Lists of Bests: kalavinka's "Book List to Simplify Book Lists" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/11944 I don't read much, especially not the classics, so this list will help me to focus on which books I should read in the near future. The criteria is that the book must be on 4 or more collective lists that I am working on (not lists of individual authors). American Library Association's "The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000" Dr. Peter Boxall's "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" The Guardian's "100 Best Books of All Time" Harold Bloom's "The Western Canon" Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries The New Lifetime Reading Plan Time's All-Time 100 Novels (1923-present) The Well-Educated Mind Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:18:57 GMT en-us 0 50 37 0 0 Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499994 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499994"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014118776X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3702 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3702"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437174.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422298_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> Beloved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033411.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> The Brothers Karamazov (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/377776 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/377776"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451527348.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24698 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24698"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805211063.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056493060_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962607 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962607"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074348763X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1085453646_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> Dead Souls http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/179716 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/179716"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140448071.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nikolai Gogol</div> Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437239.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra</div> The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1315 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1315"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006093140X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Lessing</div> Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3514 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3514"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439564.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V34858991_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743273567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> Gulliver's Travels (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11025 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11025"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393957241.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Swift</div> The House of Mirth (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14748 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14748"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486420493.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Wharton</div> Invisible Man: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962378 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962378"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375507914.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44539344_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14751 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14751"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486424499.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Brontë</div> Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18439 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18439"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679410430.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464690_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/988252 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/988252"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192840398.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gustave Flaubert</div> The Magic Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19088 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19088"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679772871.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Mann</div> Midnight's Children http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1462486 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3708 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3708"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437247.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422299_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herman Melville</div> Mrs. Dalloway http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3816 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3816"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0151009988.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> Native Son http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1221663 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1221663"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000E3CRHW.01-A1KD1XFHXZAGYA._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Wright</div> Nostromo (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1057925 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1057925"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486424529.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453406 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453406"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060883286.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60691 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60691"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486426750.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Bunyan</div> Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19145 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19145"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679783261.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465050_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3317 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3317"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140447644.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43839268_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stendhal</div> The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19150 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19150"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679783385.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathaniel Hawthorne</div> Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64940 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64940"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375753737.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D.H. Lawrence</div> The Sound and the Fury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679732241.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Things Fall Apart: An Adapted Classic http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1353661 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chinua Achebe</div> To the Lighthouse (Annotated) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1007836 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1007836"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156030470.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1119999750_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> The Trial http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24686 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24686"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805209999.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> Ulysses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970318 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970318"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1404336877.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4266 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4266"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192833987.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1110473537_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> White Noise: (Great Books Edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1035553 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1035553"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283307.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don DeLillo</div> Wuthering Heights (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/761471 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/761471"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192833545.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1131152354_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div>