Cunningham
"Song of Ice and Fire" series by Martin

[SirRaustusBear]

ok ten this time

War and Peace - Tolstoy
The Subteraneans - Kerouac
Pere Goriot - Balzac
The Story of the Stone - Xueqin
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
The Bell Jar - Plath
Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut
The Wings of the Dove - James
Brave New World - Huxley

[Abdiel]

I won't post my top 5 yet because I have to give it a bit more thought but guys, I have to say, these lists are awesome! I'm so amazed to see that there are an abundance of so-called "classic" works. Usually when you go to a bookstore these days all you see are the new thrillers or murder mysteries or romances, while all the "classics" and great works are tucked away somewhere in the back.

[jhonerliz]

top 10 for me? Here they are:
1. of course the Holy Bible
2. Les Miserables
3. Hamlet
4. Old Man and the Sea
5. Beowulf
6. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
7. Lament
8. Scent of Apples
9. Noli Me Tangere
10. El Filibusterismo

Scent of Apples is written by Bienvenido Santos, Filipino-American fictionist, poet and nonfiction writer.
Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo are novels written by Jose Rizal, National hero of the Philippines....
Just proud being a Filipino so I included them in my list... :)

[Janine]

Sons and Lovers
Women in Love
Les Miserables
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Hamlet
The Mayor of Casterbridge
A Tale of Two Cities
Passage to India
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Frankenstein

[superhero99]

My 15:
1. Lord of the Flies.
2. Of Mice and Men.
3. Notes from Underground.
4. The Wars (Timothy Findley).
5. To Kill A Mockingbird.
6. The Little Prince.
7. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.
8. Animal Farm.
9. Macbeth.
10. King Lear.
11. Night (Elie Wisel).
12. The Stranger (Albert Camus).
13. Canterbury Tales.
14. The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
15. Mrs. Dalloway.

[wilbur lim]

I relished these (and reputedly laudable):

1.A Study in Scarlet
2.Richard III
3.Julius Caesar
4.Don Quixote
5.The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes
6.Hard Times
7.The Count Of Monte Cristo
8.Art Of Worldly Wisdom

[Hira]

Sense this thread had seemed to have quieted down, I decided to start to work on putting together the list. And after taking the books with the highest number of nomminations and adding them to the offical list, there are still openings on the list left.

So this is going to make some of you very happy.

Everyone may now have an additional 10 nomminations.

You may nomminate something which has already been nomminated, but you may not duplicate your own nomminations.

Oh, cool!

10 other nominations:

1) Lord of the Rings ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
2) Women in Love ~ D.H.Lawrence
3) The Hunchback of Notre Dame ~ Victor Hugo
4) 1984 ~ George Orwell
5) Crime and Punishment ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
6) The Idiot ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
7) One Hundred Years of Solitude ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
8) The Portrait of an Artist as a Young man ~ James Joyce
9) The Waves ~ Virginia Woolf
10) Oliver Twist ~ Charles Dickens

[cfgs]

Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
A separate reality - Carlos Castaneda
À la recherche du temps perdu (In search of lost time) - Marcel Proust
Journey to Ixtlán - Carlos Castaneda
1984 - George Orwell
Rayuela (Hopscotch) - Julio Cortázar
Cien años de soledad (One hundred years of solitude) - Gabriel García Márquez
El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha) - Miguel de Cervantes
Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Brendan85]

Although I am new, I would still like to make my contribution if I may:

1. Lolita by Nabokov
2. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
3. Silence by Endo
4. Dubliners by Joyce
5. Tropic of Cancer by Miller
6. In Search of Lost Time by Proust
7. As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
8. Darkness at Noon by Koestler
9. Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
10. Mansfield Park by Austen

[PhilLFM]

Keroac - On The Road,
Orwell - 1984,
Joyce - Ulysses,
Burroughs - Naked Lunch,
Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby,
Bukowski - The Post Office

[Roark]

Here we go:

The Fountainhead
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1984
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby

[Dark Muse]

You choose The Fountainhead? I love you LOL.

And I LOVE your usename.

[Virgil]

Hey Muse. Are you asking for ten choices now? I had originally given five as you had asked.

[Dark Muse]

Yes, I am asking for 10 new choices now

[Tournesol]

Some of my favs have been mentioned countless times already, so I'm mentioning some here that I know may not have been mentioned.

1. The Kite Runner ~ Khaled Hosseini
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns ~ Khaled Hosseini
3. Miguel Street ~ V.S. Naipaul
4. Charley ~ Joan G. Robinson
5. Emily of New Moon ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
6. Teacher Man ~ Frank McCourt
7. For One More Day ~ Mitch Albom
8. The Good Earth ~ Pearl S. Buck
9. To the Lighthouse ~ Virginia Woolf
10. Zaatar Days, Henna Nights ~ Maliha Masood

[Roark]

You choose The Fountainhead? I love you LOL.

And I LOVE your usename.

Heh, Thanks :)

-Roark

[BreakawayChloe]

In no particular order...
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Anne of Green Gables by L.M.Montgomery

[The Comedian]

Here are my 10, in no particular order.

1. Walden
2. Watchmen
3. Republic
4. Lord of the Rings
5. My Antonia
6. Lonesome Dove
7. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
8. Oedipus Rex
9. Desert Solitaire
10. Preacher

[zolasdisciple]

La terre by zola La bete humaine by zola A thousand splendid suns by hosseini L'assomoir by zola La ventre de paris by zola:flare::alien:;)

[islandclimber]

1. The Brother's Karamazov-- Dostoevsky
2. Don Quixote-- Cervantes
3. Crime and Punishment-- Dostoevsky
4. Les Miserables-- Hugo
5. In Search of Lost Time-- Proust
6. Jude the Obscure-- Hardy
7. Ulysses-- Joyce
8. Notes From the Underground-- Dostoevsky
9. Invitation to a Beheading-- Nabokov
10. A Tale of Two Cities --- Dickens
11. The Idiot-- Dostoevsky
12. Fathers and Sons-- Turgenev
13. War and Peace-- Tolstoy
14. The Satanic Verses --- Rushdie
15. Gargantua and Pantagruel-- Rabelais

[Tallon]

Sometimes A Great Notion - Ken Kesey
The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
VALIS - Philip K. Dick
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
Homage To Catalonia - George Orwell
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Tender Is The Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

I know i'm going to think of some obviously missed favourites almost immediately.

[DisPater]

Iliad and Odyssey - Homer
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe (considered to be the first novel)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne
Madame Bovary - G. Flaubert
James Joyce - Ulysses
En Attendant Godot - Samuel Beckett
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
À la recherche du temps perdu - Marcel Proust
Les Fleurs du mal - Charles Baudelaire

[andave_ya]

Lord of the Rings
Brothers Karamazov
Don Quixote
Les Miserables
Crime and Punishment


plus:
Mere Christianity
The Odyssey
Beowulf
The Pickwick Papers
Home and the World.

[kelby_lake]

When will this be collected?

[Dark Muse]

Well I have been just hagning back and waiting to give everyone a chance to vote who wants to. And then once things grew quiet around her over a period of time, I will begin to put the list together. I have an offsite list that I keep with the titile of each book that has been nominated and a tally of how many votes it has recivied.

[Kirby]

The Count of Monte Cristo
Les Miserables
Crime and Punishment
Siddhartha
Cat's Cradle

[RG57]

Dracula
Goodbye Mr Chips
Christmas Carol
To kill a Mocking Bird
Lord of the Flies

[bazarov]

Brothers Karamazov
Don Quijote
War and Peace
Les Miserables
Crime and Punishment

Oh, I will also add other votes 'cause I remember I had problems first time!

Fathers and Sons
Master and Margarita
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Anna Karenina
The Dervish and The Death
Idiot
Eugene Onegin
The Bible
1984
Dead Souls

Impressive, I know :lol::lol:

I added at least 10 books from this thread on my must ''read in next several months'' list. Thank you!

[RaatKiRanii]

The Count of Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Silk by Alessandro Baricco (Translated by Ann Goldstein)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

And if short stories count…

The yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

[Josef K.]

The Trial - Franz Kafka.
The Castle - Kafka.
The Stranger/Outsider - Albert Camus.
Crime and punishment - Dostoyevsky
Amerika or The man who disappeared - Kafka

[Chem]

Hi am kinda new here as although ive been a member for ages ive never actually posted! anyway these are my top 5 books (though not in order as i cant decide! :p )

Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Persuasion
The Mists of Avalon

[Petya]

Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger
The Great Gatsby F.Scott Fitzgerald

With not too many books read yet I might look back at this in amusement in a few years but for now this is the best I can do :)

[scarjo]

Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
Tostoy: War and Peace

Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
E. Brontë: Wuthering Heights
Hardy: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Orwell: 1984
Nabokov: Lolita

[andave_ya]

The Theban Cycle

[Jeremiah Jazzz]

Here's five:

The Brothers Karamazov-Dostoevsky
Finnegans Wake-Joyce
Pale Fire-Nabokov
The Symposium-Plato
Beyond Good and Evil-Nietzsche

[nessgavin]

The Republic
Don Quixote
Crime and Punishment
Oedipus Rex
Bible

[polgara]

Hamlet
Bleak House
The Prophet
Pride and Prejudice
Anna Karenina
Les Miserables
To Kill a Mockingbird
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Lord of the Rings
The Barchester Chronicles

[prendrelemick]

In no particular order

Lord of the Rings, Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice, Austin
White Teeth, Smith
The Iliad , Homer
War and Peace, Tolstoy

The other 10

Northanger Abby, Austin
Beowolf, Heany
The Oddesey, Homer
Tom Jones, Fielding
Lord of the Flies , Golding
Emma , Austin
A Handmaids Tale, Atwood
The Colour of Magic/The Light Fantastic (can I have them as one please?), Prachett
Lorna Doone, Blackmore
Macbeth. Shakespeare

[Cailin]

Here's a couple...

Bram Stoker Dracula
Wilkie Collins The Woman in White
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge
Mary Shelley Frankenstein


Even as I type I feel like I'm betraying so many others... Picking 5 is HARD!!

[*Classic*Charm*]

Beowolf, Heany


I LOVED this book. Might make my list too!

[Babyguile]

The Lord of The Rings
Frankenstein
To Kill A Mockingbird
His Dark Materials
The Picture of Dorian Grey

[Babyguile]

This is a great idea and all, but, how are you going to keep oder of the tallies, especially since you added a new rule half-way through? How are you going to know if a user has duplicated their own votes or not? Are you going to sift through the thread constantly? Or is it all computerized :)

[Dr. Hill]

Crime and Punishment
Tale of Two Cities
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1984
Tess of the d'Urbervilles

[hampusforev]

Beowulf!? You've got to be kidding me.

[ryan.778]

the brothers karamazov
the idiot
the grapes of wrath
on the road
atlas shurrged

so far, still a lot of reading to do

[Dark Muse]

This is a great idea and all, but, how are you going to keep oder of the tallies, especially since you added a new rule half-way through? How are you going to know if a user has duplicated their own votes or not? Are you going to sift through the thread constantly? Or is it all computerized :)

I have privite list off this site that is alphabetical, in which I keep the titiles of all the books that have been nominated. And I keep the number of voites the book has right after the titile.

If I think a user is duplicating nominations, I can go back to find thier original votes here.

[Janine]

Hamlet
Les Misérables
Women in Love
Sons and Lovers
A Tale of Two Cities
Frankenstein

I can think of a zillion more that are my favorites but I kept it to 5.

[Cailin]

Hamlet
Les Misérables
Women in Love
Sons and Lovers
A Tale of Two Cities
Frankenstein

I can think of a zillion more that are my favorites but I kept it to 5.

Or 6 ;) :lol:

[mortalterror]

My 15
1.The Catcher in the Rye
2.Inferno- Dante
3.Catch-22- Heller
4.The Old Man and the Sea- Hemingway
5.On the Road- Kerouac
6.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- Thompson
7.The Metamorphoses- Ovid
8.The Republic- Plato
9.Madame Bovary- Flaubert
10.Huckleberry Finn- Twain
11.Plays of Jean Racine or if just one Andromache
12.Plays of Shakespeare or if just one Julius Caesar
13.Essays- Montaigne
14.1984- Orwell
15.The Great Gatsby- Fitzgerald

[mortalterror]

According to my tally as of post 167 the results are such:
Roman numerals show how many votes a book got. Within each voting block the books are arranged alphabetically.

XV
1.Crime and Punishment
XIII
2.The Great Gatsby
3.To Kill a Mockingbird
XII
4.The Brother's Karamazov
5.Les Miserables
6.Hamlet
XI
7.Pride and Prejudice
X
8.Tale of Two Cities
9.War and Peace
IX
10.1984
VIII
11.The Bible
12.Don Quixote
13.Lolita
VII
14.Anna Karenina
15.Catch 22
16.Divine Comedy
17.Lord of the Rings
18.On the Road
19.Remembrance of Things Past
20.The Stranger
21.Wuthering Heights
VI
22.The Catcher in the Rye
23.The Hunchback of Notre Dame
24.King Lear
25.The Master and Margarita
26The Picture of Dorian Gray
27.The Sound and the Fury
V
28.100 Years of Solitude
29.As I Lay Dying
30.Beowulf
31.Dead Souls
32.Frankenstein
33.The Idiot
34.Jane Eyre
35.Lord of the Flies
36.Madame Bovary
37.The Odyssey
38.Oedipus Rex
39.The Old Man and the Sea
40.Siddhartha
41.Ulysses
IV
42.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
43.The Count of Monte Cristo
44.Dracula
45.Fathers and Sons
46.The Grapes of Wrath
47.Notes From Underground
48.Of Mice and Men
49.The Republic
III
50.Animal Farm
51.L'Assomoir
52.Cat's Cradle
53.Heart of Darkness
54.The Kite Runner
55.Macbeth
56.The Metamophosis(Kafka)
57.Moby Dick
58.North and South
59.Oblomov
60.One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
61.Paradise Lost
62.Perfume
63.Persuasion
64.The Sun Also Rises
65.Tess of D'Ubervilles
66.The Trial
67.Tristram Shandy
68.Women in Love
II
69.Amerika
70.La Bete Humaine
71.Bleak House
72.Brideshead Revisited
73.Candide
74.Canterbury Tales
75.A Clockwork Orange
76.Dharma Bums
77.Essays(Montaigne)
78.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
79.Fictions(Borges)
80.Fight Club
81.Flowers of Evil
82.The Fountainhead
83.Gargantua and Pantagruel
84.The Good Earth
85.Great Expectations
86.Hard Times
87.House of Mirth
88.If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
89.The Iliad
90.Jude the Obscure
91.Julius Caesar
92.The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
93.The Little Prince
94.The Magus
95.The Mayor of Casterbridge
96.Middlesex
97.Mrs. Dalloway
98.Nausea
99.Night
100.Oliver Twist
101.Slaughterhouse 5
102.Sometimes a Great Notion
103.Sons and Lovers
104.Things Fall Apart
105.A Thousand Splendid Suns
106.The Tin Drum
107.The Wind Up Bird Chronicle

[Dark Muse]

I have my own system of which I cam keeping track of everything, and I am going to keep it at 100. I was not going to release the restults untill the end.

[Dr. Hill]

Should Hamlet, as a play, be on there? Is this strictly novels, or no?

[Dark Muse]

At the very beginning I said I would allow plays

[Virgil]

Oh you're allowing 15 books now? I only gave my top five. Should I add another ten?

[JBI]

Me too, I have ten coming. Been savin' em.

[Dr. Hill]

6. Moby Dick
7. The Trial
8. The Stranger
9. Julius Caesar
10. Ivanhoe
11. The Canterbury Tales
12. Frankenstein
13. War and Peace
14. Notes from Underground
15. Oliver Twist

[Virgil]

Here are my five, though it's really hard to pick only five.

The Divine Comedy
Moby Dick by Herman Meville
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Anna Karinina by Leo Tolstoy
King Lear by William Shakespeare


Those were my five from very early in this thread. I will restrain myself from picking an author more than once. So my next ten are:

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostevsky
Light In August by Faulkner
Don Quixote by Cervantes
The Illiad by Homer
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Great Expectations by Dickens
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
To The Lighthouse by Woolf
Kim by Kipling

Wish I could pick even more. :D

[Dark Muse]

Oh you're allowing 15 books now? I only gave my top five. Should I add another ten?

No, I did not acutally say you can have 15. First I said 5 and then I said you can have an additional 10.

So that would be a total of 15, so if he did not vote the first time around, then he is combining the two.

But you do not get an extra 15.

[Tallon]

My other 5:

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
More Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon
Our Man In Havana - Graham Greene
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote

[Janine]

Or 6 ;) :lol:

Oh sorry, didn't realise I listed 6 :lol:...well, just goes to show you which side of my brain works best...not the math side...:(;):lol:

[Janine]

No, I did not acutally say you can have 15. First I said 5 and then I said you can have an additional 10.

So that would be a total of 15, so if he did not vote the first time around, then he is combining the two.

But you do not get an extra 15.

Well, now that puts a whole new spin on my math problem. Since I listed 6 so far, Dark Muse, this now means I can have a total of 15 - therefore, if I am doing this math right, I can now list 9 more...right? Yeah!

Ok here goes....my remaining 9...

Brave New World ~ Huxley

These by Thomas Hardy...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Woodlanders
Return of the Native
Jude the Obscure

Ivanhoe ~ Sir Walter Scott

The Picture of Dorian Gray ~ Oscar Wilde

Jane Eyre ~ Charlotte Bronte

...and :lol:...a zillion other great books I have read...gosh, I did not even graze the surface...can't we have 20 Dark Muse?...please, please:(....this is actually so impossible....I had trouble choosing...and some really good ones are being left out of my list...

[JBI]

Janine, I didn't know you were such a Hardy fan! Have you tried his verses?

[Dr. Hill]

Speaking of Hardy, I've just finished "The Return of the Native". As of yet, I don't know where I'd put it in the top 100, simply because I'm still pondering it. Diggory Venn's character will be the point that places it highly, though.

[promtbr]

OK, I'll play:


1. Waiting For Godot- Beckett
2. To The Lighthouse– Woolf
3. Remembrance of Things Past– Proust
4. Heart of Darkness– Conrad
5. The Trial– Kafka
6. Crime and Punishment– Dostoevsky
7. The Sun Also Rises– Hemingway
8. Don Quixote– Cervantes
9. The Stranger– Camus
10. The Rainbow– DH Lawrence
11. As I Lay Dying– Faulkner
12. Lolita– Nabakov
13. Fictions- Borges
14. Master & Margarita– Bulgakov
15. 100 Years of Solitude– Marquez

Embarrassingly enough have NOT read Divine Comedy.

[Jilvin]

1984
Farenheit 451
Brave New World
Lord of the Rings
I, Claudius

In no particular order. I love dystopian!

[Chloe M]

I will vote for War and Peace and Candide. There are several other books I have enjoyed, but I don't think they quite reach a top five spot for me.

[Sk8ynat]

Little Women (incl. Part 2 a.k.a. Good Wives) - Louisa May Alcott
Little Men - Louisa May Alcott
Jo's Boys - Louisa May Alcott
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible

[hunterharry]

Animal Farm - George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

I really prefer Animal Farm to 1984, but both are my favourite books.

[Bumbeli]

The Idiot - Dostoyevsky
In search of Lost Time - Proust
The Plague - Camus
No Exit - Sartre
Goethe - Faust

[Amlóði]

i. Le Petit Prince (St. Exupery)

ii. Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut)

iii. Watership Down (Adams)

iv. Don Juan in Hell (Man and Superman, Shaw)

v. The Complete Works of Shakespeare

-- Hamlet and 1 Henry IV in particular

[Dark Muse]

I have decided that this thread has been open a considerable amount of time and gave a fair chance for everyone to vote who wished to do so, so after the holidays are over, I am going to count up votes and put together the final and offical list.

[Vincent Black]

Lolita - Nabokov
Invitation to a Beheading - Nabokov
The Bible
Frankenstein - Shelley
The Stranger - Camus
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Tolstoy
Don Juan - Byron (not sure if that's allowed?)
Les Miserables - Hugo
Less Than Zero - Easton Ellis

[JBI]

I still have 10, gimme a little time :p When are you closing, the 25th, 1st or later?

[Dark Muse]

Hehe, it depends how busy I will be. I can be flexable and wait untill you have got your final vote in

[JBI]

Shakespeare - Complete works of, or Hamlet if I must choose 1 play
Dante - Comedia
Ramayana
Leopardi - Canti+Operette Morali+Pensieri (not readily available in full translation, though a Tutti Poesa e Prosa is not uncommon for an Italian bookstore to have)
The Bible - KJV for all about a few books, but some, like Job, I prefer in the original.

As For me and My House - Sinclair Ross
Complete poems of John Keats
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Therese Raquin by Zola
Light in August by Faulkner
La Confezzione di Zino by Italo Svevo
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Poems of a Thousand Masters - edited by Wang Hsiang
Collected Poetry and Prose - T.S. Eliot
Faust Part 1 and 2 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There - I'll probably change my mind in the morning - but it shouldn't really matter.

[Dark Muse]

Well you do not have to rush I am not that rigid with the timing, I was just worried that it would go on indefinately if I did not put some kind of time frame in place

[Zee.]

In Cold Blood
The Fountainhead
Pride and Prejudice
Rabbit, Run
Watership Down

[Illuminati]

Of my limited selections to date, I would choose:

1. The Good Earth
2. 1984
3. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
5. The Grapes of Wrath
6. Oliver Twist
7. Night

[Taliesin]

Hmmmh

For five, for starters, I guess

"Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel" by Milorad Pavić.
"Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov.
"The Visit" by Dürrenmatt
"The Hours" by Cunningham
"Song of Ice and Fire" series by Martin
And the others:

"The Clay Machine Gun" by Viktor Pelevin
"Ugly Swans" by Arkadi and Boris Strugatsky
"Border State" by Emil Tode
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera
"Small Gods" by Terry Pratchett
"Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami
The Poetic Edda
The Hyperion series by Simmons, "Hyperion", if I must choose one.
The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Farthest Shore", if I must pick one.
"Someplace to Be Flying" by Charles de Lint

I am afraid that the most books I chose will not end up in the list, due being mostly non-classical, not written in English or speculative fiction. But still, I've had my say, at least.

EDIT: Changed the last one.

[Dark Muse]

Ok, I am now going to start working on putting together the final list of the Lit Nets 100 Best books

Thanks to all who participated.