100 Novels Everyone Should Read

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100 Novels Everyone Should Read - from Culture/ Books/ The Telegraph/ telegraph.co.uk

"The best novels of all time, from Tolkien to Proust and Middlemarch..."

Marcel Proust Photo: Wesley Merritt


There's probably at least one on this list that you've already read.


Richard

 

[Rumpled]

I've read 19 on that list, most of them in the higher numbets if they are ranked 1-100.
A lot of classics there.
My daughter read a good list of classics in high school, none of which I read; she read none of the ones I did. Not sure if it was a generational difference, or just a different list.
This list is published by a UK site. Would a truly American list be different?

 

[taterhed]

Good list.

I've taken to listening to Audible and Overdrive (library) re-reading the classics. Many of the classics (and books on the list) are available free/near free from audible or your library.

Thanks for sharing. A few 'brit' twists on that list I hadn't thought of.

 

[BevL]

Just quickly scanned. A few that I read when I was a lot younger, Arabian Nights being one, was one of my favourites. Will have to get that, probably free, on Kindle.

Was glad to see 1984 was on the list. That was another book that had a pretty big impact on me in my younger years.

 

[Patri]

I'm only at 20, and some of them I probably saw as a movie! I agree, an American list would be better. Most of these I have never heard of.

 

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All-Time 100 Novels - by Richard Lacayo/ Books/ Entertainment/ Time.com

"Welcome to the massive, anguished, exalted undertaking that is the ALL TIME 100 books list. The parameters: English language novels published anywhere in the world since 1923, the year that TIME Magazine began, which, before you ask, means that Ulysses (1922) doesn’t make the cut. In May, Time.com posted a similar list, of 100 movies picked by our film critics, Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel. This one is chosen by me, Richard Lacayo, and my colleague Lev Grossman, whom we sometimes cite as proof that you don’t need to be named Richard to be hired as a critic at TIME, though apparently it helps. Just ask our theater critic, Richard Zoglin..."

Richard

 

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100 Best Novels - From ModernLibrary/ modernlibrary.com

Has 2 lists: The Board's List and The Reader's List

Nice selection.


Richard

 

[Patri]

Oh Richard.

 

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100 Best Novels - From ModernLibrary/ modernlibrary.com

Has 2 lists: The Board's List and The Reader's List

Nice selection.


Richard

I was happy to see 'The Worm Ouroboros' by E.R. Eddison on the Readers List. It is often compared to J.R.R. Toliken's 'The Lord of the Rings' , which it predates by 32 years.

For more info see: The Worm Ouroboros - from Wikipedia

Richard

 

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24.

There's probably at least one on this list that you've already read.

There are 24 books on the list that I remember I read long ago, even if I no longer remember much about the novels themselves.

Of those 2 dozen, I'd guess 1/2 were on required reading lists. Otherwise I would not have read'm.

Another dozen or so that I did not read (i.e., that I was spozed to read) were also on required reading lists. All I can figure for those is that somehow I managed to fake it.

Full Disclosure: I am a recovering English Major. I still have unread copies of some of those old required reading list novels lying around the house someplace. Maybe I'll get round to reading them some day. Maybe not. We'll see. Meanwhile, I enjoy reading lots of other novels (not on any required reading lists) by authors like Tony Dunbar, James Lee Burke, W.E.B. Griffin, John Sandford, Robert Crais, & I don't know who-all.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​