Lit Nets Top 100 Books

[tscherff]

sometimes a great notion--kesey
sound and the fury--faulkner
absalom absalom--faulkner
catch 22---heller
in search of lost time---proust

i'm a big faulkner fan!

[Dark Muse]

Sense this thread had seemed to have quieted down, I decided to start to work on putting together the list. And after taking the books with the highest number of nomminations and adding them to the offical list, there are still openings on the list left.

So this is going to make some of you very happy.

Everyone may now have an additional 10 nomminations.

You may nomminate something which has already been nomminated, but you may not duplicate your own nomminations.

[Jozanny]

Sense this thread had seemed to have quieted down, I decided to start to work on putting together the list. And after taking the books with the highest number of nomminations and adding them to the offical list, there are still openings on the list left.

I thought the list you were making was LN's top 100? After 92 posts you don't have 100 titles? Or am I missing something?

[Dark Muse]

Well I am trying to make this the most representive list I can. So I do have more than 100 nominations, but I do not wish to just randomly pick several books which have only been nominated once and add them to the list. I have taken all those which have had multiple nomminations and added them, but they did not total 100

[Etienne]

Ok so my 10 other top:

Tolstoy - War and Peace
Borges - Fictions
Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Garcia Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude
Rulfo - Pedro Paramo
Döblin - Berlin Alexanderplatz
Gide - The Counterfeiters
Nabokov - Lolita
Gonbrowicz - Bakakaï
Gontcharov - Oblomov
Valery - Monsieur Teste.

That's not 11, only 10, trust me on faith.

Ok what about 20 more?

[Dark Muse]

LOL, at least I am giving you all some additional picks.

[Jozanny]

Well I am trying to make this the most representive list I can. So I do have more than 100 nominations, but I do not wish to just randomly pick several books which have only been nominated once and add them to the list. I have taken all those which have had multiple nomminations and added them, but they did not total 100

I see. I am too tired to add more to my five this evening, and I'd have to go back and find my post...wait, I think I can manage five more:

The Tin Drum, Grass
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hugo
The Wild Palms, Faulkner
Tristram Shandy, Sterne
The Man Without Qualities, Musil

[Dark Muse]

And I knew I got a lot of people thinking I should have allowed more the first time around, so I thought I would open it up a bit more for them

[stlukesguild]

Well... if we're adding an additional 5 (or in some cases an additional 10+) I would follow my first 5..

The Bible
The Divine Comedy- Dante
Don Quixote- Cervantes
King Lear- Shakespeare
The Odyssey- Homer

with the following:

Shakespeare- MacBeth
Shakespeare- Hamlet
Homer- The Odyssey
Milton- Paradise Lost
Chaucer- Canterbury Tales
J.L. Borges- Labyrinths/Ficciones
Laurence Sterne- Tristam Shandy
William Blake- Collected Poems
Baudelaire- Flowers of Evil
Proust- In Search of Lost Time
Montaigne- Essays
Spencer- Amors (Sonnets and Epithalimion)
Shakespeare- A Midsummers' Night Dream
Goethe- Faust
Whitman- Leaves of Grass

That's my top 20... for today. Tomorrow might be quite different... although the first 10 would probably be quite consistent... only the order would change.

[qspeechc]

Äargh!! It's so difficult to pick just 5!! I must think more about this!
Oops, can we give more? These are the ones that jump out to me a the moment:

Shakespeare: "Hamlet"
Dostevsky: "Crime and Punishment"
Camus: "The Myth of Sissyphus" (sp?)
Gogol: "Dead Souls"
Shaw: "Plays Pleasant"
Orwell: "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
Milton: "Paradise Lost"
Dostoevsky: "Notes From the Underground"
Camus: "The Stranger"
Sartre: "Nausea"

I how I wish I could add more!

[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)

And I'll add:
Metamorphosis
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Brideshead Revisited
Les Enfants Terribles
1984
Animal Farm
Giovanni's Room
The Last Tycoon
Vanity Fair
The Devil's Dictionary

[Hank Stamper]

my additional ten

crime and punishment
wuthering heights
jane eyre
the picture of dorian gray
the master and margarita
lolita
the sun also rises
dracula
north and south
great expectations

[papayahed]

I'm thinking we should have a larger list as well 10-20.

100 years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
The Sound and the Fury
Junky
On the Road

My next 5:

In Cold Blood
The Old Man and the Sea
Blindness
Jurrasic Park
Henry IV Part 1

[thelastmelon]

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Süskind
Candide - Voltaire
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Changes: A Love Story - Ama Ata Aidoo
Jerusalem - Selma Lagerlöf

[PabloQ]

1. A Prayer for Owen Meany
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
4. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
5. The Octopus by Frank Norris

To my original submission, I'll add.
The Odyssey Homer
Hamlet Shakespeare
Moby-Dick Melville
Of Mice and Men Steinbeck
As I Lay Dying Faulkner
Dead Souls Gogol
The House of Mirth Wharton
The Divine Comedy Dante
The Bible
The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway