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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> jbf
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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
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