top tens: enough teasing

[David Gentle]

Before I show you the list please remember that it is not at all too late to post your own top ten.
My software makes it very easy to add new lists. I'd appreciate it if all the main posters (and
possibly the list founders) either participate or clearly state their desire not to. Those of you
with multiple list identities might want to use them to get some of your "nearly books" into the
chart (just don't make it so obvious that I have to disqualify your lists). All aspects of the
mailing list should be represented. Lurker's submissions are very welcome. Don't be intimidated by
the deep philosophical texts in this list; if your favourite book is "the cat in the hat" then feel
free to stand tall and proud with your list held tightly in your hands and say so...

Beta top X list (<position> <title> by <author> <points>) :
1 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon 175
2 Ulysses by James Joyce 69
3 Moby Dick by Herman Melville 49
4 The Recognitions by William Gaddis 49
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44
6 Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon 37
7 JR by William Gaddis 35
8 The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann 30
9 Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne 25
10 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 23
11 Absalom! Absalom! by William Faulkner 20
12 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 20
13 Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov 20
14 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie 19
15 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie 17
16 A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust 17
17 Ada by Vladimir Nabokov 15
18 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 15
19 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 14
20 You Bright and Risen Angels by William T. Vollmann 12
21 Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany 12
22 V by Thomas Pynchon 11
23 Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch 11
24 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 11
25 Independent People by Halldor Laxness 11
26 Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabel 10
27 The Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs 10
28 If On a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino 10
29 Vineland by Thomas Pynchon 10
30 A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick 10
31 Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco 10
32 Molloy by Samuel Beckett 10
33 Auto-da-Fe by Elias Canetti 9
34 Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry 9
35 Roadside Picnic by Arkadi and Boris Strugatsky 9
36 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 9
37 Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin 9
38 The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass 9
39 The Castle by Franz Kafka 9
40 The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil 9
41 Candide by Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire 9
42 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy 9
43 A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion 8
44 Neuromancer by William Gibson 8
45 The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe 8
46 Molloy/Malone/Unnamable by Samuel Beckett 8
47 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 8
48 Watt by Samual Beckett 8
49 Nog by Rudolph Wurlitzer 8
50 Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler 7
51 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 7
52 USA by John Dos Passos 7
53 Ubik by Philip K. Dick 7
54 Hall of Mirrors by Robert Stone 7
55 Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin 7
56 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Thomas Wolfe 7
57 Journey to the West by Anthony Yu 7
58 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein 6
59 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 6
60 Underworld by Don DeLillo 6
61 The Night (Alone) by Richard Meltzer 6
62 House of Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata 6
63 Rabbit stories by John Updike 6
64 The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene 6
65 Bleak House by Charles Dickens 6
66 The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren 6
67 Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson 5
68 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 5
69 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 5
70 Dune by Frank Herbert 5
71 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 5
72 Always Coming Home by Ursula LeGuin 5
73 Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson 5
74 Chimera by John Barth 5
75 Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis 5
76 The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell 5
77 Dreams of Leaving by Rupert Thompson 5
78 World's End by T.C. Boyle 5
79 The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz 4
80 Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers 4
81 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 4
82 Don Quixote by Cervantes 4
83 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 4
84 On The Road by Jack Kerouac 4
85 The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse 4
86 Libra by Don DeLillo 4
87 Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 4
88 Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey 4
89 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick 4
90 Life of Pi by Yann Martel 4
91 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brian 3
92 Death On The Installment Plan by Louis Ferdinand-Celine 3
93 The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy 3
94 The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson 3
95 Frank's World by George Mangles 3
96 The Moviegoer by Walker Percy 3
97 Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth 3
98 Infinate Jest by David Foster Wallace 3
99 Beautifull Losers by Leonard Cohen 3
100 Beloved by Toni Morrison 3
101 Geek Love by Katherine Dunn 2
102 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2
103 Call It Sleep by Henry Roth 2
104 What a Carve Up by Jonathan Coe 2
105 Weave World by Clive Barker 2
106 The War at the End of the World by Vargas Llosa 2
107 Revolutions Trilogy by John Banville 2
108 The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers 2
109 The Confidence Man by Herman Melville 2
110 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 2
111 Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino 2
112 The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 2
113 Women and Men: a novel by Joseph McElroy 1
114 Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec 1
115 As Above, So Below by Rudy Rucker 1
116 Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut 1
117 The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester 1
118 Waiting for the End of The World by Madison Smartt Bell 1
119 White Noise by Don Delillo 1
120 Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone 1
121 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson 1
122 Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel 1
123 Valis Trilogy by Philip K. Dick 1
124 Time Enough For Love by Robert Heinlein 1
125 Lampiere's Dictionary by Lawrence Norfolk 1
126 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 1
127 A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis 1
128 The Secret History by Donna Tartt 1

ps. if you see any errors in titles or authors please point them out

thanks,
David Gentle