According to the American Book Review: 1. Call me Ishmael. —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) 2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813) 3. A screaming comes across the sky. —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
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Time’s 100 Best Novels 1923-present
Bil asked the question: how many of Time’s list of 100 Best Novels have you read? 41 of them. Most of them in high school or college English classes. When I read the list I was disappointed at what was missing and some of the crap they included. These people can’t tell me they actually
Read on »American Film Institute’s Top 100 U. S. Movies
The complete list of the American Film Institute’s Top 100 American movies of the last 100 years. (* Indicates that I’ve seen it.)
Read on »Random House Modern Library’s Top 100 Nonfiction Books
in 1998, the Modern Library released its list of the best 100 novels of the 20th Century amid much controversy over both what they put in and what they left out. They’re back – with the Top 100 Nonfiction books of the 20th Century. So go ahead and argue what should have been left out
Read on »Random House Modern Library Readers’ 100 Best Novels
In response to their list of 100 best novels, the Modern library let the readers respond with their favorite books. This list was derived from an online user poll conducted on the Modern Library web site from July 20 to October 20, 1998, during which 217,520 votes were cast. **Note from Steph: Consider the first
Read on »Random House Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels
In 1998 the Modern Library, a division of Random House, New York, released this list of ‘the 100 best novels written in the English language and published since 1900.’ The jurors were Daniel J. Boorstin, A.S. Byatt, Christopher Cerf, Shelby Foote, Vartan Gregorian, Edmund Morris, John Richardson, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., William Styron, and Gore Vidal.
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