Board 8 > Board 8's Top 50-100 Books/Literature! [another list]

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do you guys even read lol

This might be a bad idea but whatever, let's see how it pans out!

Rules/Guidelines:
- Rank up to 25 books (top book gets 30 points, second 27, etc.)
- Poetry, short story collections, plays/drama are fine
- You must rank at least 10 books for your list to count
- Rank in format Title of work - Author (last name only is fine)
- Please rank series with 3+ entries as one work (e.g. Harry Potter, ASoIaF, etc.) This is just to prevent half the list from being filled with books from the same series & for diversity.*
- This will end May 1st, 11:59 PM PST
- If you change your list, please do not delete your post.
- I may or may not add rules in case I've overlooked something

*Subject to change upon discussion if necessary



~Easy vote form:~

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Because I am pretty sure they are going to come up, I would like your input on whether to include graphic novels, light novels, and other alternative reading material. >_>

Not sure about nomination variance, esp. the low nominations ... is there much of a point to giving something +1 or +4 when others will receive +30 or +25?

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I went with that because I wanted to have more of a discrepancy between the top placings. I know this ranking system is somewhat flawed but I just went with it in the end because I think people are just most familiar with it.

As for the lower placings, I'm thinking of prioritizing unique appearances over single points.

If anybody has suggestions for improvement, they are of course welcome.

I'm not even sure if I've read 30 books in my lifetime so.

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My difficulty with this is I read mostly series, and I don't do a good job of distinguishing the books in a series.

Say the Wheel of Time series for example. I know that the first 5 or so books were really good while the next couple got a little, breathy. But I couldn't go though and rank them in any way.

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From: blindhobo13 | #001
- Please rank series with 3+ entries as one work (e.g. Harry Potter, ASoIaF, etc.) This is just to prevent half the list from being filled with books from the same series & for diversity.*

Also means you don't have to rank the books within a series.

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"I'm not even sure if I've read 30 books in my lifetime so."

Well, you're in luck! This list takes 25 entries.

+30 Ficciones - Borges
+27 Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
+25 Norwegian Wood - Murakami
+23 King Lear - Shakespeare
+21 Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way - Bukowski
+20 The Ambergris Cycle - VanderMeer
+19 The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
+18 Ariel - Plath
+17 Hopscotch - Cortázar
+16 The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana - Eco
+15 The Savage Detectives - Bolano
+14 The Love of a Good Woman - Munro
+13 Jitterbug Perfume - Robbins
+12 The Famished Road - Okri
+11 Kafka on the Shore - Murakami
+10 Foucault's Pendulum - Eco
+9 The Stranger - Camus
+8 The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
+7 The Aleph and Other Stories - Borges
+6 The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera
+5 The Blind Owl - Hedayat
+4 The Shadow of the Wind - Zafón
+3 David Golder - Némirovsky
+2 Alias Grace - Atwood
+1 Soul Mountain - Xingjian

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blindhobo13 posted...

- Please rank series with 3+ entries as one work (e.g. Harry Potter, ASoIaF, etc.) This is just to prevent half the list from being filled with books from the same series & for diversity.*

Question, does this apply to "series" that feature no ongoing plot? For example, Poirot appears in numerous Christie novels. Does that mean I can only rank one Poirot novel even though they barely have anything to do with each other?

From: Haguile | #011
Question, does this apply to "series" that feature no ongoing plot? For example, Poirot appears in numerous Christie novels. Does that mean I can only rank one Poirot novel even though they barely have anything to do with each other?

I'm going to go ahead and say that's fine. The rule is mainly to prevent people from having

+30 Harry Potter 4
+27 Harry Potter 3
+25 Harry Potter 7
etc.

+30 Otherland - Williams
+27 Shadowmarch - Williams
+25 Foundation - Asimov
+23 Dune - Herbert
+21 Homage to Catalonia - Orwell
+20 The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
+19 Kafka on the Shore - Murakami
+18 Fight Club - Palahniuk
+17 Star Trek Deep Space Nine: A Stitch in Time - Robinson
+16 The Tale of Genji - Mirasaki
+15 Babylon 5: To Dream In the City of Sorrows - Drennan
+14 Scar Tissue - Kiedis
+13 Also Sprach Zarathustra - Nietzsche
+12 A Song of Ice and Fire - Martin
+11 Rocannon's World - Le Guin
+10 Cosmos - Sagan
+9 The War of the Flowers - Williams
+8 American Gods - Gaiman
+7 Macbeth - Shakespeare
+6 Starship Troopers - Heinlein
+5 A Scanner Darkly - Dick
+4 Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein
+3 Mother Courage - Bertolt Brecht
+2 Nemesis - Asimov
+1 Ubik - Dick

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+30 Harry Potter - Rowling
+27 A Song of Fire and Ice - Martin
+25 Southern Vampire Mysteries - Harris
+23 1984 - Orwell
+21 Animal Farm - Orwell
+20 Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury
+19 Ender's Game - Card
+18 Fight Club - Palahniuk
+17 The Chronicles of Narnia - Lewis
+16 The Time Traveler's Wife - Niffenegger

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How should I list Sherlock Holmes novels and also Star Wars EU books?

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+30 Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
+27 The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
+25 Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling
+23 The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
+21 A Song of Ice and Fire - George R.R. Martin
+20 Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
+19 Deception Point - Dan Brown
+18 A Time to Kill - John Grisham
+17 Marley and Me - John Grogan
+16 Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
+15 Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
+14 The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
+13 The Firm - John Grisham
+12 Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
+11 The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
+10 Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
+9 Boxcar Children - Gertrude Chandler Warner
+8 Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
+7 Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein
+6 A Beautiful Mind - Sylvia Nasar

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From: JJH777 | #017
How should I list Sherlock Holmes novels and also Star Wars EU books?

Use your own discretion. I'm not too familiar with them but if something seems to be in incorrect format, I'll mention it.

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This is tough

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+30 The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
+27 American Gods - Neil Gaiman
+25 Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
+23 Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
+21 The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night-Time - Mark Haddon
+20 The Stand - Stephen King
+19 Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlien
+18 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series - Douglas Adams
+17 Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
+16 Good Omens - Terry Pratchet/Neil Gaiman
+15 Job: A Comedy of Justice - Robert Heinlien
+14 Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
+13 Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
+12 1984 - George Orwell
+11 Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut
+10 The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
+9 Ender series - Orson Scott Card
+8 Animal Farm - George Orwell
+7 Candide - Voltaire
+6 The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
+5 Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
+4 America (The Book) - Jon Stewart/The Writers of the Daily Show
+3 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
+2 Battle Royale - Koushin Takami
+1 The Dead Zone - Stephen King

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+30 The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky)
+27 The Nibelungunlied (Unknown Author)
+25 American Psycho (Ellis)
+23 All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)
+21 Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)
+20 Notes from the Underground (Dostoevsky)
+19 Revolt of the Masses (Ortega Y Gasset)
+18 1984 (Orwell)
+17 Brave New World (Huxley)
+16 Animal Farm (Orwell)
+15 Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
+14 The Old Man and the Sea (Hemmingway)
+13 The Metamorphosis (Kafka)
+12 Beowulf (Unknown Author)
+11 Tried by War (McPherson)
+10 Venus in Furs (Masoch)
+9 The Double (Dostoevsky)
+8 The Judgment (Kafka)
+7 A Thousand Acres (Smiley)
+6 Sex at Dawn (Ryan and Jetha)
+5 To Build a Fire (London)
+4 Game Change (Heilemann and Halperin)
+3 Survival in Auschwitz (Levi)
+2 Civilization and its Discontents (Freud)
+1 The Game (Strauss)

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This list won't be very good due to the small overlap in books everyone's read, but oh well.

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+30 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Carroll
+27 Lolita - Nabokov
+25 The Stranger - Camus
+23 Catch-22 - Heller
+21 Macbeth - Shakespeare
+20 Lord of the Flies - Golding
+19 The Phantom Tollbooth - Juster
+18 A Clockwork Orange - Burgess
+17 1984 - Orwell
+16 The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
+15 The Little Prince - Saint Exupéry
+14 A Good Man is Hard to Find/Stories - O'Connor
+13 Animal Farm - Orwell
+12 Moby Dick - Melville
+11 Richard III - Shakespeare
+10 To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
+9 Slaughterhouse-Five - Vonnegut
+8 Hamlet - Shakespeare
+7 Waiting for Godot - Beckett
+6 King Lear - Shakespeare
+5 The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
+4 The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
+3 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - McCullers
+2 Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
+1 Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky

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From: Rollthebones2 | #028
+14 V for Vendetta (if this doesn't count, I'll redo my list)

Yeah, no comic/graphic novels.

I read almost exclusively book series. I'm not going to nominate each individual book in a 14-book series, nor am I going to try to distinguish one from another within the series since I consider them the same work.

Neat idea, but I'm afraid I can't really contribute.

- Please rank series with 3+ entries as one work (e.g. Harry Potter, ASoIaF, etc.) This is just to prevent half the list from being filled with books from the same series & for diversity.*

Probably should have been the first rule...

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+30 Robert Jordan - The Wheel of Time
+27 Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett - Good Omens
+25 Orson Scott Card - Ender's Shadow
+23 Matthew Stover - Traitor
+21 Neil Gaiman - American Gods
+20 Steven Erikson - The Malazan Book of the Fallen
+19 Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn
+18 Brandon Sanderson - Elantris
+17 Stephen King - The Dark Tower
+16 Guy Gavriel Kay - The Fionavar Tapestry
+15 Terry Goodkind - The Sword of Truth
+14 JK Rowling - Harry Potter
+13 George RR Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire
+12 Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
+11 Michael A Stackpole - I, Jedi
+10 Frank Herbert - Dune
+9 Roger Zelazny - The Great Book of Amber
+8 Koushun Takami - Battle Royale
+7 Timothy Zahn - The Thrawn Trilogy
+6 Isaac Asimov - Foundation Trilogy
+5 Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
+4 Jim Butcher - The Dresden Files
+3 Dan Simmons - Hyperion
+2 Robert A Heinlein - Starship Troopers
+1 Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Edit: Whoops, wrong format.

...oh well

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From: yazzy14 | #018
+15 Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
+14 The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown

Aren't these a trilogy?

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blindhobo13 posted...
From: yazzy14 | #018
+15 Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
+14 The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown

Aren't these a trilogy?

I guess now they are since The Lost Symbol. I never really thought of them that way though since it really doesn't matter what order you read them in. DaVinci Code mentions "that night in Rome" twice in the book (or something like that) so you really didn't need to read Angels and Demons first.

If you want to consider them a series just give them the +15 in my list and adjust the rest up to fill the spots.

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I'll probably be making changes but I wanted to at least get something up as a tag.

+30 The Holy Bible (King James Version) - Various Authors
+27 The Wealth of Nations - Smith
+25 The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
+23 Summa Theologica - Aquinas
+21 What's so Great About America - D'Souza
+20 Mere Christianity - Lewis
+19 The Law - Bastiat
+18 Harry Potter - Rowling
+17 Julius Caesar - Shakespeare
+16 Brave New World - Huxley
+15 A Wrinkle in Time - L'Engle
+14 Lord of the Flies - Golding
+13 The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
+12 The Chronicles of Narnia - Lewis
+11 The Brother's Karamazov - Dostoevsky
+10 To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
+9 The Hunger Games - Collins
+8 The Art of War - Sun-Tzu
+7 Dracula - Bram Stoker

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