walangdila
Aug 13, 2000, 10:55 PM
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The Top 100 Novels List:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (1960)
2. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger (1951)
3. 1984 - George Orwell (1949)
4. The Color Purple - Alice Walker (1982)
5. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
6. On the Road - Jack Kerouac (1957)
7. Beloved - Toni Morrison (1987)
8. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (1939)
9. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell (1936)
10. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1932)
11. Animal Farm - George Orwell (1954)
12. Charlotte's Web - E. B. White (1952)
13. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison (1952)
14. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (1955)
15. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (1962)
16. Ulysses - James Joyce (1922)
17. East of Eden - John Steinbeck (1952)
18. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
19. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison (1977)
20. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (1955)
21. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon (1973)
22. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien (1937)
23. My Antonia - Willa Cather (1918)
24. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving (1989)
25. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan (1989)
26. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (1962)
27. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (1952)
28. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (1926)
29. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
30. The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver (1988)
31. Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller (1939)
32. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
33. All the Kings Men - Robert Penn Warren (1946)
34. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (1927)
35. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (1986)
36. Deliverance - James Dickey (1970)
37. Howard's End - E. M. Forster (1910)
38. The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy (1922)
39. Dune - Frank Herbert (1965)
40. The World According to Garp - John Irving (1978)
41. A Separate Peace - John Knowles (1959)
42. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand (1943)
43. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (1957)
44. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (1980)
45. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (1937)
46. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)
47. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (1945)
48. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (1920)
49. Native Son - Richard Wright (1940)
50. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (1959)
51. The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles (1949)
52. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner (1929)
53. The Book of Ruth - Jane Hamilton (1988)
54. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway (1929)
55. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway (1940)
56. From Here to Eternity - James Jones (1951)
57. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (1916)
58. Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey (1964)
59. Animal Dreams - Barbara Kingsolver (1990)
60. Being There - Jerzy Kosinski (1970)
61. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin (1969)
62. Martha Quest - Doris Lessing (1952)
63. The Four-Gated City - Doris Lessing (1969)
64. The Call of the Wild - Jack London (1903)
65. All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy (1992)
66. Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry (1985)
67. Hawaii - James Michener (1959)
68. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller (1934)
69. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice (1976)
70. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair (1906)
71. Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner (1971)
72. Rabbit Run - John Updike (1960)
73. Trinity - Leon Uris (1976)
74. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut (1973)
75. The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker (1989)
76. Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin (1953)
77. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (1952)
78. The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck (1931)
79. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (1985)
80. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke (1968)
81. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (1902)
82. Fifth Business - Robertson Davies (1970)
83. Ragtime - E. L. Doctorow (1975)
84. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett(1930)
85. Stones from the River - Ursula Hegi (1994)
86. Ironweed - William Kennedy (1984)
87. The Stand - Stephen King (1978)
88. Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence (1913)
89. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John Le Carre (1963)
90. Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis (1922)
91. Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham (1915)
92. The Enigma of Arrival - V. S. Naipaul (1987)
93. The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher (1987)
94. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (1963)
95. Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson (1980)
96. My Life as a Man - Philip Roth (1974)
97. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith (1943)
98. Sophie's Choice - William Styron (1979)
99. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Anne Tyler (1982)
100. ******* Out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison (1992)
The Top 100 Novels List:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (1960)
2. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger (1951)
3. 1984 - George Orwell (1949)
4. The Color Purple - Alice Walker (1982)
5. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
6. On the Road - Jack Kerouac (1957)
7. Beloved - Toni Morrison (1987)
8. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (1939)
9. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell (1936)
10. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1932)
11. Animal Farm - George Orwell (1954)
12. Charlotte's Web - E. B. White (1952)
13. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison (1952)
14. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (1955)
15. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (1962)
16. Ulysses - James Joyce (1922)
17. East of Eden - John Steinbeck (1952)
18. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
19. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison (1977)
20. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (1955)
21. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon (1973)
22. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien (1937)
23. My Antonia - Willa Cather (1918)
24. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving (1989)
25. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan (1989)
26. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (1962)
27. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (1952)
28. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (1926)
29. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
30. The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver (1988)
31. Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller (1939)
32. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
33. All the Kings Men - Robert Penn Warren (1946)
34. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (1927)
35. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (1986)
36. Deliverance - James Dickey (1970)
37. Howard's End - E. M. Forster (1910)
38. The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy (1922)
39. Dune - Frank Herbert (1965)
40. The World According to Garp - John Irving (1978)
41. A Separate Peace - John Knowles (1959)
42. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand (1943)
43. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (1957)
44. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (1980)
45. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (1937)
46. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)
47. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (1945)
48. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (1920)
49. Native Son - Richard Wright (1940)
50. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (1959)
51. The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles (1949)
52. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner (1929)
53. The Book of Ruth - Jane Hamilton (1988)
54. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway (1929)
55. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway (1940)
56. From Here to Eternity - James Jones (1951)
57. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (1916)
58. Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey (1964)
59. Animal Dreams - Barbara Kingsolver (1990)
60. Being There - Jerzy Kosinski (1970)
61. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin (1969)
62. Martha Quest - Doris Lessing (1952)
63. The Four-Gated City - Doris Lessing (1969)
64. The Call of the Wild - Jack London (1903)
65. All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy (1992)
66. Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry (1985)
67. Hawaii - James Michener (1959)
68. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller (1934)
69. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice (1976)
70. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair (1906)
71. Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner (1971)
72. Rabbit Run - John Updike (1960)
73. Trinity - Leon Uris (1976)
74. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut (1973)
75. The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker (1989)
76. Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin (1953)
77. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (1952)
78. The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck (1931)
79. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (1985)
80. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke (1968)
81. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (1902)
82. Fifth Business - Robertson Davies (1970)
83. Ragtime - E. L. Doctorow (1975)
84. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett(1930)
85. Stones from the River - Ursula Hegi (1994)
86. Ironweed - William Kennedy (1984)
87. The Stand - Stephen King (1978)
88. Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence (1913)
89. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John Le Carre (1963)
90. Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis (1922)
91. Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham (1915)
92. The Enigma of Arrival - V. S. Naipaul (1987)
93. The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher (1987)
94. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (1963)
95. Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson (1980)
96. My Life as a Man - Philip Roth (1974)
97. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith (1943)
98. Sophie's Choice - William Styron (1979)
99. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Anne Tyler (1982)
100. ******* Out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison (1992)