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Very, very scary that, at the time of writing, Twilight is according to Goodreads members THE NUMBER #1 BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME...

Why do fully grown people like young adult novels so much?! The Hunger Games is not the best book of all time!

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The list doesn't get consistently sensible until about 50.

So The Hunger Games is the best book EVER, huh? (right now, anyhow)

I couldn't close my sagging jaw at seeing this list until I got to Pride and Prejudice (currently at 10). I found myself pleading "Oh please please let the contributors to this list be under 17 years old or at least deemed that age mentally by competent psychiatric health professionals.

Bless you children who voted for One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Josef wrote: "Matt wrote: "The War of the Worlds"

My nine year old nephew just finished that book! I'm so proud."

AWESOME!

The fact that Twilight is #3 has caused me to be less than totally serious in my voting; therefore my list is jam-packed with propaganda votes of great books that I probably wouldn't put on a top 100 list for a serious journal.

Russ wrote: "Ahhh, Mr. James Joyce,

I am sorry to say that your works of literature, though thoughtful, esoteric, deeply philosophic, and universally critically lauded, are certainly not the best books ever an..."

haha I laughed out loud

Apparently, great books, like youth, are wasted on the young.

J.D.Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" should be on this list, among many others.

Maxine wrote: "I would agree that, of all the children's series available today, Harry Potter is the most likely to become a classic. However, using your logic about the demise of Narnia, wouldn't that hold true ..."

I think L. Frank Baum's Oz books were so far ahead of their time that they will be considered essential reading soon. His portrayal of female characters is well over a century ahead.

twilight, it's very interesting.I love the cullen's family,their bravery and talents. It's just very wonderful

Nikki wrote: "proof that the truth is not democratic =/

seriously, jane austen? errughhh."

Absolutely agree

Amber wrote: "This list is a joke!"

Absolutely agree

I don't understand how The Hunger Games ended up as number ONE! I mean, it's a good book, but there are so many other amazing books that completely surpass it.

Greg wrote: "Wow, some of these folks need to read more. Or age more. Or go to school, or something. I mean, really."
haha! that's exactly what i was thinking. i have books on my list that were favorites when i was a child, but i've grown permanent teeth since then and expect my literature to have more meat. this list makes me shudder. a lot of it is what i call grocery store lit. ew.

I chose 1984, as it appears that the US administaion is becomming more and more of a dictatorship, attemting to keep the masses in fear about the ol' terrorists peeking in our windows, while making it difficult for the poor and middle-classes to receive education on the "we're broke" lie all the while paying $trillions to kill people in the middle east for--lets face it--empire building.
I alsochoose "One Hundred Years of Solitude" because citicins cant help bet revert into a sort of magical realst point of view with this all aound us,on our cooporate new, with 2 corporate parties hand selected for us--just ask Salman Rushdie.

Honestly I didn't think hunger games was THAT good especially not good enough to be 1st place. And Harry potter is UNDER hunger games? Ppfff....
And I cannot believe twilight is on there. Something is wrong with this list.

1984 is one of the best books everwriten that is for sure, but this really should be named books with the largest making budgets.

Roberts ,nora

This seems to be a list of books that folks think they should have read. It shows how smart people really are; they didn't, save a dozen or two they couldn't avoid. I read books because I am touched or held in smart suspense by the author, then I read everything they write until the magic stops.

haha, this must be one of those ironic lists.

There's definitely a lot of the best books on this list, but quite a few are missing. Kind of like Imdb's Top 250 Movie's list.

Nikki wrote: "proof that the truth is not democratic =/

seriously, jane austen? errughhh."

Apparently, yours is the non-democratic kind of "truth".

This list is embarrassing.

....The Hunger Games and Twilight beat out...The Book Thief and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.......I suppose hormone riddled tweens make up the majority the of voters?

I'm sorry but The Hunger Games might have been good, if it wasn't for the writing. The dialogue and the word choice is just -shudder-. My grandmother was listening to it on audiobook and I was on the verge of ripping my hair out because hearing the bad writing made it worse!

Twilight, don't even go there. It should be seen as guilty pleasure literature at best, but not better than half the books that are up there!

The Fact that there are so many "Best Sellers", makes this list far from "Best". But there some good books there are also best sellers.

Twilight is crap.

This list is based off of popularity, not quality. I love The Hunger Games, but that being said, it doesn't deserve to be in first place. It's not "great" literature like Dostoevsky or Austen or Steinbeck, and that's just objective fact.

In short, these lists are predicated upon opinion only, which is why it's so fucked up. Twilight? C'mon. I won't bash anyone for liking crap like that, but I will go after people who tout it as great literature. Cause it just isn't true.

They should rename this list "Best Books Ever... For 12 Year Old Girls".

Danny wrote: "They should rename this list "Best Books Ever... For 12 Year Old Girls"."

Or they could start doing a series of best books based on age! I wanna see the difference.

Marla wrote: "this is the second list--worst books was the first--and i'm done. this is madness. i mean, how many mormons congregated to vote the book of mormon as a top 100 book? really?"

Dude, the Book of Mormon is awesome. You should read it :)

Danny wrote: "They should rename this list "Best Books Ever... For 12 Year Old Girls"."

Maybe. Not like 12 year old boys have much better taste, though. Then again, many of them don't read books.

Hunger Games.... Twilight......................

Juliet wrote: "Danny wrote: "They should rename this list "Best Books Ever... For 12 Year Old Girls"."

Maybe. Not like 12 year old boys have much better taste, though. Then again, many of them don't read books."

Wasn't implying that. I said it because Twilight was there lol.

Danny wrote: "Juliet wrote: "Danny wrote: "They should rename this list "Best Books Ever... For 12 Year Old Girls"."

Maybe. Not like 12 year old boys have much better taste, though. Then again, many of them don..."

When I was 12, my favorite books were the Oz series, but I'm eccentric and read way more stuff by dead people than living people..

Danny wrote: "Juliet wrote: "Danny wrote: "They should rename this list "Best Books Ever... For 12 Year Old Girls"."

Maybe. Not like 12 year old boys have much better taste, though. Then again, many of them don..."

No, I'm sure you weren't. It just gets tiring to hear people snarking over 12 year old girls all the time, as if they have the worst possible taste (they have some of the worst taste). I agree with you on Twilight.

Richard wrote: "Only in the USA would "the most popular" be confused for "the best". How many people have read Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint" about masturbation? Compare that to how many people have read Thor..."

"Only in the USA?" You do realize that there are people from all over the world on this web site, and that they are voting on these lists also. Don't you?

Jason wrote: "You do realize that there are people from all over the world on this web site, and that they are voting on these lists also."

Correction: it is the English-reading world.
There are lots of wonderful books not on the list simply because they are written in a language not popular.

I HOPE THE BOOKS HAVE GOOD PLACE in the heart of any reader or writer
for new generation of the future - human , without end to our world in all times
wael moreicheh

LOTR and The Hobbit are two different books

What about Maximum Ride by James Patterson?

Twilight??? Best books ever???? -____-''

Wael wrote: "I HOPE THE BOOKS HAVE GOOD PLACE in the heart of any reader or writer
for new generation of the future - human , without end to our world in all times
wael moreicheh"

Not in the case of Twilight, from what I've heard Meyer is starting to regret it. Which is sad, not a great series. But as a writer myself, most things I turn out are like my babies.

Chris wrote: "these comments are funny!

" ahaha u r so right

The Count of Monte Cristo in number 434? Deserves be to at least within 150.

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Is it possible to make a best books ever list but exclude Harry potter and Twilight. I'm sure that for many (young) readers these are the best books they have read, but are also probably the only books they have read.

Very good points made.

What's with "The quotation marks?"