The Best Books of the 20th Century

[Richard Romeo]

further proof why americans are stupid. The Stand?

rich

>Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
>The Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger
>Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
>The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
>Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Suess
>The Hobbit by J.R.R.Tolkien
>The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
>1984 by George Orwell
>The Stand by Stephen King
>To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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>This is Barnes & Noble's pick of the ten best books of the twentieth 
>Century.
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>Of this list only a little over 6% chose 1984, clearly the best of this 
>list.
>  The big winner was Stephen King's The Stand with a whopping 27%.
>Salinger (my second choice for this list) beat Rand 7-3.  Second place was
>Gone with the Wind with 12.6%
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>Aside from this list, Pynchon's V is my all time favorite, although I 
>admire
>Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and Remarque's All Quiet on the Western 
>Front.
>  Of Women writers, I like Woolf's To The Lighthouse.  Strange how World 
>War I
>seems to be a theme in the last three.  That war still haunts us.
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>Of Course, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man must be included.
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>What's your pick of the best book of the century?
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