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    Quote Originally Posted by rimbaud View Post
    this is online literature forum, which means that there are fans of Dostoevsky as well there are fans of Kafka.
    And which means that i can have my own opinion. And in my opinion Dostoevsky "is incommensurably superior" than Kafka. I am not offending the mom of nobody, mate. Take it easy.

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    Maybe Kafka's mom? lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by kelby_lake View Post
    Maybe Kafka's mom? lol
    She was brutally murdered by the evil Nazi. She was also a great writer.

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    Female

    One Hundred Years of Solitude - Marquez
    Jurassic Park - Chrichton
    Junky - William S. Burroughs
    The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
    Anansi Boys - Gaiman
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime - Haddon
    Blindness - Saramago
    The Eight - Neville
    The Stand - King
    Henry IV, Part I
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    Quote Originally Posted by Griffith View Post
    And which means that i can have my own opinion. And in my opinion Dostoevsky "is incommensurably superior" than Kafka. I am not offending the mom of nobody, mate. Take it easy.
    ok, i may have misunderstood, it just sounded offending


    not to be misunderstood myself, I am a huge Dostoevsky fan
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    Male

    Walden
    Cane
    The Sun Also Rises
    A Farewell to Arms
    Ender's Game
    1984
    Moby-Dick
    The Plague
    White Fang
    I Will Fear No Evil

    I'm a month late! Oh well.

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    Male,

    off the top of my head (and not necessarily in order of the ones I liked most) :

    Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

    ROOTS by Alex Haley

    Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Animal Farm by George Orwel

    Finding Fish by Antwone Fisher

    Soul On Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

    Gone With the Wind (I'm still reading this, can I add it?)

    Native Son by Richard Wright

    Kindred by Octavia Butler (I love Octavia Butler)

    The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

    Again, off the top of my head. Honorary mentions : The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Queen by Alex Haley, The Fear Street Saga by R.L Stine, A Seed To Harvest series by Octavia Butler,

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    I've done a Top 13 as a lot of novels got the same amount of votes. But our winner for women is clear:

    The Female Top 13

    1- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (6 votes)
    2- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (3 votes)
    3- The Bible (3 votes)
    4- The Brothers Karamazov by Fydor Dostoevsky (3 votes)
    5- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (3 votes)
    6- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (3 votes)
    7- The Catcher in The Rye by JD Salinger (2 votes)
    8- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (2 votes)
    9- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (2 votes)
    10- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (2 votes)
    11- Lord of The Rings by JRR Tolkein (2 votes)
    12- The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling (2 votes)
    13- Bleak House by Charles Dickens (2 votes)

    We have quite a few female Dostoevsky fans, it seems.

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    Quote Originally Posted by husker du View Post
    Male

    Walden
    Cane
    The Sun Also Rises
    A Farewell to Arms
    Ender's Game
    1984
    Moby-Dick
    The Plague
    White Fang
    I Will Fear No Evil

    I'm a month late! Oh well.
    Not bad choices and you have an awesome username!
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    Haha, thanks. I had a hard time picking my #10 and gave it to that Heinlein book just so my love of classic sci-fi was represented. On second thought, Tropic of Cancer probably deserves it. It's not like I'm voting for something that matters though.

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    I'm surprised that there was an obvious winner- and a bit surprised at the amount of Dostoevsky.

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    Female, in no order...
    To kill a Mockingbird
    The Hobbit
    Gone with The Wind
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    The Northen Lights Trilogy
    Middlesex
    Drop out state
    The Aenied
    East of Eden
    Grapes of Wrath

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