Tango
The British population (or at least, BBC viewers) were asked to nominate their favourite novels back in 2003, and the BBC released a Top 100 reading list from the results. This is expanded further into the Top 200 reading list.
I've read about a third of the list, but of the remainder, there are maybe 10 or so books that I'd actually like to read (eg, "All Quiet On The Western Front"). The rest don't interest me at all. So, I couldn't resist the temptation to make my own Best Reads list.
Here it is. I followed the BBC's rules and restricted it to novels only (though I made an exception for a couple of novellas); no poetry, drama or non-fiction (although I do list one novelised autobiography). All series, regardless of the number of books, are listed as one entry.
TANGO'S 100 FAVOURITE BOOKS
1. The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
2. The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery
3. Scarlet Sails ("Alye Parusa") Aleksandr Grin (novella)
4. Threshold Sara Douglass
5. The Malachite Casket Pavel Bazhov (cycle of interconnected stories)
6. Mary Poppins Pamela L. Travers
7. The Road Runs Into The Distance ("Doroga uhodit vdal'") Alexandra Brustein
8. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
9. Animal Farm George Orwell
10. 1984 George Orwell
11. Three Men In A Boat Jerome K. Jerome
12. Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren
13. Discworld novels Terry Pratchett
14. Karlsson-on-the-roof Astrid Lindgren
15. The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo
16. Tevye's Daughters Sholom Aleichem
17. The Little Hedgehog In The Mist ("Ezhik v tumane") Sergey Kozlov
18. The Liveship Traders trilogy Robin Hobb
19. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
20. Farseer novels Robin Hobb
Continue to 21-100 >>21. Diaspora Greg Egan
22. A Song Of Ice And Fire novels George R. R. Martin
23. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll
24. 12 Chairs Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov
25. The Masters of Rome novels Colleen McCullough
26. Night Elie Wiesel
27. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
28. The Emerald City novels Aleksandr Volkov (after L. Frank Baum)
29. Harry Potter novels JK Rowling
30. Here Comes The Messiah Dina Rubina
31. The Witches Roald Dahl
32. The Fountainhead Ayn Rand
33. Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
34. The Dispossessed Ursula K. LeGuin
35. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
36. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
37. Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
38. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
39. Dying Of The Light George R. R. Martin
40. Empire Of The Ants Bernard Werber
41. Little Anechka And Hubert The Straw ("Anechka Nevelichka i Solomennyj Gubert") Vitezslav Nezval
42. Crystal Singers trilogy Anne McCaffrey
43. Winnie The Pooh A. A. Milne
44. Matilda Roald Dahl
45. She Runs Upon The Waves ("Begushaya po volnam") Aleksandr Grin
46. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
47. The Amphibian Man Aleksandr Belyaev
48. The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling
49. The Phantom Of The Opera Gaston Leroux
50. Anil's Ghost Michael Ondaatje
51. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Douglas Adams
52. Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow Peter Hoeg
53. 2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke
54. The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
55. The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles
56. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
57. Sherlock Holmes novels Arthur Conan Doyle
58. Dangerous Liaisons Chaderlos de Laclos
59. The Left Hand Of Darkness Ursula K. LeGuin
60. Cloven Hooves Megan Lindholm
61. Schindler's Ark Thomas Keneally
62. The Man Who Laughs Victor Hugo
63. Earthsea novels Ursula K. LeGuin
64. Les Miserables Victor Hugo
65. Around The World In Eighty Days Jules Verne
66. Solaris Stanislaw Lem
67. Peter Pan J. M. Barrie
68. Ash: A Secret History Mary Gentle
69. The Axis Trilogy Sara Douglass (original Australian edition)
70. Wish Peter Goldsworthy
71. Teranesia Greg Egan
72. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis
73. Number The Stars Lois Lowry
74. The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain
75. Konduit And Shvambraniya Lev Kassil
76. From The Dust Returned Ray Bradbury
77. The Return Of The Native Thomas Hardy
78. A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court Mark Twain
79. The Magic Faraway Tree Enid Blyton
80. To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
81. The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
82. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
83. Anastacia novels Lois Lowry
84. River God Wilbur Smith
85. The Time-Traveller's Wife Audrey Niffenberger
86. Windsinger novels Megan Lindholm
87. Ballerina Vicky Baum
88. The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
89. The Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer-Bradley
90. The Reindeer People Saga Megan Lindholm
91. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
92. God Knows Joseph Heller
93. The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle
94. The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde
95. Palace Katharine Kerr and Mark Kreighbaum
96. The City Who Searched Anne McCaffrey
97. The Silver Pigs and other Falco novels Lindsey Davis
98. The Player Of Games Iain M. Banks
99. The Firebrand Marion Zimmer-Bradley
100. The Forbidden Paths of Thual Victor Kelleher
I've read about a third of the list, but of the remainder, there are maybe 10 or so books that I'd actually like to read (eg, "All Quiet On The Western Front"). The rest don't interest me at all. So, I couldn't resist the temptation to make my own Best Reads list.
Here it is. I followed the BBC's rules and restricted it to novels only (though I made an exception for a couple of novellas); no poetry, drama or non-fiction (although I do list one novelised autobiography). All series, regardless of the number of books, are listed as one entry.
TANGO'S 100 FAVOURITE BOOKS
1. The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
2. The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery
3. Scarlet Sails ("Alye Parusa") Aleksandr Grin (novella)
4. Threshold Sara Douglass
5. The Malachite Casket Pavel Bazhov (cycle of interconnected stories)
6. Mary Poppins Pamela L. Travers
7. The Road Runs Into The Distance ("Doroga uhodit vdal'") Alexandra Brustein
8. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
9. Animal Farm George Orwell
10. 1984 George Orwell
11. Three Men In A Boat Jerome K. Jerome
12. Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren
13. Discworld novels Terry Pratchett
14. Karlsson-on-the-roof Astrid Lindgren
15. The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo
16. Tevye's Daughters Sholom Aleichem
17. The Little Hedgehog In The Mist ("Ezhik v tumane") Sergey Kozlov
18. The Liveship Traders trilogy Robin Hobb
19. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
20. Farseer novels Robin Hobb
Continue to 21-100 >>21. Diaspora Greg Egan
22. A Song Of Ice And Fire novels George R. R. Martin
23. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll
24. 12 Chairs Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov
25. The Masters of Rome novels Colleen McCullough
26. Night Elie Wiesel
27. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
28. The Emerald City novels Aleksandr Volkov (after L. Frank Baum)
29. Harry Potter novels JK Rowling
30. Here Comes The Messiah Dina Rubina
31. The Witches Roald Dahl
32. The Fountainhead Ayn Rand
33. Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
34. The Dispossessed Ursula K. LeGuin
35. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
36. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
37. Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
38. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
39. Dying Of The Light George R. R. Martin
40. Empire Of The Ants Bernard Werber
41. Little Anechka And Hubert The Straw ("Anechka Nevelichka i Solomennyj Gubert") Vitezslav Nezval
42. Crystal Singers trilogy Anne McCaffrey
43. Winnie The Pooh A. A. Milne
44. Matilda Roald Dahl
45. She Runs Upon The Waves ("Begushaya po volnam") Aleksandr Grin
46. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
47. The Amphibian Man Aleksandr Belyaev
48. The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling
49. The Phantom Of The Opera Gaston Leroux
50. Anil's Ghost Michael Ondaatje
51. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Douglas Adams
52. Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow Peter Hoeg
53. 2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke
54. The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
55. The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles
56. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
57. Sherlock Holmes novels Arthur Conan Doyle
58. Dangerous Liaisons Chaderlos de Laclos
59. The Left Hand Of Darkness Ursula K. LeGuin
60. Cloven Hooves Megan Lindholm
61. Schindler's Ark Thomas Keneally
62. The Man Who Laughs Victor Hugo
63. Earthsea novels Ursula K. LeGuin
64. Les Miserables Victor Hugo
65. Around The World In Eighty Days Jules Verne
66. Solaris Stanislaw Lem
67. Peter Pan J. M. Barrie
68. Ash: A Secret History Mary Gentle
69. The Axis Trilogy Sara Douglass (original Australian edition)
70. Wish Peter Goldsworthy
71. Teranesia Greg Egan
72. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis
73. Number The Stars Lois Lowry
74. The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain
75. Konduit And Shvambraniya Lev Kassil
76. From The Dust Returned Ray Bradbury
77. The Return Of The Native Thomas Hardy
78. A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court Mark Twain
79. The Magic Faraway Tree Enid Blyton
80. To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
81. The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
82. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
83. Anastacia novels Lois Lowry
84. River God Wilbur Smith
85. The Time-Traveller's Wife Audrey Niffenberger
86. Windsinger novels Megan Lindholm
87. Ballerina Vicky Baum
88. The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
89. The Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer-Bradley
90. The Reindeer People Saga Megan Lindholm
91. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
92. God Knows Joseph Heller
93. The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle
94. The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde
95. Palace Katharine Kerr and Mark Kreighbaum
96. The City Who Searched Anne McCaffrey
97. The Silver Pigs and other Falco novels Lindsey Davis
98. The Player Of Games Iain M. Banks
99. The Firebrand Marion Zimmer-Bradley
100. The Forbidden Paths of Thual Victor Kelleher
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02.11.2005 в 11:00Заберу в цитатник во избежание вечного "а чтобы почитать нечитанного?")
"Дорога уходит вдаль".. - иии.. где те годы...)))
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02.11.2005 в 13:59Hey, I found someone else who likes it!
It was really tempting to add all my favourite myths/fairy tales/short stories into this (Greek myths, Andersen's stories, The Velveteen Rabbit, etc) but it's impossible to rank them against longer works, so I managed to restrain myself.
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02.11.2005 в 20:07-
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03.11.2005 в 02:26Я Стругатских читала только рассказы и пьесы...
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03.11.2005 в 11:40(Очень рек.)))
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04.11.2005 в 15:07<sobs>
I haven't even *read* a 100 novels I don't think.
Oh well, back to the grindstone.
Lyndal
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04.11.2005 в 15:37I-don't-understand-because-I-won't-make-the-effort-to-try-to-because-I-have-other-overdue-assignments-that-are-worth-more. Oh, and being strafed by moths, flies and sundry other nocturnal insects that have made it into the office somehow.
Moi? Giry? But I'm just not *that* flexible!?!
Now, back to being a good "team-member".......
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04.11.2005 в 16:26I think I'm going to drive home and attempt not to become like the growing number of small creatures that have assumed two-dimensional form on the local roads.
Good luck with your PCR reactions. That has nothing to do with creating a new Gojira or anything, by chance???
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04.11.2005 в 16:31Gojira? (Though the answer is no, regardless).
Thanks -- good luck with Commercial law, etc!
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04.11.2005 в 19:06-
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05.11.2005 в 03:00Спасибо!
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10.11.2005 в 12:37Но М&М?..
Я бы не смог упорядочить по какому-либо признаку больше пяти книг (фильмов, пластинок): как вообще можно сравнить "Этюд в багровых тонах" с "Питером Пэном", "1984" с "2001", а "Трое в лодке" с Достоевским?
Ещё я бы не стал включать в список произведения, с момента обубликования которых прошло меньше N лет (камень в огород Г. Чайникова).
стронни
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11.11.2005 в 06:16Но М&М?..
В смысле? Как можно вообще этих авторов сравнивать? Ну - в случае М&М, это по-моему у Хазанова было про армянский юмор: "Сначала идет еврейский. Потом доооооолго никого нет... а потом армянский". ))) Вот так и у меня. Сначала Булгаков, потом дооооолго никого нет... (А М&М я обожаю с детства).
Я бы не смог упорядочить по какому-либо признаку больше пяти книг (фильмов, пластинок): как вообще можно сравнить "Этюд в багровых тонах" с "Питером Пэном", "1984" с "2001", а "Трое в лодке" с Достоевским?
Я не задавалась вопросом, какая книга "лучше" по литературным ценностям - а от чтения какой я получила больше... чего-либо - больше удовольствия или больше предметов для размышелия, или даже психологический удар (как от "Лолиты", например).
Кроме того, есть множество книг, которые считаются классикой (и может таковой и являются), но которые мне просто не по душе.
Ещё я бы не стал включать в список произведения, с момента обубликования которых прошло меньше Н лет (камень в огород Г. Чайникова).
Извини, но кто такой Чайников? :/ А про "возраст" книг, это опять же вопрос о литературной ценности, которую я здесь не рассматриваю. Но тем не менее, новых книг в моем списке совсем не много.
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12.11.2005 в 12:46См. в той же серии: George Michael - Жора Михайлов... ,)
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12.11.2005 в 15:22