http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Library_100_Best_Novels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Library_100_Best_Novels)
Has anyone read any of these?
Editors' list (20th Century Great Novels)# Year Title Author
1 1922 Ulysses Joyce, JamesJames Joyce
2 1925 The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald, F. ScottF. Scott Fitzgerald
3 1916 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, JamesJames Joyce
4 1955 Lolita Nabokov, VladimirVladimir Nabokov
5 1932 Brave New World Huxley, AldousAldous Huxley
6 1929 The Sound and the Fury Faulkner, WilliamWilliam Faulkner
7 1961 Catch-22 Heller, JosephJoseph Heller
8 1940 Darkness at Noon Koestler, ArthurArthur Koestler
9 1913 Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D. H.D. H. Lawrence
10 1939 The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck, JohnJohn Steinbeck
I started Grapes of Wrath and then could not finish. It seems these books are all very dark, hard, not fun.
I've read the following from the list of 10 you posted (all when I was in HS).
Brave New World Huxley
Catch-22
The Grapes of Wrath
Here is a link to the top 100.
http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/ (http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/)
From the readers list I have read all the top 10.
From reader's list I read:
To Kill A Mockingbird- Loved
Ender's Game-Loved
Call of the Wild-Loved
HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy-OK
My Antonia-Loved
Fahrenheit 451 -did not love
Beloved- did not love
Started but did not finish:
Grapes if Wrath
Catcher in the Rye
Lord of the Flies
Watership Down
Lord of the Rings
Slaughter House Five
Rosie, you might like Stephen King's The Stand.
Quote from: TinkTanker on April 06, 2013, 06:07:19 AM
Rosie, you might like Stephen King's The Stand.
Laws yes. M-O-O-N, that spells good book.
Thanks Tink. That list makes me feel like I haven't read anything of woth or merit. So I decided to start a list of the books I have read that I liked that are not on the Modern Library List. I looked up various Recommended reading list.
My Favorite Authors: Jane Austen and Shakespeare
Jane Austen:
Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility (not my favorite)
I still haven't read Northanger Abbey because then there is no more Jane Austen.
Shakespeare:
Much Ado About Nothing
Taming of the Shrew
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
Othello
Tempest
Merchant of Venice
Two Gentleman of Verona
John Steinbeck:
Of Mice and Men, The Pearl, The Red Pony, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row
Started but did not finish Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden
Jack London:
Call of the Wild, White Fang (Good)
Mark Twain:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer (Lots of Fun)
Ernest Hemmingway:
A Farewell to Arms
Harper Lee:
To Kill a Mockingbird (Excellent book.)
Ray Bradbury:
The Martian Chronicles (Did not like.)
Fahrenheit 451 (Did not love it.)
Hermann Hesse:
Siddhartha
Chaim Potok:
The Chosen (LOVED IT!!!), The Promise
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra:
Don Quixote (Read it in Spanish)
Thomas Hardy:
Tess of the d'urbervilles (Stayed with me.)
Charlotte Bronte:
Janey Eyre (Did not love it.)
Pearl S. Buck:
The Good Earth
Willa Cather:
My Antonia, O Pioneers (Loved both)
There are many many books I started but could not finish for various reasons, most boiled down to not wanting to see what happened.
I like stories where I learn about how people lived and what the life and times was like back then.
To clarify, I read lots of books not on the recommended reading list. I have read a lot of the Miss Marple Agatha Christie books as well.
Not sure why this bugs me so.