Jimmy's comments (member since Oct 12, 2008)

Jimmy's comments from the I Love Lists group.

http://www.themillions.com/

Best of the Millenium: PROS

1. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
2. The Known World by Edward P. Jones
3. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
4. 2666 by Roberto Bolano
5. Pastoralia by George Saunders
6. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
7. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
8. Out Stealing Horses A Novel by Per Petterson
9. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage Stories by Alice Munro
10. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
11. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
12. Twilight of the Superheroes Stories by Deborah Eisenberg
13. Mortals by Norman Rush
14. Atonement by Ian McEwan
15. Varieties of Disturbance Stories by Lydia Davis
16. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
17. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
18. Stranger Things Happen Stories by Kelly Link
19. American Genius A Comedy by Lynn Tillman
20. Gilead A Novel by Marilyn Robinson

Best of the Millenium: READERS

1. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2. 2666 by Roberto Bolano
3. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
4. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
5. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
6. Atonement by Ian McEwan
7. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
8. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
9. Gilead A Novel by Marilyn Robinson
10. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
11. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
12. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
13. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
14. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
15. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
16. Runaway Stories by Alice Munro
17. The Master A Novel by Colm Toibin
18. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
19. Unaccustomed Earth Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
20. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Very interesting list. I think it is from a more cultural perspective (Harry Potter at #1? Dreams from My Father at #2?) than a literary perspective, which can be refreshing.

This site also tries to do a list for the noughties, but from a literary perspective, I think, which can be harder especially since we're still so much in it:

http://www.themillions.com/

I'm gonna make another post about it actually.

1. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (for setting the record straight)
2. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (for his celebration of lying)
3. Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee (for its pessimism)
4. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (for its optimism)
5. Middlemarch by George Eliot (for insight and wisdom)
6. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (for its call to arms)
7. A Passage to India by EM Forster (for its symphonic perfection)
8. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass (for his imaginative courage)
9. Beloved by Toni Morrison (for her emotional clarity)
10. Stories of Flannery O'Connor (for unerring narrative focus)

by Jim Crace

1. King Lear by William Shakespeare
2. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
3. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
4. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
5. Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Lolita by Nabakov
7. Dubliners by James Joyce
8. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
9. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
10 Stories by Flannery O Connor

by Michael Cunningham

1. L'Assommoir by Emile Zola and Nana by Zola (tie)
2. COusin Bette by Honore de Balzac
3. Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
4. Anna Karenina
5. Grapes of Wrath
6. Appointment in Samarra and BUtterfield 8 (tie) by John O'Hara
7. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
8. Studs Lonigan by James T. Farrell
9. Our Town by Thornton Wilder
10. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

by Tom Wolfe

1. King Lear by William Shakespeare
2. The Fall by Albert Camus
3. The Bacchae by Euripides
4. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre
5. The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
6. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
7. Splendeurs et miseres des courtisanes by Honore de Balzac
8. The Maigret series of detective novels by Georges Simenon
9. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
10. Nice Work by David Lodge

by Iain Pears

1. The Duel by Anton Chekhov
2. 1984 by George Orwell
3. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
4. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
5. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
6. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
7. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
8. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
9. W. or the Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec
10. The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
Wild Card: Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

by David Mitchell

1. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
2. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
3. Stories of Anton Chekhov
4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
5. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
6. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
7. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
8. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
9. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
10. Parables and Paradoxes by Franz Kafka

by Stewart O'Nan

1. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Ulysses by James Joyce
3. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
4. Poems of Emily Dickinson
5. Stories of Franz Kafka
6. The Red and the Black by Stendahl
7. The Rainbow by DH Lawrence
8. Women in Love by DH Lawrence
9. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
10. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

by Joyce Carol Oates

1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
2. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
3. Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
4. Howards End by E. M. Forster
5. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
6. My Ántonia by Willa Cather
7. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
8. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. Rabbit Angstrom by John Updike
10. Where I’m Calling From by Raymond Carver

by Tom Perrotta

1. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
2. Emma by Jane Austen
3. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
5. Middlemarch by George Eliot
6. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
7. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
8. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
9. Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen
10. Atonement by Ian McEwan

by Gail Godwin

1. Ulysses by James Joyce
2. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
3. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
4. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
5. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
6. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
7. Gusev, a single short story by Anton Chekhov
8. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
9. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
10. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

by Mary Gaitskill

1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
2. Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
3. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
6. Red Cavalry Stories by Isaac Babel
7. House of Breath by William Goyen
8. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
9. Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
10. The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz

by Judy Budnitz

1. Edwin Mullhouse by Steven Milhauser
2. Ulysses by James Joyce
3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
4. The Comforters by Muriel Spark
5. A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
6. The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
7. Lucy Carmichael by Margaret Kennedy
8. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
9. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
10. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

by Katharine Weber

1. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
2. Dubliners by James Joyce
3. The Iliad by Homer
4. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
5. Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
6. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
8. Washington Square by Henry James
9. Middlemarch by George Eliot
10. Open Secrets by Alice Munro

by Lorrie Moore

1. The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
2. The Stand - Stephen King
3. Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
4. The Thin Red Line - James Jones
5. Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
6. The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
7. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
8. Fuzz - Ed McBain
9. Alligator - Shelley Katz
10. The Sum of All Fears - Tom Clancy

by David Foster Wallace

1. JR by William Gaddis
2. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Narnia Chronicles) by C.S. Lewis
4. The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
5. Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
6. War with the Newts by Karl Capek
7. Auto-da-Fe by Elias Canetti
8. Red the Fiend by Gilbert Sorrentino
9. "Masquerade" and Other Stories by Robert Walser
10. Molloy by Samuel Beckett

by Lydia Millet

1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
3. Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
4. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
6. Ulysses by James Joyce
7. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
8. The Castle by Franz Kafka
9. Samuel Beckett's Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
10. Tristam Shandy by Laurence Sterne

by Paul Auster

1. Ill Seen Ill Said by Samuel Beckett
2. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. Ulysses by James Joyce
4. Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
5. Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Hermann Melville
6. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
7. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
8. Dirty Snow by Georges Simenon
9. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
10. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray

by John Banville

1. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
2. The Trial by Franz Kafka
3. The Man Who Loved Children A Novel by Christina Stead
4. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
5. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
6. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
7. The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
8. New Grub Street by George Gissing
9. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman The Florida Edition by Laurence Sterne
10. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

by Jonathan Lethem