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[phosfate]

(Adds the Radcliffe list, because snowed in and bored.)

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
8. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
9. 1984 by George Orwell
13. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
17. Animal Farm by George Orwell
18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
22. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
24. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
27. Native Son by Richard Wright
29. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
33. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
34. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
37. The World According to Garp by John Irving
39. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
40. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
45. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (a fave, which is odd because it's about meat-packing)
47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
50. The Awakening by Kate Chopin :/
52. Howards End by E.M. Forster
59. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
66. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
67. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
74. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
85. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (big cartoon hearts)
90. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (ROXORZZZ! as the kids say)
94. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
98. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster

Comments

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

Questions: Where'd you pick up these lists and what's the theme of the meme? Great books you've read? I'm really curious because I think I want to play.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Random House/Modern Library picked their 100 best novels. They also had an online vote, or something, which was apparently stuffed by Scientologists, Ayn Rand zombies, and various SF fan groups. (The non-fiction readers list also - Dianetics is the second-greatest non-fiction book of the 20th century, she said, straight-faced.)

http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100best/novels.html

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

Dianetics is the second-greatest non-fiction book of the 20th century, she said, straight-faced

Yeah, I'd put it right up there. Along with The Mothman Prophecies, Chariot of the Gods and We Never Die.

Oh, wait. This was supposed to be great non-fiction. Sorry, my mistake. I was thinking great wacko reading.

ANd you weren't kidding about stuffing the ballots toward Scientology, Ayn Rand and sci-fi. The sci-fi I could handle, but the rest....

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

Looking at the non-fiction lists again, the readers' list is heavily tweeked toward the knee-jerk conservative, anti-gubberment, them liberals are out to steal our child'un souls. I'm surprised there wasn't something on water floridation and stealing our precious bodily fluids. Geez. So, what looks like is that the pat-themselves-on-the-back-'cause-I'm-intellectual types are ultra-conservative.

[smuu.livejournal.com]

Goodness! You've read all those? I am in awe... I've only read ... uh, 10. Attempted 'To the Lighthouse', had a fit, quit.