Lit Nets Top 100 Books

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

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

Nice, Dori; especially Turgenev :D

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.

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.

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!!;)

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

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

The Literature Network is reputed going to be eminent.

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.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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

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Originally Posted by stlukesguild

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

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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

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

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

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