2006-07-17 14:39:47 · 12 answers · asked by David Y 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Thank you.
The tops of those lists
are what I had in mind.
2006-07-17 14:53:47 · update #1
If you are looking for some good books to read I recommend(from fun to essential):
Ann of Green Gables- Montgomery
Harry Potter- Rowling
Left Behind- Jenkins
Lord of the Rings-Tolkien
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Pride and Prejudice - Austen
Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
2006-07-17 16:58:02 · answer #1 · answered by iahp_mom 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Let us not forget the "big book", many would say the best novel ever written. Yet I would have to agree with "Buffy Fan" on some of the same titles. Gone With The Wind would be on my list as well as A Clockwork Orange.
2006-07-17 22:02:48 · answer #2 · answered by jbinla 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No one could ever answer that question. No one has ever read all the novels that have been written!
There are hundreds and hundreds of "best novel" type lists, including whatever people think deserve to be in them.
Some popular "best novels" are
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
and many, many, MANY more.
Here's one of the lists I found:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/observer/archives/2005/05/11/the_best_novels_ever_version_12.html
And another:
http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html
Do some searches and see what you find!
2006-07-17 21:47:04 · answer #3 · answered by buffy fan 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mark Twain's
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2006-07-18 02:09:28 · answer #4 · answered by nunosapunso 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have come to hate questions like this on this forum. If you are well read, you cannot possibly pick a "best" and if you aren't you pick Harry Potter or DaVinci Code or some other populist tripe.
I guess if I had to pick, I have a special place in my brain for Melville's "Moby Dick". The prose just absolutely sings.
2006-07-17 22:03:11 · answer #5 · answered by Who cares 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
James Halperin - The First Immortal It has a strange looking cover that almost kept me from reading it, but you just have to.
It's a science fiction, but has science future connotations written by an expert in several science fields and edited by dozens of experts in the fields
Changed my life.
2006-07-18 00:36:04 · answer #6 · answered by jjttkbford 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Magic Men by W. Korol Selley
2006-07-17 21:56:16 · answer #7 · answered by Call Me Babs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald (a re-read book) and Nana by Emile Zola are at the top of my list. I'm more of a classical geek as you can see...
2006-07-18 11:45:50 · answer #8 · answered by cleo715 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think that the best novel was passions promise by Danielle Steel.
2006-07-17 21:44:10 · answer #9 · answered by Bricee 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Lord of the RIngs Trilogy. Without a doubt. If it wasn't for Tolkien, a lot of writers would be a lot worse.
2006-07-17 21:42:51 · answer #10 · answered by bellmaker4 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋