Crime and Punishment
Tale of Two Cities
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1984
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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Crime and Punishment
Tale of Two Cities
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1984
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Beowulf!? You've got to be kidding me.
the brothers karamazov
the idiot
the grapes of wrath
on the road
atlas shurrged
so far, still a lot of reading to do
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheDave
If I think a user is duplicating nominations, I can go back to find thier original votes here.
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:Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
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
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
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.
Should Hamlet, as a play, be on there? Is this strictly novels, or no?
At the very beginning I said I would allow plays
Oh you're allowing 15 books now? I only gave my top five. Should I add another ten?
Me too, I have ten coming. Been savin' em.
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
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:Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
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
No, I did not acutally say you can have 15. First I said 5 and then I said you can have an additional 10.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
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.
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
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:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cailin
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
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...
Janine, I didn't know you were such a Hardy fan! Have you tried his verses?
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.
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.
1984
Farenheit 451
Brave New World
Lord of the Rings
I, Claudius
In no particular order. I love dystopian!
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.
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
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.
The Idiot - Dostoyevsky
In search of Lost Time - Proust
The Plague - Camus
No Exit - Sartre
Goethe - Faust
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
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.
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
I still have 10, gimme a little time :p When are you closing, the 25th, 1st or later?
Hehe, it depends how busy I will be. I can be flexable and wait untill you have got your final vote in
As For me and My House - Sinclair RossQuote:
Originally Posted by JBI
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.
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
In Cold Blood
The Fountainhead
Pride and Prejudice
Rabbit, Run
Watership Down
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
And the others:Quote:
Originally Posted by Taliesin
"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.
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.