100 Best Books of All Time?

A literature society recently voted on the 100 Best Books of All Time. I've decided to see if I agree. They are, in order:

1. Crime and Punishment
2. 1984
3. Brothers Karamazov
4. Hamlet
5. Les Miserables
6. To Kill A Mockingbird
7. The Great Gatsby
8. Pride and Prejudice
9. War and Peace
10. The Bible
11. Lolita
12. Don Quixote
13. The Stranger
14. A Tale of Two Cities
15. Catch-22
16. Anna Karenina
17. Master and Margarita
18. The Picture of Dorian Gray
19. The Grapes of Wrath
20. On the Road
21. The Sound and the Fury
22. King Lear
23. The Divine Comedy
24. The Catcher in the Rye
25. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
26. The Idiot
27. In Search of Lost Time/ Remembrance of Things Past
28. Lord of the Flies
29. The Lord of the Rings
30. The Odyssey
31. Siddhartha
32. 100 Years of Solitude
33. As I Lay Dying
34. Frankenstein
35. Wuthering Heights
36. Beowulf
37. Dead Souls
38. Madam Bovary
39. The Old Man and the Sea
40. Slaughterhouse 5
41. The Sun Also Rises
42. Ulysses
43. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
44. Jane Eyre
45. Dracula
46. Fathers and Sons
47. Heart of Darkness
48. Metamorphosis
49. Notes From Underground
50. Of Mice and Men
51. The Republic
52. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
53. The Trial
54. Animal Farm
55. Brave New World
56. Cat's Cradle
57. The Count of Monte-Cristo
58. Faust
59. Fictions - Borges
60. The Fountianhead
61. Gargantua and Pantangruel
62. The Good Earth
63. Jude the Obsecure
64. Paradise Lost
65. The Mayor of Casterbridge
66. Macbeth
67. Oedipus Rex
68. Moby Dick
69. North and South
70. Oliver Twist
71. Night
72. Oblomov
73. One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest
74. Perfume
75. The Kite Runner
76. Tristam Shandy
77. Watership Down
78. Women in Love
79.. The House of Mirth
80. L'Assomoir
81. Bleak House
82. Middlesex
83. The Magus
84. Canterberry Tales
85. Brideshead Revisisted
86. Candide
87. In Cold Blood
88. No Exit
89. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
90. For Whom The Bell Tolls
91. The Little Prince
92. Montaigne ~ Essays
93. Iliad
94. Sometimes A Great Notion
95. A Clockwork Orange
96. Amerika
97. Julius Caeser
98. Invitation of a Beheading
99. Le Bete Humaine
100. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkbale Things

Some good ones. Others, I disagree with. For example, Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre need to be chucked off right now. And I wouldn't put the Bible so far down the list, but I suppose if we're talking in terms of literary merit and not spiritual merit, okay.

Comments

p said…
Ulysses and Old Man and the Sea are two I despise and find no merit in them.
April 10, 2010 at 3:00 PM
Carol said…
Get rid of Lord of the Flies, for sure. And Beowulf can come off too.
April 11, 2010 at 10:26 AM
george & clarine review said…
I would whack off a few more!
April 11, 2010 at 12:39 PM
Hannah said…
I agree with the above thoughts. I also think that Metamorphosis and the Trial can leave the list too.
April 11, 2010 at 1:08 PM
p said…
The metamorphosis loses something in the translation.
April 11, 2010 at 2:41 PM
Hannah said…
I have to add, that four of the list I have read this semester in Russian Literature class and had never read prior to that (Crime and Punishment, Anna Karenina, Dead Souls, and Fathers and Children).
April 11, 2010 at 6:44 PM
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