What! This Book Isn’t On The 100 List?

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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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Written by Leisa Watkins on May 2, 2009 and filed under Book Lists, Top Book Lists, Ultimate Book Showdown

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Readers Choice Poll: What is the Best Novel of All Time? - Successful Reads Says:

[...] 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 [...]

Posted on May 2nd, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Top 100 Novels Of All Time - A Top 100 Book Listing - Successful Reads Says:

[...] 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. [...]

Posted on May 2nd, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Marcela Says:

Love in the Time of Cholera
Picture of Dorian Gray

Posted on May 14th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Bre S Says:

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

Posted on May 17th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Hilary Kretchmer Says:

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

Posted on June 13th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
rafael urquia Says:

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.

Posted on July 29th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Leisa Watkins Says:

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

Posted on August 16th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Leisa Watkins Says:

Marcela,

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

Posted on August 16th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Leisa Watkins Says:

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

Posted on August 16th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Leisa Watkins Says:

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

Posted on August 16th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
jon entropy Says:

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

Posted on September 12th, 2009 at 6:57 am
Valentina Says:

The Book Theif by Marcus Zusak

Posted on September 15th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Readers Choice Poll: What is the Best Novel of All Time? - Wealth Wisdom And Success Says:

[...] 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 [...]

Posted on September 17th, 2009 at 12:49 am
Michael Cummings Says:

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.

Posted on September 29th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
wallace street Says:

Sister Carrie and Of Human Bondage

Posted on November 5th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
kathy Says:

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

Posted on November 17th, 2009 at 3:36 am
search engine seo Says:

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.

Posted on December 23rd, 2009 at 9:43 am
Janice Hansen Says:

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

Posted on January 4th, 2010 at 4:02 am

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