Best Books of the 20th Century (3786 books)

Best Books of the 20th Century

The best books published during the 20th century (January 1st, 1901 through December 31st 2000)

1	To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 4.18 avg rating — 888,200 ratings score: 581,484, and 5,880 people voted	My rating:
2	1984 by George Orwell 4.01 avg rating — 522,304 ratings score: 329,408, and 3,371 people voted	My rating:
3	The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 3.73 avg rating — 662,980 ratings score: 311,856, and 3,184 people voted	My rating:
4	The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 4.38 avg rating — 108,518 ratings score: 297,937, and 3,035 people voted	My rating:
5	The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3.70 avg rating — 665,213 ratings score: 262,890, and 2,705 people voted	My rating:
6	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling 4.29 avg rating — 936,997 ratings score: 228,361, and 2,345 people voted	My rating:
7	The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 4.02 avg rating — 522,219 ratings score: 177,473, and 1,841 people voted	My rating:
8	The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 4.19 avg rating — 136,783 ratings score: 172,187, and 1,775 people voted	My rating:
9	The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 3.81 avg rating — 136,400 ratings score: 169,813, and 1,753 people voted	My rating:
10	Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 3.87 avg rating — 317,974 ratings score: 156,263, and 1,634 people voted	My rating:
11	Animal Farm by George Orwell 3.69 avg rating — 594,829 ratings score: 154,375, and 1,644 people voted	My rating:
12	One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 3.87 avg rating — 235,769 ratings score: 154,221, and 1,588 people voted	My rating:
13	The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #2) by C.S. Lewis 4.11 avg rating — 246,353 ratings score: 150,072, and 1,571 people voted	My rating:
14	The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 4.10 avg rating — 542,899 ratings score: 133,532, and 1,418 people voted	My rating:
15	Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 4.16 avg rating — 266,757 ratings score: 132,320, and 1,376 people voted	My rating:
16	Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 3.86 avg rating — 325,708 ratings score: 131,536, and 1,390 people voted	My rating:
17	Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 3.94 avg rating — 117,085 ratings score: 127,810, and 1,340 people voted	My rating:
18	The Giver (The Giver, #1) by Lois Lowry 4.11 avg rating — 264,385 ratings score: 127,608, and 1,328 people voted	My rating:
19	East of Eden: by John Steinbeck 4.30 avg rating — 88,563 ratings score: 119,020, and 1,233 people voted	My rating:
20	Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 3.78 avg rating — 203,328 ratings score: 118,335, and 1,233 people voted	My rating:
21	Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut 3.89 avg rating — 311,689 ratings score: 114,071, and 1,213 people voted	My rating:
22	Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 3.71 avg rating — 538,969 ratings score: 109,588, and 1,182 people voted	My rating:
23	Lord of the Flies by William Golding 3.56 avg rating — 575,365 ratings score: 104,192, and 1,125 people voted	My rating:
24	A Wrinkle in Time (Time, #1) by Madeleine L'Engle 4.03 avg rating — 163,719 ratings score: 100,908, and 1,070 people voted	My rating:
25	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) by J.K. Rowling 4.40 avg rating — 546,810 ratings score: 98,060, and 1,052 people voted	My rating:
26	The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 130,818 ratings score: 94,667, and 1,003 people voted	My rating:
27	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 4.12 avg rating — 96,581 ratings score: 93,443, and 1,007 people voted	My rating:
28	The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide, #1-5) by Douglas Adams 4.33 avg rating — 43,221 ratings score: 90,594, and 964 people voted	My rating:
29	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 4.20 avg rating — 85,681 ratings score: 88,973, and 927 people voted	My rating:
30	The Stranger by Albert Camus 3.86 avg rating — 93,959 ratings score: 79,667, and 852 people voted	My rating:
31	Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 3.95 avg rating — 477,684 ratings score: 79,584, and 845 people voted	My rating:
32	The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) by J.R.R. Tolkien 4.19 avg rating — 446,549 ratings score: 78,947, and 862 people voted	My rating:
33	Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 4.19 avg rating — 217,684 ratings score: 78,833, and 834 people voted	My rating:
34	Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 3.75 avg rating — 73,047 ratings score: 77,179, and 803 people voted	My rating:
35	The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 3.88 avg rating — 234,803 ratings score: 72,869, and 768 people voted	My rating:
36	Watership Down by Richard Adams 4.00 avg rating — 73,680 ratings score: 72,473, and 772 people voted	My rating:
37	The Chronicles of Narnia (#1-7) by C.S. Lewis 4.23 avg rating — 115,965 ratings score: 72,020, and 792 people voted	My rating:
38	Charlotte's Web by E.B. White 4.07 avg rating — 178,302 ratings score: 71,961, and 796 people voted	My rating:
39	A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 73,554 ratings score: 68,428, and 720 people voted	My rating:
40	The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 3.88 avg rating — 103,896 ratings score: 67,918, and 725 people voted	My rating:
41	Night by Elie Wiesel 4.22 avg rating — 153,558 ratings score: 67,773, and 738 people voted	My rating:
42	The Return Of The King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) by J.R.R. Tolkien 4.42 avg rating — 132,155 ratings score: 65,013, and 725 people voted	My rating:
43	The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 3.49 avg rating — 108,270 ratings score: 64,672, and 716 people voted	My rating:
44	The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2) by J.R.R. Tolkien 4.31 avg rating — 136,027 ratings score: 63,721, and 714 people voted	My rating:
45	The Lorax by Dr. Seuss 4.35 avg rating — 53,086 ratings score: 62,944, and 677 people voted	My rating:
46	In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 3.93 avg rating — 163,301 ratings score: 62,437, and 685 people voted	My rating:
47	The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein 4.36 avg rating — 212,605 ratings score: 59,813, and 666 people voted	My rating:
48	Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez 3.77 avg rating — 94,874 ratings score: 58,057, and 626 people voted	My rating:
49	Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss 4.27 avg rating — 107,236 ratings score: 57,985, and 652 people voted	My rating:
50	A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 3.84 avg rating — 56,989 ratings score: 57,625, and 612 people voted	My rating:
51	Ulysses by James Joyce 3.74 avg rating — 22,053 ratings score: 54,856, and 583 people voted	My rating:
52	Beloved by Toni Morrison 3.67 avg rating — 67,952 ratings score: 54,181, and 586 people voted	My rating:
53	The Stand by Stephen King 4.26 avg rating — 94,183 ratings score: 53,965, and 582 people voted	My rating:
54	Charlie & Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl 4.02 avg rating — 111,165 ratings score: 52,318, and 586 people voted	My rating:
55	Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) by L.M. Montgomery 4.21 avg rating — 117,479 ratings score: 51,533, and 570 people voted	My rating:
56	The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 3.86 avg rating — 60,229 ratings score: 51,363, and 561 people voted	My rating:
57	The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 3.78 avg rating — 78,028 ratings score: 51,198, and 560 people voted	My rating:
58	The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 3.81 avg rating — 81,247 ratings score: 50,514, and 546 people voted	My rating:
59	The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 3.98 avg rating — 66,285 ratings score: 50,499, and 549 people voted	My rating:
60	On the Road by Jack Kerouac 3.63 avg rating — 79,454 ratings score: 50,033, and 554 people voted	My rating:
61	Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Author) 3.85 avg rating — 85,578 ratings score: 48,959, and 544 people voted	My rating:
62	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) by J.K. Rowling 4.19 avg rating — 533,460 ratings score: 48,141, and 546 people voted	My rating:
63	The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 3.82 avg rating — 39,950 ratings score: 47,858, and 522 people voted	My rating:
64	The Pillars of the Earth (The Pillars of the Earth, #1) by Ken Follett 4.17 avg rating — 107,330 ratings score: 47,828, and 514 people voted	My rating:
65	The Color Purple by Alice Walker 4.06 avg rating — 86,931 ratings score: 47,784, and 546 people voted	My rating:
66	Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 3.80 avg rating — 38,243 ratings score: 46,389, and 508 people voted	My rating:
67	The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 4.01 avg rating — 42,104 ratings score: 45,609, and 500 people voted	My rating:
68	Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 3.80 avg rating — 63,142 ratings score: 44,431, and 482 people voted	My rating:
69	Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak 4.28 avg rating — 130,589 ratings score: 44,314, and 514 people voted	My rating:
70	Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 4.11 avg rating — 70,109 ratings score: 44,061, and 497 people voted	My rating:
71	The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 3.76 avg rating — 240,648 ratings score: 43,563, and 485 people voted	My rating:
72	The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 4.28 avg rating — 30,290 ratings score: 43,442, and 465 people voted	My rating:
73	The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels & 56 Short Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle 4.46 avg rating — 19,027 ratings score: 43,068, and 483 people voted	My rating:
74	A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 3.91 avg rating — 83,331 ratings score: 43,022, and 494 people voted	My rating:
75	The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author) 3.62 avg rating — 358,373 ratings score: 42,621, and 471 people voted	My rating:
76	Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1) by Frank Herbert 3.96 avg rating — 174,116 ratings score: 42,587, and 479 people voted	My rating:
77	The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 3.67 avg rating — 76,078 ratings score: 39,542, and 454 people voted	My rating:
78	The World According to Garp by John Irving (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 58,733 ratings score: 39,402, and 445 people voted	My rating:
79	For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 3.85 avg rating — 44,061 ratings score: 37,588, and 429 people voted	My rating:
80	Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder 4.09 avg rating — 47,246 ratings score: 36,975, and 420 people voted	My rating:
81	Mere Christianity: Compromising the Case for Christianity, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality by C.S. Lewis 4.22 avg rating — 42,447 ratings score: 36,288, and 395 people voted	My rating:
82	Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls 3.98 avg rating — 83,792 ratings score: 36,049, and 406 people voted	My rating:
83	All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 3.73 avg rating — 52,300 ratings score: 35,995, and 413 people voted	My rating:
84	A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 3.66 avg rating — 55,749 ratings score: 35,818, and 412 people voted	My rating:
85	The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 4.08 avg rating — 122,105 ratings score: 35,549, and 387 people voted	My rating:
86	Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 3.97 avg rating — 56,884 ratings score: 35,006, and 392 people voted	My rating:
87	The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 4.08 avg rating — 136,592 ratings score: 32,999, and 392 people voted	My rating:
88	The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien 4.09 avg rating — 45,996 ratings score: 32,541, and 360 people voted	My rating:
89	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson 4.07 avg rating — 51,248 ratings score: 32,417, and 365 people voted	My rating:
90	Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 3.76 avg rating — 27,630 ratings score: 32,384, and 367 people voted	My rating:
91	Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 4.40 avg rating — 27,740 ratings score: 31,674, and 348 people voted	My rating:
92	Sophie's Choice by William Styron 4.06 avg rating — 16,339 ratings score: 31,645, and 360 people voted	My rating:
93	Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt 3.95 avg rating — 106,001 ratings score: 31,554, and 360 people voted	My rating:
94	The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton 3.95 avg rating — 123,950 ratings score: 31,471, and 358 people voted	My rating:
95	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 3.54 avg rating — 34,245 ratings score: 29,019, and 334 people voted	My rating:
96	Blindness by José Saramago 3.95 avg rating — 36,500 ratings score: 28,824, and 309 people voted	My rating:
97	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide, #1) by Douglas Adams 4.06 avg rating — 293,452 ratings score: 25,790, and 300 people voted	My rating:
98	To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 3.72 avg rating — 25,590 ratings score: 24,981, and 288 people voted	My rating:
99	She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb 3.70 avg rating — 93,383 ratings score: 23,161, and 263 people voted	My rating:
100	The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom 4.41 avg rating — 36,458 ratings score: 23,081, and 255 people voted	My rating:

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message 1: by Gary (new)

Jun 14, 2008 08:30pm

Jane Austen? Oscar Wilde? Louisa May Alcott? Charles Dickens? William Shakespeare? Alexandre Dumas? Bram Stoker's Dracula?

None of those are 20th century.

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message 2: by Laura (new)

Jun 17, 2008 02:49pm

Uh, yeah, what Gary said. Hello?

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message 3: by Dottie (last edited Jun 20, 2008 08:13pm) (new)

Jun 20, 2008 08:07pm

Picture of Dorian Gray first published 1891 doesn't belong in 20th century books. 19th century

Oops -- you guys already caught these. Another one -- Bronte.

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message 4: by Mark (last edited Feb 25, 2009 03:38am) (new)

Jun 23, 2008 06:32pm

Similarly, Three Cups of Tea was published in 2006... is there an easy way to delete these? Or should this list take a Braudelian view of the "long 20th century"? ;)

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message 5: by Marion (new)

Jun 24, 2008 04:04am

Some of those definitely aren't 20th century

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message 6: by Ashley (new)

Jun 24, 2008 08:31am

There are a lot of those 19th century books, but now there are also many that are 21st century as well i.e. The Host and the most recent Harry Potter books. Is there any way to delete them?

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message 7: by Snorkle (new)

Jun 25, 2008 08:38am

I was getting all annoyed because they had a couple books that were published after 2000, but then I realized that I had just voted for Pride and Prejudice....I wish that there was a way to delete books that didn't fit the critieria...or maybe if the list was programmed to automatically check the publication date and tell you whether or not you could add it to the list...

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message 8: by Wifey (last edited Jun 25, 2008 08:48am) (new)

Jun 25, 2008 08:46am

Why isn't Celine or Saint Exupéry or Borges on this list? I call bullshit. Or i don't know... Vonnegut?

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message 9: by Kelly (new)

Jun 25, 2008 10:49am

Um, people? Jane Austen novels and/or Jane Eyre are in NO WAY 20th century novels, whatever thousandth reprinting that they're on right now that happens to have taken place in that century.

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message 10: by bryan (new)

Jun 25, 2008 11:09am

It's called the "best books" of the 20th century, so why does everyone seem to be restricting themselves to novels?

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message 11: by jessica juniper (new)

Jun 25, 2008 12:39pm

There are several books on here that are not from the 20th Century...Jane Austen, The Brontes, and Joyce plus many more...can someone fix this please!

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message 12: by Bebe (new)

Jun 25, 2008 09:09pm

Um, Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre are not 20th c reads. Come on guys!

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message 13: by deleted member (new)

Jun 26, 2008 04:00am

Dracula was written on 1897, not in 20th century for sure.

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message 14: by Lisa/Bluestem (new)

Jun 26, 2008 08:47am

Could we move Time Traveler's Wife to the 21st Century list?

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message 15: by bup (new)

Jun 27, 2008 11:37am

THE KING JAMES BIBLE!?

THE BOOK OF MORMON!?

And it's amazing how many votes Pride and Prejudice has gotten - 30!

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message 16: by Lexi (last edited Feb 25, 2009 02:51am) (new)

Jun 28, 2008 12:09pm

Several books not written in the 20th century:

Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (I think)

Don't get me wrong, these are all great books but they don't belong on this list! Please check dates (or at least use common sense) before adding books to a date-specific list!

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message 17: by Matthew (new)

Jun 28, 2008 10:52pm

you couldn't be more right, throw in Kafka, as well. then the non-20th century books, along with the pop fiction books on the list?

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message 18: by Megan (new)

Jun 30, 2008 10:22pm

Vonnegut should definetly be on this list.

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message 19: by Laura (new)

Jul 01, 2008 07:37am

If you think so, why not add Vonnegut to the list? Seems simpler than complaining about it.

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message 20: by Stacy (new)

Jul 01, 2008 09:06am

The 20th century seems to have lasted for more than two hundred years. I have to agree with the poster who commented on the lack of nonfiction. What about Backlash by Susan Faludi? Something by John Krakauer or David Sedaris?

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message 21: by Laura (new)

Jul 01, 2008 09:27am

Guys. You are aware that you can, you know, add any book you want to this list, right? If you think something belongs on the list yet is not there, ADD IT YOURSELF.

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message 22: by Todd (new)

Jul 04, 2008 11:17am

This list appears to be restricting books based on the "published" date for some random (default?) edition, rather than the often-available "first published" date. This would explain why Pride & Prejudice (1813) can make the list, but it doesn't want me to add To the Lighthouse (1927).

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message 23: by Sarah (new)

Jul 12, 2008 09:18pm

Gah!! The books on this list that were not written in the 20th century are hurting my OCD. Is there any way to edit? To remove books from the list that others have added?

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message 24: by Mommy (new)

Jul 17, 2008 10:11am

where is THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving?

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message 25: by Ashley (new)

Jul 18, 2008 09:06am

It's there (page 2), but if there's anything you think should be on any list, add it yourself.

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message 26: by Kenneth (new)

Jul 29, 2008 10:45am

oh boy some real chestnuts. C'mon Where's your Henry Miller. He is only the greatest American author of that century. and seriously, what's up with the book of Mormon?

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message 27: by Nate (new)

Jul 29, 2008 10:48am

The Book of Mormon? #4? Really guys?

It's not even very well written! Despite being published in 1830 (and written, allegedly, mosty in the B.C.E)

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message 28: by Sunil (last edited Jul 29, 2008 11:11am) (new)

Jul 29, 2008 11:09am

Hmmm,,,, No Bellow in first hundred. And you have Harry Potter.Shame.

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message 29: by Matt (new)

Jul 29, 2008 11:10am

Ok, this is nuts. There are 19th century books appearing here, and there are 20th century books I can't add because there isn't a 20th century edition in the database.

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message 30: by Alex (last edited Jul 29, 2008 11:55am) (new)

Jul 29, 2008 11:14am

Though it's a disputed point, the Book of Mormon was written sometime between 2,000 B.C. and 1830 A.D. As beloved and influential as it may be, one thing it isn't is a book of the 20th Century. Putting it on this list just makes you look dumb.

Also: Holy Bible.

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message 31: by Matt (new)

Jul 29, 2008 11:16am

And another thing, the Lord of the Ring's score is getting killed by the fact that two different versions of the book (as a single epic, and as a trilogy) are appearing on the list.

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message 32: by Donitello (new)

Jul 29, 2008 04:19pm

I presume we're supposed to vote ONLY for the book that we think should occupy #1 spot?

That'll be easy, of course -- it's The Book of Mormon. (JOKING!!!!)

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message 33: by Emily (new)

Jul 29, 2008 04:36pm

I cannot believe Sometimes A Great Notion, Ken Kesey, is not in the top 100. I didnt even see it in the top 200.

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message 34: by Giovany (last edited Jul 29, 2008 08:44pm) (new)

Jul 29, 2008 08:43pm

apoyen a Proust!!!!!!
lets stand for proust!!!!
aller Marcel, il est fantastique

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message 35: by Layce (new)

Jul 30, 2008 10:17am

An interesting assortment of books. One I could refer to for future reference.

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message 36: by Jane (new)

Jul 30, 2008 01:26pm

Henry James is missing, sorely. Too much JK Rowling and CS Lewis.

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message 37: by Roxanne (new)

Jul 30, 2008 04:00pm

The Tin Drum must be among the top 100...BB

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message 38: by Michael (new)

Jul 30, 2008 05:09pm

It speaks to my heart and soul. It reaffirms that good can win out over evils. I have read it over 120 times since Thanksgiving, 1970.
And people... please remember, it is actually one book, not three, an a trilogy; that aspect was a business/publishing choice not a creative (the author's) choice.

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message 39: by David (last edited Jul 30, 2008 06:17pm) (new)

Jul 30, 2008 05:29pm

Sometimes a Great Notion is a Masterpiece.

The Harry Potter books are entertaining enough, but hardly in the same league.

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message 40: by David (new)

Jul 30, 2008 06:15pm

That's what I get for being a bookworm, I guess. Zero friends! Maybe I should wash more often.

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message 41: by Paula (new)

Jul 30, 2008 08:18pm

I'm not really thrilled that the Harry Potter books made this list....they really don't belong here !

What about : The Red Tent by Diamont ??

: The Celestine Prophies ??

: The Kite Runner ??

: A Thousand Splendid Suns ??

?????????????????????

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message 42: by Rebecca (new)

Jul 31, 2008 11:18am

Seems like the Lord of the Rings series shouldn't be listed as a separate option with each of the 3 books also on the list.

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message 43: by Lisa (new)

Aug 04, 2008 06:14pm

Did I miss something? I didn't see Le Miserables on the list???

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message 44: by Ashley (new)

Aug 05, 2008 06:25pm

If something isn't on the list anywhere that you think should be, add it. That's the point.

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message 45: by Gary (new)

Aug 11, 2008 09:36am

_Les misérables_ was published in the 19th Century.

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message 46: by Laura (new)

Aug 11, 2008 12:17pm

Les Miserables was on the list, and was removed for the reason Gary states. If it's put back on, it will be removed again.

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message 47: by Elizabeth (new)

Aug 17, 2008 02:22am

I saw so many of my all time favorites! Mists of Avelon, Rebecca, Diary of Anne Frank, James and the Giant Peach even The Witching Hour! WOW! I guess as much as I read I consider something really great if after a couple of years and thousands of books later I still remember it then its pretty good.

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message 48: by Marcus (new)

Aug 20, 2008 12:19pm

Did I miss Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture?

Pretty big book of the 90's...it, ya know, coined the name ofr an entire generation...

There's a lot of books on this list, I could have missed it.

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message 49: by Cindy (new)

Sep 01, 2008 11:44am

The Harry Potter books enticed countless numbers of kids, who would never normally pick up a book when they could be playing a video game, to read. In my opinion, any book or series of books, that can do this deserves to be this list.

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message 50: by deleted member (last edited Sep 06, 2008 12:57pm) (new)

Sep 06, 2008 12:56pm

Paula, it's the 21st century. The Kite Runner and it's sequel were released in THIS century, not eight years ago. I AM annoyed by The Pillars of the Earth, though.

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