Gravity's Rainbow - thomas pynchon
Ulysses - james joyce
moby dick - herman melville
molly; malone dies; the unnameable - samuel beckett
on the roard - jack kerouac
the stranger - albert camus
the recognitions - willaim gaddis
How about Replay by Ken Grimwood.
Also Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan.
It seems people tend to vote for the titles near the top of the list more often. Sort of like choosing what you read first. That's some sort of dynamic I remembered reading about in Psychology 101. Maybe you should rearrange the list to get other titles more visibility. Just an idea.
Madame Bovary- Flaubert
In Search of Lost Time- Proust
Slaughterhouse 5- Vonnegut
Pride and Prejudice- Austen
Great Expectations- Dickens
The Rainbow- D.H.Lawrence
Crime and Punishment- Dostoevsky
War and Peace- Tolstein
Anna Karenina- Tolstein
The Master and Margarita- Bulgakov
Tom Jones- Fielding
The House of the Spirits- Allende
Lord of the Rings- Tolkein
Little Women- Alcott
One Hundred Years of Solitude- Marquez
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck
The Tin Drum- Grass
Jacques the Fatalist- Diderot
Jude the Obscure- Hardy
Middlemarch- George Eliot
Don Quixote- Cervantes
Gulliver's Travels- Swift
Gravity's Rainbow - thomas pynchon
Ulysses - james joyce
moby dick - herman melville
molly; malone dies; the unnameable - samuel beckett
on the roard - jack kerouac
the stranger - albert camus
the recognitions - willaim gaddis
i vote for ulysses
I would like to suggest Eli by Bill Myers
Shelley's Frankenstein, Cather's My Antonia, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, and Ellison's Invisible Man.
Johnny Waco
Thanks for the suggestions!
How about Replay by Ken Grimwood.
Also Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan.
It seems people tend to vote for the titles near the top of the list more often. Sort of like choosing what you read first. That's some sort of dynamic I remembered reading about in Psychology 101. Maybe you should rearrange the list to get other titles more visibility. Just an idea.
Some (mainly objective) suggestions:
Madame Bovary- Flaubert
In Search of Lost Time- Proust
Slaughterhouse 5- Vonnegut
Pride and Prejudice- Austen
Great Expectations- Dickens
The Rainbow- D.H.Lawrence
Crime and Punishment- Dostoevsky
War and Peace- Tolstein
Anna Karenina- Tolstein
The Master and Margarita- Bulgakov
Tom Jones- Fielding
The House of the Spirits- Allende
Lord of the Rings- Tolkein
Little Women- Alcott
One Hundred Years of Solitude- Marquez
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck
The Tin Drum- Grass
Jacques the Fatalist- Diderot
Jude the Obscure- Hardy
Middlemarch- George Eliot
Don Quixote- Cervantes
Gulliver's Travels- Swift
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabakov)
Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh)
1984 (George Orwell)
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
My faves:
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo
Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
If we're limited to one entry each, I'll stick with Gatsby. :)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
Thx, im glad you enjoyed my "best movie ever" poll.
im gonna Suggest a Horror Novel : The Shining by Stephen King
The Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoievski(best novel ever, IMO)
The Trial, by Franz Kafka
The Castle, by Franz Kafka