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Top 100 Books Of All Time by missEmjay(f): 7:43pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
from number 1 to 100 in numerical order! 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice , Jane Austen 3. His Dark Materials , Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , JK Rowling 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four , George Orwell 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , CS Lewis 10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 11. Catch-22 , Joseph Heller 12. Wuthering Heights , Emily Brontë 13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks 14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger 16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame 17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 18. Little Women , Louisa May Alcott 19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin , Louis de Bernieres 20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy 21. Gone with the Wind , Margaret Mitchell 22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling 23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets , JK Rowling 24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling 25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien 26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles , Thomas Hardy 27. Middlemarch , George Eliot 28. A Prayer For Owen Meany , John Irving 29. The Grapes Of Wrath , John Steinbeck 30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland , Lewis Carroll 31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson 32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude , Gabriel García Márquez 33. The Pillars Of The Earth , Ken Follett 34. David Copperfield , Charles Dickens 35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 36. Treasure Island , Robert Louis Stevenson 37. A Town Like Alice , Nevil Shute 38. Persuasion , Jane Austen 39. Dune , Frank Herbert 40. Emma, Jane Austen 41. Anne Of Green Gables , LM Montgomery 42. Watership Down, Richard Adams 43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald 44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 45. Brideshead Revisited , Evelyn Waugh 46. Animal Farm, George Orwell 47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy 49. Goodnight Mister Tom , Michelle Magorian 50. The Shell Seekers , Rosamunde Pilcher 51. The Secret Garden , Frances Hodgson Burnett 52. Of Mice And Men , John Steinbeck 53. The Stand, Stephen King 54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 55. A Suitable Boy , Vikram Seth 56. The BFG , Roald Dahl 57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome 58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell 59. Artemis Fowl , Eoin Colfer 60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 61. Noughts And Crosses , Malorie Blackman 62. Memoirs Of A Geisha , Arthur Golden 63. A Tale Of Two Cities , Charles Dickens 64. The Thorn Birds , Colleen McCollough 65. Mort , Terry Pratchett 66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton 67. The Magus, John Fowles 68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 69. Guards! Guards! , Terry Pratchett 70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding 71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind 72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists , Robert Tressell 73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett 74. Matilda , Roald Dahl 75. Bridget Jones's Diary , Helen Fielding 76. The Secret History , Donna Tartt 77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins 78. Ulysses , James Joyce 79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson 81. The Twits, Roald Dahl 82. I Capture The Castle , Dodie Smith 83. Holes, Louis Sachar 84. Gormenghast , Mervyn Peake 85. The God Of Small Things , Arundhati Roy 86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson 87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 88. Cold Comfort Farm , Stella Gibbons 89. Magician, Raymond E Feist 90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac 91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo 92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear , Jean M Auel 93. The Colour Of Magic , Terry Pratchett 94. The Alchemist , Paulo Coelho 95. Katherine , Anya Seton 96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer 97. Love In The Time Of Cholera , Gabriel García Márquez 98. Girls In Love , Jacqueline Wilson 99. The Princess Diaries , Meg Cabot 100. Midnight's Children , Salman Rushdie copied from BBC 1 Like |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by missEmjay(f): 7:46pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
How many have you read and which book do you think is missing from the list? |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by Nobody: 7:51pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
I've watched about 10 n read 5... Why is none of Dan Brown's books in the list? One of his shld be on the list tho 2 Likes |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by Lovetinz(m): 7:53pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
The Gulag Archipelago written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is the finest book I ever read. |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by missEmjay(f): 8:03pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
polymathic:Well, this is not the only top 100 list. His book(s) coulda made other lists. And I guess you have a lot of reading to do *winks* |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by Emyemyberry(m): 8:06pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
I have watched 10,and read 13 from this list,inbetween,things fall apart,angels and demons,nothing last forever,should have made this list;my thought......more than half of the list are english authors,BBC IS BIASED! |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by missEmjay(f): 8:08pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
Lovetinz:I see... |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by missEmjay(f): 8:11pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
Emyemyberry:Yea, you're right. I saw Things Fall Apart in another list. |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by Nobody: 8:16pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
missEmjay:hahahaha, I'm tired of reading... Besides, most of d books I've read aint on this particular list, like Dan brown's books, sidney sheldon, John Grisham, etc 1 Like |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by Emyemyberry(m): 8:17pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
missEmjay:where is the list? Maybe you can paste it also |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by missEmjay(f): 8:19pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
Emyemyberry:lemme see if I can fish it out. |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by olayincar(m): 8:24pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
Ogboju Ode ninu Igbo Irunmale (The Forest of A Thousand Demons ) by Chief Daniel O. Fagunwa God is not one by stephen R. Prothero Both are missing! |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by missEmjay(f): 8:28pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
olayincar:Hahaha! Ogboju what?! You think ogboju should make this list? Lol. It is well. |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by DikSin(m): 8:30pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
I've read just one: 1984-George Orwel Now I know I got "99 problems" |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by missEmjay(f): 8:40pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
DikSin:Hahaha... if you say so. People will soon add to that '99 problems'. And hope you enjoyed 1984 too? One of my favorites. And.... just a guess. Was it JAMB that made you read 1984, twas on their syllabus last year |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by olayincar(m): 8:45pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
missEmjay: Why not... Even top10 Our problem are, we don't value wah we have. |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by Mayydayy(m): 8:46pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
now i just discovered i am yet to start reading booksi.i cant even boost of more thn five books here.i just bookmarked it.time to start buying. |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by Emyemyberry(m): 8:47pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
missEmjay:patiently waiting. |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by Richhommie(m): 8:50pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
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Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by missEmjay(f): 8:50pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
olayincar:I'm not disputing that. just asking if the book was worth it and you just confirmed that. 1 Like |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by missEmjay(f): 9:03pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
Mayydayy:Five?! Well, you've tried. Time to start buying? When you can download most for free online. |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by missEmjay(f): 9:28pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
Here is wikipedia's list: -Things Fall Apart Achebe, Chinua Chinua Achebe -Fairy tales Andersen, Hans ChristianHans Christian Andersen -The Divine Comedy Alighieri, Dante Dante Alighieri -Epic of Gilgamesh Unknown -Book of Job Unknown -One Thousand and One Nights Unknown -Njál's Saga Unknown -Pride and Prejudice Austen, JaneJane Austen -Le Père Goriot de Balzac, HonoréHonoré de Balzac -Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable , a trilogy Beckett, Samuel Samuel Beckett -The Decameron Boccaccio, Giovanni Giovanni Boccaccio -Borges, Jorge Luis Jorge Luis Borges -Wuthering Heights Brontë, EmilyEmily Brontë -The Stranger Camus, Albert Albert Camus -Poems Celan, Paul Paul Celan |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by missEmjay(f): 9:39pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
-Journey to the End of the Night Céline, Louis-FerdinandLouis-Ferdinand Céline -Don Quixote Cervantes, Miguel de Miguel de Cervantes -The Canterbury Tales Chaucer, Geoffrey Geoffrey Chaucer -Stories Chekhov, Anton Anton Chekhov -Nostromo Conrad, JosephJoseph Conrad -Great Expectations Dickens, CharlesCharles Dickens -Jacques the Fatalist Diderot, Denis Denis Diderot -Berlin Alexanderplatz Döblin, Alfred Alfred Döblin -Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky, Fyodor Fyodor Dostoevsky -The Idiot Dostoevsky, Fyodor Fyodor Dostoevsky -The Possessed Dostoevsky, Fyodor Fyodor Dostoevsky -The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky, Fyodor Fyodor Dostoevsky -Middlemarch Eliot, George George Eliot -Invisible Man Ellison, RalphRalph Ellison -Medea Euripides -Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner, William William Faulkner -The Sound and the Fury Faulkner, William William Faulkner -Madame Bovary Flaubert, GustaveGustave Flaubert -Sentimental Education Flaubert, GustaveGustave Flaubert -Gypsy Ballads Lorca, Federico García Federico García Lorca -One Hundred Years of Solitude Márquez, Gabriel GarcíaGabriel García Márquez -Love in the Time of Cholera Márquez, Gabriel GarcíaGabriel García Márquez -Faust Goethe, Johann Wolfgang vonJohann Wolfgang von Goethe -Dead Souls Gogol, Nikolai Nikolai Gogol -The Tin Drum Grass, GünterGünter Grass -The Devil to Pay in the Backlands Guimarães Rosa, João João Guimarães Rosa -Hunger Hamsun, KnutKnut Hamsun -The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway, ErnestErnest Hemingway -Iliad Homer -Odyssey Homer -A Doll's House Ibsen, Henrik Henrik Ibsen -Ulysses Joyce, JamesJames Joyce -Stories Kafka, Franz Franz Kafka -The Trial Kafka, Franz Franz Kafka -The Castle Kafka, Franz Franz Kafka -Shakuntala Kālidāsa |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by missEmjay(f): 9:57pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
-The Sound of the Mountain Kawabata, Yasunari -Zorba the Greek Kazantzakis, Nikos -Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D. H. -Independent People Laxness, Halldór -Poems Leopardi, Giacomo Doris Lessing -Pippi Longstocking Lindgren, Astrid -A Madman's Diary Xun, LuLu Xun -Children of Gebelawi Mahfouz, Naguib -Buddenbrooks Mann, Thomas -The Magic Mountain Mann, Thomas -Moby-Dick Melville, Herman -Essays Montaigne, Michel de -History Morante, Elsa -Beloved Morrison, Toni -The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu -The Man Without Qualities Musil, Robert -Lolita Nabokov, Vladimir -Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell, George -Metamorphoses Ovid -The Book of Disquiet Pessoa, Fernando -Tales Poe, Edgar Allan -In Search of Lost Time Proust, Marcel -Gargantua and Pantagruel Rabelais, François -Pedro Páramo Rulfo, Juan -Masnavi Rumi -Midnight's Children Rushdie, Salman -Bostan Saadi -Blindness Saramago, José -Hamlet Shakespeare, William -King Lear Shakespeare, William -Othello Shakespeare, William -Oedipus the King Sophocles -The Red and the Black Stendhal -Tristram Shandy Sterne, Laurence -Confessions of Zeno Svevo, Italo -Gulliver's Travels Swift, Jonathan -War and Peace Tolstoy, Leo -Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo -The Death of Ivan Ilyich Tolstoy, Leo -Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark -Ramayana Valmiki -Aeneid Virgil -Mahabharata Vyasa -Leaves of Grass Whitman, Walt -Mrs Dalloway Woolf, Virginia -To the Lighthouse Woolf, Virginia -Memoirs of Hadrian Yourcenar, Marguerite 1 Like |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by missEmjay(f): 9:58pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
some of these titles tho... |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by missEmjay(f): 10:03pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
Richhommie:You have nothing else to contribute apart from your fullstop? Tanx for stopping by |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by DikSin(m): 10:16pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
missEmjay:Not really: I read it in my SS2 (2005). Read it again for Jamb. Quite interesting |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by missEmjay(f): 10:43pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
DikSin:Thought as much. 1 Like |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by missEmjay(f): 10:44pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
DikSin: |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by Mayydayy(m): 12:03am On Oct 05, 2014 |
missEmjay:having the books has always been a better option for me. |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by missEmjay(f): 7:07am On Oct 05, 2014 |
Mayydayy:You can HAVE them in soft copies too on your phone. Well, not everyone likes ebooks tho. This is one of the times I wish I owned a bookstore. Imagine me selling all these books to you... hehehe |
Re: Top 100 Books Of All Time by Lovetinz(m): 10:48am On Oct 05, 2014 |
Many things attract me to a girl, I have never met a female lover of books that I didn't like immediately. |
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