_50 Greatest Books Ever Written
Submitted by blindsider on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 04:26
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- 1. 20000 Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne
- 2. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 3. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
- 4. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
- 5. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
- 6. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- 7. A Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway
- 8. The Red Badge of Courage - Stephan Crane
- 9. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
- 10. The Odyssey - Homer
- 11. The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
- 12. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
- 13. Paradise Lost - John Milton
- 14. Tales From Arabian Nights - Unknown
- 15. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- 16. Candide:Or, Optimism - Francois Voltaire
- 17. Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
- 18. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame - Victor Hugo
- 19. The Last of The Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
- 20. The Sea-Wolf and Selected Stories - Jack London
- 21. Cyrano De Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
- 22. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
- 23. Poems of Robert Browning:Riverside - Robert Browning
- 24. Emerson's Essays - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 25. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
- 26. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among The Lowly - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 27. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
- 28. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- 29. The Complete Poems of John Keats - John Keats
- 30. The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
- 31. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- 32. Robert Frost's Poems - Robert Frost
- 33. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
- 34. Animal Farm - George Orwell
- 35. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- 36. She Stoops To Conquer - Oliver Goldsmith
- 37. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- 38. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- 39. The Karamazov Brothers - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 40. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
- 41. The Iliad of Homer - Homer
- 42. Lady Chatterly's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
- 43. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas pere
- 44. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- 45. Aesop's Fables - J. Pinkney
- 46. Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
- 47. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
- 48. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas pere
- 49. Aristotle's Politics and Poetics - Aristotle
- 50. The Aeneid: Virgil - Virgil
Author Comments:
According to listofbests.com, so I can't take the credit for it. It's not finished yet, because I'm going to expand it to make it a top 100 list, but I'll finish it after the holidays
Pretty interesting list, though I find 20000 Leagues a peculiar choice for #1.
Do you read them and like them? Or you take the list and want to read them? A lot of books in this list are from the adventure genre.
Strangely, I didn't any of those yet, but I will probably read Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde soon because of the double theme. A theme I like since I've read William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe, I didn't really like The Double from Dostoievsky and I'm a little bit scare that I'm disapointted by Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde because I know the story, like Fight Club.