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Lolita should not be at 178 on that list. It should be in the top 10. Period. Nabakov has a mastery of prose that is not seen elsewhere in fiction.
And the fact that people even consider V.C. Andrews good fiction...ew. I had to scrub my brain after trying to read "Flowers in the Attic."
This is a bizarre list because it includes popular fiction beyond what we would consider literary fiction. The range of books on the list is incredible.
What I've read:
1. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
7. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
12. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
15. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
18. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
22. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
23. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
25. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
26. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
29. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
35. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
40. Emma by Jane Austen
41. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
42. Watership Down by Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
46. Animal Farm by George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
48. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
51. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
58. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
62. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
63. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
74. Matilda by Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
78. Ulysses by James Joyce
79. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
87. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
92. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
111. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
115. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
118. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
122. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
141. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
145. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
178. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
182. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
187. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
189. Heidi by Johanna Spyri
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
200. Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews
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