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The Greatest Books of All Time
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1) To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
2) Pale Fire - Vladmir Nabokov
3) The Moomins - Tove Jansson
4) The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
5) Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
6) A Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7) Collected Stories - Colette
8) Three Men in A Boat - Jerome K Jerome
9) The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
10) Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
There are plenty of books that I think are great reads - stories I just love to bits; I've bought eight copies of The Princess Bride over the years as gifts, Jane Eyre meant a lot to me personally, I Claudius is fascinating and fun, and A Debt to Pleasure is my favourite crime/cookery book(and fiendish fun to boot)... as for Lord of the Rings: it's a monumental work of art. I had a hard time contrasting it against The Count of Monte Cristo for number nine slot.
My picks aren't necessarily great literary heavyweights, or the most snobbish books I've ever read - I almost died laughing thanks to Three Men and a Boat. However, they have integrity, an interesting voice and stories that transported me out of this world - and stayed with me, even though the covers have long since been closed. They're all thought provoking too.
Yes, especially The Moomins.
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I'm not sure what my Top 10 list would look like, but I know, On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre would definitely be on it.
Not sure I could roll a "Top 10" off the top of my head - I think perhaps books that I have read more than once would have to count, but I can't think what they would be over and above LOTR at the moment... Let me get back to you
There are quite a few I love in there: Vladimir Nabokov is one of my favourite authors, and certainly the most annoyingly gifted wordsmith I've ever had the pleasure to read)...
It got me thinking, what are your top ten 'Greatest Books of All Time', how you define "greatest" is up to you...
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