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Post by Kye on Apr 23, 2021 19:41:55 GMT
The book is better.
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 24, 2021 1:34:29 GMT
Anybody know Arthur Ransome or his tome Swallows and Amazons? Does it rise to the level of Wind in the Willows, Anne of Green Gables, Winnie the Pooh, The Secret Garden or Watership Down? And, would you include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in that lot?
Can we get just one title for Enid Blyton?
Will readers insist that all three books of the trilogy of Lord of the Rings must be read, or can we pick just one of the three?
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 24, 2021 1:40:18 GMT
I now think the amended list needs to add Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley.
What can it replace?
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 24, 2021 1:42:27 GMT
Jumping the amended list to page 2:
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling ::: Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible ::: Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ::: Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens ::: All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque 11 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott 12 Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ::: A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulkes ::: Elmer Gantry - Sinclair Lewis 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveler's Wife-Audrey Niffenegger ::: The Big Rock Candy Mountain - Wallace Stegner 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ::: The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ::: Paradise Lost - John Milton 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ::: Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ::: The Iliad - Homer 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis ::: For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ::: Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ::: Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden[/font] ::: Creation - Gore Vidal 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown ::: Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ::: The Source - James A. Michener 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ::: I, Claudius - Robert Graves 48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ::: Man's Fate - Andre Malraux 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert ::: What's Bred in the Bone - Robertson Davies 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen ::: Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ::: The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ::: Ivanhoe - Walter Scott 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon ::: The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History - Donna Tart ::: Dune - Frank Herbert 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ::: I, Robot - Isaac Asimov 68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding ::: As You Like It - William Shakespeare 69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ::: Henry V - William Shakespeare 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Inferno - Dante 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession - AS Byatt ::: Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ::: Odyssey - Homer 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ::: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula LeGuin 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ::: Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus - Mary Shelley 87 Charlotte's Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ::: Beezus and Ramona - Beverly Cleary 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ::: The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Eupery 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ::: Never Cry Wolf - Farley Mowat 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ::: Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Gaudy Night - Dorothy Sayers
This color means I think they qualify as 'literature' in my book If they are still in black text, then either I think of them as 'popular reading', or I'm unfamiliar with either author, title, or both. Or, if I'm familiar with one or more, I'm unsure as to their context.
Dickens is in green (6 titles!) while Austen is in blue.
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 24, 2021 3:42:11 GMT
Wooo....I just looked in to Enid Blyton. Really? That stuff looks like pulp. Somebody explain to me.
Crikey, we just lost Beverly Cleary and her stories resonate far more with me than most of the juvenile stuff here.
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Post by JoeP on Apr 24, 2021 10:35:46 GMT
Anybody know Arthur Ransome or his tome Swallows and Amazons? Does it rise to the level of Wind in the Willows, Anne of Green Gables, Winnie the Pooh, The Secret Garden or Watership Down? And, would you include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in that lot? Can we get just one title for Enid Blyton? Swallows and Amazons is great, but be aware it's quite a lengthy series. I think it's OK to represent it with just the first book, though. I have not re-read it as an adult to the extent that I have for example The Wind in the Willows or Winnie the Pooh (and not just in English - I own copies of Winnie Ille Pum and Domus Anguli Puensis). But I think it's as "literary" as some of these. Definitely more so than Enid Blyton!
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 24, 2021 13:09:17 GMT
Thanks, JoeP. The only time I've ever heard Swallows and Amazons, and Arthur Ransome, even be mentioned was on an episode of Jeopardy! It stays in.
Enid, though...I'm not convinced. Is there nobody here to defend her honor? I'd never heard of her until I stumbled in here.
Have you read any of Beverly Cleary? If not, I heartily recommend Henry Huggins, or Beezus and Ramona, or Ramona, the Pest, or Ribsy. All great kiddy lit. So good that to this day, I remember my fourth grade teacher reading us a chapter every day in home room. That experience stimulated a lifetime of reading for pleasure.
I'm also a fan of Donald J. Sobol's series Encyclopedia Brown.
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 24, 2021 13:28:12 GMT
I also think the list needs a Farley Mowat title. My recommendation: Never Cry Wolf.
The same with Robert Graves. I recommend I, Claudius.
Prolly Gore Vidal should be included, as well. For that, I suggest Creation.
Then, there's James Michener, who is best known for The Bridges at Toko-ri, or Hawaii. My fave was The Source.
I'm open to other suggestions from out there in the peanut gallery, too.
As I see it going forward, there are those left on the list which are still in black text, which are fairly recent 'bestseller' titles. I'm not sure why these titles earned a slot on this list other than they were in mind when the list was hurriedly assembled. I think other, as yet unmentioned authors, might well be included by replacing these titles.
Then, there are the duplicate titles for select authors. Dickens is in way too large. His holdings need to be pruned. As does Austen. But then, there are two Tolstoy titles, and two Steinbeck titles. And two Thomas Hardy titles. Are those warranted? I struck off the Complete Shakespeare, and added a comedy (As You Like It) and a 'history' (Henry V) to the already present tradgedy (Hamlet), as being more representative of the master's work without being overbearing and overwhelming. Dickens and Austen should not have more than Billy.
And, where is Wally Scott?
Or, Wallace Stegner? Or, Sinclair Lewis? Not a single Homer, nor Milton, title neither.
Personally, I'd push for Amy Tan, Jerzy Kosinski, Anita Diamant, Cormac McCarthy, Barbara Kingsolver, and Tom Robbins as my 'bestseller' picks, rather than the present lot of unknowns (to me). Unless, of course, their are some impassioned defendants for the present lot.
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Post by Mari on Apr 24, 2021 14:57:17 GMT
I've read a lot of Enid blyton and enjoyed it, but I wouldn't call it literature. It's representative of an age though. I think a lot of people grew up with her stories. Same as Harry potter by the way. I wouldn't call it literature, but it did give a huge kick start to young adult literature, just like Blyton did if Wikipedia is to be believed. Perhaps that's why they're on there. Is Lord of the flies on the list by the way? Didn't check.
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 24, 2021 15:20:53 GMT
I've read a lot of Enid blyton and enjoyed it, but I wouldn't call it literature. It's representative of an age though. I think a lot of people grew up with her stories. Same as Harry potter by the way. I wouldn't call it literature, but it did give a huge kick start to young adult literature, just like Blyton did if Wikipedia is to be believed. Perhaps that's why they're on there. Is Lord of the flies on the list by the way? Didn't check. Yes. Lord of the Flies is there. It was there before I started tinkering. I was forced to read it in grade 11. I loved it. And, I'm in agreement with your assessments. I took out the 'open-ended' reference to the 'Harry Potter series', intending to push to select one, but have come to think of it as more 'pulp', or what I call 'mind candy'. For me, it is Terry Pratchett. Wonderful stuff, but it's not particularly great literature. I removed Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as well, for pretty much the same reason.
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 24, 2021 15:26:10 GMT
If I get enough room, I would like to re-insert Frank Herbert's Dune, along with Isaac Asimov's I, Robot, Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End, and Ursula LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness, as an adequate representation of the science fiction genre.
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 24, 2021 15:47:18 GMT
Okay...
Odyssey - Homer Iliad - Homer Paradise Lost - John Milton Elmer Gantry - Sinclair Lewis The Big Rock Candy Mountain - Wallace Stegner I, Claudius - Robert Graves Creation - Gore Vidal The Source - James A. Michener Man's Fate - Andre Malraux The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck Beezus and Ramona - Beverly Cleary Ivanhoe - Walter Scott
Dune - Frank Herbert I, Robot - Isaac Asimov Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula LeGuin
ETA: ALL ITEMS SUBSEQUENTLY EDITED IN
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 24, 2021 17:40:26 GMT
Regarding the overabundance of Dickens and Austen.
I have already unilaterally replaced Bleak House and A Christmas Carol with the Odyssey and Paradise Lost. Of the rest, I'm partial to Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities. Is there anybody who wishes to advocate for either Oliver Twist or David Copperfield?
Then, as for the other. I have never ever read any Austen, but I've been repeatedly exposed to derivations of her novels in American film. Of Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, or Pride and Prejudice, which one title would you keep as an exemplar of her work?
This time through the original list makes me think the list is a 'chick list'. I suspect that it was collated by one or more females. Most of the early titles are female author, feminine motif titles. Brontes, and Austens, and Alcott, O, my!
Whoa up....There's three Thomas Hardy titles? Jude the Obscure? Along with Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the D'Urbervilles? No. That's too much. Way too much. And not a single Henry Fielding even mentioned.
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Post by Kye on Apr 24, 2021 17:52:57 GMT
Well, better a chick lit list than a dick lit list.
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 24, 2021 18:06:13 GMT
Well, better a chick lit list than a dick lit list. Misanthropy is just as unsightly as misogyny.
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Post by tangent on Apr 24, 2021 18:43:18 GMT
I've read a lot of Enid Blyton and enjoyed it, but I wouldn't call it literature. No, me neither. The only thing going for Enid Blyton is that my dad once mended her television set (in the days of valves [vacuum tubes] when TV sets were very unreliable). I accompanied him in his firm's van when he went to her house but my dad told me to wait in the van at the end of the drive because 'she hated children.'
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 24, 2021 19:10:33 GMT
I've read a lot of Enid Blyton and enjoyed it, but I wouldn't call it literature. No, me neither. The only thing going for Enid Blyton is that my dad once mended her television set (in the days of valves [vacuum tubes] when TV sets were very unreliable). I accompanied him in his firm's van when he went to her house but my dad told me to wait in the van at the end of the drive because 'she hated children.' Ha! Ain't that often the case? Thanks for the input. At this point, I'm down to being willing to scratch Enid, plus three Austens, and a Dickens. I have a couple of other spares, if needed, but five is enough to entertain any other suggestions from the peanut gallery. So, peruse the amended list. Tell me if you think there is anything obviously missing. Things like, "Shouldn't you have an example of William Faulkner, or Tennessee Williams?" That kind of thing. I'll probably ask why it is you think they should be included, but that shouldn't be a surprise.
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Post by Kye on Apr 24, 2021 19:29:19 GMT
Well, better a chick lit list than a dick lit list. Misanthropy is just as unsightly as misogyny. Oh yes... all lives matter, right?
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Post by JoeP on Apr 24, 2021 20:34:00 GMT
Well, better a chick lit list than a dick lit list. Misanthropy is just as unsightly as misogyny. When unjustified. On both sides.
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 24, 2021 21:01:43 GMT
Misanthropy is just as unsightly as misogyny. When unjustified. On both sides. I doubt there is adequate justification for either.
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 24, 2021 21:58:03 GMT
And...a preliminary draft:
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson 10 All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque 11 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott 12 Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ::: A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle 17 Elmer Gantry - Sinclair Lewis 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Big Rock Candy Mountain - Wallace Stegner 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Paradise Lost - John Milton 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ::: Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe 32 The Iliad - Homer 33 For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway 34 Emma - Jane Austen ::: Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison 35 Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain 39 Creation - Gore Vidal 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell ::: Tom Jones - Henry Fielding 42 Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 45 The Source - James A. Michener 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 I, Claudius - Robert Graves 48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Man's Fate - Andre Malraux 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 What's Bred in the Bone - Robertson Davies 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver 55 The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck 56 Ivanhoe - Walter Scott 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ::: The Red Tent - Anita Diamant 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 Dune - Frank Herbert 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 I, Robot - Isaac Asimov 68 As You Like It - William Shakespeare ::: The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner 69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ::: Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Henry V - William Shakespeare ::: The Orient Express - Agatha Christie 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Inferno - Dante 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke 81 Odyssey - Homer 82 The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula LeGuin 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 Frankenstein - Mary Shelley 87 Charlotte's Web - EB White 88 Beezus and Ramona - Beverly Cleary 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Eupery 93 Never Cry Wolf - Farley Mowat 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Gaudy Night - Dorothy Sayers
Now, the colors are titles where the author has another title in the list. Shakespeare has three. Homer, Dickens, Austen, Tolstoy, Orwell and Steinbeck each garnered two titles.
Given this, if we had eight more authors, so far not represented, we could include them. Eight of them, at least.
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 24, 2021 23:14:33 GMT
Possibles:
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison Tom Jones - Henry Fielding The Red Tent - Anita Diamant The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane The Orient Express - Agatha Christie
ALL EDITED IN.
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 26, 2021 3:36:34 GMT
WHOLLYGOATS' LITERARY LITMUS LIST - Fiction in English
So, the following is a list of typical literary works which you might have found, or still find, on the reading syllabi for any number of English literature type classes. I have no idea how many of these titles a typical adult member of our culture might have read, so releasing this in to the wild and asking for counts is the only way to find out.
Look through the list and count the number of titles you've read.
BUT WAIT! THERE IS A BONUS RULE!
If you see a title and it's not one you've read by that author, BUT you HAVE read another title by that same author? Well, then go ahead and count that item. IF you can remember the name of the alternate title AND you actually read the whole book. Maybe you couldn't finish Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, but you did read The Name of the Rose? Well, you still get to count that. Only one tote per author, though. NO Cliff Notes or 'I saw the film' outs; you MUST have read a full title by that author. Max possible points is obviously 100.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson 10 All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque 11 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott 12 Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle 17 Elmer Gantry - Sinclair Lewis 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Big Rock Candy Mountain - Wallace Stegner 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Paradise Lost - John Milton 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe 32 The Iliad - Homer 33 For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway 34 Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison 35 Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain 39 Creation - Gore Vidal 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Tom Jones - Henry Fielding 42 Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 45 The Source - James A. Michener 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 I, Claudius - Robert Graves 48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Man's Fate - Andre Malraux 51 Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins 52 What's Bred in the Bone - Robertson Davies 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver 55 The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck 56 Ivanhoe - Walter Scott 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 The Red Tent - Anita Diamant 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 Dune - Frank Herbert 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 I, Robot - Isaac Asimov 68 The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner 69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 The Orient Express - Agatha Christie 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Inferno - Dante 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke 81 The Road - Cormac McCarthy 82 The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula LeGuin 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 Frankenstein - Mary Shelley 87 Charlotte's Web - EB White 88 Beezus and Ramona - Beverly Cleary 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Eupery 93 Never Cry Wolf - Farley Mowat 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Gaudy Night - Dorothy Sayers
The compiler of the list claims to have read 58 of the authors listed.
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Post by Sarah W. on Apr 27, 2021 19:46:19 GMT
Still 39. Dumas gets in there twice?
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 27, 2021 21:18:03 GMT
Still 39. Dumas gets in there twice? Heh...Not if I can help it. Can you give me numbers? I've been going blind looking at this list. ETA: 65 & 97. Thanks! Any glaring omissions that you noticed?
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 27, 2021 21:30:40 GMT
Native Son - Richard Wright ?
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Post by ceptimus on May 17, 2021 17:39:21 GMT
Anybody know Arthur Ransome or his tome Swallows and Amazons? I've read the whole series several times and I think I own most, if not all, the books in paperback form. Good adventure series for children, though a little dated now. Also good reading for adults. The children get older in each book, but it won't spoil your fun of reading them if you tackle them in any order - each book is pretty much a self-contained story. Swallows and Amazons is the first one in the series, but not the best written. Ransome improved his art with experience, and the novels from his middle period are, in my opinion, his best.
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Post by jayme on Dec 27, 2022 9:04:36 GMT
I've read 31 of the original list, but there are some whole series that are listed as if they are one book. The list doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
38 of the amended list.
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Post by whollygoats on Jan 1, 2023 0:13:37 GMT
I polled 55 of the amended. I was surprised as some that I have not read. I cringed at some of those I was forced to read...
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