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Time's Top 100 Novels 1923-present
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Time Magazine has just published their Top 100 Best English Speaking Novels from 1923 to the Present. The full list, along with the "whys" is here.
While I agree with many of them, there's a couple which I find profoundly disturbing. I haven't read every one of them, but I don't believe in banning books, either. Any thoughts? Oh, here's the list, for those who don't want the "whys":
The Complete List
In Alphabetical Order
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Appointment in Samarra
John O'Hara
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
The Assistant
Bernard Malamud
At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien
Atonement
Ian McEwan
Beloved
Toni Morrison
The Berlin Stories
Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
Call It Sleep
Henry Roth
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
A Dance to the Music of Time
Anthony Powell
The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
A Death in the Family
James Agee
The Death of the Heart
Elizabeth Bowen
Deliverance
James Dickey
Dog Soldiers
Robert Stone
Falconer
John Cheever
The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene
Herzog
Saul Bellow
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
A House for Mr. Biswas
V.S. Naipaul
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Light in August
William Faulkner
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Loving
Henry Green
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Money
Martin Amis
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Naked Lunch
William Burroughs
Native Son
Richard Wright
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
1984
George Orwell
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosinski
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
A Passage to India
E.M. Forster
Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
Possession
A.S. Byatt
The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
Rabbit, Run
John Updike
Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow
The Recognitions
William Gaddis
Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett
Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
The Sot-Weed Factor
John Barth
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
The Sportswriter
Richard Ford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
John le Carre
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
Ubik
Philip K. Dick
Under the Net
Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry
Watchmen
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
White Noise
Don DeLillo
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
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09-26-2006, 12:31 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by honeychile
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
The Assistant
Bernard Malamud
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
1984
George Orwell
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
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I read all of the ones above....oddly, most of them that I've read on that list werent' for school...at least, not hte irst time I rea it...then agian, I'm a reader.
Of Mice & Men should have been on there, I would have liked to see Night on there, and A Brave New World.
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09-26-2006, 08:34 AM
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A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
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Gag me. I hated that book!
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09-26-2006, 10:19 AM
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i've read 10, and i'm very excited that my 2 favorite authors are on the list (Hurston & Baldwin).
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09-26-2006, 10:21 AM
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Read a few of those. I personally couldn't stand Catch-22 and To the Lighthouse.
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09-26-2006, 01:19 PM
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Animal Farm
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Beloved
Catch-22
The Catcher in the Rye
A Clockwork Orange
Gone With the Wind
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Lord of the Flies
The Lord of the Rings
1984
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Sun Also Rises
To Kill a Mockingbird
i really like to read, and most of these i've read for school or in the summers i try to read a lot of classics and books i should have read
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09-26-2006, 02:21 PM
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I've read the following, both for class and on my own:
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West
A Death in the Family
James Agee
Deliverance
James Dickey
Falconer
John Cheever
Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Naked Lunch
William Burroughs
Native Son
Richard Wright
1984
George Orwell
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosinski
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
Rabbit, Run
John Updike
Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow
Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
John le Carre
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
I agree with Buttonz; both Night and Brave New World both deserved a mention. The Painted Bird has to be one of THE sickest books I've ever read, and I don't care if it's somewhat of a biography of Roman Polanski! I don't know if Dr. Zhivago could be included, as it was first written in Russian, but it would be a better contender than many of the above. I would've expected to see In Cold Blood, too.
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09-26-2006, 02:29 PM
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i've read 19 of them - i guess i've got some catch up to play...
totally agree with night, of mice and men, and brave new world
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09-26-2006, 02:53 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by honeychile
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Native Son
Richard Wright
1984
George Orwell
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
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Read all of those. I really loved Things Fall Apart and Slaughterhouse Five. I'm a big fan of Vonnegut's, but personally, Galapagos is my favorite of his works. Like Buttonz and everyone else said, I'm surprised that Brave New World didn't make the list. Also, I was kind of expecting to see Kafka's Metamorphosis or Camus's The Stranger somewhere on the list.
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09-26-2006, 02:55 PM
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i've read 19 of them - i guess i've got some catch up to play...
totally agree with night, of mice and men, and brave new world
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Is Night considered to be a novel or an autobiographical work? I always thought it was the latter, which would explain why it didn't make the list.
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09-26-2006, 03:11 PM
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On The Road is one of my favorite books...kinda odd considering my more conservative leanings...but then I like journey-type books...Following the Equator may be my favorite book.
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09-26-2006, 03:15 PM
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Animal Farm - George Orwell
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
1984 - George Orwell
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
i guess 17 isn't too bad, but some of those I read so long in school. does make me feel not very well-read though.
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09-26-2006, 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by KLPDaisy
Read all of those. I really loved Things Fall Apart and Slaughterhouse Five. I'm a big fan of Vonnegut's, but personally, Galapagos is my favorite of his works. Like Buttonz and everyone else said, I'm surprised that Brave New World didn't make the list. Also, I was kind of expecting to see Kafka's Metamorphosis or Camus's The Stranger somewhere on the list.
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I am also suprised about a Brave New World.
The Stranger was originally in french so that's why it was left off the list. I am guessing Metamorphosis is also a translated work.
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09-26-2006, 03:21 PM
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good call
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09-26-2006, 06:26 PM
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I haven't read much from this list:
Animal Farm
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Their Eyes Were Watching God
To Kill a Mockingbird
Two of my favorites aren't on here: East of Eden and In Cold Blood. I wonder if In Cold Blood isn't listed because it's considered a non-fiction novel.
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