Lit Nets Top 100 Books

[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.

[kelby_lake]

Sounds fun:
Lolita
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
A Tale of Two Cities
The Glass Menagerie (are we allowed plays, by the way? If not, I'll edit)

[Dark Muse]

I will be generous and allow plays in. No reason why they should be discounted.

[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

Why must we choose just five? It's far too difficult!

[Pensive]

A very good idea but are books supposed to be originally in English only?

[LitNetIsGreat]

Frankenstein
Wuthering Heights
Madam Bovary
Gulliver’s Travels
On The Road

From what I have read these would be my five I think, in terms of greatness, not my top five personal favourites, though I do love them all.

[kilted exile]

Hard Times - Dickens
The Idiot - Dostoevsky
Paradise Lost - Milton
Beowulf
Moll Flanders -Defoe

**Edit: Can we also include five books we feel should not be included? A kind of minus point for each book as well.....**

[wessexgirl]

Middlemarch - George Eliot
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
L'Assomoir - Emile Zola
King Lear - Shakespeare



Oh, I wanted Wuthering Heights too. It's so difficult choosing only 5.

[Dark Muse]

A very good idea but are books supposed to be originally in English only?

Hehe no, it can be works that were translated. I thought that would be nice for a change. As many book lits to focus only on English

[Pensive]

Okay, then. Just five? A very difficult choice for me...

To Kill a Mockingbird
Siddhartha
Wuthering Heights
A Bridge to Terabithia
The Hotel new Hampshire (I was having second thoughts regarding Crime and Punishment but then its ending was too much for me to put it here)

BTW, these do not have to be the books I enjoyed the most (I have enjoyed some really crappy books too and what I loved the best about them was the chance they gave me to criticize them )

[Dark Muse]

**Edit: Can we also include five books we feel should not be included? A kind of minus point for each book as well.....**

Haha maybe we can create a sort of seperate anti-list.

ok here are my own nominations

1. Siddhartha
2. Catcher in the Rye
3. The Magus
4. The Fountianhead
5. No Exit

[Agatha]

My list:
1.The Red and the Black by Stendhal
2.Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
3.I Claudius by Graves
4.War and Peace by Tolstoy
5.Master and Margarita by Bulgakov

[DeadAsDreams]

I Am Legend
Journey To The End Of The Night
As I Lay Dying
Nausea
To Kill A Mockingbird

[bazarov]

Brothers Karamazov
Don Quijote
War and Peace
Les Miserables
Crime and Punishment

[John Goodman]

The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Catch-22 - Heller
Lolita - Nabokov
A Clockwork Orange - Burgess

This really isn't what I think are the best books of all time, just the first five I thought of when coming up with great books.