Five Greatest Novels of All Time

Ophelia · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:09 pm Post subject:

Ralph:

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amielou · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:07 pm Post subject:

Okay...five great books....I won't be presumptuous enough to believe I can name the five indisputable greatest, but here are five great ones in my opinion:

1. Pride and Prejudice--Austen
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn--Twain
3. My Antonia--Cather
4. To Kill a Mockingbird--Lee
5. Persuasion---Austen

Jeremy · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:29 pm Post subject:

My top five, which are always in flux are as follows:

1. Farewell to Arms--Hemingway(you could really put any of his novels here, except To Have or Have Not)
2. Gullivers Travels--Swift (I love the satire of Jonathan Swift)
3. 1984--Orwell
4. Red Badge of Courage--Crane (Simply because it is one of the first great American war novels.)
5. Howards End--Forster

hegel1066 · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:09 pm Post subject:

"A la recherche de temps perdu" by Proust.
"Anna Karenina" by Tolstoi.
"Tales of the Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu.
"Light in August" by William Faulkner.
"Sentimental Education" by Gustave Flaubert.

-John (hegel1066)

Ophelia · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:30 am Post subject:

- Vanity Fair / Thackeray

- Lonesome Dove/ Larry McMurtry

- The Great Indian Novel/ Shashi Tharoor

- Shogun/ Clavell.

-Sarum/ Rutherford


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