A Few Top Tens


        Acc to Penguin readers….

 

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

3. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

4. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez (*)

5. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

6. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

7. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

8. I Capture The Castle - Dodie Smith

9. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

10. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

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        Acc to some “algorithm”, applied to lots of other lists!….

 

1. In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust

2 . Ulysses - James Joyce (*)

3 . Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

4 . One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (*)

5 . The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

6 . Moby Dick - Herman Melville

7 . War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

8 . Hamlet - William Shakespeare

9 . The Odyssey - Homer

10 . Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

 

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        Acc to The Guardian newspaper….

 

1. Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes

2. Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan (*)

3. Robinson Crusoe -  Daniel Defoe (*)

4. Gulliver's Travels -  Jonathan Swift (*)

5. Tom Jones -  Henry Fielding

6. Clarissa -  Samuel Richardson

7. Tristram Shandy -  Laurence Sterne

8. Dangerous Liaisons -  Pierre Choderlos De Laclos

9. Emma - Jane Austen

10. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (*)

 

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        Acc to Times Magazine….

 

1. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

2. 1984 - George Orwell (*)

3. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien (*)

4. The Catcher in the Rye - - J.D. Salinger (*)

5. The Great Gatsby - - F. Scott Fitzgerald

6. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - - C.S. Lewis

7. Lord of the Flies - - William Golding

8. Animal Farm - - George Orwell (*)

9. Catch-22 - - Joseph Heller

10. The Grapes of Wrath - - John Steinbeck (*)

 

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        Acc to Barnes & Noble….

 

1. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

2. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald.

3. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

4. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville

5. The Color Purple - Alice Walker

6. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

7. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

8. 1984 - George Orwell (*)

9. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien (*)

10. Hamlet - William Shakespeare

 

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        Acc to The Modern Library…

 

Ulysses - James Joyce (*)

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man - James Joyce

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

The Sound And The Fury - William Faulkner

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Darkness At Noon - Arthur Koestler

Sons And Lovers - D.H. Lawrence (*)

The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck (*)

 

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