Lit Nets Top 100 Books Official List

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Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandis

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

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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.

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?

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

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

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Originally Posted by 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.

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

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Originally Posted by 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.

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Are you volunteering to compile the list?

A million times no.

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.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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

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Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandis

A million times no.

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*feigns shock*

Who could see that coming???

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Originally Posted by Desolation

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

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Originally Posted by Dark Muse

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

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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.

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.

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Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandis

... so please forgive me, Scher.

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OK.

Just for this once.

I've read

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Originally Posted by Dark Muse

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

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43 in total.

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

39 for me.