Lit Nets Top 100 Books Official List

[ReadCentral]

hiii
good work i like it
many books in the list are must read:iagree:

[jlb4tlb]

For anyone who may be interested partially out of boredom and partially to help myself keep track of the books I have read from this list, I uploaded this list on the Lists Of Bests website, and one of the nifty things I find about doing so is that it gives you a digital checkable list, so you can online check off the books you have read, and it will automatically calculate how much of the list you have read.

You can find it here:

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/87689-lit-nets-100-greats-literary-works

I also plan on uploading the entire nomination list just for my own personal reference, because there were a lot of books which did not make the cut, but still sounded like they could be interested reads to me. I will provide the link for anyone else who may be interested once it is complete.

Thank you for the link!!! A very usefull tool.

[Dark Muse]

You are welcome, and yes it is useful, but it can also become additive. Particularly if you have an OCD thing with lists like I do.

[jlb4tlb]

:rolleyes5::rolleyes5:Just went through the list and discovered that I had read 26 of them. So much to read, so little time.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I'm up to 23 now. :nod:

Also, how was this compiled? Was it just based on what people enjoy, because every time I see it, I just can't wrap my head around Moby Dick being #68.

[Vasiliy Terkin]

Thanks for putting that up.
I have counted 41 that I have read. I'm only 16 =)

[iamnobody]

I have read 53 of these, withh 10 more sitting on my shelves waiting to be read. I plan on reading all of them.

[Istanbul]

Wuthering Heights is my nr. 1
Also great to see Hardy in the list...

Curious about crime and punishment, I'll read it asap

[marcolfo]

this ones i've read



1. Crime and Punishment
2. 1984
3. Brothers Karamazov
4. Hamlet
5. Les Miserables
6. To Kill A Mockingbird
9. War and Peace
12. Don Quixote
13. The Stranger
14. A Tale of Two Cities
15. Catch-22
18. The Picture of Dorian Gray
19. The Grapes of Wrath
21. The Sound and the Fury
22. King Lear
23. The Divine Comedy
24. The Catcher in the Rye
26. The Idiot
27. In Search of Lost Time/ Remembrance of Things Past
28. Lord of the Flies
29. The Lord of the Rings
30. The Odyssey
31. Siddhartha
32. 100 Years of Solitude
33. As I Lay Dying
39. The Old Man and the Sea
40. Slaughterhouse 5
42. Ulysses
43. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
48. Metemorphosis
49. Notes From Underground
50. Of Mice and Men
55. Brave New World
57. The Count of Monte-Cristo
59. Fictions - Borges
66. Macbeth
68. Moby Dick
70. Oliver Twist
74. Perfume
87. In Cold Blood
91. The Little Prince
93. Iliad

[Armel P]

29. The Lord of the Rings


Well, that's, uh... interesting.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Well, that's, uh... interesting.

Why? Because it's 39 places higher than Moby Dick?

[Armel P]

Why? Because it's 39 places higher than Moby Dick?

:) Something like that. At #29 in all literature it's higher than a lot of things.

What can I say, I'm never satisfied with such lists.

[Trollzane]

nice list of books

[Big Dante]

Finally found a bookstore with The Master And Margarita.

[Brock]

Wow, as if I've only read 28 of these! (which are...)

2. 1984
4. Hamlet
7. The Great Gatsby
8. Pride and Prejudice
9. War and Peace
14. A Tale of Two Cities
16. Anna Karinina
18. The Picture of Dorian Gray
20. On the Road
22. King Lear
24. The Catcher in the Rye
29. The Lord of the Rings
34. Frankenstein
35. Wuthering Heights
38. Madam Bovary
44. Jane Eyre
47. Heart of Darkness
50. Of Mice and Men
52. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
63. Jude the Obsecure
64. Paradise Lost
65. The Mayor of Casterbridge
66. Macbeth
69. North and South
70. Oliver Twist
81. Bleak House
97. Julius Caeser
100. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkbale Things

I've got a LOT of reading to be getting on with.

[Kundan]

I have read only 29 out of it. I have a long way to go. Thanks for the list.

[Buffalo Girl]

I have read 36 and there are several on the list I would like to get to.

Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, Bleak House and Macbeth are some of my favorites. I hated the Kite Runner though, surprised to see it here. I'll talk more of that in the thread regarding "worst books ever..."

[Bessie11]

Thank you DM for the excellent list.

[avid]

Ooops...I seem to be lagging. Thanks for providing me with a "must read" list....
I'm currently reading "East of Eden" which did not make the list, but is still a great read.
Can't wait to get started on the 80 something books from the list i've yet to read.

[Sirin]

71. Night

Do you mean the "Night" by Elie Wiesel?

[Dark Muse]

Do you mean the "Night" by Elie Wiesel?

Yes that is the one.

[porisna]

Well, it's getting close to Christmas time again. Each year it seems like Christmas sneaks up faster than it did the year before. Although the saying is usually true that "Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year", for many of us it is also the most costly.
As we all know, this can be an extremely stressful time. If you are one of those scraping by each month just to pay your bills, the added pressure to earn extra money for Christmas can be a little much to handle.
Making extra money is something a lot of us are worried about this time of year. With a combination of the economy, and job instability... you may be among the many searching for ways to make money this holiday season.

[YW1990]

So glad notes from underground made it in this list. It's become one of my favorites.

[CarpeNixta]

thanks for the list, is very interesting.
Now I'll need to find some of these books to read too

[596]

Nice to see my favourite book at the top of the list

[Prairie]

Re: The Grapes of Wrath. Not only does the book stand the test of time, but so does the film. In fact, it's even more remarkably moving in our current time of economic catastrophe.

[Prairie]

p.s. "Canterberry Tales"??

[Luther102]

So happy Crime and Punishment is the top, what a fantastic book.http://www.hergoods.info/avatar2.jpg

[Adolescent09]

I've currently read 43 books off this list but I'm only 21 so I guess that's not bad. I'm currently reading Anna Karenina and by the looks of it, it is an excellent read thus far so I'm sure it deserves a spot on this list.

[Tallulah]

I've currently read 43 books off this list but I'm only 21 so I guess that's not bad. I'm currently reading Anna Karenina and by the looks of it, it is an excellent read thus far so I'm sure it deserves a spot on this list.

You've read a lot for your age! And yes, Anna Karenina is an excellent book. One of my favorites. Have you read anything else by Tolstoy?

[Tallulah]

I've currently read 43 books off this list but I'm only 21 so I guess that's not bad. I'm currently reading Anna Karenina and by the looks of it, it is an excellent read thus far so I'm sure it deserves a spot on this list.

I went back and counted how many I've read. I've only read 37 and I'm quite a bit older than you...when I was your age I had probably only read a handful of these.

[Svidrigailov]

I've managed a third of the list, and am interested in about twenty others. I don't mind admitting there are some on there I hadn't heard of, and Oblomov in particular has piqued my interest.

But I've got to say that Hardy is generously represented with three novels on there, and my favourite (The Woodlanders) is sadly absent. I always enjoy his narratives, but his writing's a bit stilted at times, and I agree with Virginia Woolf when she hints that his books work despite his precarious technique:

"No style in literature, save Scott’s, is so difficult to analyse; it is on the face of it so bad, yet it achieves its aim so unmistakably. As well might one attempt to rationalize the charm of a muddy country road, or of a plain field of roots in winter. And then, like Dorsetshire itself, out of these very elements of stiffness and angularity his prose will put on greatness; will roll with a Latin sonority; will shape itself in a massive and monumental symmetry like that of his own bare downs."

[MaybeSomeone]

Interesting list.Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" should be in the top 5 and it isn't in the top 100. Anyway, its subjective... so good list mate.

[ellenc]

I would like to recommend The Tin Drum by Gunther Grass - a really great book

thank you for all the work you did on the list

[giedrejd]

I'm new to this club as well as to literature. Thank you for making this list. I'm starting with number 3, and have a long way to go.

[IntravenousJava]

Interesting list.Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" should be in the top 5 and it isn't in the top 100. Anyway, its subjective... so good list mate.

The Magic Mountain would be one of several of Mann's works on my personal top 100, but, as they say, "de gustibus non est disputandum."

Personal tastes notwithstanding, it is very useful, I think, to be aware of prevailing literary appetites, wherefore I applaud the listmaker.

[Fiction Tales]

Hi, this is my first post although i've been browsing the forum for a week or so. So far, i've only read 20 of the 100 books listed. Great to see Crime and Punishment at the top, Dostoevsky is my favorite, along with Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pushkin, and the like. I'll be diving into Hesse's Siddhartha next.

[DarkAntigone]

Thank you for this. I will read this all and It will take months, yes. I only have read 6 of that 100

[blueskies]

Only 27, or 26, because I didn't read part II of Faust.
Great list, actually! One of those which you can trust and not be left disappointed (:

[peggynevers]

Excellent list. I've only finished 17 of that hundred so I definitely have some work to do. I’m very happy that Sometimes a Great Notion snuck in there too. As for the rest most of them are in my TBR pile.

[Red Hot Soho]

It seems to me this forum has completely neglected fine works of Literature from half of the globe. Such a list to be created by people who claim to have found their heart in the literary world is disappointing and rather shameful.

I am only saying this because in a list of 100 books, there is not one Japanese, Iranian or Arabic work of art. Though it does give a very interesting view of the members that make up the forum, so called literary aficionados, so on the other-hand I applaud it in all it's magnificent ignorance for it's eye-opening properties.

I had to look through the list for the third time in shock, half expecting to see Fifty Shades judging from the lack of any cultured literature.

1984.. second? That's simply hilarious. A utopian novel by an elitist, for some reason unknown to me adored by the less well-read angst infected teenagers for it's 'frightening similarities to today's modern culture' has found it's way to be SECOND on the list of such a forums Top 100 books? Am I the only one left in shock? It proposed nothing new at the time (or now) in terms of stylistic and literary aspects and serves for no other role but an entertaining read on an idle Sunday in a slightly political mood. George Orwell was as uninteresting as the book he wrote so why on earth is this second?

Have a look into these:

Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edogawa Ranpo
Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Akinari Ueda
Otogizoshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat

4 Books that deserve a place in the list, if not for their literary prowess, but for their diversity.


One of those which you can trust and not be left disappointed (:

And also be left none-the-wiser.


Thank you for this. I will read this all and It will take months, yes. I only have read 6 of that 100

For the love of God don't.

[Venerable Bede]

You're kind of a snob aren't you?

The list represents the most popular books of members of this forum, and though I am far from completely agreeing with it, your self righteous insinuations about the ignorance of all other forum members is irritating. If you actually took the time to read any of the other threads on this forum you would notice that there are many people who read and love literature from the places that you mentioned. The problem is that many users are casual readers; they are interested in literature, but they just read what they like and stay within their comfort zone. Thus, the common, popular books like Crime and Punishment, 1984, and The Great Gatsby make it to the top of the list because they are works that are read by most. The number of people exposed to literature from a multitude of countries is greatly outnumbered by the people who read only Western, and primarily English and American literature.

[Red Hot Soho]

You're kind of a snob aren't you?

The list represents the most popular books of members of this forum, and though I am far from completely agreeing with it, your self righteous insinuations about the ignorance of all other forum members is irritating. If you actually took the time to read any of the other threads on this forum you would notice that there are many people who read and love literature from the places that you mentioned. The problem is that many users are casual readers; they are interested in literature, but they just read what they like and stay within their comfort zone. Thus, the common, popular books like Crime and Punishment, 1984, and The Great Gatsby make it to the top of the list because they are works that are read by most. The number of people exposed to literature from a multitude of countries is greatly outnumbered by the people who read only Western, and primarily English and American literature.

And who are you to tell me what I am and what I'm not? Go change your custom user title, it's not adding any more credibility to your post.

I understand what you're saying, the top half of your rant is directed at me personally and holds no weight what-so-ever so I will just completely ignore it. And the second half is a weak attempt at telling me that the demographic of this community means that they're more exposed to Western literature.

1. I am a casual reader myself, which is precisely why I am questioning this list.
2. The role of a forum that holds such a status should be more into educating people about other literature, not the tiresome old 1984's, Crime and Punishments and Great Gatsby's we've all read.
3. Leading on from my second point, what this does, is it creates such a thread that SHOULD have direct and critical discussion concerning literary feats into:

"Hey guys! Look at my literary prowess, I've read 37 and I'm only 19!"
"This is going to be my goal! These guys said this is good literature therefore it must be! I'm gonna read all of these books one after the other."
"1984 is like the best book ever! I'm so glad it came second! I remember being so scared as a child!"

(I'm not saying it's not good literature, but look at some of the posts made through my eyes)

4. Judging from the majority of these posts, you expect me to believe you when you ignorantly say "The number of people exposed to literature from a multitude of countries is greatly outnumbered by the people who read only Western, and primarily English and American literature.", No chance.

And then you get people like myself who are disgusted at such statements and will point it out in the most direct, obvious fashion possible and get called 'Snobs'.

[Calidore]

Have a look into these:

Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edogawa Ranpo
Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Akinari Ueda
Otogizoshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat

4 Books that deserve a place in the list, if not for their literary prowess, but for their diversity.


Soho, I think the problem wasn't that your post was "direct [and] obvious," but that it was more much more negative than constructive. Except for this part:



Have a look into these:

Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edogawa Ranpo
Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Akinari Ueda
Otogizoshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat

4 Books that deserve a place in the list, if not for their literary prowess, but for their diversity.


So could you elaborate on why those books (and why you feel diversity is more important than literary prowess)?

[Red Hot Soho]

Soho, I think the problem wasn't that your post was "direct [and] obvious," but that it was more much more negative than constructive. Except for this part:



So could you elaborate on why those books (and why you feel diversity is more important than literary prowess)?

--Of course. Just to get this out of the way, I mentioned 'if not for their literary prowess' in the sense that even if one disputes, for example, their stylistic merit; for the sake of diversity having these books being shown and discussed is reason enough to feature such works on important lists as this one.-

But let's talk about diversity. To me, it's of high importance discussion of multicultural literature is maintained and encourage on this board. Traditional literature provides a window on cultural beliefs and on the spiritual and psychological qualities that are part of our human nature. Thus, Otogizoshi, a compilation of fairy-tales written by D. Osamu is there. Folk tales can and should be used to promote multicultural awareness. Especially in such a forum where we hold the power of introducing new-comers to literature, as this thread has clearly depicted.

The framework of Japanese literature is truly fascinating, and this is why I perceive it with huge importance. The methodology behind it strongly resembles Japanese Culture, and the way it's written allows certain important themes to be played off with each other in a beautiful lyrical prose. These are themes almost always common in Japanese literature, and thus it is a fertile ground for those who are to begin reading, it already begins to lay the foundations of analyzing literature!

Acceptance vs. Rejection
Service to the Emperor vs. Being Self-Made
Dependency vs. Independency
Modesty vs. Pride
Spirituality vs. Physical Beauty

The way I see it, the majority of the forum users come here looking for direction. If we direct them to 1984, the Ulysses (and by god who would want to read that needlessly over-complex garbage, apart from the guy who has 'Undergraduate' in his custom user title? He'd love it!) and the Great Gatsby we're not offering a help handing, but rather forming the next generation of readers to simply read what is 'safe' and 'worth reading'. This is what our Undergraduate friend here has opened my eyes to, this stupid idea of 'comfort zones', all the mean whilst stating such ignorant slurs without the slightest bit of remorse; as if he's not insulting the intelligence of the casual reader, calling him a snob, rather disgraceful.
Perhaps I'm exaggerating. However, I can't help but think there's something not right when we're in the twenty first century, sat here in front of computers, access to thousands and thousands of critical analysis on such books, and yet we neglect books that haven't yet been analyzed by Westerners? The internet is now so open that people will pop in here just for a little direction, and then suddenly leave never to be seen again. Day in and day out.

So a list like this one, stickied at the first board and may I add the most active of all the thousands of boards (with no multicultural authors), isn't a dangerous and problematic thread with all this in mind? No let's all have a huge communal masturbation session where we can discuss how many of these books we've read, that's what I call a good literary discussion! No, seriously, this thread serves no purpose, and at very least, to someone who has the least bit of logic and critical thinking, is completely counter-productive.

In terms of the last book (Blind Owl), here are a few points I thought to bring up.

1. Hedayat is considered one of the most prominent writers in twentieth century Iranian Literature.
2. Blind Owl itself is an introduction to Persian Folk Lore (which may I add, is very interesting and full of life, and hopefully from my first paragraph you'll understand why I think folklore is of utmost importance to literature), an owl referring to the bringers of death and so on. It's riddled with these little references.
3. It's macabre, repetitive imagery will stay with the reader for as long as he can remember the book. Maintaining a vivid plot whilst also making strong interjections on art, referring to other Middle Eastern and Western literary feats and religious texts, this makes it an excellent starting place for anyone looking for different interpretations on works we know so well.
4. I can only think of one analysis by a scholar (Iranian), who had focused on Hedayat more than the Blind Owl. Being one of the most prominent books in Iranian Literature, surely it's important we as westerners begin to analyze and interpret such texts from our point of view.

There's little need to mention the plot of the book, it's simply fascinating.

I guess through thinking as I wrote this up, I realized my initial negativity was due to the fact we have an amazing open platform to discuss 100 literary feats that haven't yet been examined. And yet all the posts here indicate to me we're going to be discussing these books for a whole lot longer. All at the same time promoting them to people who are looking for new and exciting reads. This is why I refuse to applaud the list maker and hope all those involved with it have the fleas of a million camels infest their household.


EDIT: Excuse my previous ignorance. There is, in fact, a grand total of !TWO! texts from a non Westernized culture. Both of which I haven't had the delight of reading.
RE-EDIT: Scratch that, they're only found on the list of '206 Books if you're a Xenophobe', on this http://www.listsofbests.com/list/87699-lit-nets-nearly-complete-nomination-list?page=5 despicable excuse for a HTML page. Makes me wonder if the person who wrote this list works as a Border Official.

[Scheherazade]

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[Venerable Bede]

And who are you to tell me what I am and what I'm not? Go change your custom user title, it's not adding any more credibility to your post.

I don't really get why you take issue with "Undergraduate" as my title. I list it because it is my only occupation. It isn't like being an undergraduate is terribly prestigious anyway; anyone with semi decent grades can attain to the rank of undergraduate. If it is any consolation to you, I'll change it in a year when I graduate and it is no longer relevant :p.


1. I am a casual reader myself, which is precisely why I am questioning this list.

Apparently, we have a different definition of a casual reader; you may not be reading for academic purposes, but you definitely sound like a serious admirer of literature. The kind of people that I consider to be casual readers are those that read purely for fun with no pretensions to be a serious connoisseur or critic.


2. The role of a forum that holds such a status should be more into educating people about other literature, not the tiresome old 1984's, Crime and Punishments and Great Gatsby's we've all read.

I agree that the role of this forum should be to guide people into discovering new literature, but when it comes to producing a list of the all time greats, something different and uncommon is not necessarily better than Crime and Punishment. Also, the list was composed by a vote of all forum members, many of whom require introduction to less popular literature themselves, so how can you expect them to direct others towards books that they are not familiar with themselves?


4. Judging from the majority of these posts, you expect me to believe you when you ignorantly say "The number of people exposed to literature from a multitude of countries is greatly outnumbered by the people who read only Western, and primarily English and American literature.", No chance.

If what I say is not true, then what reason do you give for this list's exclusion of "half the globe's" literature? A lot of people will join a forum, without having a fully rounded repertoire of books. These people are allowed to vote too; thus the list is skewed in favour of the popular, safe classics. Democratic lists will always place the cliche titles at the top because most people are not fully rounded readers and are more familiar with 1984 than with The Blind Owl. The truly diverse are always a minority.


If we direct them to 1984, the Ulysses (and by god who would want to read that needlessly over-complex garbage, apart from the guy who has 'Undergraduate' in his custom user title? He'd love it!

Actually, I am not terribly fond of Ulysses. Joyce's short fiction is good though, and Finnegans Wake is fun in a group setting.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I just read Fifty Shades of Grey! It should totally be on that list!

[bhavna]

Gr8 job........really sch a wondrfulllll help.....well we ppl in india have t sit in a papr cncrnd vid d topic u optd in d masters levl...it ws litrature fr me nd nw i knw were t start frm fr dis papr...thanx a looooott......u made it easier fr me:santasmil

[osho]

Gr8 job........really sch a wondrfulllll help.....well we ppl in india have t sit in a papr cncrnd vid d topic u optd in d masters levl...it ws litrature fr me nd nw i knw were t start frm fr dis papr...thanx a looooott......u made it easier fr me:santasmil

India is a beautiful country with immeasurable resources and it is really great to be Indian, part of the great cultural background singular in many ways. I think you will have to share with us from a vast source of ideas you come up with

[tonywalt]

I just read Fifty Shades of Grey! It should totally be on that list!

But did you read the entire Canon? One really has to do that in order to appreciate the complex weave of the plot-it's almost visceral.

Tolstoy, Salinger, David Foster Wallace - dammit if they were only around to witness literature flourish this way! Dream the dream.

[Brielle92]

I've read 18.. pretty proud of myself. But definitely going to use this list as a reference! Thank you so much!

Though I rank TBK far, far higher than C&P, I'm really glad that Dostoevsky is first for top 100 books and authors. And I'm glad that I randomly picked up The Idiot at the airport ahead of a 15 hour trip. Didn't know what I was in for, read it non-stop. Also, I don't mind being called a Dostoevsky fangirl... if anything that's surely a compliment?

[Anymodal]

In my top 9 would be (only the first three are in order):

The Illiad
The Odessey
Aeneid
El ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
The Divine Comedy
The 1001 Nights
Oedipus the King
Hamlet
Old Testament

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I think we should do a new list. I think it would be much different with the current community that is active here.

[Pierre Menard]

I think we should do a new list. I think it would be much different with the current community that is active here.


It'd be pretty cool to compare the two at least.

[Scheherazade]

I think we should do a new list. I think it would be much different with the current community that is active here.Are you volunteering to compile the list?

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

A million times no.

[Desolation]

I agree with Mutatis.

I'd be happy to volunteer, if anyone could give me a few tips on how the current one was compiled.

[Dark Muse]

I agree with Mutatis.

I'd be happy to volunteer, if anyone could give me a few tips on how the current one was compiled.

I can help with that, I am the one who put together the first list.

[Scheherazade]

A million times no.*feigns shock*

Who could see that coming???

I'd be happy to volunteer, if anyone could give me a few tips on how the current one was compiled.

I can help with that, I am the one who put together the first list.Thank you both of you very much.

I think it will be interesting to see the differences (or similarities) in both lists.

Desolation> Please PM me if you have any questions or if you come across any obstacles.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I just suggested it. You don't have to be a snide about it--I teach and have class, not to mention new medical problems I'm having to deal with. I just thought it'd be a fun thing for the forum to do, so please forgive me, Scher.

[Scheherazade]

... so please forgive me, Scher.OK.

Just for this once.

[Heteronym]

I've read


1. Crime and Punishment
2. 1984
4. Hamlet
6. To Kill A Mockingbird
7. The Great Gatsby
9. War and Peace
13. The Stranger
17. Master and Margarita
18. The Picture of Dorian Gray
22. King Lear
24. The Catcher in the Rye
28. Lord of the Flies
29. The Lord of the Rings
30. The Odyssey
32. 100 Years of Solitude
34. Frankenstein
35. Wuthering Heights
38. Madam Bovary
40. Slaughterhouse 5
42. Ulysses
43. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
44. Jane Eyre
45. Dracula
46. Fathers and Sons
47. Heart of Darkness
48. Metemorphosis
49. Notes From Underground
53. The Trial
55. Brave New World
59. Fictions - Borges
64. Paradise Lost
65. The Mayor of Casterbridge
66. Macbeth
67. Oedipus Rex
68. Moby Dick
78. Women in Love
79.. The House of Mirth
86. Candide
88. No Exit
89. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
93. Iliad
96. Amerika
97. Julius Caeser

43 in total.

[Drkshadow03]

I've read and completed 60 books on the list. Not too shabby.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

39 for me.

[aaron stark]

So far, I've read 25, though not all of them entirely I must say... Let's say 20 of them. Still have some of them on my shelf. Unfortunately I have tons of novels to read for school and my pile of books I want to read is getting higher and higher and it's driving me nutt.

[Mason Pringle]

I only read 11 of them, and a few were for school assignments back then. Still work to do!

[kev67]

I have read twenty - not bad :)

[ladderandbucket]

36.5 - didn't finish Catch 22.

[namenlose]

I've read 82. These are the ones I have not read yet:


56. Cat's Cradle
60. The Fountainhead
62. The Good Earth
69. North and South
71. Night
73. One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest
74. Perfume
75. The Kite Runner
77. Watership Down
79. The House of Mirth
82. Middlesex
83. The Magus
85. Brideshead Revisisted
87. In Cold Blood
94. Sometimes A Great Notion
95. A Clockwork Orange
98. Invitation of a Beheading
100. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkbale Things

I intend to read at least Brideshead Revisisted, Invitation of a Beheading and The House of Mirth, but I might also read some of the others if I become interested in them in the future.

[B. Laumness]

Quite impressive, 82! For my part, I read 65. How long have you been reading, Namenlose?

[Dark Muse]

My current cound is 62 and I am in the process of reading Les Mis