A List That Actually Is About the 100 Greatest Books of All-Time
Submitted by ElijahCraig on Thu, 11/13/2003 - 12:34
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- NOVELS, EPIC POEMS & LEGENDS:
- (1). The Iliad by Homer
- (2). The Odyssey by Homer
- (3). The Aeneid by Virgil
- (4). Beowulf by Unknown
- (5). The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- (6). The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
- (7). Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- (8). Don Quixote by Cervantes
- (9). Paradise Lost by John Milton
- (10). The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
- (11). Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- (12). Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
- (13). Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- (14). Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
- (15). Candide by Voltaire
- (16). The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- (17). The Tragedy of Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- (18). The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
- (19). Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
- (20). Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- (21). Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- (22). The Red and the Black by Stendahl
- (23). The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
- (24). The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- (25). Carmen by Prosper Merimee
- (26). Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- (27). Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- (28). Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
- (29). David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- (30). A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- (31). Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- (32). The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- (33). Camille by Alexandre Dumas Fils
- (34). Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- (35). Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- (36). Idyls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson
- (37). Silas Marner by George Eliot
- (38). Middlemarch by George Eliot
- (39). Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- (40). Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
- (41). Crime and Punishment by Fedor Dostoyevsky
- (42). The Brothers Karamazov by Fedor Dostoyevsky
- (43). Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- (44). Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- (45). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- (46). The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
- (47). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- (48). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
- (49). Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- (50). War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- (51). The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
- (52). Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
- (53). The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- (54). The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- (55). Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- (56). The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- (57). The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- (58). Dracula by Bram Stoker
- (59).The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
- (60). The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- (61). Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
- (62). An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
- (63). The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- (64). A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- (65). For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- (66). The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- (67). The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
- (68). Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- (69). The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- (70). To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION:
- (71). The Republic by Plato
- (72). The Prince by Machiavelli
- (73). The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
- (74). The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- (75). The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- (76). Das Kapital by Karl Marx
- (77). The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
- PLAYS:
- (78). Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
- (79). Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
- (80). The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
- (81). Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- (82). Othello by William Shakespeare
- (83). Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- (84).The Tempest by William Shakespeare
- (85). Tartuffe by Moliere
- (86). Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
- (87). A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
- (88). The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- (89). Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
- (90). The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
- (91). Our Town by Thornton Wilder
- (92). Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
- PHILOSOPHY:
- (93). The Nicomachaen Ethics by Aristotle
- (94). Meditations by Rene Descartes
- (95). Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
- (96). The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer
- (97). Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- (98). Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- (99). Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- (100). How We Think by John Dewey
Books I've read off of this list:
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Aenied
Beowulf
The Divine Comedy
Marco Polo (when I was young)
Canterbury Tales (in 12th grade)
Don Quixote
Paradise Lost (and Regain'd)
Robinson Crusoe (I hated this book)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Tragedy of Faust
Ivanhoe (I hated this book)
Pride and Prejudice
Frankenstein
The Three Musketeers (I hated this book)
David Copperfield (I REALLY hated this book)
A Tale of Two Cities (I liked this Dickens, about the only one I like)
Great Expectations (horrid!)
The Scarlet Letter (not much of a Hawthorne fan)
Moby Dick
Madame Bovary
Les Miserables
Fathers and Sons (nihil!)
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Little Women
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
War and Peace
Treasure Island
Picture of Dorian Gray
Time Machine
Dracula
Call of the Wild
Great Gatsby
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Old Man and the Sea
Of Mice and Men
Grapes of Wrath
To Kill a Mockingbird
Republic
Prince
Wealth of Nations
Origin of Species
Das Kapital (I am a Marxist, I have to!)
Prometheus Bound
Hamlet
Othello
Macbeth
Tempest
--I have to say, why are the taming of the shrew and tempest before Henry IV? or King Lear!--
Importance of Being Earnest
Cyrano de Bergerac (ugh!)
Death of a Salesman
Nicomachaean Ethics
Meditations
Pure Reason
World as Will and Idea
Walden
--Nietzsche? Jung? Freud? many others--
I wish we had Blake on this list, Coleridge is.
And, come to think of it____--------
WHERE THE HELL IS JOYCE!!!!?