May 27, 2013
-
Best Books of All Time - World Library List
In 2011, 100 notable writers voted on the 100 greatest novels of all time. I was curious to see how many I had read, and let me say... I'm a little surprised of how many I've never even heard of...
Finished ReadingStarted but didn't finish
Never read
The List
1) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
2) 1984 by George Orwell
3) Hamlet by William Shakespeare
4) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
8) The Odyssey by Homer
9) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
10) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
11) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
12) The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway
13) The Brother Karamazov by Fryodor Dostoyevsky
14) The Stranger by Albert Camus
15) King Lear by William Shakespeare
16) Don Quioxote by Miguel de Cerventes Saavaedra
17) The Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson
18) Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
19) The Iliad by Homer
20) The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Caucer
21) Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
22) The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
23) Madame Boavary by gustave Flaubert
24) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
25) Othello by William Shakespeare
26) Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Wolf
27) The Trial by Franz Kafka
28) Ulysses by James Joyce
29) Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
30) Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
31) The Collected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
32) The Arabian Nights by Anonymous
33) Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
34) Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
35) Blindness #1 by Jose Saramago
36) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
37) Invisible Man by Ralph Eillison
38) Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
39) The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
40) Beloved by Toni Morrison
41) The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
42) The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
43) Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot
44) A Doll's House by Henrik Insem
45) Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
46) The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
47) Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
48) To the Lighthouse by Virginia Wolf
49) Medea by Euripides
50) Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov
51) Hunger by Knut Hamsun
52) The Aeneid by Virgil
53) Faust: First Part by Joahann Wolfgang van Goethe
54) Leaves of Grass by Walt Witman
55) The Decameron by Giovanni Boccoccio
56) Dead Souls by Nikilai Gogol
57) Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) by Marcel Proust
58) The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
59) Ficciones by Jorge Lius Borgas
60) The Red and the Black by Stendhal
61) Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann
62) Metamorphoses by Ovid
63) Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourenar
64) The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
65) Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
66) Mahabharata by Annoynmous
67) The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
68) Ramayana by William Buck
69) The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
70) Demons by Fydor Dostoyevsky
71) The Tin Drums by Gunter Grass
72) Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
73) Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
74) Njal's Saga by Anonymous
75) Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
76) Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable: A Trilogy by Samuel Beckett
77) The Castle by Franz Kafka
78) مثنوی معنوی by Rumi
79) Gargantua an Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
80) Independent People by Halldor Laxness
81) Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
82) The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
83) أولاد حارتنا by نجيب محفوظ
84) The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
85) Jacques the fatalist by Denis Diderot
86) Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
87) Romancero Gitano by Fredrico Garcia Lorca
88) The Book of Job by Anonmyous
89) The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
90) Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Lu Xun
91) Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
92) Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Doblin
93) Poems of Paul Celan by Paul Celan
94) The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabatoa
95) History by Elsa Morante
96) Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo
97) The Recognition of Sakuntala by Kalidasa
98) Grande Sertao: Veredas by Joao Guimaraes Rosa
99) The Poems of Leopardi by Giacomo Leopardi
100) The Orchard: The Bostan of Saadi of Shiraz by Saadi
How many have you read?
Comments (14)
Neat! PS. you theme hurts my eyes and change the colors of the room
I've read these
Othello
The Divine Comedy
The Canterbury Tales
Moby-Dick
The Iliad
Don Quioxote
The Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales
The Old Man and the Sea
The Odyssey
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1984
Most of the books I've never heard of.
I'm surprised I read so many...38
This blog post is really great; the standard stuff of the post is genuinely amazing.
how to remove jailbreak from iphone 4s
More like greatest English/Western-European novels of all time.
Most titles look familiar, but I've only read a handful during high school.
I believe I am probably much much older than you and as such have been reading longer, but like you I am surprised by how many I have never heard of!
Three by Kafka? Four Dostoyevskys? That ain't right. Where is Phillip Roth? Amy Tan? James Baldwin?
24, I think. 19 still waiting on my shelf to be read. Only recognized one out of the last ten.
Anyone with internet connection and a computer could go to "ManyBooks.net and download a classic book that is not under copywrite protection. You have to select a format and right now Amazon with its Kindle format is growing to be the most popular format to read a free downloaded book from manybooks.net
I use the old format that Amazon has used. Mobipocket format is not bad and their "desktop" version can convert PDF, text and other formats to read on the computer.
Microsoft's old ebook version is now discontinued. However even old discontinued formats have hacked version to convert even that into a readable format.
@we_deny_everything - If Philip Roth made the list, I would have been leery of it. But you are right about Amy Tan and James Baldwin they both are modern writers that will be on the "classic" list.
@PPhilip - I am sure you must be joking.
@we_deny_everything - I read "Pornoy's complaint" and that was a bit shocking in those days. Maybe you are referring to his other works that is considered a classic?
@PPhilip - Ya think? What tipped you off? Was it his 2 National Book Awards, 3 PEN/Faulkner Awards, National Book Critics Circle Award, Pulitzer Prize, and Ambassador Book Award?
I'm as bewildered to see 'Pride and Prejudice' at the top as I am to see 'Pere Goriot' as low as 47.
'Goriot' is a well-observed, thought-provoking moral journey, with real characters with dirt under the nails.
'P&P' is a trashy romance, with all the well-worn devices of the time: everybody turning out to be everybody else's long-lost cousin, cardboard gruff chap turns out to be cardboard not so bad after all chap, reversal of fortunes... the usual crap.
Best Books of All Time – World Library List | Roo_Crew2015's Xanga Site
Comments are closed.