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Originally Posted by Rainger99
The New York Times is attempting to determine the best book from the past 125 years. What is your vote?
The 25 finalists selected by the Times are
THE TOP 25 BOOKS, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER:
1984 By GEORGE ORWELL
All the Light We Cannot See By ANTHONY DOERR
Beloved By TONI MORRISON
Catch-22 By JOSEPH HELLER
The Catcher in the Rye By J.D. SALINGER
Charlotte’s Web By E.B. WHITE
A Confederacy of Dunces By JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE
The Fellowship of the Ring By J.R.R. TOLKIEN
A Fine Balance By ROHINTON MISTRY
A Gentleman in Moscow By AMOR TOWLES
Gone With the Wind By MARGARET MITCHELL
The Grapes of Wrath By JOHN STEINBECK
The Great Gatsby By F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
The Handmaid’s Tale By MARGARET ATWOOD
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone By J.K. ROWLING
Infinite Jest By DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
To Kill a Mockingbird By HARPER LEE
A Little Life By HANYA YANAGIHARA
Lolita By VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Lonesome Dove By LARRY MCMURTRY
One Hundred Years of Solitude By GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
The Overstory By RICHARD POWERS
A Prayer for Owen Meany By JOHN IRVING
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn By BETTY SMITH
Ulysses By JAMES JOYCE
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I’ve read many of these books but some I haven’t heard of so I’ll check them out now that I know about them so thank you for sharing. My 2 favorites on the list are Catch 22 and Catcher in the Rye (maybe I just like catch in the title.) The most boring to me was Grapes of Wrath. I know it’s significance but it took me a while to get through it but I figured since I made it through the biography of Eleanor Roosevelt and Rise and Fall of the The Third Riech I could read anything. Everyone has different opinions about…well, everything and this was mine. Happy reading!