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Many of you have favorite books in your top 100 that aren’t on the The Best Books of All Time listing. After all, that list didn’t include many of the modern books on it.  So here’s your chance!

What book do you think should be on the list?

Share them in the comment section below.  Books that receive a lot of votes (via comments) will be added to a poll that includes the The Top Novels of All Time listing in the Ultimate Book Showdown.

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  • [...] even on this list.  After all, this list doesn’t have many of the modern books on it so click here to add your book to a readers choice listing.  Eventually your favorites will go head-to-head with the Top 100 Book listing in the Ultimate [...]

  • [...] NEW – Readers Choice Poll – Vote for your favorites by >> clicking here. NEW – Which Books Would You Like To See on This list? >>Click here to tell us. [...]

  • MarcelaNo Gravatar May 14, 2009 at 5:52 pm

    Love in the Time of Cholera
    Picture of Dorian Gray

  • Bre SNo Gravatar May 17, 2009 at 6:46 pm

    Harry Potter (series), by J.K. Rowling

  • Hilary KretchmerNo Gravatar June 13, 2009 at 3:09 pm

    I really think that this book should be on the list: Life of Pi, by Yann Martel.

  • rafael urquiaNo Gravatar July 29, 2009 at 11:09 pm

    Your list is absolutely nonsensical because the criteria you use is flawed. The Modern Library list of the best 20th Century novels at least makes some sense in ranking Ulysses first. That is the only work that should be in the top five. To rank so many works that clearly are second rate on a world scale–I am thinking, to name but a few, of Catch 22, Gone With the Wind, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Things Fall Apart–ahead of Don Quijote, War and Peace, Moby Dick, Madame Bovary, Great Expectations, the Brothers Karamazov and many, many others–is sheer nonsense and cannot be taken in the least seriously. You should be ashamed of yourself.

  • Leisa WatkinsNo Gravatar August 16, 2009 at 10:01 pm

    Thanks Hilary for your recommendation. I have heard good things about Life of Pi but haven’t yet read it myself.

  • Leisa WatkinsNo Gravatar August 16, 2009 at 10:02 pm

    Marcela,

    Thanks for the recommendations. My polling application seems to not be working. Thanks for taking the time to leave your comments.

  • Leisa WatkinsNo Gravatar August 16, 2009 at 10:02 pm

    Thanks Bre for the input. I know that for many the Harry Potter series is a favorite.

  • Leisa WatkinsNo Gravatar August 16, 2009 at 10:04 pm

    Honestly Rafael? Why should I be ashamed of creating a mathmatically ranked listing of books?

    As I make my way through this list I’m sure I’ll really dislike some of the books, and a few may make it on my favorites list.

    So what!

    At least I’ve provided for myself (and anyone else who wants to use it) a listing of what several literary groups consider to be the best books and given myself just one of many resources to use in selecting a book to read.

    So if it is sheer nonsense to you don’t use the list. But don’t you dare try making me feel ashamed for being a little curious and wanting to know how the various lists stacked up against each other!

    ~ Nonsensical Leisa

  • jon entropyNo Gravatar September 12, 2009 at 6:57 am

    a few of these may be there so forgive me..

    hunter thompson-fear and loathing in las vegas and hells angels
    ivan turgenev-fathers and sons
    edgar allen poe-the gold bug or collected short stories
    albert camus-the stranger
    jack black- you cant win
    peter bowles-the sheltering sky
    william burroughs- junkie, queer
    chuck palahniuk- survivor, fight club
    anne rice- the vampire lestat
    bram stoker-dracula
    thoreau-collected works
    dostoyevsky- the possessed, notes from the underground
    malcolypse the elder- principia discordia
    penny rimbaud(jj ratter)-shibboleth
    vonneuget(spelled wrong)-cats cradle, god bless you mr rosewater
    kafka- anything
    anthony burgess- a clockwork orange
    cs lewis-chronicles of narnia(esp the magicians nephew)
    conrad- heart of darkness
    carroll- entire alice in wonderland series
    dr seuss- green eggs and ham
    stephen king- the shining(yes his newer stuff blows)
    gardner-grendel
    oscar wilde- any esp dorian grey
    ken kesey-one flew over the cuckoos nest

    thats all for now more to come
    jon entropy

  • ValentinaNo Gravatar September 15, 2009 at 11:08 pm

    The Book Theif by Marcus Zusak

  • [...] even on this list.  After all, this list doesn’t have many of the modern books on it so click here to add your book to a readers choice listing.  Eventually your favorites will go head-to-head with the Top 100 Book listing in the Ultimate [...]

  • Michael CummingsNo Gravatar September 29, 2009 at 7:31 pm

    A great political novel – perhaps the greatest political novel ever written – is Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon. Wriien during the time of the Great Purges in Russia, it is a scathing indictment of the Dictatorshop of the Proletariat and an acute analysis of political systems. The central character, Nicholas Salmanovich Rubashov, is arrested and forced to re-evaluate his belief in the Party after serving the Party faithfully for over forty years. It is a challenging novel, rich in imagery and religious and literary allusion.

  • wallace streetNo Gravatar November 5, 2009 at 7:15 pm

    Sister Carrie and Of Human Bondage

  • kathyNo Gravatar November 17, 2009 at 3:36 am

    I feel both “Brothers Karamazov” and “East of Eden” should be on this list…

  • search engine seoNo Gravatar December 23, 2009 at 9:43 am

    I read a lot of Dr Seuss books to my kids and they love them and it’s more or less adult books because the things in there adults understand and find funny as well. Dr Seuss is, WAS, a great writer and always will be.

  • Janice HansenNo Gravatar January 4, 2010 at 4:02 am

    I recommend “A Fine Balance” by Rohinton Mistry. Is life a fine balance between hope and despair?

  • MikeNo Gravatar November 18, 2010 at 9:33 pm

    East Of Eden… definitely!

  • RosyNo Gravatar February 16, 2011 at 9:39 am

    WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence

  • KeefNo Gravatar December 18, 2011 at 6:53 pm

    the Stand,Stephen King

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