100 novels everyone should read

[HobbyProggy]

OMG the Trial.... Franz Kafka... horrific book, reason why i wrote my final secondary-school examination in english and not german.

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[Lost User]

I see Moby Dick is on the list (as if it's ever not on a list). For anyone who hasn't read it, here's the short version: Rope is awesome. Knots knots, rope, knots, oh yea baby. Also a white whale because reasons.

[OriginalGriff]

It's very UK centric - OK, there is a Samuel Clements in there, but only the one I could see. A US "classic books" list probably wouldn't mean a lot to UK readers either.

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[Chris Quinn]

Me too

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[Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter]

I have more than half, but others I never heard of...Isn't this list a bit 'local'?

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[megaadam]

13.02 (Where .02 is Crime and Punishment) but at least I can brag with having read 8 (or so) in my third language which happens to be English.

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[Mike Hankey]

It wouldn't make any difference I don't read a lot of popular stuff, I read a lot of tech books and more stuff like Lewis and Clarks Journal was the lastest non-tech.

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[Rage]

Do you read eBooks or papeback ?

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[Forogar]

I have read 11 of those, but if you include film versions then it goes up to 36.

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[Kenneth Haugland]

Hmm, have seen the movie, does that count? :-D

[Lost User]

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

Isn't this list a bit 'local'?

It's aimed at the paper's readership. I expect the Jerusalem Times would print quite a different list.

[k5054]

Not to mention the importance of a water-tight coffin.

[Lost User]

Damn, now I have to go through it again and count them.

[Andreas Mertens]

23 - but I used to be quite a voracious reader...

[Worried Brown Eyes]

14 for me, and I have 2 more on there that I need to get round to reading. One is Crime & Punishment, which from reading others' comments in this thread, I suspect means that Raskolnikov will remain forever a stranger. (The Unbearable Lightness of Being has taken me 20 years to get round to, so far) Regards, Stewart

[BotCar]

And then there's those of us who don't give an elephant about any "classic books" list and just read whatever catches our attention. Because life's too short to care about what other people think you should read.

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[chriselst]

I've read 8 for definite, a few more I think I may have read but cannot remember them at all. Another I am half way through (Tristam Shandy), another I gave up on (Lord of the Rings), three I have seen the film but not read, and my grandmother has always lived in Eliot Drive named after George Eliot.

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[Lost User]

28 I have not heard of. 19 I have read (actually still reading War of the Worlds - really interesting descriptions of the area where we live).

[Johnny J]

#28: Does it count if you've heard Tom Jones in concert? (Terrific experience BTW - that old geezer can certainly keep up the pace) Seriously: I consider myself an educated person and have read MANY classics - but not very many on this list. I guess the fight for what books come into top 100 is quite hard. I'm somewhat surprised that there is no Jules Verne and no Shakespeare on the list... :confused: One book on the list that I HAVE read, though, is "Don Quixote" by Cervantes (all 900 pages), and I can safely say that - although an interesting experience - the reputation of that book is WAY overrated. It's definitely not good enough to put it in the top 10! :doh:

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[Bassam Abdul Baki]

I've read around 10, give or take a couple. Just can't remember. I've seen a few more as movies. If I read them on Wikipedia, does that count?

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