Lists of Bests: Gertie's "The Gertie 100" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/37285 "First I googled top 100 and classic book lists. Then I put 7 lists together, sorted them, and chose the ones that were on every list. I removed books that I KNEW I had read, but left in ones that I was unsure of or had only seen the movie of." http://www.43things.com/comments/thread/277201 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:26:43 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 Lolita (Everyman's Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56405 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56405"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/185715133X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44184622_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961415 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961415"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283293.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> The Sound and the Fury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1537968 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1537968"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0099475014.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> To the Lighthouse http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4172 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4172"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156907399.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422718_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64541 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64541"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182601.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> A Passage To India http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2785947 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2785947"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/015JX2XEMHL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. M. Forster</div> A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3716 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3716"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437344.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> As I Lay Dying http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/938150 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/938150"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EEAU1G.01-AM0TBPF72AOXR._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43396484_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Brave New World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060929871.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> Brideshead Revisited http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7169 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7169"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316926345.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> Gravity's Rainbow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3014 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3014"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283382.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> Invisible Man: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962378 <div id="position">12</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> Heart of Darkness (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3458 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3458"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182431.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Herzog (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3712 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3712"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437298.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> I, Claudius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46917 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Graves</div> Light in August http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18744 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18744"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679732268.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Midnight's Children http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1269202 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1269202"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099578514.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></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">18</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> Nostromo (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1057925 <div id="position">19</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> Slaughterhouse-Five http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385333846.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44910329_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17296 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17296"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618526412.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carson McCullers</div> The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2491582 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2491582"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1857152743.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44184663_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Muriel Spark</div> The Sheltering Sky http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2730071 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2730071"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141023422.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Bowles</div> The Sun Also Rises http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1233441 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1233441"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743297334.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Under the Volcano: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2053361 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2053361"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061120154.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45129663_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm Lowry</div> Dance to the Music of Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2735098 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2735098"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099445476.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Powell</div> Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18594 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18594"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679641041.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cormac Mccarthy</div> Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64940 <div id="position">28</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> Ragtime: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2730766 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2730766"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812978188.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.L. Doctorow</div> The Death of the Heart http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51366 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51366"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385720173.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Bowen</div> A Handful of Dust (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8794 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8794"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375414207.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> Wise Blood: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1766762 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1766762"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374530637.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Flannery O'Connor</div> The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1352110 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1352110"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1551113813.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ford Madox Ford</div> The Heart of the Matter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336535 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336535"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099478420.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336783 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336783"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007204469.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Miller</div> Under The Net http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2764704 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2764704"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099458446.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Iris Murdoch</div> Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1678501 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1678501"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141185910.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> DELIVERANCE (BLOOMSBURY FILM CLASSICS S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2888959 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2888959"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/01rxuj1HYcL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by JAMES DICKEY</div> Ulysses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970318 <div id="position">39</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> Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/971105 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/971105"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/184046268X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Magus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978517 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978517"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316296198.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Fowles</div> Appointment in Samarra: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9226 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9226"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375719202.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John O'Hara</div> The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13897 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13897"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451523482.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathanael West</div> Native Son (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57190 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57190"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006083756X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard A. Wright</div> All the King's Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3949 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3949"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156004801.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Penn Warren</div> The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962230 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962230"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039571.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> Winesburg, Ohio http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1222064 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1222064"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1404339566.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sherwood Anderson</div> AMERICAN TRAGEDY http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2365815 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by THEODORE DREISER</div> Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/293865 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/293865"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060580615.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thornton Wilder</div> A Bend in the River http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1611954 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1611954"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0330487140.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by V.S. Naipaul</div>