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If you were to create a list of the top 100 books of all time what would be on it?

My mum just showed me this list a newspaper made of the 100 best books and so I thought it would be fun to see what would be on other people's list. You don't have to list 100 books, but just list as many as you can. If you list 100 I'll be very impressed!!!! You can write "edit" to save your place and then finish the answer. ((((SKYLARK)))) GREAT LISTS! I like your writing Daphne!

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  2. 1. Jane Eyre 2. Kushiel’s Legacy (6 books) 3. Island of the Blue Dolphin 4. Peter Pan 5. Alice in Wonderland 6. Wizard of Oz 7. Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast 8. Hero and the Crown 9. Witch of Blackbird Pond 10. Scarlet Letter 11. Dracula 12. Frankenstein 13. Violin 14. 1984 15. Brave New World 16. Lord of the Flies 17. Les Miserables 18. Uncle Tom’s Cabin 19. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 20. The Hobbit 21. Slaughterhouse Five 22. To Kill a Mockingbird 23. Life of Pi 24. Like Water for Chocolate 25. Mistress of Spices 26. Memoirs of a Geisha 27. Girl with a Pearl Earring 28. Three Musketeers 29. American Gods 30. The Twelfth Transforming 31. Archangel 32. Call of the Wild 33. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 34. The Kite Runner 35. Diary of Anne Frank 36. Night 37. Number the Stars 38. Charlotte’s Web 39. Pride and Prejudice 40. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 41. Ivanhoe 42. Ceremony 43. Crime and Punishment 44. Lies My Teacher Told Me 45. The Little Prince 46. Macbeth 47. Beloved 48. Of Mice and Men 49. Rebecca 50. The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night Time 51. Their Eyes Were Watching God 52. A Tale of Two Cities
  3. Awesome question! Though I numbered my list, the books aren't necessarily in the order of priority; I just wrote them down as they came to mind, and then moved the modern classics to the end to sort of compartmentalize it a bit. I really hope others post their lists as well! 1. Pride and Prejudice ~ Jane Austen 2. Don Quixote ~ Miguel de Cervantes 3. To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee 4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest ~ Ken Kesey 5. Wuthering Heights ~ Emily Bronte 6. The Lord of the Rings ~ JRR Tolkien 7. Nineteen Eighty Four ~ George Orwell 8. All the King’s Men ~ Robert Penn Warren 9. The Scarlet Letter ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne 10. The Picture of Dorian Gray ~ Oscar Wilde 11. Animal Farm ~ George Orwell 12. The Odyssey ~ Homer 13. Lolita ~ Vladimir Nabokov 14. On the Road ~ Jack Kerouac 15. Anna Karenina ~ Leo Tolstoy 16. The Great Gatsby ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald 17. The Portrait of a Lady ~ Henry James 18. Tess of the D’Urbervilles ~ Thomas Hardy 19. The Awakening ~ Kate Chopin 20. My Antonia ~ Willa Cather 21. The Song of the Lark ~ Willa Cather 22. The Age of Innocence ~ Edith Wharton 23. Jane Eyre ~ Charlotte Bronte 24. Uncle Tom’s Cabin ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe 25. Les Miserables ~ Victor Hugo 26. Their Eyes Were Watching God ~ Zora Neale Hurston 27. Gone With the Wind ~ Margaret Mitchell 28. Little Woman ~ Louisa May Alcott 29. Venus in Furs ~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch 30. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ~ Tennessee Williams 31. Don Juan ~ Lord George Gordon 32. A Room With a View ~ E.M. Forster 33. David Copperfield ~ Charles Dickens 34. Of Mice and Men ~ John Steinbeck 35. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde ~ Robert Louis Stevenson 36. Vanity Fair ~ William Makepeace Thackeray 37. Breakfast at Tiffany’s ~ Truman Capote 38. Alice in Wonderland ~ Lewis Carroll 39. For Whom the Bell Tolls ~ Ernest Hemingway 40. Death of a Salesman ~ Arthur Miller 41. Madame Bovary ~ Gustave Flaubert 42. Wise Blood ~ Flannery O’ Connor 43. Atlas Shrugged ~ Ayn Rand 44. The Sorrows of Young Werther ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 45. All Quiet on the Western Front ~ Erich Remarque 46. The Catcher in the Rye ~ JD Salinger 47. For Whom the Bell Tolls ~ Ernest Hemingway 48. Birdsong ~ Sebastian Faulks 49. Beloved ~ Toni Morrison 50. Rebecca ~ Daphne du Maurier 51. Fahrenheit 451 ~ Ray Bradbury 52. Dangerous Liaisons ~ Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 53. The Hobbit ~ J.R.R. Tolkien 54. The Fall of the House of Usher ~ Edgar Allan Poe 55. Out of Africa ~ Isak Dineson 56. Howard’s End ~ E.M. Forster 57. Brave New World ~ Aldous Huxley 58. Persuasion ~ Jane Austen 59. Sense and Sensibility ~ Jane Austen 60. Self-Reliance ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 61. The Grapes of Wrath ~ John Steinbeck 62. Le Petit Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery 63. Oliver Twist ~ Charles Dickens 64. Lord of the Flies ~ William Golding 65. Middlemarch ~ George Eliot 66. Mrs Dalloway ~ Virginia Woolf 67. Little Women ~ Louisa May Alcott Modern Classics: 68. The Time Traveler’s Wife ~ Audrey Niffenegger 69. All Souls ~ Christine Schutt (if you’re a teenage girl you MUST read this book) 70. Saturday ~ Ian McEwan 71. The Colour ~ Rose Tremain 72. The Lovely Bones ~ Alice Sebold 73. The Hours ~ Michael Cunningham 74. Life of Pi ~ Yann Martel 75. The Secret Life of Bees ~ Sue Monk Kidd 76. Eat, Love, Pray ~ Elizabeth Gilbert 77. The Blind Assassin ~ Margaret Atwood 78. Blonde ~ Joyce Carol Oates 79. White Oleander ~ Janet Fitch 80. After This ~ Alice McDermott 81. Corrections ~ Jonathan Franzen 82. White Teeth ~ Zadie Smith 83. The Kite Runner ~ Khaled Hosseini 84. A Thousand Splendid Suns ~ Khaled Hosseini 85. Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace ~ Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin 86. The Alchemist ~ Paulo Coelho 87. Midwives ~ Chris Bohjalin 88. Love in the Time of Cholera ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez 89. The Harry Potter series ~ JK Rowling 90. Memoirs of a Geisha ~ Arthur Golden 91. Cat’s Eye ~ Margaret Atwood 92. Like Water for Chocolate ~ Laura Esquivel 93. The Outsiders ~ S.E. Hinton 94. Oscar and Lucinda ~ Peter Carey 95. Poisonwood Bible ~ Barbara Kingsolver 96. A Thousand Acres ~ Jane Smiley 97. The Shipping News ~ Annie Prouix 98. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay ~ Michael Chabon 99. The Color Purple ~ Alice Walker 100. The Accidental Tourist ~ Anne Tyler 101. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ~ Maya Angelou ((((Viola)))) ~ Pax / Peace : )
  4. A thousand Spendid Suns The Kite Runner The Other Boleyn Girl Outliers Memoirs of a Geisha
  5. Well, I can't list as many as that, but here's what I can in no particular order: A clockwork orange; One flew over the cuckoo's nest; Perfume, story of a murderer; Wicked; Pet Semmatary (no, that's not a spelling error - Stephen King spelt it that way because kids created the cemmetary and that's how they would've spelled it).
  6. I just couldn't stop at 100. :P Sorry. 1. Tantalize – Cynthia Leitch Smith 2. Dark Hours – Gurdun Pausewang 3. Three Million Acres of Flame – Valerie Sherrard 4. Red Rage – Brigitte Blobel 5. Goddess of the Night – Lynne Ewing 6. Fendi, Ferragamo, and Fangs – Julie Kenner, Johanna Edwards, Serena Robar 7. The Other Ones – 8. Go Ask Alice – Anonymous 9. Cut – Patricia McCormick 10. Home Child – Barbara Haworth-Attard 11. Flying Geese – Barbara Haworth-Attard 12. Don’t Die Dragonfly – Linda Joy Singelton 13. Last Dance - Linda Joy Singelton 14. Witch Ball - Linda Joy Singelton 15. Sword Play - Linda Joy Singelton 16. Fatal Charm - Linda Joy Singelton 17. The Guests of War Series – Kit Pearson 18. Shattered Mirror – Amelia Atwater-Rhodes 19. Stones – William Bell 20. The Wereling – Stephen Cole 21. Irish Chain – Barbara Haworth-Attard 22. Glass Houses – Rachel Caine 23. The Dead Girls Dance - Rachel Caine 24. Midnight Alley - Rachel Caine 25. Feast of Fools - Rachel Caine 26. Lord of Misrule - Rachel Caine 27. Blood Ties Book 1: The Turning – Jennifer Armintrout 28. BTB2: Possession - Jennifer Armintrout 29. BTB3: Ashes to Ashes - Jennifer Armintrout 30. BTB4: All Soul’s Night - Jennifer Armintrout 31. Twilight – Stephanie Meyer 32. New Moon - Stephanie Meyer 33. Eclipse - Stephanie Meyer 34. Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Meyer 35. Night World 1 – L.J. Smith 36. Night World 2 - L.J. Smith 37. The Vampire Diaries 1 – L.J. Smith 38. The Vampire Diaries 2 - L.J. Smith 39. Blue Bloods – Melissa de la Cruz 40. Masquerade - Melissa de la Cruz 41. Revelations - Melissa de la Cruz 42. Bloodline 1 – Kate Cary 43. Bloodline: The Reckoning – Kate Cary 44. A Great and Terrible Beauty – Libba Bray 45. Rebel Angels - Libba Bray 46. The Sweet Far Thing - Libba Bray 47. The Luxe – Anna Godbersen 48. Rumours - Anna Godbersen 49. Envy - Anna Godbersen 50. Marked – P.C. and Kristin Cast 51. Betrayed - P.C. and Kristin Cast 52. Chosen - P.C. and Kristin Cast 53. Untamed - P.C. and Kristin Cast 54. Lust – Robin Wasserman 55. Envy - Robin Wasserman 56. Pride - Robin Wasserman 57. Wrath - Robin Wasserman 58. Sloth - Robin Wasserman 59. Gluttony - Robin Wasserman 60. Greed - Robin Wasserman 61. City of Bones – Cassandra Clare 62. City of Ashes – Cassandra Clare 63. City of Glass – Cassandra Clare 64. Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging – Louise Rennison 65. On the Bright Side, I’m Now The Girlfriend of A Sex God – Louise Rennison 66. Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nunga’s – Louise Rennison 67. Dancing in the Nuddy Pants – Louise Rennison 68. Away Laughing on a Fast Camel – Louise Rennison 69. Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers – Louise Rennison 70. Startled by his Furry Shorts – Louise Rennison 71. Love is a Many Trousered Thing – Louise Rennison 72. Stop! In the Name of Pants – Louise Rennison 73. Evernight – Claudia Gray 74. Ghostgirl – Tonya Hurley 75. Wicked Lovely – Melissa Marr 76. Ink Exchange – Melissa Marr 77. The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl – Barry Lyga 78. Aurelia – Anne Osterlund 79. Powers – Deborah Lynn Jacobs 80. Invisible Monsters – Chuck Palahniuk 81. Thicker Than Water – Carla Jablonski 82. The Moth Diaries – Rachel Klein 83. A Northern Light – Jennifer Donnelly 84. AngelMonster – Veronica Bennett 85. King Dork – Frank Portman 86. Incantation – Alice Hoffman 87. The Silver Kiss – Annette Curtis Klause 88. Flesh and Bones – Alan Durant 89. Bad Blood – Rhiannon Lassiter 90. 47 – Walter Mosley 91. The Secret Countess – Eva Ibboston 92. Beautiful City of the Dead – Leander Watts 93. Tithe – Holly Black 94. Blood and Chocolate – Annette Curtis Klause 95. Crank – Ellen Hopkins 96. Glass – Ellen Hopkins 97. Impulse – Ellen Hopkins 98. Privilege – Kate Brian 99. Private – Kate Brian 100. Invitation Only – Kate Brian 101. Untouchable – Kate Brian 102. Confessions – Kate Brian 103. Inner Circle – Kate Brian 104. Legacy – Kate Brian 105. Ambition – Kate Brian 106. Revelation – Kate Brian 107. Paradise Lost – Kate Brian 108. The Foreshadowing – Marcus Sedgwick 109. BloodRed SnowWhite – Marcus Sedgwick 110. My Swordhand is Singing – Marcus Sedgwick 111. Last Christmas – Kate Brian 112. That Summer – Sarah Dessen 113. Mary, Bloody Mary – Carolyn Meyer
  7. Hmmmm. . . Ohh, the years burn. My pet, here is what I think should be at the top. 1.) Henderson The Rain King by Saul Bellow 2.) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 3.) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 4.) Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger 5.) Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 6.) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 7.) The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 8.) Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 9.) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 10.) Parrot In The Oven by Victor Martinez 11.) The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 12.) The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 13.) Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham 14.) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenedes 15.) The Bluest Eye by Toni Morriison 16.) Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 17.) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 18.) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 19.) The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 20.) Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 21.) Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 22.) Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy 23.) Moby Dick by Herman Melville 24.) Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid 25.) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 26.) Walden by Henry David Thoreau 27.) The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 28.) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 29.) Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 30.) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 31.) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 32.) Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 33.) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 34.) Marya: A Life by Joycce Carol Oates 35.) Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 36.) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 37.) Lord of the Flies by William Golding 38.) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 39.) The Count of Monte Cristo by Elexander Dumas 40.) Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 41.) The Call of the Wild by Jack London 42.) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 43.) A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 44.) My Antonia by Willa Cather 45.) To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee 46.) Herzog by Saul Bellow 47.) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 48.) Alice's Adventure In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 49.) Daniel Deronda by George Eliot 50.) The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky 51.) Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov 52.) A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving 53.) Beloved by Toni Morrison 54.) To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 55.) East of Eden by John Steinbeck 56.) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 57.) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 58.) A Passage To India by E. M. Forster 59.) Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser 60.) Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence 61.) The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 62.) A Room With a View by E. M. Forster 63.) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 64.) Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 65.) The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 66.) Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier 67.) The Cider House Rules by John Irving 68.) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 69.) The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 70.) The Color Purple by Alice Walker 71.) The Odyssey by Homer 72.) Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes 73.) Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith 74.) Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 75.) The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan 76.) Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 77.) The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 78.) Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 78.) Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 79.) The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne 80.) Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 81.) The Red and the Black by Stendhal 82.) The Secret History by Donna Tartt 83.) O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 84.) Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller 85.) The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells 86.) Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 87.) The Bostonians by Henry James 88.) Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather 89.) The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 91.) This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 92.) A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor 93.) Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 94.) Orlando by Virginia Woolf 95.) Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence 96.) Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe 97.) Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 98.) The Awakening by Kate Chopin 99.) Sophie's Choice by William Styron 100.) Shirley by Charlotte Bronte This is how I write, is it horrible? Ferry’s lips are sideways sloped downward, tears are fighting against the descent, and all she does now is stare at nothing but look as if she’s scared. Her head with her shiny black hair is bedraggled and she peers at her sides knowing who is watching her lovingly and with a sad disposition. “I know you are watching me God, but, I need this. I need to cry; for no reason, I just need this.” Tears are sliding down her face slowly, snail like. Ferry’s midnight blue shirt is warm to her chest, yet the rest of her body is cold and distant. Bells are sounding off in her mind, of all the colors she sees in a white room, the black ones that stay sealed to the ground are what she gawks at, an unfamiliar curiosity, and the obscure wonder of what
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