Lit Nets Top 100 Books Official List

[Tallulah]

Cool to see Crime and Punishment at the top.
Have only read 34 of these so I have some serious reading to do...

[malwethien]

I have 49 of these books somewhere in my library....but I've only read 28 of them

[mal4mac]

Cool to see Crime and Punishment at the top.
Have only read 34 of these so I have some serious reading to do...

It only comes in at number 16 in Zane's "The Top Ten". This is based on the choices of 125 leading writers. Seems about right (if only one book per author!)

[Sasati]

Oh, I have to do some reading, I 've read about twenty of the books, but many of them I've always wanted to read, but never found/made the time for it. So, I'll see which ones I'll start with.

Thanks for making the list!

[mal4mac]

Am i correct in saying that Remembrance of Things Past and In Search Of Lost Time are the same book? ...

You are correct. "In Search of Lost Time" seems to be the preferred translation, at least that's the translation that Penguin uses. Anyone read the old Kilmartin/Moncrieff translation and the new translation? Any thoughts of which one is likeliest to keep one reading? I gave up half way through the Kilmartin translation some time ago, but I liked the first volume very much so might try to go the whole hog with the latest translation.

[Abracadorfman]

Some of my favorites didn't make the list. Still, looks like a decent list.

[Mannoual]

Okay. Ive read a pretty big majority of that list before seeing it, and the best are

1. War and peace
2. The brother karamazov
3. Watership down
4. Anna karenin
5. The idiot.
6. A clockwork orange
7. One flew over the cukoos nest.

What I was suprised to find included...

the sound and the fury...worthless..i could
have n ever read that book and not missed a thing.

Madame bovary was "interesting" but I was disappointed.

And where is

everything is illuminated and the world according to garp?

[yuna]

This list always makes me feel so bad!

Only like, 28 on that list! And I've got a BA in Lit.

[Griffith]

The trial is a trash and should not be in a top 10.000 books. If you overlook this absurd, the list can be acceptable. At least i did not find Twilight and Harry Potter.

[nievesalvarez]

Hello,
I read your post.Well you have made a very nice collection of novels.I am a big fan of reading novels.Please share more such wonderful novel names here at the community.Thank you for the information that you have given.

[dfloyd]

I think there are nine I haven't read.

[balehead]

I adore Crime and Punishment, and am unbelievably happy that it made the top of the list; and was closely followed by Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov (Also glad "the Idiot" made the list).
1984 is on hold for me at the library, and i have been waiting for it for quite a while, as everyone says it is fabulous.
I also love Les Mis, Hamlet, to Kill A Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, and, well, all the other 53 of them that I have read!

[sadparadise]

Great work Dark Muse! Thanks for taking the time to compile this list. Happy to see On the Road in the works. You weren't just trying to please us beats were you? I better start getting serious about my reading habits. There doesn't seem to be enough time in the day!!

[Dr Jekyll]

If you overlook this absurd, the list can be acceptable. At least i did not find Twilight and Harry Potter.

Thank you! Finally someone understands that the Harry Potter books are worthless and should not be seen in any assortment of good literature.

Anyways great list, except I think Milton's "Paradise Lost" should be in the top ten best books.

[bazarov]

Thank you! Finally someone understands that the Harry Potter books are worthless and should not be seen in any assortment of good literature.

This is so unquestionable that nobody is even mentioning it.