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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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Posted on Posted on May 2, 2009 under the following category: Book Lists, Top Book Lists, 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 [...]
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Picture of Dorian Gray
Harry Potter (series), by J.K. Rowling
I really think that this book should be on the list: Life of Pi, by Yann Martel.
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.
Thanks Hilary for your recommendation. I have heard good things about Life of Pi but haven’t yet read it myself.
Marcela,
Thanks for the recommendations. My polling application seems to not be working. Thanks for taking the time to leave your comments.
Thanks Bre for the input. I know that for many the Harry Potter series is a favorite.
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
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
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 [...]
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.
Sister Carrie and Of Human Bondage
I feel both “Brothers Karamazov” and “East of Eden” should be on this list…
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.
I recommend “A Fine Balance” by Rohinton Mistry. Is life a fine balance between hope and despair?
East Of Eden… definitely!
WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
the Stand,Stephen King