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bmac007
08-22-2012, 09:14 PM
I was looking across the web and came across this list that they surveyed many book readers and said this was the TOP 100 of all time.... Here it is and enjoy... Love to hear your comments if you read any of these...

1. Crime and Punishment
2. 1984
3. Brothers Karamazov
4. Hamlet
5. Les Miserables
6. To Kill A Mockingbird
7. The Great Gatsby
8. Pride and Prejudice
9. War and Peace
10. The Bible
11. Lolita
12. Don Quixote
13. The Stranger
14. A Tale of Two Cities
15. Catch-22
16. Anna Karinina
17. Master and Margarita
18. The Picture of Dorian Gray
19. The Grapes of Wrath
20. On the Road
21. The Sound and the Fury
22. King Lear
23. The Divine Comedy
24. The Catcher in the Rye
25. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
26. The Idiot
27. In Search of Lost Time/ Remembrance of Things Past
28. Lord of the Flies
29. The Lord of the Rings
30. The Odyssey
31. Siddhartha
32. 100 Years of Solitude
33. As I Lay Dying
34. Frankenstein
35. Wuthering Heights
36. Beowulf
37. Dead Souls
38. Madam Bovary
39. The Old Man and the Sea
40. Slaughterhouse 5
41. The Sun Also Rises
42. Ulysses
43. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
44. Jane Eyre
45. Dracula
46. Fathers and Sons
47. Heart of Darkness
48. Metemorphosis
49. Notes From Underground
50. Of Mice and Men
51. The Republic
52. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
53. The Trial
54. Animal Farm
55. Brave New World
56. Cat's Cradle
57. The Count of Monte-Cristo
58. Faust
59. Fictions - Borges
60. The Fountianhead
61. Gargantua and Pantangruel
62. The Good Earth
63. Jude the Obsecure
64. Paradise Lost
65. The Mayor of Casterbridge
66. Macbeth
67. Oedipus Rex
68. Moby Dick
69. North and South
70. Oliver Twist
71. Night
72. Oblomov
73. One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest
74. Perfume
75. The Kite Runner
76. Tristam Shandy
77. Watership Down
78. Women in Love
79.. The House of Mirth
80. L'Assomoir
81. Bleak House
82. Middlesex
83. The Magus
84. Canterberry Tales
85. Brideshead Revisisted
86. Candide
87. In Cold Blood
88. No Exit
89. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
90. For Whom The Bell Tolls
91. The Little Prince
92. Montaigne ~ Essays
93. Iliad
94. Sometimes A Great Notion
95. A Clockwork Orange
96. Amerika
97. Julius Caeser
98. Invitation of a Beheading
99. Le Bete Humaine
100. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkbale Things
anarick
08-22-2012, 09:36 PM
I've read quite a few of them but I'm surprised that the book Left Behind is not on the list.
The book sold over 65 million copies in the 90's. A good book and subsequent series.
Thanks for sharing the list.
redwitch
08-22-2012, 10:23 PM
Interesting list. Haven't read 14 of them and really surprised that they'd put The Fountainhead on the list but not Atlas Shrugged, which I think is a much better book. And why the Bible but not the Koran? Was hoping that Stranger in a Strange Land would be on the list -- it really did impact a lot of my generation. Was glad to see In Cold Blood here. Talk about a book that was beautifully written on a horrific subject. And really can't understand why Lolita would be on the list. It was titillating for its time, but I don't think it was all that good of a book. Oh, well. Regardless, one of the better lists I've seen. Thanks for sharing.
Taltarzac725
08-23-2012, 07:31 AM
Looks like a list of the 100 Top Books in the Western Tradition. I do not see any Chinese, Japanese, Indian, or Arabic books on that list.

Cannot say I believe any of Ayn Rand's works should be on such a list.
graciegirl
08-23-2012, 08:41 AM
You forgot to mention.

The Yellow River by U.P.Freely................... ;)
elevatorman
08-23-2012, 08:52 AM
You forgot to mention.

The Yellow River by U.P.Freely................... ;)

And Don't forget Dont Eat The Yellow Snow by I. P. Daily
Taltarzac725
08-23-2012, 11:28 AM
Bored.com - A List of Funny Book Titles (http://www.bored.com/funnybooktitles/)

Did not see very many books, if any, from after 2000 in the 100 Top Books of All Time list. No Harry Potter, Lisbeth Salander, Sookie Stackhouse, Katniss Everdeen, etc.
BarryRX
08-23-2012, 11:38 AM
I thought I was pretty well read, but I have only read 57 of books on the list. My own list would include books I loved when I was younger such as The Yearling, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Last of the Mohigans, Dune, Julius Ceasar.
Taltarzac725
08-23-2012, 11:49 AM
I thought I was pretty well read, but I have only read 57 of books on the list. My own list would include books I loved when I was younger such as The Yearling, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Last of the Mohigans, Dune, Julius Ceasar.

Read most of the books on the list. About 90 of them I would say. Of course, that does not mean I really understood all of them. I find any of James Joyce's works next to impossible to comprehend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)