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where would i find a list with the top 100 books ever?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    There are many lists, of the top 100 novels, sci-fi books, of each century, etc.

    If you use a search engine (like Yahoo), you can get a list of sites that have lists of the top 100 books.

    But the best one I have found for reference is the University of Montana department of English list, for the top 100 of all time. Here it is:

    1. THE COLLECTED WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

    2. THE BIBLE

    3. DON QUIXOTE, Miguel de Cervantes

    4. ILIAD/ ODYSSEY, Homer

    5. METAMORPHOSES, Ovid

    6. FINNEGAN'S WAKE, James Joyce

    7. ORESTEIAN TRILOGY, Aeschylus

    8. TAO TE CHING, Lao Tzu

    9. THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    10. ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Lewis Carroll

    11. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, Virginia Woolf

    12. ULYSSES, James Joyce

    13. PALE FIRE, Vladimir Nabokov

    14. DIVINE COMEDY, Dante Alighieri

    15. COLLECTED POEMS, Wallace Stevens

    16. ARABIAN NIGHTS, Anonymous

    17. WAR AND PEACE, Leo Tolstoy

    18. BELOVED, Toni Morrison

    19. COLLECTED FICTIONS, Jorge Luis Borges

    20. CANTERBURY TALES, Geoffrey Chaucer

    21. ANECDOTES OF DESTINY, Isak Dinesen

    22. THEBAN TRILOGY, Sophocles

    23. MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND HARMONY, Roberto Calasso

    24. KATHASARITSAGARA, Somadeva

    25. SHORT STORIES, Anton Chekov

    26. BHAGAVAD GITA, Anonymous

    27. 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE, Gabriel García Márquez

    28. GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES

    29. INVISIBLE MAN, Ralph Ellison

    30. ABSALOM, ABSALOM!, William Faulkner

    31. WOMEN IN LOVE, D.H. Lawrence

    32. LOLITA, Vladimir Nabokov

    33. DIALOGUES, Plato

    34. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST, Marcel Proust

    35. THE TIN DRUM, Günter Grass

    36. COLLECTED SHORT STORIES, Flannery O'Connor

    37. GREAT EXPECTATIONS, Charles Dickens

    38. THREE NOVELS, Samuel Beckett

    39. THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS, Sigmund Freud

    40. HEART OF DARKNESS, Joseph Conrad

    41. FOUR QUARTETS, T.S. Eliot

    42. MADAME BOVARY, Gustave Flaubert

    43. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN, Salman Rushdie

    44. TRISTRAM SHANDY, Laurence Sterne

    45. COLLECTED POEMS, W.B. Yeats

    46. THE GOLDEN BOUGH, James G. Frazer

    47. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, Oscar Wilde

    48. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Jane Austen

    49. THE BLACK PRINCE, Iris Murdoch

    50. THE MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN SARAGOSSA, Jan Potaki

    51. THE BACCHAE, Euripides

    52. VANITY FAIR, William Thackeray

    53. METAMORPHOSIS, Franz Kafka

    54. THE AENEID, Vergil

    55. TRISTAN AND ISEULT, Anonymous

    56. COLLECTED POEMS, William Blake

    57. THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald

    58. ENDGAME/ WAITING FOR GODOT, Samuel Beckett

    59. COLLECTED POEMS, Emily Dickinson

    60. MOBY DICK, Herman Melville

    61. THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE, Willliam James

    62. MY ANTONIA, Willa Cather

    63. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, J.D. Salinger

    64. FATHERS AND CHILDREN, Ivan Turgenev

    65. LIVES OF A CELL, Lewis Thomas

    66. A DOLL'S HOUSE, Henrik Ibsen

    67. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, Kenneth Grahame

    68. A FAREWELL TO ARMS, Ernest Hemingway

    69. CHARLOTTE'S WEB, E.B. White

    70. HUCKLEBERRY FINN, Mark Twain

    71. LEAVES OF GRASS, Walt Whitman

    72. IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER, Italo Calvino

    73. JANE EYRE, Charlotte Brontë

    74. THE STORYTELLER, Mario Vargas Llosa

    75. EPIC OF GILGAMESH, Anonymous

    76. THE IDIOT, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    77. CATCH 22, Joseph Heller

    78. WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Emily Brontë

    79. TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES,Thomas Hardy

    80. THE MAGUS, John Fowles

    81. CEREMONY, Leslie Silko

    82. WALDEN, Henry David Thoreau

    83. NATIVE SON, Richard Wright

    84. NATURE, Ralph Waldo Emerson

    85. FAUST, Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

    86. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Harper Lee

    87. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, Charles Darwin

    88. PARADISE LOST, John Milton

    89. TOM JONES, Henry Fielding

    90. THE GOLDEN A S S, Apuleius

    91. THE ART OF MEMORY, Francis Yeats

    92. MIDDLEMARCH, George Eliot

    93. AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD, Peter Matthiessen

    94. INNER CHAPTERS, Chuang Tzu

    95. CANDIDE, Voltaire

    96. THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY, Friedrich Nietzsche

    97. PASSAGE TO INDIA, E.M. Forster

    98. THE SEA, THE SEA, Iris Murdoch

    99. TRISTES TROPIQUES, Claude Lévi-Strauss

    100. THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, Zora Neale Hurston

    Source(s): University of Montana.
  • 5 years ago

    I didn't see the Kerrang 100 list so I don't know if yours is better BUT I can't agree with any rock list that doesn't have Foghat in the top 100 somewhere. Foghat was one of the best rock bands ever and should be in at least the top 20! The Scorpions, The Kinks, Ten Years After, Jethro Tull, Credence Clearwater Revival, Frank Zappa, Krokus, Dokken, Tesla, and Foreigner should also be on the list before The Cars or Styx!

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