Read completely all the way through, only 11 plus 12 more that I have read substantial parts of and probably another 10 that I really intend to read ... someday.. Some of the "parts of" are the collected stories of ... though I'm pretty sure I have read at one time or another everything Edgar Allen Poe ever wrote, including all the poems.
So much Dostoyevski and Tosltoy, but no Solzhenitsin. Faulkner but no Steinbeck. No Emmerson or Thoreau But I really do like Don Quixote being number one, it probably is worldwide. Misha On 1/1/2011 1:19 PM, Scott Rains wrote:
Dan, Here is the list again with numbers. Scott Rains 1 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 2 Things fall apart Chinua Achebe 3 Fairy tales and stories Hans Christian Andersen 4 Pride and prejudice Jane Austen 5 Old Goriot Honore de Balzac 6 Trilogy: Molloy, Malone dies, The Unnamable Samuel Beckett 7 Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio 8 Collected fictions Jorge Luis Borges 9 Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte 10 The Outsider (The Stranger) Albert Camus 11 Poems Paul Celan 12 Journey to the end of the night Louis-Ferdinand Celine 13 Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 14 Nostromo Joseph Conrad 15 The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 16 Great expectations Charles Dickens 17 Jacques the fatalist and his master Denis Diderot 18 Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Doblin 19 Crime and punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky 20 The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky 21 The Possessed Fyodor Dostoyevsky 22 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky 23 Middlemarch George Eliot 24 Invisible man Ralph Ellison 25 Medea Euripides 26 Absalom, Absalom William Faulkner 27 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 28 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 29 A Sentimental education Gustave Flaubert 30 Gypsy Ballads Federico Garcia Lorca 31 One hundred years of solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez 32 Love in the time of cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez 33 The Epic of Gilgamesh Anonymous 34 Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 35 Dead souls Nikolai Gogol 36 The Tin Drum Günter Grass 37 The Devil to pay in the backlands Joao Guimaraes Rosa 38 Hunger Knut Hamsun 39 The Old man and the sea Ernest Hemingway 40 The Iliad Homer 41 The Odyssey Homer 42 A Doll's house Henrik Ibsen 43 The Book of Job Anonymous 44 Ulysses James Joyce 45 The Complete Stories Franz Kafka 46 The Trial Franz Kafka 47 The Castle Franz Kafka 48 The Recognition of Sakuntala Kalidasa 49 The Sound of the mountain Yasunari Kawabata 50 Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis 51 Sons and lovers D H Lawrence 52 Independent people Halldor K Laxness 53 Complete poems Giacomo Leopardi 54 The Golden notebook Doris Lessing 55 Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren 56 Diary of a madman and other stories Lu Xun 57 Mahabharata Anonymous 58 Children of Gebelawi Naguib Mahfouz 59 Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann 60 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann 61 Moby Dick Herman Melville 62 Essays Michel de Montaigne 63 History Elsa Morante 64 Beloved Toni Morrison 65 The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu 66 The Man without qualities Robert Musil 67 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 68 Njal's saga Anonymous 69 1984 George Orwell 70 Metamorphoses Ovid 71 The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa 72 The Complete tales Edgar Allan Poe 73 Remembrance of things past Marcel Proust 74 Gargantua and Pantagruel Francois Rabelais 75 Pedro Paramo Juan Rulfo 76 The Mathnawi Jalalu'l-Din Rumi 77 Midnight's children Salman Rushdie 78 The Bostan of Saadi (The Orchard) Sheikh Saadi of Shiraz 79 A Season of migration to the north Tayeb Salih 80 Blindness Jose Saramago 81 Hamlet William Shakespeare 82 King Lear William Shakespeare 83 Othello William Shakespeare 84 Oedipus the King Sophocles 85 The Red and the black Stendhal 86 The Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne 87 Confessions of Zeno Italo Svevo 88 Gulliver's travels Jonathan Swift 89 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 90 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 91 The Death of Ivan Ilyich and other stories Leo Tolstoy 92 Selected Stories Anton Chekhov 93 Thousand and One Nights 94 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 95 Ramayana Valmiki 96 The Aeneid Virgil 97 Leaves of grass Walt Whitman 98 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf 99 To the lighthouse Virginia Woolf 100 Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar ________________________________________ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Beaver [dbeaver888@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 12:43 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A New Year's Challenge: De Norske Bokklubbene "100 Most Meaningful Books of all Time" Scott, I only count 96 books in the list. Am I missing some? -----Original Message----- From: Scott Rains Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 2:28 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] A New Year's Challenge: De Norske Bokklubbene "100 Most Meaningful Books of all Time" Happy New Year! If ever there was an activity designed to define the word "hubris" it would be to singlehandedly write a list of the "100 Most Meaningful Books of all Time." So, perhaps to spread the honor more democratically, the editors at the Norwegian Book Clubs devised a survey of about 100 well-known authors from 54 countries to create such a list in 2002. Given the amazing levels of literacy that Bookshare volunteers showed with the BBC list I offer this challenge: How many of the following books have you read? And for the highly motivated... Which of these are already in our collection and which do we still need to add? (Work out among yourselves who will cover which sections of the list. Use the attached spreadsheet for recording results.) About the list from the Christchurch City Libraries: Voters included Doris Lessing, Salman Rushdie, Carlos Fuentes and Norman Mailer. Miguel de Cervantes' tale gained 50% more votes than any other book, eclipsing works by Shakespeare, Homer and Tolstoy. Ten authors got more than one book on to the list. After Cervantes, Fyodor Dostoevsky emerged as the most worthwhile read with four books listed. The only Shakespeare plays the authors agreed on were Hamlet, King Lear and Othello. The Bard was matched by Franz Kafka whose three angst-ridden tales of grotesque alienation on the list were The Trial, The Castle and the Complete Stories. Three works by Leo Tolstoy made it: War and Peace, Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories. William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf both scored twice, along with the Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Other than 'Don Quixote' in first place below, the remaining 99 titles are reproduced as published by De Norske Bokklubbene in alphabetical order and are not ranked. Scott Rains Benetech Fellow Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Things fall apart Chinua Achebe Fairy tales and stories Hans Christian Andersen Pride and prejudice Jane Austen Old Goriot Honore de Balzac Trilogy: Molloy, Malone dies, The Unnamable Samuel Beckett Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio Collected fictions Jorge Luis Borges Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte The Outsider (The Stranger) Albert Camus Poems Paul Celan Journey to the end of the night Louis-Ferdinand Celine Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer Nostromo Joseph Conrad The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri Great expectations Charles Dickens Jacques the fatalist and his master Denis Diderot Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Doblin Crime and punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Possessed Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky Middlemarch George Eliot Invisible man Ralph Ellison Medea Euripides Absalom, Absalom William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert A Sentimental education Gustave Flaubert Gypsy Ballads Federico Garcia Lorca One hundred years of solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the time of cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Epic of Gilgamesh Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dead souls Nikolai Gogol The Tin Drum Günter Grass The Devil to pay in the backlands Joao Guimaraes Rosa Hunger Knut Hamsun The Old man and the sea Ernest Hemingway The Iliad Homer The Odyssey Homer A Doll's house Henrik Ibsen The Book of Job Anon Ulysses James Joyce The Complete Stories Franz Kafka The Trial Franz Kafka The Castle Franz Kafka The Recognition of Sakuntala Kalidasa The Sound of the mountain Yasunari Kawabata Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis Sons and lovers D H Lawrence Independent people Halldor K Laxness Complete poems Giacomo Leopardi The Golden notebook Doris Lessing Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren Diary of a madman and other stories Lu Xun Mahabharata Anonymous Children of Gebelawi Naguib Mahfouz Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann Moby Dick Herman Melville Essays Michel de Montaigne History Elsa Morante Beloved Toni Morrison The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu The Man without qualities Robert Musil Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Njal's saga Anonymous 1984 George Orwell Metamorphoses Ovid The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa The Complete tales Edgar Allan Poe Remembrance of things past Marcel Proust Gargantua and Pantagruel Francois Rabelais Pedro Paramo Juan Rulfo The Mathnawi Jalalu'l-Din Rumi Midnight's children Salman Rushdie The Bostan of Saadi (The Orchard) Sheikh Saadi of Shiraz A Season of migration to the north Tayeb Salih Blindness Jose Saramago Hamlet William Shakespeare King Lear William Shakespeare Othello William Shakespeare Oedipus the King Sophocles The Red and the black Stendhal The Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne Confessions of Zeno Italo Svevo Gulliver's travels Jonathan Swift War and Peace Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich and other stories Leo Tolstoy Selected Stories Anton Chekhov Thousand and One Nights Anonymous The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Ramayana Valmiki The Aeneid Virgil To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. 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