Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of All Time

[ZoNeSeeK]

As voted by their board, and a seperate list by the readers. How many have you read of each?

Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of All Time (http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html)

On the board list ive only read 1984, Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies. There's tonnes of classics ive got to get hold of at some point.

Readers list is a little more contemporary (2 King books made it in! woohoo!), I've read 10. Still, at least there's alot to look forward to.

[Jean]

27 of the Board's list

30 of the Reader's list

neither selection seems very representative to me

[MonteGss]

10 of the Board's list
15 of the Reader's list

I currently own a bunch that appear on both but haven't got to yet. :)

[Darkthoughts]

23 off the reader's and 10 off the board. Its reminded me of quite a few that I'd like to read - cheers Zone :)

[Storyslinger]

23-Boards List
33-Reader's list

Way to go Zone

[ZoNeSeeK]

i em unedjamucatod!

[BlakeMP]

Let's see...

From the Board's list I've read
THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad

And most of those for school. Yeesh.

From the Reader's list...
THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
1984 by George Orwell
THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
SHANE by Jack Schaefer
THE STAND by Stephen King
HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card
STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein
IT by Stephen King

Well, that's a little more respectible.

[BedOfRoses]

12 from the Board's list
13 from the Reader's list

Like Monte, I own a bunch of the ones on the lists but haven't quite gotten to them yet. :)

[Daghain]

I have so many reading lists from so many classes that I don't even know where to start anymore.

Which is why I decided to reread all my SK. :lol:

[CRinVA]

I've read 10 from The Board

I've read 21 from the Reader's

there are pelnty on each list that I would like to read - if I could find the time.

:-)

[Brice]

1. ULYSSES by James Joyce
2. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
3. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
4. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Hux
5. 1984 by George Orwell
6. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
7. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
8. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
9. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
10. POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
11. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
12. THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
13. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
14. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
15. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
16. FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
17. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London


1. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
3. 1984 by George Orwell
4. ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
5. ULYSSES by James Joyce
6. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
7. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
8. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
9. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
10. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
11. SHANE by Jack Schaefer
12. THE STAND by Stephen King
13. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
14. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
15. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conradt
16. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft
17. THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
18. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
19. ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
20. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
21. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
22. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
23. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
24. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
25. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig
26. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
27. FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
28. WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
29. NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
30. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
31. IT by Stephen King
32. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey

[Storyslinger]

i em unedjamucatod!

HAHA :lol:

[Daghain]

10 from the board's list
13 from the reader's list

[Patrick]

13 total from the Board list, although I've seen the movie for some of the others, does that count?

21 or so from the Readers' List. (I haven't read "It" yet. :o)

I kept losing count. See "Mine's A Pint" thread if you have any questions. :lol:

[Kevin]

9 from The Board.
23 from Readers.

Good to see Fowles in there with The French Lieutenant's Woman and THe Magus. I think The Collector is missing though...

[Ikilledthecrimsonking]

board list is BS the stand was #29 on readers list and no SK books were even on the boards list

[Patrick]

Upon closer inspection, did anyone else notice how L. Ron Hubbard and Ayn Rand have seven of the top ten on the Readers' List? I've lost interest in that List.

Radcliffe's Rival 100 (http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100rivallist.html) list on the same site is an interesting alternative to the Board List though.

[fernandito]

A Clockwork Orange made both lists. :thumbsup:

[Ikilledthecrimsonking]

i should read that i loved the movie

[Patrick]

I've added A CLOCKWORK ORANGE to my "read soon" list because, yeah, it was on all the lists and the movie was great.

Hell, I've decided to use the Modern Library and Radcliffe lists to find a lot of the books I'll be reading for a while - aside from whatever SK, Palahniuk, and other stuff I add in.

[Jean]

I didn't like the movie, but I will read the book if I can find it, it might still be good inspite of both the movie and the highly dubious selection of the list.

[Brice]

Clockwork Orange is one of my favorite books ever.

[sarajean]

board: 18
reader's: 43

pretty much everything that interested me on both list, i've already read. except some of the heinlein...which is on my own list of "to read."

[Ruthful]

12 from the Board's list-not one of them Catcher in the Rye, remarkably enough-and 17 from the readers' choices.

Figures that the Modern Library would choose the most obscure Willa Cather and Salman Rushdie novels for its choices.

And four Ayn Rand novels on the other list?!

:onfire:

Blecch!

I couldn't even make it through an hour of the audiotape version of The Fountainhead.

I think these "best of" lists are overrated-not to mention, completely subjective. For example, there's no reason The American couldn't have been included with the rest of the Henry James novels that made the first list. I also don't think "Native Son" approaches the quality of work that Ralph Ellision produced in "Invisible Man," one of the best novels of the 20th century.

[Cutter]

I think that's hilarious that The Stand is on that list. Only because I've looked at this list a lot, but I've always only glanced at the reader's choices, never really seriously looked at the reader's choices. It's nice to see King in the reader's choices, and at 29, oh my. And I'm not surprised he didn't make the boards list, heck if they did choose King their list would probably be discredited by many. ><

[Hannah]

4 from the board list
14 from the reader's list

Although now I have some ideas for future reads.

[_Sphynx_]

'Official List': Five. :/

Readers List: Nine.

Nice to see some King on there, though. :D

[Frunobulax]

Board List - 18
Reader's List - 26

I usually prefer more outre books myself, but a good list nonetheless.

[Ruthful]

I just checked out the NYT's list of the top 100 books published this year.

I've read two of them. Three, if you count skimming Arnold Rampersand's biography of Ralph Ellison.

[Jimmy]

What I've read on "The Board's List"

THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
CATCH-22
THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
1984 by George Orwell
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark
THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London

What I've read on "The Readers' List"
ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
1984 by George Orwell
CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
SHANE by Jack Schaefer
THE STAND by Stephen King
LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton
IT by Stephen King
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey
A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie