Do people still read? - Top 100 books

[Keyser Soze]

i prefer non-fiction, most of those books were required of me in high school and college.

[GonzoStyle]

the only books I enjoyed that were required were: Catcher in the rye, streetcar named desire, to kill a mockingbird, grapes of wrath, hamlet and macbeth.

[Keyser Soze]

catcher in the rye, rabbit is rich turned me on to read rabbit, run. i really enjoyed 1984 at the time. on the road is one of my all time favorite books. that triggered me to start reading burroughs, ginsburg, and then led me to want to learn more about abbey hoffman.

[diceisgod]

Animal Farm
The Great Gatsby
Rabbit, Run (half - fucking awful)
The Lord of the Rings
Lord of the Flies
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

6.5

[lush]

Oh wait, it's three: Lolita(which is my favorite book of all time) Lord of the Flies and Catcher in the Rye. I own 1984 and Animal Farm which I've read half of them, like most of my book collection. I'm wondering why Fahrenheit 451 isn't on the list. They put a comic book in there and they can't put a Sci-Fci one? I call shenanigans.

[diceisgod]

5.5 rather. I hate reading and counting

[drusilla]

Catch-22
A Clockwork Orange
The Great Gatsby
1984
The Sun Also Rises


gatsby & clockwork are two of the few books that i have actually read more than once.

& i actually dreaded reading 1984. i hated it.

[GonzoStyle]

1984 was brilliant, that one I read on my own.

[crx girl]

10, there's a lot of big ones that i've never read. and yeah, brave new world and farenheit i would expect to be on there.

animal farm
catch 22
the confessions of nat turner
grapes of wrath, but i never finished it
invisible man
lion the witch and the wardrobe
lord of the rings
play it as it lays
the sun also rises, also never finished it, i just can't get through hemingway
their eyes were watching god
wide sargasso sea

all but 3 were for school

[GonzoStyle]

I agree at times some hemingway novels become a bit drab in parts much like tolstoy but the end result is usually worth it.

[Gooch]

this list is absolute garbage....

Cats Cradle by Vonnegut belongs
No Dostoevsky ?!??!?! Fucking very much a Crime & Punishment...which should be on that list.
How about: The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Dune belongs on this list.
No John Irving... World According to Garp belongs
Something Wicked This Way Comes (or anything) by Ray Bradbury
Where is Ulysses, by James Joyce????
Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence???
In Cold Blood, Capote???
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
A Passage To India by E. M. Forster
The War of the World by H. G. Wells

the worse one of all:

No Joseph Conrad?!?!?!?!?!? (Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim)

This list is a fuckin farce



oops...missed the 1923 and above part. that explains Conrad, Dostoevsky, Joyce and Wells.



Edited By Gooch on 1129840356

[Buttmunch]

The list limits itself to books written after 1923.

[Gooch]

caught that after. still a shitty list.

[The Sleeper]

I think i've read 4 or 5. I don't remember if i read "are you there god, it's me margaret"

[lush]

Or the sequel "Are You There God, It's Me Dennis"

[The Sleeper]

that would be pretty coincidental

[Hawt Baux]

Animal Farm
Catch-22(half)
The Catcher in the Rye
Gone With the Wind
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Lord of the Flies
Mrs. Dalloway
1984
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Slaughterhouse-Five
To Kill a Mockingbird
To the Lighthouse

1984 might have been the most painful read to date.

[PeterDragon]

19.
Animal Farm
The Big Sleep
Catch-22
Catcher in the Rye
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby (maybe the most over rated novel ever)
I, Claudius
Invisible Man
Lolita
Lord of the Flies
The Lord of the Rings
Native Son
Neuromancer
1984
Portnoy's Complaint
Rabbit, Run
Slaughterhouse Five
The Spy Who came in from the cold
To Kill a mockingbird

and i have The Sportswriter (which was a gift) that i've been meaning to read.

its like most lists - completely arbitrary. Choosing Slaughter House Five over Cats Cradle for example (Im figuring they werent gonna choose 2 books from the same author).

It is an interesting list though. some of those books are dated in their references; some socially relevant/political, some simple.

[2 tired 2 give N F]

The Catcher in the Rye - Great
The Grapes of Wrath - Eh
The Great Gatsby - Liked
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - Good
Lord of the Files - Great
1984 - Great
One Flew over the Cucoo's Nest - Great
To Kill a Mockingbird - Good

oops...missed the 1923 and above part. that explains Conrad, Dostoevsky, Joyce and Wells.

Don't forget my boy Billy Shakespeare

[diceisgod]

Or Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John