The Best Books of the 20th Century

[Joe Rubalcaba]

Does anyone feel that "The Fountainhead" should have placed, in lieu of "Atlas Shrugged"?


> ** Original Subject: The Best Books of the 20th Century
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> ** Original Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 12:47:01 EDT

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> 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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