Top 10 Fiction Titles

I know LT already has a feature to show the most popular books by title and author, but those lists represent the most common titles or authors, whereas the purpose of this group is to create lists of our favorites. Hopefully, the LT programming wizards will later find a way to mine the data and compile a single list for each category.

I'm feeling adventurous, so let's try this top 10 as of now (which means I'm probably crazy enough to already have attempted such a list once upon a time...)

1.The Waves
2.Crime and Punishment
3.The Master and Margarita
4.The Magic Mountain
5.The Trial
6.The Grapes of Wrath
7.And Quiet Flows the Don
8.The Longest Journey
9.Wide Sargasso Sea
10.Blindness

As always not entirely sure of the order - but not 100% unsure either so I won't meddle with my first "intuition".

If the LT wizards are listening:
There is little point in creating numbered lists. People are always ranking everything at IMDb, and I find it completely futile. What does my 1 mean to Alice's 4, if we're talking about the same movie? There is no concensus.

It is much better to have these types of discussion boards, wherein posters can discuss the elements they find remarkable or despicable about various works. I have long imagined a literary version of IMDb, and hope that this site can fill that void.

I'm sure, in the meantime, that everyone will continue to rank everything under the sun. To what purpose, I always ask, to what purpose?

Good point, though LT's zeitgeist feature thing is in my opinion far worse than any IMDb thing not having formulas to compensate for sheer numbers - what and who more people read tops the lists. So what are some works you find remarkable, let's by all means discuss them. I find it easier to pick up works that rub me up the wrong way - they are usually "bestsellers". Of course many bestsellers are personal favourites. Like War and Peace and wasn't that because of Oprah?

Anyway, the list I posted? "In no particular order" might apply - it varies from day to day. The topic *was* Top 10 Fiction Titles...

This Top 10 thing is difficult. I've put together a list mixing modern and classic but it's not really definitive:
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
David Copperfield
Pride and Prejudice
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
Leaning Towards Infinity by Sue Woolfe
HIghways to a War by Christopher Koch
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

Since the group is List Your Favorites, I took top ten to mean the individual's current favorites.

well, i'd have to say the following for fiction titles in no order:

foucault's pendulum by umberto eco
a dance to the music of time by anthony powell
the day lasts more than a hundred years by chingiz aitmatov
mrs. dalloway by virginia woolf
master and margarita by bulgakov
the magic mountain by thomas mann
hamlet by shakespeare
the sheltering sky by paul bowles
the alexandria quartet by lawrence durrell
almost anything by graham greene

kieran

we share 2 titles (master and margarita and magic mountain), 1 author (woolf) and crime and punishment should really be on my list as well (my 10 goes to 11? this is why i don't like ranking). i'm interested in discussing these novels and anything else as well.

i'm surprised to see the wide sargasso sea. i'm interested to hear your thoughts on the novel.

I'm a list freak! glad to stumble upon this group.

& nice to see some VW love, because I'd take three:

The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway by VW
To the Lighthouse by VW
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Candide by Voltaire
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Conversation at Midnight by Edna St Vincent Millay
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Hours by Michael Cunningham

(I can't put this list in definitive order yet)

Well, I thought I would have a hard time listing these. I had to reach back into memory and find the ones that really affected me. Then more and more titles popped up, and my list runeth over. So, here are ten of my top novels (no order, of course):

The Blind Assassin
the Feast of All Saints
The Chronicles of Narnia (listed as one book)
The Dogs of Babel
The Moor's Last Sigh
The Wings of the Dove (also one of my favorite movies)
The Wayward Bus
Far from the Madding Crowd
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Wide Sargasso Sea

Here's my own list (not in any particular order):

The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoesky)
Wind Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
The War of the End of the World (Mario Vargas Llosa)
Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison)
Stone Raft (Jose Saramago)
Sherlock Holmes Stories (Conan Doyle)

Those are the ones I have read and re-read and can't wait to read again!

I pulled these somewhat haphazardly out of the fiction titles I had rated as fives:

The Idiot by Dostoevsky
Germinal by Zola
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez
Hamlet by Shakespeare
Ulysses by Joyce
The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
The Recognitions by Gaddis
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Song of Solomon by Morrison
V by Pynchon

for the LT wizards: Puh-leze, please list where each of us stands in the number of library acquisitions. i have this OCD thingie that i want to pass others in number, but I want to do it honestly (adding books i've actually read). maybe LT could simply make a note on the author's profile page something like: "YOUR LIBRARY STANDS NO. 2,489 in acquisitions of 50,262 libraries."

now, my 10 in no certain order after the top three:
(listed items have been re-read at least 3 times in my life):

1. Naked in Garden Hills,
Harry Crews.
2. Jane Eyre, Charlotte
Bronte.
3. The Travis McGee
Series by John D.
MacDonald. (21 books)
4. Captain Stormfield's
Visit to Heaven, by
Mark Twain.
5. Brave New World, by
Aldous Huxley.
6. The Girl, the Gold
Watch, and Everything,
by John Dann
MacDonald.
7. Please Write for De-
tails, by John Dann
MacDonald.
8. In the Rooms, by Andy
Ray.
9. Riders of the Purple
Sage, by Zane Grey.
10. A Confederacy of
Dunces, by John
Kennedy Toole.

I cheated a bit by listing
the Travis McGee
series of 21 titles as
one item, but that's
how I read them. I've
read the whole series
through completely
six or seven times, and
probably will at least
once or twice more
before i shuffle off
this mortal coil.