Lit Nets Top 100 Books

[Cailin]

Hamlet
Les Misérables
Women in Love
Sons and Lovers
A Tale of Two Cities
Frankenstein

I can think of a zillion more that are my favorites but I kept it to 5.

Or 6

[mortalterror]

My 15
1.The Catcher in the Rye
2.Inferno- Dante
3.Catch-22- Heller
4.The Old Man and the Sea- Hemingway
5.On the Road- Kerouac
6.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- Thompson
7.The Metamorphoses- Ovid
8.The Republic- Plato
9.Madame Bovary- Flaubert
10.Huckleberry Finn- Twain
11.Plays of Jean Racine or if just one Andromache
12.Plays of Shakespeare or if just one Julius Caesar
13.Essays- Montaigne
14.1984- Orwell
15.The Great Gatsby- Fitzgerald

[mortalterror]

According to my tally as of post 167 the results are such:
Roman numerals show how many votes a book got. Within each voting block the books are arranged alphabetically.

XV
1.Crime and Punishment
XIII
2.The Great Gatsby
3.To Kill a Mockingbird
XII
4.The Brother's Karamazov
5.Les Miserables
6.Hamlet
XI
7.Pride and Prejudice
X
8.Tale of Two Cities
9.War and Peace
IX
10.1984
VIII
11.The Bible
12.Don Quixote
13.Lolita
VII
14.Anna Karenina
15.Catch 22
16.Divine Comedy
17.Lord of the Rings
18.On the Road
19.Remembrance of Things Past
20.The Stranger
21.Wuthering Heights
VI
22.The Catcher in the Rye
23.The Hunchback of Notre Dame
24.King Lear
25.The Master and Margarita
26The Picture of Dorian Gray
27.The Sound and the Fury
V
28.100 Years of Solitude
29.As I Lay Dying
30.Beowulf
31.Dead Souls
32.Frankenstein
33.The Idiot
34.Jane Eyre
35.Lord of the Flies
36.Madame Bovary
37.The Odyssey
38.Oedipus Rex
39.The Old Man and the Sea
40.Siddhartha
41.Ulysses
IV
42.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
43.The Count of Monte Cristo
44.Dracula
45.Fathers and Sons
46.The Grapes of Wrath
47.Notes From Underground
48.Of Mice and Men
49.The Republic
III
50.Animal Farm
51.L'Assomoir
52.Cat's Cradle
53.Heart of Darkness
54.The Kite Runner
55.Macbeth
56.The Metamophosis(Kafka)
57.Moby Dick
58.North and South
59.Oblomov
60.One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
61.Paradise Lost
62.Perfume
63.Persuasion
64.The Sun Also Rises
65.Tess of D'Ubervilles
66.The Trial
67.Tristram Shandy
68.Women in Love
II
69.Amerika
70.La Bete Humaine
71.Bleak House
72.Brideshead Revisited
73.Candide
74.Canterbury Tales
75.A Clockwork Orange
76.Dharma Bums
77.Essays(Montaigne)
78.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
79.Fictions(Borges)
80.Fight Club
81.Flowers of Evil
82.The Fountainhead
83.Gargantua and Pantagruel
84.The Good Earth
85.Great Expectations
86.Hard Times
87.House of Mirth
88.If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
89.The Iliad
90.Jude the Obscure
91.Julius Caesar
92.The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
93.The Little Prince
94.The Magus
95.The Mayor of Casterbridge
96.Middlesex
97.Mrs. Dalloway
98.Nausea
99.Night
100.Oliver Twist
101.Slaughterhouse 5
102.Sometimes a Great Notion
103.Sons and Lovers
104.Things Fall Apart
105.A Thousand Splendid Suns
106.The Tin Drum
107.The Wind Up Bird Chronicle

[Dark Muse]

I have my own system of which I cam keeping track of everything, and I am going to keep it at 100. I was not going to release the restults untill the end.

[Dr. Hill]

Should Hamlet, as a play, be on there? Is this strictly novels, or no?

[Dark Muse]

At the very beginning I said I would allow plays

[Virgil]

Oh you're allowing 15 books now? I only gave my top five. Should I add another ten?

[JBI]

Me too, I have ten coming. Been savin' em.

[Dr. Hill]

6. Moby Dick
7. The Trial
8. The Stranger
9. Julius Caesar
10. Ivanhoe
11. The Canterbury Tales
12. Frankenstein
13. War and Peace
14. Notes from Underground
15. Oliver Twist

[Virgil]

Here are my five, though it's really hard to pick only five.

The Divine Comedy
Moby Dick by Herman Meville
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Anna Karinina by Leo Tolstoy
King Lear by William Shakespeare

Those were my five from very early in this thread. I will restrain myself from picking an author more than once. So my next ten are:

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostevsky
Light In August by Faulkner
Don Quixote by Cervantes
The Illiad by Homer
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Great Expectations by Dickens
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
To The Lighthouse by Woolf
Kim by Kipling

Wish I could pick even more.

[Dark Muse]

Oh you're allowing 15 books now? I only gave my top five. Should I add another ten?

No, I did not acutally say you can have 15. First I said 5 and then I said you can have an additional 10.

So that would be a total of 15, so if he did not vote the first time around, then he is combining the two.

But you do not get an extra 15.

[Tallon]

My other 5:

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
More Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon
Our Man In Havana - Graham Greene
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote

[Janine]

Or 6

Oh sorry, didn't realise I listed 6 ...well, just goes to show you which side of my brain works best...not the math side...

[Janine]

No, I did not acutally say you can have 15. First I said 5 and then I said you can have an additional 10.

So that would be a total of 15, so if he did not vote the first time around, then he is combining the two.

But you do not get an extra 15.

Well, now that puts a whole new spin on my math problem. Since I listed 6 so far, Dark Muse, this now means I can have a total of 15 - therefore, if I am doing this math right, I can now list 9 more...right? Yeah!

Ok here goes....my remaining 9...

Brave New World ~ Huxley

These by Thomas Hardy...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Woodlanders
Return of the Native
Jude the Obscure

Ivanhoe ~ Sir Walter Scott

The Picture of Dorian Gray ~ Oscar Wilde

Jane Eyre ~ Charlotte Bronte

...and ...a zillion other great books I have read...gosh, I did not even graze the surface...can't we have 20 Dark Muse?...please, please....this is actually so impossible....I had trouble choosing...and some really good ones are being left out of my list...

[JBI]

Janine, I didn't know you were such a Hardy fan! Have you tried his verses?