100 novels everyone should read

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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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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Do you read eBooks or papeback ?

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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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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

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

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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.

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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

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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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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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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).

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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I've read 17 of those. I think the list is ridiculous. First, Don Quixote is an enormous bore and terribly overrated. Secondly, and I find it difficult to respect any list that doesn't have Dracula on it. Thirdly, where is Kurt Vonnegut?

Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer

Only read one (39. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe)

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S Houghtelin

I've read 8, seen few more as movies, if you count watching the movie. I think there are a number of books that should have been mentioned over what was presented. Other than HG Wells, Mary Shelly or Douglas Adams where were the some of the other notable Sci Fi writers? Phillip K Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury. Too many books, too many books...

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