The Best Books of the 20th Century
Mark A. Douglas
madness at airmail.net
Wed Sep 8 13:22:16 CDT 1999
JBFRAME at aol.com posted this:
> 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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> What's your pick of the best book of the century?
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We're apparently going to be inundated with these type of lists from here until
2001. Was this list meant to sell the B&N editions? Who chose? Where's
Ulysses? Where's Pynchon? Stephen King???? Are these the ten best-sellers?
Mr Woodward is a welcome sight.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
Peace,
MAD
madness at airmail.net
What's so wrong with Henry Miller?
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