2013-07-10

In another thread, EY posted a picture of the top 10 most read books of all time.

This reminded me of a recent top 100 list posted by Entertainment Weekly, a division of the NWO conglomerate Time Warner.

Let's have a look, shall we?

http://www.goldderby.com/forum/topics/view/5326

The 100 Greatest Novels Ever (AS SELECTED BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, OWNED BY NWO CONGLOMERATE TIME WARNER)

1. Anna Karenina (By Leo Tolstoy -- 1878)

2. The Great Gatsby (By F. Scott Fitzgerald -- 1925)

3. Pride and Prejudice (By Jane Austen -- 1813)

4. Great Expectations (By Charles Dickens -- 1861)

5. One Hundred Years of Solitude (By Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- 1967)

6. My Antonia (By Willa Cather -- 1918)

7. The Harry Potter series (By J.K. Rowling -- 1997-2007)

8. The Rabbit quartet (By John Updike -- 1960-1990)

9. Beloved (By Toni Morrison -- 1987)

10. Charlotte's Web (By E.B. White -- 1952)

11. Mrs. Dalloway (By Virginia Woolf -- 1925)

12. The Sound and the Fury (By William Faulkner -- 1929)

13. To Kill a Mockingbird (By Harper Lee -- 1960)

14. Crime and Punishment (By Fyodor Dostoevsky -- 1867)

15. Ragtime (By E.L. Doctorow -- 1975)

16. Jane Eyre (By Charlotte Bronte -- 1847)

17. The Road (By Cormac McCarthy -- 2006)

18. Moby-Dick (By Herman Melville -- 1851)

19. Lolita (By Vladimir Nabokov -- 1955)

20. Lonesome Dove (By Larry McMurtry -- 1985)

21. An American Tragedy (By Theodore Dreiser -- 1925)

22. Wuthering Heights (By Emily Bronte -- 1847)

23. The Brothers Karamazov (By Fyodor Dostoevsky -- 1880)

24. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (By James Joyce -- 1916)

25. Bleak House (By Charles Dickens -- 1853)

26. Invisible Man (By Ralph Ellison -- 1952)

27. A Wrinkle in Time (By Madeleine L'Engle -- 1962)

28. War and Peace (By Leo Tolstoy -- 1869)

29. The Handmaid's Tale (By Margaret Atwood -- 1986)

30. Native Son (By Richard Wright -- 1940)

31. Blindness (By Jose Saramago -- 1995)

32. The Catcher in the Rye (By J.D. Salinger -- 1951)

33. Maus (By Art Spiegelman -- 1986)

34. The World According to Garp (By John Irving -- 1978)

35. A Personal Matter (By Kenzaburo Oe -- 1964)

36. Atlas Shrugged (By Ayn Rand -- 1957)

37. The Sun Also Rises (By Ernest Hemingway -- 1926)

38. The Regeneration trilogy (By Pat Barker -- 1991-1995)

39. Middlesex (By Jeffrey Eugenides -- 2002)

40. A Suitable Boy (By Vikram Seth -- 1993)

41. Go Tell It on The Mountain (By James Baldwin -- 1953)

42. The Stand (By Stephen King -- 1978)

43. A Confederacy of Dunces (By John Kennedy Toole -- 1980)

44. His Dark Materials (By Philip Pullman -- 1995-2000)

45. The Color Purple (By Alice Walker -- 1982)

46. The Age of Innocence (By Edith Wharton -- 1920)

47. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (By Haruki Murakami -- 1994)

48. The Talented Mr. Ripley (By Patricia Highsmith -- 1955)

49. Ender's Game (By Orson Scott Card -- 1985)

50. Snow (By Orhan Pamuk -- 2002)

51. The Corrections (By Jonathan Franzen -- 2001)

52. Song of Solomon (By Toni Morrison -- 1977)

53. Gone With the Wind (By Margaret Mitchell -- 1936)

54. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (By Ben Fountain -- 2012)

55. A Fine Balance (By Rohinton Mistry -- 1995)

56. Sophie's Choice (By William Styron -- 1979)

57. The Children of Men (By P.D. James -- 1992)

58. Midnight's Children (By Salman Rushdie -- 1981)

59. Dracula (By Bram Stoker -- 1897)

60. Their Eyes Were Watching God (By Zora Neale Hurston -- 1937)

61. Love in the Time of Cholera (By Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- 1988)

62. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (By Mark Twain -- 1884)

63. Portnoy's Complaint (By Philip Roth -- 1969)

64. Infinite Jest (By David Foster Wallace -- 1996)

65. Herzog (By Saul Bellow -- 1964)

66. Howards End (By E.M. Forster -- 1910)

67. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (By Michael Chabon -- 2000)

68. Middlemarch (By George Eliot -- 1874)

69. Money (By Martin Amis -- 1985)

70. Neuromancer (By William Gibson -- 1984)

71. The Hobbit (By J.R.R. Tolkien -- 1937)

72. The Remains of the Day (By Kazuo Ishiguro -- 1989)

73. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (By John le Carre -- 1963)

74. Cold Mountain (By Charles Frazier -- 1997)

75. Madame Bovary (By Gustave Flaubert -- 1857)

76. The Golden Notebook (By Doris Lessing -- 1962)

77. Tom Jones (By Henry Fielding -- 1749)

78. A House for Mr. Biswas (By V.S. Naipaul -- 1961)

79. Bring Up the Bodies (By Hilary Mantel -- 2012)

80. Swann's Way (By Marcel Proust -- 1913)

81. Frankenstein (By Mary Shelley -- 1818)

82. Disgrace (By J.M. Coetzee -- 1999)

83. The Stone Diaries (By Carol Shields -- 1993)

84. Clockers (By Richard Price -- 1992)

85. Catch-22 (By James Heller -- 1961)

86. A Home at the End of the World (By Michael Cunningham -- 1990)

87. White Teeth (By Zadie Smith -- 2000)

88. The Bonfire of the Vanities (By Tom Wolfe -- 1987)

89. Tristram Shandy (By Laurence Sterne -- 1895)

90. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (By Carson McCullers -- 1940)

91. The Leopard (By Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa -- 1958)

92. The Glass Bead Game (By Hermann Hesse -- 1943)

93. Bastard Out of Carolina (By Dorothy Allison -- 1992)

94. The Moonstone (By Wilkie Collins -- 1868)

95. The Poisonwood Bible (By Barbara Kingsolver -- 1998)

96. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (By Italo Calvino -- 1979)

97. The Big Sleep (By Raymond Chandler -- 1939)

98. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (By Judy Blume -- 1970)

99. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (By Douglas Adams -- 1979)

100. The Joy Luck Club (By Amy Tan -- 1989)

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