Time's Top 100 Novels 1923-present

[tunatartare]

good call

[orighu]

do movies count?
seriously, I have read a few of those - others are on my list to read that I should have read when i was younger (I just finshed Go Tell it on the Mountain w/in the last week).

I can't believe White Teeth was on there - I i wouldn't consider that a great novel - when clearly others were left off the list (Sula by Toni Morrison), but glad to see Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret on there - I LOVED that book! Judy Blume was just the best back then.

[AEPhiSierra]

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.

[bluefish81]

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.

[OtterXO]

Originally Posted by bluefish81

I haven't read much from this list:

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.

I've always had a hard time getting through East of Eden...I don't know why. I have to say I'm disappointed that there's no Jane Austen...who's one of the best, in my opinion.

[tunatartare]

Originally Posted by OtterXO

I've always had a hard time getting through East of Eden...I don't know why. I have to say I'm disappointed that there's no Jane Austen...who's one of the best, in my opinion.

The list is from 1923 and on.

[OtterXO]

Originally Posted by KLPDaisy

The list is from 1923 and on.

LOL....I didn't even notice that part of it even though I printed out the damn list.

[Buttonz]

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.

I didn't like Metamorphosis or The Stranger that much....

Originally Posted by AEPhiSierra

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.

Your right, it was a translated work if I remeber right....I read it in Eng 52...*shudder*

[AGDee]

All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren

Animal Farm
George Orwell

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume

Beloved
Toni Morrison

The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood

Catch-22
Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger

A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess

Deliverance
James Dickey

The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles

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

The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien

1984
George Orwell

On the Road
Jack Kerouac

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey

Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut

The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner

The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway

To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee

Addmittedly, the majority were for lit classes in high school and college.

[KSigkid]

I read 13 of them, only a couple since college. I'm a big fan of Fitzgerald, and The Great Gatsby is my favorite book, so I'm glad to see it made the list.

[LaneSig]

[QUOTE=honeychile;132

[i]An American Tragedy[/i]
Theodore Dreiser

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume

Beloved
Toni Morrison

Catch-22
Joseph Heller

A Death in the Family
James Agee

Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin

Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell

The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers

Light in August
William Faulkner

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis

Lord of the Flies
William Golding

Native Son
Richard Wright

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey

A Passage to India
E.M. Forster

Rabbit, Run
John Updike

Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow

The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner

The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway

Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston

To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee


These are the ones that I have read so far. I liked most of them. I hated "Beloved", forced myself through it.

[ms_gwyn]

Animal Farm
George Orwell

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume

Beloved
Toni Morrison

The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood

Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell

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

The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien

Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf

1984
George Orwell

The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway

Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston

Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe

Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller

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Most of these books I read before the age of 15, with very few exception, I thought I was well read, I am well read, just not these books, but some of them on the list have been on my must read list for a while, so I need to get to it.

My favorite comtemporary authors today who I consider that write literature are Margaret Atwood and Tom Robbins. I need to take another trip to the bookstore

[ReachTheLimit]

The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck


Had to read this in high school. Not a big book, but I thought it was boring. It did come in handy when I went to college and I discovered that a ton of the books we read in high school were on the freshman read list