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11-21-2007, 07:57 PM
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WHAT? Michael Crichton isn't in that list!!!???!
Just kidding.
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Interesting to see how this list from the public would differ from one created by critics and authors. Is it just me or is there an huge amount of Terry Pratchett on the list?
(red = what I've read) 1. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 3. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 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 11. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 12. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 13. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 14. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 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 19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières 20. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 21. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 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 27. Middlemarch by George Eliot 28. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving 29. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 30. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 31. The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson 32. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 33. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett 34. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 35. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl 36. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 37. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute 38. Persuasion by Jane Austen 39. Dune by Frank Herbert 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 44. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 45. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 46. Animal Farm by George Orwell 47. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 48. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 49. Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian 50. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher 51. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 52. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 53. The Stand by Stephen King 54. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 55. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth 56. The BFG by Roald Dahl 57. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome 58. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell 59. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer 60. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 61. Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman 62. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 63. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 64. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough 65. Mort by Terry Pratchett 66. The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton 67. The Magus by John Fowles 68. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 69. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett 70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 71. Perfume by Patrick Süskind 72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell 73. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett 74. Matilda by Roald Dahl 75. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding 76. The Secret History by Donna Tartt 77. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 78. Ulysses by James Joyce 79. Bleak House by Charles Dickens 80. Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson 81. The Twits by Roald Dahl 82. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith 83. Holes by Louis Sachar 84. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake 85. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 86. Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson 87. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 88. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 89. Magician by Raymond E. Feist 90. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 91. The Godfather by Mario Puzo 92. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel 93. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett 94. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 95. Katherine by Anya Seton 96. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer 97. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez 98. Girls in Love by Jacqueline Wilson 99. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot 100. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie 101. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome 102. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett 103. The Beach by Alex Garland 104. Dracula by Bram Stoker 105. Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz 106. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 107. Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz 108. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks 109. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth 110. The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson 111. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 112. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend 113. The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat 114. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 115. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 116. The Dare Game by Jacqueline Wilson 117. Bad Girls by Jacqueline Wilson 118. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 119. Shōgun by James Clavell 120. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham 121. Lola Rose by Jacqueline Wilson 122. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 123. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy 124. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 125. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 126. Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett 127. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison 128. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 129. Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt 130. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 131. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 132. Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl 133. East of Eden by John Steinbeck 134. George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl 135. Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett 136. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 137. Hogfather by Terry Pratchett 138. The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan 139. Girls in Tears by Jacqueline Wilson 140. Sleepovers by Jacqueline Wilson 141. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 142. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson 143. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 144. It by Stephen King 145. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl 146. The Green Mile by Stephen King 147. Papillon by Henri Charrière 148. Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett 149. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian 150. Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz 151. Soul Music by Terry Pratchett 152. Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett 153. The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett 154. Atonement by Ian McEwan 155. Secrets by Jacqueline Wilson 156. The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier 157. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 158. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 159. Kim by Rudyard Kipling 160. Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon 161. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 162. River God by Wilbur Smith 163. Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon 164. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx 165. The World According to Garp by John Irving 166. Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore 167. Girls Out Late by Jacqueline Wilson 168. The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye 169. The Witches by Roald Dahl 170. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White 171. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 172. They Used to Play on Grass by Terry Venables and Gordon Williams 173. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 174. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 175. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder 176. Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson 177. Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl 178. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 179. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach 180. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 181. The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson 182. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 183. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay 184. Silas Marner by George Eliot 185. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 186. Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith 187. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh 188. Goosebumps by R. L. Stine 189. Heidi by Johanna Spyri 190. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 192. Man and Boy by Tony Parsons 193. The Truth by Terry Pratchett 194. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 195. The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans 196. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry 197. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett 198. The Once and Future King by T. H. White 199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle 200. Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews
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11-25-2007, 02:59 PM
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I don't understand all the Lord of the Rings hate.
It is probably the most fully realized fictional world ever created. And Tolkien's prose is wonderfully descriptive, at times even poetic. Is it just because it's a fantasy story and not a "serious" novel?
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11-26-2007, 04:40 PM
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11-26-2007, 05:16 PM
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The Modern Library | 100 Best Novels This is more my speed, especially considering Henry James appears no fewer than three times in the top 40. It also has a "Reader's List" vs. "The Board's List."
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11-28-2007, 11:05 PM
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1. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
 2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen  3. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 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 11. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 12. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 13. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 14. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 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 19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières 20. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 21. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 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 27. Middlemarch by George Eliot 28. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving 29. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 30. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 31. The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson 32. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 33. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett 34. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 35. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl 36. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 37. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute 38. Persuasion by Jane Austen 39. Dune by Frank Herbert 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 44. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 45. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 46. Animal Farm by George Orwell 47. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 48. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 49. Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian 50. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher 51. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 52. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 53. The Stand by Stephen King 54. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 55. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth 56. The BFG by Roald Dahl 57. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome 58. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell 59. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer 60. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 61. Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman 62. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 63. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 64. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough 65. Mort by Terry Pratchett 66. The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton 67. The Magus by John Fowles 68. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 69. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett 70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 71. Perfume by Patrick Süskind 72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell 73. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett 74. Matilda by Roald Dahl 75. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding 76. The Secret History by Donna Tartt 77. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 78. Ulysses by James Joyce 79. Bleak House by Charles Dickens 80. Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson 81. The Twits by Roald Dahl 82. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith 83. Holes by Louis Sachar 84. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake 85. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 86. Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson 87. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 88. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 89. Magician by Raymond E. Feist 90. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 91. The Godfather by Mario Puzo 92. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel 93. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett 94. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 95. Katherine by Anya Seton 96. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer 97. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez 98. Girls in Love by Jacqueline Wilson 99. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot 100. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie 101. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome 102. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett 103. The Beach by Alex Garland 104. Dracula by Bram Stoker 105. Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz 106. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 107. Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz 108. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks 109. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth 110. The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson 111. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 112. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend 113. The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat 114. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 115. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 116. The Dare Game by Jacqueline Wilson 117. Bad Girls by Jacqueline Wilson 118. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 119. Shōgun by James Clavell 120. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham 121. Lola Rose by Jacqueline Wilson 122. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 123. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy 124. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 125. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 126. Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett 127. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison 128. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 129. Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt 130. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 131. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 132. Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl 133. East of Eden by John Steinbeck 134. George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl 135. Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett 136. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 137. Hogfather by Terry Pratchett 138. The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan 139. Girls in Tears by Jacqueline Wilson 140. Sleepovers by Jacqueline Wilson 141. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 142. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson 143. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 144. It by Stephen King 145. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl 146. The Green Mile by Stephen King 147. Papillon by Henri Charrière 148. Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett 149. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian 150. Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz 151. Soul Music by Terry Pratchett 152. Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett 153. The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett 154. Atonement by Ian McEwan 155. Secrets by Jacqueline Wilson 156. The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier 157. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 158. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 159. Kim by Rudyard Kipling 160. Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon 161. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 162. River God by Wilbur Smith 163. Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon 164. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx 165. The World According to Garp by John Irving 166. Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore 167. Girls Out Late by Jacqueline Wilson 168. The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye 169. The Witches by Roald Dahl 170. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White 171. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 172. They Used to Play on Grass by Terry Venables and Gordon Williams 173. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 174. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 175. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder 176. Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson 177. Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl 178. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 179. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach 180. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 181. The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson 182. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 183. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay 184. Silas Marner by George Eliot 185. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 186. Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith 187. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh 188. Goosebumps by R. L. Stine 189. Heidi by Johanna Spyri 190. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 192. Man and Boy by Tony Parsons 193. The Truth by Terry Pratchett 194. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 195. The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans 196. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry 197. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett 198. The Once and Future King by T. H. White 199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle 200. Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews Any list that doesn't contain 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' is obviously flawed, and apparently Terry Pratchett must be one of the greatest authors of all time.
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11-29-2007, 03:27 AM
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I've read 21 for sure, and maybe to 10 or so more.
However, the very hungry catapillar is by far the best, i think i'll have a read of my copy now 
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11-29-2007, 01:39 PM
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http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/l...ure/laureates/ I've not read that many of those actually, and I have a hard time picking up recent winners because it feels like I'm reading them just because they won the Nobel Prize. The last few years they've actually managed to pick authors that I've heard of before, so someday I hope they'll pick one I've read even! There are a number of other literature prizes out there that might be worth checking out for finding good contemporary authors. MAN Booker International for instance. The Nobel guys do not publish a shortlist, but most other award committees do. |
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11-30-2007, 04:15 AM
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I think it's the book's position, Sion. It shouldn't be number 1. It shouldn't beat out the likes of Tolstoy, Joyce, and Austen. This list is clearly based on popularity. Potter and Ulysses on the same list blows my mind.
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I think that it's that last bit (which is probably a subset of "interesting") that gets short shrift from people who, if they had imagination, would be authors instead of critics. The only thing one can justly criticize Tolkien for is getting bogged down in detail and imagery, yet a large part of the worth of his books is that the imagery and the detail contribute a sense of verisimilitude that would, particularly in the 70's when heroic fantasy hadn't really come into it's own, otherwise be lacking (and can be ignored by writers of regular fiction - common knowledge being, well, common). That said, if people want to disdain Tolkien, well, everyone is entitled to hold the wrong opinion. 
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12-14-2007, 11:20 AM
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2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 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 11. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 12. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 14. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 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 23. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling 25. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien 26. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 27. Middlemarch by George Eliot 28. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving 29. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 30. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 32. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 34. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 35. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl 36. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 38. Persuasion by Jane Austen 39. Dune by Frank Herbert 40. Emma by Jane Austen 41. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery 43. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 44. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 45. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 46. Animal Farm by George Orwell 47. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 51. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 52. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 53. The Stand by Stephen King 58. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell 63. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 71. Perfume by Patrick Süskind 74. Matilda by Roald Dahl 79. Bleak House by Charles Dickens 80. Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson 81. The Twits by Roald Dahl 83. Holes by Louis Sachar 87. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 89. Magician by Raymond E. Feist 90. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 91. The Godfather by Mario Puzo 96. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer 97. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez 104. Dracula by Bram Stoker 106. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 107. Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz 109. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth 118. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 128. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 131. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 133. East of Eden by John Steinbeck 136. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 137. Hogfather by Terry Pratchett 141. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 144. It by Stephen King 157. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 158. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 159. Kim by Rudyard Kipling 161. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 164. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx 165. The World According to Garp by John Irving 170. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White 171. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 173. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 178. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 179. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach 180. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 182. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 184. Silas Marner by George Eliot 185. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 189. Heidi by Johanna Spyri 190. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 194. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 200. Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews More than I thought, although I'm too lazy to count. I've seen a few movies created from those that I haven't read. But VC Andrews is considered classic?  |
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12-14-2007, 12:39 PM
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/ Psst, that Yueh guy doesn't seem all that trustworthy to me.
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12-14-2007, 12:40 PM
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It's easier just to list the books I haven't read..
3. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman 13. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling 32. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 0 i couldn't get past page 100 o this book 49. Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian 65. Mort by Terry Pratchett 76. The Secret History by Donna Tartt 77. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 80. Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson 88. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 101. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome 127. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison 139. Girls in Tears by Jacqueline Wilson 140. Sleepovers by Jacqueline Wilson 176. Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson
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12-14-2007, 12:44 PM
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the name sounds familiar I just ca't place it..
book shopping this weekend that's what i miss about not constantly travelling - i don't read near as much as I used to
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In Yueh's place, I would have Spoiler: tried to kill DeVries - probably gone to Leto to do it, possibly sucked the Harkonnens into an ambush.... Yueh knew what he bought, and I got the sense that Piter had Wanna killed as soon as Yueh was committed to action. Between a rogue Bene Gesserit in Jessica and a mentat in Thufir and captains like Halleck and Idaho, I think the tables could have been turned if it had been caught early, Cousin Corrino notwithstanding.
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