100 Best Books of All Time- Page 3

[hannahshule]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 7:11pm

Is this only for american books ang books originally in English?
No Kafka? no Kundera? Really?

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 7:27pm

I'm glad to see Animal Farm on there. I've read six...but I have to read a couple of those for summer reading, and I know I'm reading quite a few of those in future school years. I'd put To Kill a Mockingbird and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest higher.

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 7:43pm

I've only read six of these and I read a lot.

[NCGuy]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 7:44pm

Keen, it took me a moment to figure out this list, too.

That site (and this thread title) are a little misleading (you have to click on "About the lists" and read halfway down the page to find out the list is only for books "published in the English language since 1900").

[hannahshule]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:02pm

Ah, okay that makes me feel a bit better. But still, no To Kill A Mockingbird? I would think of all 20th century books, that's one that automatically would make it onto a "best" list.

[suzycat]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:21pm

I've read 7 from the Board list and 10 from the readers list.

[keen on kean]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:46pm

Mominator - you're the best! Now tell us which three you haven't read! Ulysses, right? And what else?

[singingwendy]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:55pm

10 from each of the Random House lists---20 from Radcliffe's list (which DOES include "To Kill a Mockingbird)

[TheHumanTorch]

Posted: 5/16/07 at 12:36am

wow... 97 is incredible...

[shesamarshmallow]

Posted: 5/16/07 at 11:28am

10 in the first, 13 in the second.
There are more (especially in the first) that I started and never finished (Clockwork Orange anyone?).

[misschung]

Posted: 5/16/07 at 10:57pm

This is the first time I agree with the first two on the list - Ulysses and Gatsby, two of my favorites.

these lists are always funky tho - there are just so many great novels that dont make it

*edit: I agree that three Joyce works do not need to be on the list. I think for best novel it should be Ulysses - portrait was more of a memoir and finnegans wake is just something else. But for innovation, Ulysses definetly. Give the other slots to someone else!

Updated On: 5/16/07 at 10:57 PM

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 5/16/07 at 11:12pm

Wow, I feel ashamed that I've only read about five of those.

And I agree, where is To Kill a Mockingbird ?

[scott68]

Posted: 5/17/07 at 12:32am

Nine on the board's, seventeen on the readers', twenty on Radcliffe's. Damn, I feel dumb now. I was interested to see Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek on the readers' nonfiction list - not because it doesn't deserve it, it's one of my favorite books of all time, but because I hadn't really ever thought of it as nonfiction.