There are a few with that novel on their list. I like it, but sometimes feel it was "overtaken" by the movie?
There are a few with that novel on their list. I like it, but sometimes feel it was "overtaken" by the movie?
My favorites
The Once and Future King by TH White,
The Brother's Karamazov by Dostoevsky,
Crime and Punishment, also by Dostoevsky,
Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory,
Candide, by Voltaire,
Light in August, by William Faulkner
Hi, my name is Dave and I'm new here(registered 5 minutes ago). I'm 28(yesterday) and I'm a student living in Michigan. The reason for my post is that I have a project for school that I need a little help with. I won't bore you with all the details but the idea is to poll several hundred people and come up with a list of the top 100 novels ever written. My approach is to ask as many people as possible for their favorite 10 novels and to score 1-2 with 3 points, 3-5 with 2 points, and 6-10 with 1 point. Then I plan to simply add up the points of every book and put them in order. The problem I've found is that when walking around a college campus, more often than not, people can't even name 10 books. Thats why I've decided to take my quest to the internet. At least I know people here have read 10 books lol. When my study is complete I will surely post the results here if anyone is interested in seeing them. And if this post is inappropriate I apologize. Mods feel free to delete/modify/or move to a more appropriate forum if needed. Thanks everyone. Here is a sample list of my favorites thus far.
1. The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
2. Ulysses - James Joyce
3. War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy
4. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
5. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. Lord Of The Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
8. The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger
9. Watership Down - Richard Adams
10. Angels And Demons - Dan Brown
Thanks in advance for your help
-DP
1. Lord of the Rings
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
4. The Chronicles of Narnia
5. Pickwick Papers
6. Anything by Moliere
7. The Odyssey
8. Anything by Edgar Allan Poe
9. Anne of Green Gables series
10. Silmarillion
Last edited by andave_ya; 04-13-2007 at 01:25 PM.
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
1. The Magus - J. Fowels
2. The Demons - Dostoievsky
3. Lord of the Flies - W. Golding
4. Perhaps an island - M. Houllebeque
5. Middlesex - J. Eugenides
6. The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger
7.The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
8. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
9. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
10. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I hope it helps.
Lord Of The Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit-J.R.R. Tolkien
1984-George Orwell
Animal farm-George Orwell
the kite runner-Khaled Hosseini
Brave New world-Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 -Ray Bradbury
The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger
Dark tower-Stephen King
Robinson Crusoe-Daniel Defoe
Something From The Past Just Comes
And Stares Into My Soul
1. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
2. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevski
3. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
4. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
5. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway
6. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
7. Animal Farm - George Orwell
8. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
9. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
10. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (RIP)
What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it.
- Gertrude Stein
A washerwoman with her basket; a rook; a red-hot poker; th purples and grey-greens of flowers: some common feeling which held the whole together.
- Virginia Woolf
Thx Scheherazade,
That is actually VERY helpful. Nice list. Its gonna take me a bit of time to get through it lol but I guess thats a good thing. Thx again.
-DP
*Note: This list includes chiefly history and science fiction. If you are interested in either, you have to read the books listed.
1. The Art of War Sun Tzu - History
2. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck - The Tough Life
3. Time Machine H. G. Wells - Classic Science Fiction
4. Conquest of Gaul Julius Caesar - History
5. The Island of Dr. Moreau H. G. Wells - Classic Science Fiction
6. Hannibal Theodore Ayrault Dodge - History
7. Plutarch's Lives Plutarch - History
8. Alexander T A Dodge - History
9. First Men In The Moon - Classic Science Fiction
10. Outline Of History - H. G. Wells
KNOW THYSELF
Ok so I went through this entire thread and entered all the top 10 lists into a database. I got rid of the books that were not novels. I also polled hundreds of live people along with a partner and came up with a list. We polled ~500-600 people and came up with a top 100 novels list. Anyone who is interested the list can be found at Top 100 Novels. If linking is against the rules I apologize. Mods feel free to delete the link if it is against the rules. Thanks to everyone who listed their favorite books. This thread was a huge help in the project.
DP
Nice job. I must say I'm glad LOTR was number 2, and it was really thoughtful of you to add that other top books section.
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
Nice, but not objective. Actually, very nonobjective.
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
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I Don't understand......Originally Posted by bazarov
Personal Top Ten:
1. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
2. The Idiot by (Dostoevsky, Modern Library edition translated by Anna Brailovsky)
3. Great Expectations (Dickens)
4. White Fang (London)
5. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Mark Twain)
6. The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde)
7. The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger)
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey)
9. Butterfield 8 (O'Hara)
10. Treasure Island (Stevenson); or any other adventure novels will do, Three Musketeers (Dumas), The Scarlet Pimpernel (Orcszy), etc
1. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
2. The Lord of The Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
4. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
5. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
6. The Count of Monte Christo - Alexander Dumas
7. The Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
8. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
9. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis (one of the best stories for children)
10. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
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