Time's Top 100 Novels 1923-present

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by KLPDaisy

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.

I'll bet that's their explanation - but it's still excellent. I toyed with adding The Diary of Anne Frank, but realized that wasn't in English, either. I would've included it as most non-Jewish people's first experience with the Holocaust.

AEPHiSierra, did you like The Painted Bird? It made me physically ill - and I think you know the scene.

Munchkin03, I somehow expected you to be very well read. Unfortunately, I'll read anything at hand. Well, almost anything.

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by honeychile

Munchkin03, I somehow expected you to be very well read. Unfortunately, I'll read anything at hand. Well, almost anything.

I consider myself to be very well-read as well.

[Cardinal026]

KLPDaisy - Metamorphosis was originally written in German and I'm pretty sure that it was also written prior to the 1923 cut off. I agree that if the language parameters were broader, it would likely have been included...I didn't particularly like the book, but I found it interesting and well written.

I was happy to see The Sun Also Rises on the list. I am a huge Hemingway fan.

[AEPhiSierra]

Originally Posted by honeychile

AEPHiSierra, did you like The Painted Bird? It made me physically ill - and I think you know the scene.

I don't really remember that much about it. I read in the 8th grade when we had to choose from a list of holcaust books to write a report on it. I just remember it being very graphic but thinking it was a pretty good book. I think you just have to have the right stomac for it.

[Hegemon]

I've read 25 of those. Margaret Atwood is my favorite author so I'm glad The Blind Assassin "made the cut", but I think some of her other books are better. Also, I love Tropic of Cancer. I was reading it once and someone asked me what class it was for - I told them I was reading it "for fun" and they laughed at me.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by Hegemon

I've read 25 of those. Margaret Atwood is my favorite author so I'm glad The Blind Assassin "made the cut", but I think some of her other books are better. Also, I love Tropic of Cancer. I was reading it once and someone asked me what class it was for - I told them I was reading it "for fun" and they laughed at me.

I haven't read The Blind Assassin, can you give me a small summary? I did like A Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake very much

[Hegemon]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

I haven't read The Blind Assassin, can you give me a small summary? I did like A Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake very much

Sure, I PMed you. You should also read Alias Grace if you like her other novels, though they aren't set in a futuristic society like O and C or The Handmaid's Tale.

[AGDee]

My daughter called me from her dad's house yesterday, completely outraged by this list of 100 Most Frequently challenged books between 1990 and 2000(ie. most attempts to have these books banned from school libraries, etc). It's humorous that so many of them are also on Time's list (or at least how many of the same authors make both lists).


Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
Forever by Judy Blume
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Giver by Lois Lowry
It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Sex by Madonna
Earth's Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
The Goats by Brock Cole
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
Blubber by Judy Blume
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
Final Exit by Derek Humphry
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
What's Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
Deenie by Judy Blume
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
Cujo by Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
What's Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
Fade by Robert Cormier
Guess What? by Mem Fox
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Native Son by Richard Wright
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Fantasies by Nancy Friday
Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Jack by A.M. Homes
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
Carrie by Stephen King
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
Family Secrets by Norma Klein
Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
Private Parts by Howard Stern
Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
Sex Education by Jenny Davis
The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

[Buttonz]

Originally Posted by AGDee

My daughter called me from her dad's house yesterday, completely outraged by this list of 100 Most Frequently challenged books between 1990 and 2000(ie. most attempts to have these books banned from school libraries, etc). It's humorous that so many of them are also on Time's list (or at least how many of the same authors make both lists).

I saw this list yesterday! I've readl ike half of htem, I honeslty coudlnt' beleive they were on the list....

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by AEPhiSierra

I don't really remember that much about it. I read in the 8th grade when we had to choose from a list of holcaust books to write a report on it. I just remember it being very graphic but thinking it was a pretty good book. I think you just have to have the right stomac for it.

Holy crap - you read that in eighth grade?! I read it in a course on the Holocaust in college, and I called the professor deviant! Just before I dropped the class and took it with someone normal, that is! I still have nightmares about the scene with the bottle of manure...

[tunatartare]

If you can handle it, My Story by Alicia Appleman-Jurman is a good Holocaust book. However, it is pretty long and graphic. My parents' friends gave that to me in fourth grade. I had nightmares for a long time after that.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by KLPDaisy

If you can handle it, My Story by Alicia Appleman-Jurman is a good Holocaust book. However, it is pretty long and graphic. My parents' friends gave that to me in fourth grade. I had nightmares for a long time after that.

I've read quite a few books on the Holocaust and seen several movies; the disgusting scene to which I alluded in The Painted Bird had nothing to do with the Holocaust, per se. I'll be checking into your suggestion.