. . . or so i would have you believe.
this is a list of the 100 best novels of the last century, according to random house - bold means i've read a least parts of it, italics mean i really want to
1. The Collected Works of Shakespeare
2. The Bible
3. Don Quixote - Cervantes
4. Homer's Iliad/Odyssey
5. Ovid's Metamorphoses
6. Finnegans Wake - Joyce
7. Oresteia of Aeschylus
8. Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
9. The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
10. Alice in Wonderland - Carroll
11. To the Lighthouse - Woolf
12. 100 Years of Solitude - Garcia Marquez
13. Pale Fire - Nabokov
14. Divine Comedy - Dante
15. Poems of Wallace Stevens
16. Arabian Nights
17. War and Peace - Tolstoy
18. Beloved - Morrison
19. Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges
20 Heart of Darkness - Conrad
21. Anecdotes of Destiny - Dinesen
22. Oedipus Trilogy - Sophocles
23. Marriage of Cadmus & Harmony - Calasso
24. Katasaratsagura (Oceans of Story) Somadeva
25. Chekhov's Short Stories
26. Bhagavad Gita
27. Ulysses - Joyce
28. Grimm's Fairy Tales
29. Invisible Man - Ellison
30. Absalom Absalom - Faulkner
31. Women in Love - Lawrence
32. Lolita - Nabokov
33. Plato: Dialogues
34. Remembrance of Things Past - Proust
35. The Tin Drum- Grass
36. Flannery O'Connor: Short Stories
37. Great Expectations - Dickens
38. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable - Beckett
39. Interpretation of Dreams - Freud
40. Canterbury Tales - Chaucer
41. Four Quartets - Eliot
42. Madame Bovary - Flaubert
43. Midnight's Children - Rushdie
44. Tristram Shandy - Sterne
45. Yeats: Collected Poems
46. Golden Bough - Frazer
47. Wind in the Willows - Grahame
48. Pride and Prejudice - Austen
49. The Black Prince - Murdoch
50. Manuscript found at Saragossa Jan Potaki
51. Bacchae Euripides
52. Vanity Fair - Thackery
53. Metamorphosis - Kafka
54. Aeneid - Virgil
55. Tristan & Iseult
56. Collected Poems of William Blake
57. Golden Ass of Apuleius
58. Waiting for Godot - Beckett
59. Collected Poems of Emily Dickenson
60. Moby Dick - Melville
61. Speak, Memory - Nabokov
62. Phaedre - Racine
63. Poetics of Aristotle
64. Fathers and Sons - Turgenev
65. Lysistrata - Aristophanes
66. A Doll's House - Ibsen
67. Importance of Being Earnest - Wilde
68. Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
69. Charlotte's Web - White
70. Huckleberry Finn - Twain
71. Leaves of Grass - Whitman
72. If On a Winter's Night - Calvino
73. Jane Eyre - Bronte
74. Storyteller Maria Vargos Llosa
75. Heraclitus-Fragments
76. Wuthering Heights - Bronte
77. Epic of Gilgamesh
78. The Idiot - Dostoevsky
79. Tess of the Durbervilles - Hardy
80. Tale of Genji - Murisaki
81. Montaigne's Essays
82. Walden Henry - Thoreau
83. Native Son - Wright
84. On Nature - Emerson
85. Dr. Faustus - Marlowe
86. To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
87. Gargantua and Pantagruel Rabelais
88. Paradise Lost - Milton
89. Tom Jones - Fielding
90. Endgame - Beckett
91. The Art of Memory -Yates
92. Middlemarch - Eliot
93. At Play in the Fields of the Lord - Matthiessen
94. All the Pretty Horses - McCarthy
95. Candide - Voltaire
96. Genealogy of Morals - Nietzsche
97. Passage to India - Forster
98. The Sea the Sea - Murdoch
99. Tristes Tropiques - Levi-Strauss
100. Their Eyes were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
4 comments:
Ok, your font really stinks. I can't tell what is bold or not. the italic just barely stands out. what size font do you use anyway?
oohhhh....I will steal this list from you in the new year!
I just realized that this must be best books of all time, because several of them are from much longer ago than just the last century and some of them are not fiction.
you're quite right, of course! i was originally working with the list i linked, but i changed my mind and forgot to update. i'm not going to edit now :)
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