Top 100 novels of all time

[Brett]

The Observer, a Guardian Paper, has released its list of the 100 greatest novels of all time. The works were selected by contributors to the UK newspaper. Poetry and plays were excluded from the list.



1. Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes
2. Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan
3. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
4. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
5. Tom Jones Henry Fielding
6. Clarissa Samuel Richardson
7. Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne
8. Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
9. Emma Jane Austen
10. Frankenstein Mary Shelley
11. Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock
12. The Black Sheep Honore De Balzac
13. The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal
14. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
15. Sybil Benjamin Disraeli
16. David Copperfield Charles Dickens
17. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
18. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
19. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
20. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
21. Moby-Dick Herman Melville
22. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
23. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
24. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll
25. Little Women Louisa M. Alcott
26. The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope
27. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
28. Daniel Deronda George Eliot
29. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
30. The Portrait of a Lady Henry James
31. Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
33. Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
35. The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith
36. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
37. The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers
38. The Call of the Wild Jack London
39. Nostromo Joseph Conrad
40. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
41. In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust
42. The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence
43. The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
44. The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan
45. Ulysses James Joyce
46. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
47. A Passage to India E. M. Forster
48. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
49. The Trial Franz Kafka
50. Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway
51. Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine
52. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
53. Brave New World Aldous Huxley
54. Scoop Evelyn Waugh
55. USA John Dos Passos
56. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
57. The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford
58. The Plague Albert Camus
59. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
60. Malone Dies Samuel Beckett
61. Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
62. Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor
63. Charlotte's Web E. B. White
64. The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien
65. Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
66. Lord of the Flies William Golding
67. The Quiet American Graham Greene
68 On the Road Jack Kerouac
69. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
70. The Tin Drum Gunter Grass
71. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
73. To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
74. Catch-22 Joseph Heller
75. Herzog Saul Bellow
76. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor
78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carre
79. Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
80. The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge
81. The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer
82. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino
83. A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul
84. Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee
85. Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
86. Lanark Alasdair Gray
87. The New York Trilogy Paul Auster
88. The BFG Roald Dahl
89. The Periodic Table Primo Levi
90. Money Martin Amis
91. An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro
92. Oscar And Lucinda Peter Carey
93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera
94. Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie
95. La Confidential James Ellroy
96. Wise Children Angela Carter
97. Atonement Ian McEwan
98. Northern Lights Philip Pullman
99. American Pastoral Philip Roth
100. Austerlitz W. G. Sebald

 

[Tee]

15 from the list. that's not the right list, give another one...

 

[Brett]

Which ones did you read if it isn't too much trouble?

 

[Tee]

there are way too few, and way too much trouble to list them now. sorry.

 

[Brett]

It's cool.

 

[Tee]

but The Tin Drum by Günter Grass is the best.

 

[Invited Guest]

No Hermann Hesse on it either.... But it's cool that John Dos Passos is there. The Manhattan Transfer is a classic!!

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Neverlady

 

[Black Winter Day]

GLARING OMISSIONS:

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, Demian - Herman Hesse

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller

Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

1984 - George Orwell

Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonegut

MANY more. . .





that list sucks

 

[Invited guest]

Ah, yeah, A Clockwork Orange and 1984 are great too!!

I like Narziss and Goldmund as well (Hesse)...

And what about Victor Hugo and Michail Bulgakov??

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Neverlady

 

[Ecstatic Youth]

Eww; To Kill A Mockingbird

I had to read that for school. Any book I am forced to read for school I automatically resent and don't like. Ignorant of me yes, but none of the books were that good I was forced to read....including To Kill A Mockingbird. Atticus=marksman.

uhhhh,

are any of the books on the list Erotica? Meow.

 

[Lies and Perfidy]

Ah yes, another example of the dysfunctional Victorian mindset that stipulates that anything written in a relatively modern age couldn't POSSIBLY have value. Say what you will about Stephen King, but The Stand rapes at least half that list. And the omission of Neil Gaiman is criminal. So many people define great books as books that were great fifty years ago. Literature stagnates.

Incidentally, Don Quixote was pretty good, but Pilgrim's Progress is one of the most boring things ever.

 

[ms. anthrope]

no john steinbeck? or yukio mishima?

 

[Lies and Perfidy]

Oh yeah, a second vote for the NECESSARY inclusion of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It's fucking ridiculous not to have it. And Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man should be there too.

 

[QuothTheRaven]

Posted by Black Winter Day - Today at 09:34 AM
GLARING OMISSIONS:

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, Demian - Herman Hesse

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller

Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

1984 - George Orwell

Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonegut

BWD- Catch-22 and catcher are in fact on the list....

 

[Count Zahd Omizer]

WHAT?!?!!?! NO SATANIC BIBLE?!@?!?! BLEEEWAAAAHAIPAHWIAIIAIA!!!! yeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEYEYEYEYEYEYEYE SSAAAATTTAAAAAAN

 

[Junkie]

1984 on at 59 too. And That fucking sucked. It was one of the most poorly written peices of shit known to man. So was Animal farm.

The only problem with that list is they're all fairly well known mainstream books that can be easily found in Waterstones or somesuch.

Advertising by another name is still advertising.

I've read a fair few of those and I am not overly impressed with this list at all. But the Observer is a joke.

Junkie

 

[Black Winter Day]

rephrase: they should have been HIGHER on the list

 

[Super Mahrio]

What the hell! No Anne Rice, John Steinbeck, Dean Koontz and i dont think i saw Bram Stoker on that list...
bah!