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The 100 greatest novels of all time
(according to The Guardian)
But otoh, because it's a list of "novels" it doesn't include Chaucer. Or Beowulf. Or Kit Marlow or Shakespeare or any of the other English lit in poetry format. Or, in point of fact, the Odyssey, or Greek or Roman epics. I would like to compose a list of the 100 greatest works of fiction of all time, enabling one to include epic poetry AND plays AND novels AND novellas AND short stories.
Although, really, this list could very well include short stories or novellas if they'd wanted to -- it does include Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde which is probably a short novella. It's around 100 pages, I think.
Also, the list has a strong tendency towards Pretentious, as determined by the lack of genre fiction. (The token Tolkien and Chandler notwithstanding.) And the focus on 19th century English and American lit and on French and Russian fiction.
Read; Unfinished
1. Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
2. Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan) -- Most of what I know about it I know from reading Little Women. *g*
3. Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
4. Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
5. Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
6. Clarissa (Samuel Richardson)
7. Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)
8. Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos De Laclos)
9. Emma (Jane Austen)
10. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
11. Nightmare Abbey (Thomas Love Peacock)
12. The Black Sheep (Honore De Balzac)
13. The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal)
14. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
15. Sybil (Benjamin Disraeli)
16. David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
17. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) -- I have attempt to read this many times and just can't. I can't get through it.
18. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
19. Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
20. The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
21. Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) -- Oy.
22. Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
23. The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
24. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
25. Little Women (Louisa M. Alcott)
26. The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope)
27. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
28. Daniel Deronda (George Eliot)
29. The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
30. The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
31. Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
33. Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome)
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
35. The Diary of a Nobody (George Grossmith)
36. Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
37. The Riddle of the Sands (Erskine Childers)
38. The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
39. Nostromo (Joseph Conrad)
40. The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) -- although I really don't remember it well at all. I was six.
41. In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
42. The Rainbow (D. H. Lawrence)
43. The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
44. The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan)
45. Ulysses (James Joyce)
46. Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
47. A Passage to India (E. M. Forster)
48. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) -- I would have liked this better if I hadn't had to analyze every line of it for class and no, I am so not kidding. Everyone in the class turned in a 100+ page reading diary with quotes in one column and analysis in the other. Minimum three quotes a page. Still not kidding.
49. The Trial (Franz Kafka)
50. Men Without Women (Ernest Hemingway)
51. Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
52. As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
53. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
54. Scoop (Evelyn Waugh)
55. USA (John Dos Passos)
56. The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
57. The Pursuit Of Love (Nancy Mitford)
58. The Plague (Albert Camus)
59. Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
60. Malone Dies (Samuel Beckett)
61. Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
62. Wise Blood (Flannery O'Connor)
63. Charlotte's Web (E. B. White)
64. The Lord Of The Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)
65. Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis)
66. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
67. The Quiet American (Graham Greene)
68 On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
69. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
70. The Tin Drum (Gunter Grass)
71. Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark)
73. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
74. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
75. Herzog (Saul Bellow)
76. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) -- I *heart* magical realism.
77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (Elizabeth Taylor)
78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John Le Carre)
79. Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison)
80. The Bottle Factory Outing (Beryl Bainbridge)
81. The Executioner's Song (Norman Mailer)
82. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Italo Calvino)
83. A Bend in the River (V. S. Naipaul)
84. Waiting for the Barbarians (J.M. Coetzee)
85. Housekeeping (Marilynne Robinson)
86. Lanark (Alasdair Gray)
87. The New York Trilogy (Paul Auster)
88. The BFG (Roald Dahl)
89. The Periodic Table (Primo Levi)
90. Money (Martin Amis)
91. An Artist of the Floating World (Kazuo Ishiguro)
92. Oscar And Lucinda (Peter Carey)
93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Milan Kundera)
94. Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Salman Rushdie)
95. L.A. Confidential (James Ellroy)
96. Wise Children (Angela Carter)
97. Atonement (Ian McEwan)
98. Northern Lights (Philip Pullman)
99. American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
100. Austerlitz (W. G. Sebald)
This is clearly not a list generated by reader input, because Harry Potter's not on it at all. And because the top ten list includes Pilgrim's Progress.
Also,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
m_shell had today off. So we had apple compote and crepes and yoghurt for breakfast. We put blueberries in the compote and it turned a lovely burgundy color.
And last night we made carrot soup with garam marsala and curry and cinnamon and cumin and yoghurt. And ate it with salad and toast with cheese. Mmmmmmm.
Also, I made many cookies, some of which I will be taking tolysimache's tonight. I often do "Almond Joy" cookies -- cookie base with coconut, chopped almonds, and chocolate chips. Only we had no almonds (or in fact any raw nuts). Doh! So I figured I'd make Mounds cookies. Only then I realized that we were out of vanilla and I hadn't purchased any, so I made them with amaretto instead. And they became Almond Joy cookies once again, only with almond flavoring instead of almonds. Two lessons: The part of my brain where "remembering to buy baking supplies" is located is full of giant holes. (We buy 10 lbs of flour at a time, so I'm all "of course we have flour!") And sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.
(according to The Guardian)
But otoh, because it's a list of "novels" it doesn't include Chaucer. Or Beowulf. Or Kit Marlow or Shakespeare or any of the other English lit in poetry format. Or, in point of fact, the Odyssey, or Greek or Roman epics. I would like to compose a list of the 100 greatest works of fiction of all time, enabling one to include epic poetry AND plays AND novels AND novellas AND short stories.
Although, really, this list could very well include short stories or novellas if they'd wanted to -- it does include Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde which is probably a short novella. It's around 100 pages, I think.
Also, the list has a strong tendency towards Pretentious, as determined by the lack of genre fiction. (The token Tolkien and Chandler notwithstanding.) And the focus on 19th century English and American lit and on French and Russian fiction.
Read; Unfinished
1. Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
2. Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan) -- Most of what I know about it I know from reading Little Women. *g*
3. Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
4. Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
5. Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
6. Clarissa (Samuel Richardson)
7. Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)
8. Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos De Laclos)
9. Emma (Jane Austen)
10. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
11. Nightmare Abbey (Thomas Love Peacock)
12. The Black Sheep (Honore De Balzac)
13. The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal)
14. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
15. Sybil (Benjamin Disraeli)
16. David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
17. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) -- I have attempt to read this many times and just can't. I can't get through it.
18. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
19. Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
20. The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
21. Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) -- Oy.
22. Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
23. The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
24. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
25. Little Women (Louisa M. Alcott)
26. The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope)
27. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
28. Daniel Deronda (George Eliot)
29. The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
30. The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
31. Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
33. Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome)
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
35. The Diary of a Nobody (George Grossmith)
36. Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
37. The Riddle of the Sands (Erskine Childers)
38. The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
39. Nostromo (Joseph Conrad)
40. The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) -- although I really don't remember it well at all. I was six.
41. In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
42. The Rainbow (D. H. Lawrence)
43. The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
44. The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan)
45. Ulysses (James Joyce)
46. Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
47. A Passage to India (E. M. Forster)
48. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) -- I would have liked this better if I hadn't had to analyze every line of it for class and no, I am so not kidding. Everyone in the class turned in a 100+ page reading diary with quotes in one column and analysis in the other. Minimum three quotes a page. Still not kidding.
49. The Trial (Franz Kafka)
50. Men Without Women (Ernest Hemingway)
51. Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
52. As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
53. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
54. Scoop (Evelyn Waugh)
55. USA (John Dos Passos)
56. The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
57. The Pursuit Of Love (Nancy Mitford)
58. The Plague (Albert Camus)
59. Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
60. Malone Dies (Samuel Beckett)
61. Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
62. Wise Blood (Flannery O'Connor)
63. Charlotte's Web (E. B. White)
64. The Lord Of The Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)
65. Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis)
66. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
67. The Quiet American (Graham Greene)
68 On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
69. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
70. The Tin Drum (Gunter Grass)
71. Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark)
73. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
74. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
75. Herzog (Saul Bellow)
76. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) -- I *heart* magical realism.
77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (Elizabeth Taylor)
78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John Le Carre)
79. Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison)
80. The Bottle Factory Outing (Beryl Bainbridge)
81. The Executioner's Song (Norman Mailer)
82. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Italo Calvino)
83. A Bend in the River (V. S. Naipaul)
84. Waiting for the Barbarians (J.M. Coetzee)
85. Housekeeping (Marilynne Robinson)
86. Lanark (Alasdair Gray)
87. The New York Trilogy (Paul Auster)
88. The BFG (Roald Dahl)
89. The Periodic Table (Primo Levi)
90. Money (Martin Amis)
91. An Artist of the Floating World (Kazuo Ishiguro)
92. Oscar And Lucinda (Peter Carey)
93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Milan Kundera)
94. Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Salman Rushdie)
95. L.A. Confidential (James Ellroy)
96. Wise Children (Angela Carter)
97. Atonement (Ian McEwan)
98. Northern Lights (Philip Pullman)
99. American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
100. Austerlitz (W. G. Sebald)
This is clearly not a list generated by reader input, because Harry Potter's not on it at all. And because the top ten list includes Pilgrim's Progress.
Also,
m_shell had today off. So we had apple compote and crepes and yoghurt for breakfast. We put blueberries in the compote and it turned a lovely burgundy color.And last night we made carrot soup with garam marsala and curry and cinnamon and cumin and yoghurt. And ate it with salad and toast with cheese. Mmmmmmm.
Also, I made many cookies, some of which I will be taking to
lysimache's tonight. I often do "Almond Joy" cookies -- cookie base with coconut, chopped almonds, and chocolate chips. Only we had no almonds (or in fact any raw nuts). Doh! So I figured I'd make Mounds cookies. Only then I realized that we were out of vanilla and I hadn't purchased any, so I made them with amaretto instead. And they became Almond Joy cookies once again, only with almond flavoring instead of almonds. Two lessons: The part of my brain where "remembering to buy baking supplies" is located is full of giant holes. (We buy 10 lbs of flour at a time, so I'm all "of course we have flour!") And sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.