First Post, first topic, first time ever making a list of this sort.
I want to include novels that I belive should be included that would not normaly be mentioned. This is not a top 5 book list, simply a list of what are imo, 5 top 100 novels... anyways...
Anyways, my list:
Dead Souls- Nikolai Gogol
Epitaph of a Small Winner-Machado de Assis
Titus Groan- Mervyn Peake
Things Fall Apart- Chinua Achebe
Cities of Salt -Abdelrahman Munif
Five novels that I feel should be included.
I can understand people wanting to list more books. But I think that making the list too big, would make it more difficult to create a cummiltive list of the 100 Best.
Yes, you can list books that have already been listed. I am going to keep a tally, and the books with the most nominations are going to make it onto the list.Originally Posted by Jozanny
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
dostoevsky - notes from underground
camus - the fall
- the stranger
kafka - metamorphoisis
burguess (sp) - A clockwork orange
War and Peace
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo and Juliet
Beowulf
Pride and Prejudice
Five, eh? Hm...Well, forget objectivity and "greatness" and all that. Here are my favorites:
The Mysterious Stranger - Twain
The Divine Comedy - Dante
Catch-22 - Heller
Blood Meridian - McCarthy
The Brothers Karmazov - Dostoevsky (even if its central ideology is spiritualism over rationalism)
Hell is other people.
~Jean-Paul Sartre, "No Exit"
Les Miserables - Long, but great.NICE!! I don't like Tolstoy so much as to put War and Peace in the first five, though, so I'll replace it with LOTR. Les Mis is next on my to-read list and I can't wait to get started on it. I just saw the movie so I'm sure I'll love it
There is a movie?
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 have an Alan Ford special on Les MiserablesLes Miserables - Long, but great.
There is a movie?(around 300 pages long)
Anyway, here are my nominations(considering that some books, like TBK, don't need my vote do make it on the list):
The Glass Bead Game - Hesse
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
The Robbers - Schiller
The Trial - Kafka
Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
Noću, u intimnom, poluglasnom razgovoru sa samim sobom, nikako ne mogu zapravo logički opravdati zašto se u posljednje vrijeme toliko uzrujavam zbog ljudske gluposti.
Miroslav Krleža
Les Miserable
The Bible
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
"O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself. "
-Louis Aragon
The Magic Toyshop: Angela Carter
If nobody speaks of remarkable things: Jon Mcgregor
Catch 22: Joseph Heller
Slaughterhouse 5: Kurt Vonnegut
Fight Club: Chuck Palahniuk
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lord of the flies
great expectations
it
the picture of dorian gray
dracula
Only five? Some of my favourites then...
The Magus - John Fowles
Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
V - Thomas Pynchon
Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
The name of the rose - Umberto Eco
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain
on the road
1984
perfume
american pyscho
captain corelli's mandolin
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
Bleak House – Dickens
The Tin Drum – Grass
Mrs Dalloway – Woolf
Generation X – Coupland
Persuasion – Austen
Humm this is a toughy!
Persuasion- Jane Austen
North and South- Elizabeth Gaskell
The Caucasian Chalk Circle- Bertholt Brecht
Oedipus Rex- Sophocles
east of Eden- John Stienbeck
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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Yes, that's a good one too. Is in my top ten.
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
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