I did just that. The results are posted at Best 100 Novels.Originally Posted by collinsc
I did just that. The results are posted at Best 100 Novels.
Yet one more list made by and for english people only
Last edited by Etienne; 10-28-2007 at 07:21 PM.
In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O'Brien
Maus: A Survivors Tale Vol. I & II - Art Spiegelman
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
A Scanner Darkly - Phillip K. Dick
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, obstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact." George Eliot
My top 10 are as follows:
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
- The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
(OK, so The Hitchhiker's Guide isn't really a "classic" - but it should be!)
In no particular order:
The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Richler
Hamlet
The Tempest
The Great Gatsby
Beloved - Morrison
Not strictly a book, but most stories by Edgar Allen Poe, especially The Fall of the House of Usher and The Masque of the Red Death
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Songs of Innocence and Experience
Not a novel, but for the way it changed my life perceptions - Russell's History of Western Philosophy
And of course, a cosy childhood favourite, all the Drenai Tales by David Gemmell
I found it quite challenging to pick my 10 favourite books, not because so many spring to my mind...more because its difficult to seperate a novel's immediate impact from its impact on reflection, if that make sense. A book I thought would be a really great contender for a top 10 spot was Portnoy's compaint, which had a pretty big impact on me upon first reading. A year later, I realise that it was Mordechai Richler's coming of age novel which I remember most fondly.
same here
I just finished Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. I feel obliged to edit my list:
Top 9 (I'm still trying to find a tenth)
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
V for Vendetta by David Lloyd, Alan Moore
Candide by Voltaire
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Dostoevsky Forum!
Indeed a great read, Steinbeck at the top of his game
Jeff
"Lennie said, "I thought you was mad at me, George."
"No," said George. "No Lennie. I ain't mad. I never been mad, an' I ain't now. Thats a thing I want ya to know."
I would like to know what other readers consider their 10 favorite novels. My favorites are novels that I have read more than once and will no doubt read again at some point in time. Here are mine in no particular order (and if I made the list next week it might be slightly different):
Howards End by E. M. Forster
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing
The Victim by Saul Bellow
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Washington Square by Henry James
The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet
July's People by Nadine Gordimer
Voss by Patrick White
I see that my Ten Favorite Novels thread has gotten folded into the Ten Must-Read Books, which seems different to me. Maybe the number of threads has gotten out of hand?
My ten "favorite"
- The French Lieutenant's Woman, J. Fowles
- The Magus, J. Fowles
- Invisible Man, R.Ellison
- Catch-22, J. Heller
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, J. Joyce
- Nostromo, J. Conrad
- Slaughterhouse Five, K. Vonnegut
- Jude the Obscure, T. Hardy
- Midnight's Children, S. Rushdie
- The Great Gatsby, F. S. Fitzgerald
You're right, it's different, but they only wanted to help; it's very often that someone new don't look in other similar threads before opening new one!
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And I third it
My list is:
1- The Brothers Karmazov by Dostoyevsky.
2- Don Quixote by Cervantes.
3- Les Mesirebales by Victor Hugo.
4- Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky.
5- War and Peace by Tosltoy.
6- 100 years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez.
7- The Silent Don.
8- David Cooperfield by Charles Dickens.
9- "don't laugh at this please lol" Stephen King's The Running Man.
10- The Davinci Code by Dan Brown.
Do they have to be strictly novels? Most of my favourite works are not.
In no particular order, at this moment, my favourite works - novels and other - would be:
Alighieri, D. - La Divina Commedia
Selimović, M. - The Death and the Dervish
Milton, J. - Paradise Lost
Calderón de la Barca, P. - Life is a dream
Shakespeare, W. - Hamlet
Goethe, J. W. - Faust
Gundulić, I. - Osman
Dostoevsky, F. M. - The Brothers Karamazov
Mann, Th. - Doktor Faustus
Hesse, H. - The Glass Bead Game
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