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[muskrat]

Marvel Masterworks: Captain America vol.3, collecting issues 101 - 113 (May, 1968 thru May, 1969). Jack 'King' Kirby at his peak, firing on all explosive cylinders--wow! Plus, the three legendary Jim Steranko issues, oh Lordy, wish he woulda did more. And, of course, ol Stan the Man doing the scripting.

Man, Steranko is some kinda crazy genius. His stuff on Nick Fury alone was enough to blow yer mind. A musician, a magician, an escape artist, comic artist, writer, publisher, conceptual designer for such films as Raiders of the Lost Ark and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Sometimes, when the gods hand out talent, they can really salt a cat down with it. Steranko is one salty dog.

 

[Kurben]

Better.

Yeah, much better. But where is King?, Atwood? Oates? Tolkien? Or even LeGuin?

 

[GNTLGNT]

Marvel Masterworks: Captain America vol.3, collecting issues 101 - 113 (May, 1968 thru May, 1969). Jack 'King' Kirby at his peak, firing on all explosive cylinders--wow! Plus, the three legendary Jim Steranko issues, oh Lordy, wish he woulda did more. And, of course, ol Stan the Man doing the scripting.

Man, Steranko is some kinda crazy genius. His stuff on Nick Fury alone was enough to blow yer mind. A musician, a magician, an escape artist, comic artist, writer, publisher, conceptual designer for such films as Raiders of the Lost Ark and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Sometimes, when the gods hand out talent, they can really salt a cat down with it. Steranko is one salty dog.

 

[BeverleyMarsh]

A really fun read, I highly recommend.

 

[Kurben]

After finishing 1901, which was good, i'm trying another by the same author, Robert Conroy. This is 1862. It is based on the very real so called Trent Incident when in 1861 a union ship illegally captured a british postal ship, the Trent, in order to make prisoners of two confederate men who travelled with the ship. According to the british it was piracy and a cause of war. Lincoln sent a letter of a apology to the british prime, released the two prisoners and in general was rather groveling towardsthe british until it blow over because he did not want a war with the british at the same time as the confederates. But what if they hadn't accepted the apology? If England decided to go to war? They had reasons not to like the union and the blockade of the south by the union caused the import of cotton to be much reduced which was bad. This gave them an excuse to break the blockade and restore the trade with cotton from the south. It is an interesting premise and we will see if he manages to make a good book out of it. I'm only about 50 pages in. Too early to tell.

 

[skimom2]

Yeah, much better. But where is King?, Atwood? Oates? Tolkien? Or even LeGuin?

True. A mix of the obscure, the well-respected classics, and trendy contemporaries.

 

[MarkS73]

I'm re-reading all my The Walking Dead hardcovers. I'm at part 3 now so another ten to go
I read them as they came out so it's quite a while since i read them. Funny, cause the world from the comics and the t.v. show are totally mixed up
in my mind, i keep expecting to see Daryl

 

[Kurben]

True. A mix of the obscure, the well-respected classics, and trendy contemporaries.

There is perhaps a use for lists..... I grouched a little over the lists and suddenly made up my own best 100 list (in the english language). But instead of taking two years like that Guardian guy i did it in a couple of hours.
Tried to put in many different things so some books, which i personally are not overly fond of, made the list because of their influence. Here it is.

Spoiler: My Best 100 list

100 best novels (written in english)

My rules in the selection may be a bit unfair. At most two books for an author. And that is exceptions. All genres are acceptable. That includes Crime, SF and Horror). But it must be novels, no short story collections.

1. Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe, 1719)
   
   
2. Gullivers travels (Jonathan Swift, 1726)
   
   
3. Tom Jones (Henry Fielding, 1749)
   
   
4. The Castle of Otranto (Horace Walpole, 1764)
   
   
5. Pride and prejudice (Jane Austen, 1813)
   
   
6. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818)
   
   
7. The Last of the Mohikans (James Fenimore Cooper, 1826)
   
   
8. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Edgar Allan Poe, 1838)
   
   
9. Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens, 1838)
   
   
10. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte, 1847)
    
    
11. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte, 1847)
    
    
12. Vanity Fair (William Thackeray, 1848)
    
    
13. The Scarlet letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850)
    
    
14. Moby Dick (Herman Melville, 1851)
    
    
15. A Tale of two cities (Charles Dickens, 1859)
    
    
16. Alices adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, 1865)
    
    
17. The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins, 1868)
    
    
18. Little women (Louisa May Alcott, 1869)
    
    
19. Middlemarch (George Eliot, 1872)
    
    
20. The way we live now (Anthony Trollope, 1875)
    
    
21. Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883)
    
    
22. Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain, 1885)
    
    
23. Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886)
    
    
24. Three men in a boat (Jerome K. Jerome, 1889)
    
    
25. The Picture of Dorian Grey (Oscar Wilde, 1991)
    
    
26. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy, 1891)
    
    
27. The Red badge of courage (Stephen Crane, 1895)
    
    
28. The Timemachine (H.G. Wells, 1895)
    
    
29. Dracula (Bram Stoker, 1897)
    
    
30. Captain Courageous (Rudyard Kipling, 1897)
    
    
31. The Turn of the screw (Henry James, 1898)
    
    
32. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad, 1899)
    
    
33. Kim (Rudyard Kipling, 1901)
    
    
34. The Call of the wild (Jack London, 1903)
    
    
35. The Wind in the willows (Kenneth Grahame, 1908)
    
    
36. The Thirtynine steps (John Buchan, 1915)
    
    
37. The Age of innocence (Edith Wharton, 1920)
    
    
38. Ulysses (James Joyce, 1922)
    
    
39. Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf, 1925)
    
    
40. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925)
    
    
41. Lady Chatterleys lover (D.H. Lawrence, 1929)
    
    
42. The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett, 1929)
    
    
43. The sound and the fury (William Faulkner, 1929)
    
    
44. As i lay dying (Wlliam Faulkner, 1930)
    
    
45. Brave new world (Aldous Huxley, 1932)
    
    
46. Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller, 1934)
    
    
47. I, Claudius (Robert Graves, 1934)
    
    
48. Gaudy Night (Dorothy Sayers, 1935)
    
    
49. It cant happen here (Sinclair Lewis, 1935)
    
    
50. Death on the Nile (Agatha Christie, 1937)
    
    
51. The Code of the Woosters (P.G. Wodehouse, 1937)
    
    
52. Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier, 1938)
    
    
53. The Grapes of wrath (John Steinbeck, 1939)
    
    
54. Brideshead revisited (Evelyn Waugh, 1945)
    
    
55. All the Kings men (Robert Penn Warren, 1946)
    
    
56. The Naked and the dead (Norman Mailer, 1948)
    
    
57. 1984 (George Orwell, 1949)
    
    
58. East of Eden (John Steinbeck, 1952)
    
    
59. The Long goodbye (Raymond Chandler, 1953)
    
    
60. Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury, 1953)
    
    
61. Lord of the flies (William Golding, 1954)
    
    
62. I am legend (Richard Matheson, 1954)
    
    
63. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov, 1955)
    
    
64. The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955)
    
    
65. The Chrysalids (John Wyndham, 1955)
    
    
66. On the road (Jack Kerouac, 1957)
    
    
67. The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson, 1959)
    
    
68. To kill a mockingbird (Harper Lee, 1960)
    
    
69. Stranger in a strange land (Robert Heinlein, 1961)
    
    
70. Catch 22 (Joseph Heller, 1961)
    
    
71. One flew over the cuckoos nest (Ken Kesey, 1962)
    
    
72. The Thin red line (James Jones, 1962)
    
    
73. In cold blood (Truman Capote, 1966)
    
    
74. Darker than Amber (John D. MacDonald, 1966)
    
    
75. The Left hand of Darkness (Ursula K. LeGuin, 1969)
    
    
76. Watership down (Richard Adams, 1972)
    
    
77. The Dispossessed (Ursula K. LeGuin,1974)
    
    
78. Shogun (James Clavell, 1975)
    
    
79. Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison, 1977)
    
    
80. The Stand (Stephen King, 1978)
    
    
81. The Far pavilions (M:M: Kaye, 1978)
    
    
82. Shikasta (Doris Lessing, 1979)
    
    
83. Earthly powers (Anthony Burgess, 1980)
    
    
84. Midnights children (Salmon Rushdie, 1981)
    
    
85. Empire of the sun (J:G: Ballard, 1984)
    
    
86. The Handmaids tale (Margaret Atwood, 1985)
    
    
87. Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry, 1985)
    
    
88. IT (Stephen King, 1986)
    
    
89. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving, 1989)
    
    
90. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon, 1991)
    
    
91. Boy's life (Robert McCammon, 1991)
    
    
92. The Secret history (Donna Tarrt, 1992)
    
    
93. Fatherland (Robert Harris, 1992)
    
    
94. A Game of Thrones (George R.R Martin, 1996)
    
    
95. Disgrace (J.M. Coetzee , 1999)
    
    
96. Blonde (Joyce Carol Oates, 2000)
    
    
97. The Year of rice and salt (Kim Stanley Robinson, 2002)
    
    
98. The Bookthief (Markus Zusak, 2006)
    
    
99. The Likeness (Tana French, 2008)
    
    100. The Girl With all the gifts (M:R: Carey, 2014)
    

 

[Doc Creed]

There is perhaps a use for lists..... I grouched a little over the lists and suddenly made up my own best 100 list (in the english language). But instead of taking two years like that Guardian guy i did it in a couple of hours.
Tried to put in many different things so some books, which i personally are not overly fond of, made the list because of their influence. Here it is.

Spoiler: My Best 100 list

100 best novels (written in english)

My rules in the selection may be a bit unfair. At most two books for an author. And that is exceptions. All genres are acceptable. That includes Crime, SF and Horror). But it must be novels, no short story collections.

1. Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe, 1719)
   
   
2. Gullivers travels (Jonathan Swift, 1726)
   
   
3. Tom Jones (Henry Fielding, 1749)
   
   
4. The Castle of Otranto (Horace Walpole, 1764)
   
   
5. Pride and prejudice (Jane Austen, 1813)
   
   
6. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818)
   
   
7. The Last of the Mohikans (James Fenimore Cooper, 1826)
   
   
8. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Edgar Allan Poe, 1838)
   
   
9. Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens, 1838)
   
   
10. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte, 1847)
    
    
11. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte, 1847)
    
    
12. Vanity Fair (William Thackeray, 1848)
    
    
13. The Scarlet letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850)
    
    
14. Moby Dick (Herman Melville, 1851)
    
    
15. A Tale of two cities (Charles Dickens, 1859)
    
    
16. Alices adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, 1865)
    
    
17. The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins, 1868)
    
    
18. Little women (Louisa May Alcott, 1869)
    
    
19. Middlemarch (George Eliot, 1872)
    
    
20. The way we live now (Anthony Trollope, 1875)
    
    
21. Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883)
    
    
22. Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain, 1885)
    
    
23. Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886)
    
    
24. Three men in a boat (Jerome K. Jerome, 1889)
    
    
25. The Picture of Dorian Grey (Oscar Wilde, 1991)
    
    
26. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy, 1891)
    
    
27. The Red badge of courage (Stephen Crane, 1895)
    
    
28. The Timemachine (H.G. Wells, 1895)
    
    
29. Dracula (Bram Stoker, 1897)
    
    
30. Captain Courageous (Rudyard Kipling, 1897)
    
    
31. The Turn of the screw (Henry James, 1898)
    
    
32. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad, 1899)
    
    
33. Kim (Rudyard Kipling, 1901)
    
    
34. The Call of the wild (Jack London, 1903)
    
    
35. The Wind in the willows (Kenneth Grahame, 1908)
    
    
36. The Thirtynine steps (John Buchan, 1915)
    
    
37. The Age of innocence (Edith Wharton, 1920)
    
    
38. Ulysses (James Joyce, 1922)
    
    
39. Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf, 1925)
    
    
40. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925)
    
    
41. Lady Chatterleys lover (D.H. Lawrence, 1929)
    
    
42. The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett, 1929)
    
    
43. The sound and the fury (William Faulkner, 1929)
    
    
44. As i lay dying (Wlliam Faulkner, 1930)
    
    
45. Brave new world (Aldous Huxley, 1932)
    
    
46. Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller, 1934)
    
    
47. I, Claudius (Robert Graves, 1934)
    
    
48. Gaudy Night (Dorothy Sayers, 1935)
    
    
49. It cant happen here (Sinclair Lewis, 1935)
    
    
50. Death on the Nile (Agatha Christie, 1937)
    
    
51. The Code of the Woosters (P.G. Wodehouse, 1937)
    
    
52. Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier, 1938)
    
    
53. The Grapes of wrath (John Steinbeck, 1939)
    
    
54. Brideshead revisited (Evelyn Waugh, 1945)
    
    
55. All the Kings men (Robert Penn Warren, 1946)
    
    
56. The Naked and the dead (Norman Mailer, 1948)
    
    
57. 1984 (George Orwell, 1949)
    
    
58. East of Eden (John Steinbeck, 1952)
    
    
59. The Long goodbye (Raymond Chandler, 1953)
    
    
60. Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury, 1953)
    
    
61. Lord of the flies (William Golding, 1954)
    
    
62. I am legend (Richard Matheson, 1954)
    
    
63. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov, 1955)
    
    
64. The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955)
    
    
65. The Chrysalids (John Wyndham, 1955)
    
    
66. On the road (Jack Kerouac, 1957)
    
    
67. The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson, 1959)
    
    
68. To kill a mockingbird (Harper Lee, 1960)
    
    
69. Stranger in a strange land (Robert Heinlein, 1961)
    
    
70. Catch 22 (Joseph Heller, 1961)
    
    
71. One flew over the cuckoos nest (Ken Kesey, 1962)
    
    
72. The Thin red line (James Jones, 1962)
    
    
73. In cold blood (Truman Capote, 1966)
    
    
74. Darker than Amber (John D. MacDonald, 1966)
    
    
75. The Left hand of Darkness (Ursula K. LeGuin, 1969)
    
    
76. Watership down (Richard Adams, 1972)
    
    
77. The Dispossessed (Ursula K. LeGuin,1974)
    
    
78. Shogun (James Clavell, 1975)
    
    
79. Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison, 1977)
    
    
80. The Stand (Stephen King, 1978)
    
    
81. The Far pavilions (M:M: Kaye, 1978)
    
    
82. Shikasta (Doris Lessing, 1979)
    
    
83. Earthly powers (Anthony Burgess, 1980)
    
    
84. Midnights children (Salmon Rushdie, 1981)
    
    
85. Empire of the sun (J:G: Ballard, 1984)
    
    
86. The Handmaids tale (Margaret Atwood, 1985)
    
    
87. Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry, 1985)
    
    
88. IT (Stephen King, 1986)
    
    
89. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving, 1989)
    
    
90. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon, 1991)
    
    
91. Boy's life (Robert McCammon, 1991)
    
    
92. The Secret history (Donna Tarrt, 1992)
    
    
93. Fatherland (Robert Harris, 1992)
    
    
94. A Game of Thrones (George R.R Martin, 1996)
    
    
95. Disgrace (J.M. Coetzee , 1999)
    
    
96. Blonde (Joyce Carol Oates, 2000)
    
    
97. The Year of rice and salt (Kim Stanley Robinson, 2002)
    
    
98. The Bookthief (Markus Zusak, 2006)
    
    
99. The Likeness (Tana French, 2008)
    
    100. The Girl With all the gifts (M:R: Carey, 2014)

Nicely done, Kurben. I like it. I started Age of Innocence last night, coincidentally. I would choose East of Eden over GOW, but liked most of your selections. You listed several that I've never read.

 

[Kurben]

Nicely done, Kurben. I like it. I started Age of Innocence last night, coincidentally. I would choose East of Eden over GOW, but liked most of your selections. You listed several that I've never read.

Both East of Eden and GOW are in the list. a few authors managed to sneak in two books on the list. Steinbeck was one of them. King too.....

 

[Doc Creed]

Both East of Eden and GOW are in the list. a few authors managed to sneak in two books on the list. Steinbeck was one of them. King too.....

Really? I missed it at first glance. My mistake.

 

[fljoe0]

Fender Lizards - Joe Lansdale

An excellent coming of age tale about a 17 year old high school dropout named Dorthy. Dorthy lives in a trailer park with her mother, grandmother and little brother. Her dad disappeared years earlier. Dorthy doesn't see much hope of her situation changing when a mysterious uncle shows up and starts to make life more interesting. It's kind of a low key story for Lansdale and it wasn't what I was expecting.

BTW - The term fender lizards refers to Dorthy's job. She works at a drive-up fast food place and the waitresses wear roller skates. They call themselves fender lizards.

 

[kingricefan]

Fender Lizards - Joe Lansdale

An excellent coming of age tale about a 17 year old high school dropout named Dorthy. Dorthy lives in a trailer park with her mother, grandmother and little brother. Her dad disappeared years earlier. Dorthy doesn't see much hope of her situation changing when a mysterious uncle shows up and starts to make life more interesting. It's kind of a low key story for Lansdale and it wasn't what I was expecting.

BTW - The term fender lizards refers to Dorthy's job. She works at a drive-up fast food place and the waitresses wear roller skates. They call themselves fender lizards.

Better than 'lot lizards'- prostitutes that hang out in trucker rest stops. I loves me some Lansdale!!

 

[Dana Jean]

Fender Lizards - Joe Lansdale

An excellent coming of age tale about a 17 year old high school dropout named Dorthy. Dorthy lives in a trailer park with her mother, grandmother and little brother. Her dad disappeared years earlier. Dorthy doesn't see much hope of her situation changing when a mysterious uncle shows up and starts to make life more interesting. It's kind of a low key story for Lansdale and it wasn't what I was expecting.

BTW - The term fender lizards refers to Dorthy's job. She works at a drive-up fast food place and the waitresses wear roller skates. They call themselves fender lizards.

Lot lizards have always been truck stop prostitutes in my neck of the woods.

 

[Dana Jean]

Better than 'lot lizards'- prostitutes that hang out in trucker rest stops. I loves me some Lansdale!!

Oh crap, just saw your post! Yes! Truck stop working girls.

 

[johntfs]

On the recommendation of comic writer, Warren Ellis, I'm reading The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladamir Putin by Masha Gessen. It's interesting, funny and blood-chilling all at the same time.

 

[HollyGolightly]

My book club chose this for our February read. I love it so far - child narrator, something to overcome. But for the life of me, I cannot understand why they always, always chose a book that is either going to be a major motion picture or already is. I can't wait until it's my turn to pick.

 

[skimom2]

There is perhaps a use for lists..... I grouched a little over the lists and suddenly made up my own best 100 list (in the english language). But instead of taking two years like that Guardian guy i did it in a couple of hours.
Tried to put in many different things so some books, which i personally are not overly fond of, made the list because of their influence. Here it is.

Spoiler: My Best 100 list

100 best novels (written in english)

My rules in the selection may be a bit unfair. At most two books for an author. And that is exceptions. All genres are acceptable. That includes Crime, SF and Horror). But it must be novels, no short story collections.

1. Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe, 1719)
   
   
2. Gullivers travels (Jonathan Swift, 1726)
   
   
3. Tom Jones (Henry Fielding, 1749)
   
   
4. The Castle of Otranto (Horace Walpole, 1764)
   
   
5. Pride and prejudice (Jane Austen, 1813)
   
   
6. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818)
   
   
7. The Last of the Mohikans (James Fenimore Cooper, 1826)
   
   
8. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Edgar Allan Poe, 1838)
   
   
9. Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens, 1838)
   
   
10. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte, 1847)
    
    
11. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte, 1847)
    
    
12. Vanity Fair (William Thackeray, 1848)
    
    
13. The Scarlet letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850)
    
    
14. Moby Dick (Herman Melville, 1851)
    
    
15. A Tale of two cities (Charles Dickens, 1859)
    
    
16. Alices adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, 1865)
    
    
17. The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins, 1868)
    
    
18. Little women (Louisa May Alcott, 1869)
    
    
19. Middlemarch (George Eliot, 1872)
    
    
20. The way we live now (Anthony Trollope, 1875)
    
    
21. Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883)
    
    
22. Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain, 1885)
    
    
23. Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886)
    
    
24. Three men in a boat (Jerome K. Jerome, 1889)
    
    
25. The Picture of Dorian Grey (Oscar Wilde, 1991)
    
    
26. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy, 1891)
    
    
27. The Red badge of courage (Stephen Crane, 1895)
    
    
28. The Timemachine (H.G. Wells, 1895)
    
    
29. Dracula (Bram Stoker, 1897)
    
    
30. Captain Courageous (Rudyard Kipling, 1897)
    
    
31. The Turn of the screw (Henry James, 1898)
    
    
32. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad, 1899)
    
    
33. Kim (Rudyard Kipling, 1901)
    
    
34. The Call of the wild (Jack London, 1903)
    
    
35. The Wind in the willows (Kenneth Grahame, 1908)
    
    
36. The Thirtynine steps (John Buchan, 1915)
    
    
37. The Age of innocence (Edith Wharton, 1920)
    
    
38. Ulysses (James Joyce, 1922)
    
    
39. Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf, 1925)
    
    
40. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925)
    
    
41. Lady Chatterleys lover (D.H. Lawrence, 1929)
    
    
42. The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett, 1929)
    
    
43. The sound and the fury (William Faulkner, 1929)
    
    
44. As i lay dying (Wlliam Faulkner, 1930)
    
    
45. Brave new world (Aldous Huxley, 1932)
    
    
46. Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller, 1934)
    
    
47. I, Claudius (Robert Graves, 1934)
    
    
48. Gaudy Night (Dorothy Sayers, 1935)
    
    
49. It cant happen here (Sinclair Lewis, 1935)
    
    
50. Death on the Nile (Agatha Christie, 1937)
    
    
51. The Code of the Woosters (P.G. Wodehouse, 1937)
    
    
52. Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier, 1938)
    
    
53. The Grapes of wrath (John Steinbeck, 1939)
    
    
54. Brideshead revisited (Evelyn Waugh, 1945)
    
    
55. All the Kings men (Robert Penn Warren, 1946)
    
    
56. The Naked and the dead (Norman Mailer, 1948)
    
    
57. 1984 (George Orwell, 1949)
    
    
58. East of Eden (John Steinbeck, 1952)
    
    
59. The Long goodbye (Raymond Chandler, 1953)
    
    
60. Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury, 1953)
    
    
61. Lord of the flies (William Golding, 1954)
    
    
62. I am legend (Richard Matheson, 1954)
    
    
63. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov, 1955)
    
    
64. The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955)
    
    
65. The Chrysalids (John Wyndham, 1955)
    
    
66. On the road (Jack Kerouac, 1957)
    
    
67. The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson, 1959)
    
    
68. To kill a mockingbird (Harper Lee, 1960)
    
    
69. Stranger in a strange land (Robert Heinlein, 1961)
    
    
70. Catch 22 (Joseph Heller, 1961)
    
    
71. One flew over the cuckoos nest (Ken Kesey, 1962)
    
    
72. The Thin red line (James Jones, 1962)
    
    
73. In cold blood (Truman Capote, 1966)
    
    
74. Darker than Amber (John D. MacDonald, 1966)
    
    
75. The Left hand of Darkness (Ursula K. LeGuin, 1969)
    
    
76. Watership down (Richard Adams, 1972)
    
    
77. The Dispossessed (Ursula K. LeGuin,1974)
    
    
78. Shogun (James Clavell, 1975)
    
    
79. Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison, 1977)
    
    
80. The Stand (Stephen King, 1978)
    
    
81. The Far pavilions (M:M: Kaye, 1978)
    
    
82. Shikasta (Doris Lessing, 1979)
    
    
83. Earthly powers (Anthony Burgess, 1980)
    
    
84. Midnights children (Salmon Rushdie, 1981)
    
    
85. Empire of the sun (J:G: Ballard, 1984)
    
    
86. The Handmaids tale (Margaret Atwood, 1985)
    
    
87. Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry, 1985)
    
    
88. IT (Stephen King, 1986)
    
    
89. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving, 1989)
    
    
90. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon, 1991)
    
    
91. Boy's life (Robert McCammon, 1991)
    
    
92. The Secret history (Donna Tarrt, 1992)
    
    
93. Fatherland (Robert Harris, 1992)
    
    
94. A Game of Thrones (George R.R Martin, 1996)
    
    
95. Disgrace (J.M. Coetzee , 1999)
    
    
96. Blonde (Joyce Carol Oates, 2000)
    
    
97. The Year of rice and salt (Kim Stanley Robinson, 2002)
    
    
98. The Bookthief (Markus Zusak, 2006)
    
    
99. The Likeness (Tana French, 2008)
    
    100. The Girl With all the gifts (M:R: Carey, 2014)

Very interesting! There were 5 that I haven't heard of, but many that I absolutely love. A few by authors that I have heard of but haven't read--I'm going to try to hit those books soon You are truly one of the best read and most interesting people I've ever met, Kurt. Thank you.

PS The Secret History and The Likeness are so similar. For French, I'd probably pick In The Woods.

 

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My book club chose this for our February read. I love it so far - child narrator, something to overcome. But for the life of me, I cannot understand why they always, always chose a book that is either going to be a major motion picture or already is. I can't wait until it's my turn to pick.

That's big at my kid's school. Please let us know what you think at at the end

 

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Finished 1984 and was suitably chilled. Picked up Atwood's Hag Seed and Joanne Harris' Different Class from the library yesterday--Atwood will be first, because it's a week check out and her books are always pleasingly strange. I have 3 weeks on the Harris, so she'll have to wait.