Lit Nets Top 100 Books

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

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Originally Posted by 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

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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

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Originally Posted by Brian Bean

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

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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.

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

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

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Originally Posted by Etienne

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

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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.

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.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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And finally we agree. :)

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

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Originally Posted by Etienne

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

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British humour

read the rest of his list

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Originally Posted by Hank Stamper

British humour

read the rest of his list

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What i was wondering, makes sense :lol:

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Originally Posted by 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

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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

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

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

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.