And this is the list of all books that only got 1 vote. Anyone want to 2nd them so I can narrow the list down to 100? [I'd love 100 books with multiple votes!]. I've listed the title and author's last name.
Many of these are great books, but these three are definitely in my top 100:
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
The Corrections - Franzen
The Pickwick Papers - Dickens
It's hard to pick five absolute favorites, so I'm just going to throw out the first five great books I think of!
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
I'd forgotten about Murakami; haven't read "The Wind-up Bird" but loved "Kafka on the Shore"
Would second "Atonement"
And agree with everyone who put "A Prayer for Owen Meany" on their list - that's a pretty earth-shatteringly good book
Gone With the Wind (movie too!)
Deep End of the Ocean
The Lovely Bones
State of Fear (awesome)
Patriot's History of the United States
The Hot Zone
Atlas Shrugged
East of Eden
The Color Purple
The Witches of Eastwick
The Catcher in the Rye
Lord of the Flies (a must read)
Animal Farm
Brave New World
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Island of the Blue Dolphins (still good after all these years!!!)
Fatal Vision (true crime)
A Stranger Beside Me (true crime)
DaVinci Code
Perfect Victim (The Girl in the Box)
Flowers in the Attic
Kiss the Girls
To Kill A Mockingbird
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Expecting Adam
Memoirs of Geisha
Tuesdays with Morrie
Pillars of the Earth and the sequel The world without End
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The Stand - Stephen King - 8 Votes
The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley - 6 Votes
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - 6 Votes
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee - 5 Votes
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - 4 Votes
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley - 4 Votes
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - 4 Votes
Sellevision - Augusten Borroughs - 4 Votes
The Golden Compass [His Dark Materials] - Philip Pullman - 4 Votes
The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - 4 Votes
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen - 4 Votes
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith - 3 Votes
Atonement - Ian McEwan - 3 Votes
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 3 Votes
Dracula - Bram Stoker - 3 Votes
Dry - Agusten Borroughs - 3 Votes
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk - 3 Votes
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris - 3 Votes
North & SouthElizabeth Gaskell - 3 votes
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - 3 Votes
Running with Scissors - Augesten Borroughs - 3 Votes
The Corrections - Jonthan Franzen - 3 Votes
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - 3 Votes
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd - 3 Votes
A Thousand Spelndid Suns - Khaled Hosseini - 2 Votes
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeline L'Engle - 2 Votes
American Gods - Neil Gaiman - 2 Votes
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt - 2 Votes
Animal, Vegetable, Mirale - Barbara Kingsolver - 2 Votes
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - 2 Votes
Beach Music - Pat Conroy - 2 Votes
Behold Your Queen - Gladys Malvern - 2 Votes
Bitter is the New Black - Jennifer Lancaster - 2 Votes
Bleak House - Charles Dickens - 2 Votes
Briar Rose - Jane Yolen - 2 Votes
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - 2 Votes
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - 2 Votes
Deerskin - Robin McKinley - 2 Votes
Desperation - Stephen King - 2 Votes
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card - 2 Votes
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer - 2 Votes
Glass Castles - Jeannette Walls - 2 Votes
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell - 2 Votes
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman - 2 Votes
Heart Shaped Box - Joe Hill - 2 Votes
The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown - 2 Votes
House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski - 2 Votes
Howard's End - EM Forster - 2 Votes
Lamb: Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Friend - Christopher Moore - 2 Votes
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - 2 Votes
Life of Pi - Yann Martel - 2 Votes
Little Earthquakes - Jennifer Weiner - 2 Votes
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Marquez - 2 Votes
Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - 2 Votes
Memory & Dream - Charles De Lint - 2 Votes
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt - 2 Votes
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman - 2 Votes
On the Road - Jack Kerouac - 2 Votes
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Marquez - 2 Votes
Outlannder ~- Diana Gabaldon - 2 Votes
Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy - 2 Votes
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - 2 Votes
Sabriel- Garth Nix - 2 Votes
Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay - 2 votes
Sex, Drugs and Coco Puffs - Chuck Klosterman - 2 Votes [Author]
Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle - 2 Votes
Such a Pretty Fat - Jennifer Lancaster - 2 Votes
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood - 2 Votes
The Blue Sword - Robin McKinley - 2 Votes
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - 2 Votes
The Color Purple - Alice Walker - 2 Votes
The Complete Works - William Shakespear - 2 Votes
The Confessions of Max Tivoli - Andrew Sean Greer - 2 Votes
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - 2 Votes
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time - Mark Haddon - 2 Votes
The Glass Lake - Maeve Binchy - 2 Votes
The Golden - Lucius Shepard - 2 Votes
The Great Train Robbery - Michael Crichton - 2 Votes
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Maryann Shaffer - 2 Votes
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova - 2 Votes
The Iliad - Homer - 2 Votes
The Little Prince - Antoin De Saint Exipery - 2 Votes
The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas - 2 Votes
The Name on the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss - 2 Votes
The Odyssey - Homer - 2 Votes
The Once and Future King - T.H. White - 2 Votes
The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens - 2 Votes
The Riddle Master - Patricia McKillip - 2 Votes
The Shining - Stephen King - 2 Votes
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway - 2 Votes
The Three Muskateers - Alexandre Dumas - 2 Votes
The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams - 2 Votes
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami - 2 Votes
The Witch of Portobello - Paolo Coelho - 2 Votes
Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay - 2 Votes
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom - 2 Votes
Waking the Moon - Elizabeth Hand - 2 Votes
Watership Down - Richard Adams - 2 Votes
White Oleander - Janet Fitch - 2 Votes
Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - 2 Votes
Before I even read over your list I'm chiming in with my own suggestions from those you had missing a "second" vote :
These are the suggestions that I only received authors for with no specific works. Anyone have sugestions as to what the authors "best work" is?
Chuck Palahnuick - an acquired taste - very bizarre, quite violent. Not what I would consider a top 100, but interesting if you like contemporary literary fiction with a lot of testosterone & a little chemical enhancement.... I found "lullaby" a good read
And this is the list of all books that only got 1 vote. Anyone want to 2nd them so I can narrow the list down to 100? [I'd love 100 books with multiple votes!]. I've listed the title and author's last name.
1984 - Orwell
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Smith
Everything is Illuminated - Foer --> EXCELLENT
Frankenstein - Shelley
Howard's End - Forster
Jitterbug Perfume - Robbins --> I much preferred "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues"
Lonesome Dove - McMurty --> EXCELLENT
The Kitchen God's Wife - Tan
The Little Prince - De Saint Exipery
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Murakami --> EXCELLENT if you like Murakami (or other magical realism writers)
Others that I think are quick & fun but not so good as to make a top 100
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Shaffer
White Oleander - Fitch
Hated it :
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Barbery
Eat, Pray, Love - Gilbert
