So after reading this... interesting list...

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1.Best_Books_Ever

http://www.thebest100lists.com/best100novels/

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packa ... 93,00.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books

I wanted to see if we could make up a list of our own.

We all name books until we reach 100. Then we discuss which should take which number position.

Any takers?

Please give the original title of the book if it is not in English, and give the English Translation as well.

Rules for nominating a book:
1) It can only be the following types of text:
- Novel literature
- Series
- Any other type of book
- Comic
- Frame story
- Novella
Everything else is not accepted (ex. short stories)
2) Check to see that it is not yet mentioned in the list below.
3) If it is a part of a series, nominate it under the series title. You may choose in include in brackets the certain books in the series.
4) Write the name of the author(s). If you don't, I get to put my name as the author.

List so far:
1) Bartimaeus Cycle – Jonathan Stroud
2) Inheritence Cycle - Christopher Paolini
3) Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card
4) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
5) Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer
6) House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
7) All Creatures Great and Small - James Herriot
8) 1984 - George Orwell
9) Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
10) Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Series – Douglas Adams
11) Animal Farm - George Orwell
12) Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
13) The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
14) Of Mice and Men - John Ernst Steinbeck
15) War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
16) Lord of the Flies - William Golding
17) Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien (Including the Hobbit [ Or There and Back Again])
18) Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
19) Temeraire series of novels - Naomi Novik
20) The Count of Monte Christo - Alexandre Dumas
21) The Gideon trilogy - Linda Buckley-Archer
22) Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
23) Discworld - Terry Pratchett
24) Dune - Frank Herbert (the Dune Series)
25) The Beach - Alex Garland
26) House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer
27) Sea of Trolls series – Nancy Farmer
28) Shade's Children - Garth Nix
29) His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
30) Mortal Engines Quartet - Philip Reeve
31) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
32) The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
33) Darkwater Hall -Catherine Fisher
34) Old Kingdom Trilogy – Garth Nix
35) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
36) Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
37) Shades of Grey – Jasper Fforde
38) Bone - Jeff Smith
39) Faerie Wars Chronicles - James Herbert Brennan
40) Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling
41) Works of P.G. Wodehouse
42) Survival of the Sickest – Dr Sharon Moalem with Jonathan Prince
43) The Matt Cruise books – Kenneth Oppel
44) The Devil in the White City – Eric Larson
45) The Culture Novels – Iain M. Banks
46) Percy Jackson - Rick Riordan
47) Not Without My Daughter - Betty Mahmoody
48) Swami and his Friends – R. K. Narayan
49) The Sandman - Neil Gaiman
50) Works of H. P. Lovecraft
51) The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
52) Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
53) Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
54) Castaway Series - Brian Jacques
55) Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
56) Works of Douglas Coupland
57) Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
58) The Chronicles of Prydain - Lloyd Alexander
59) Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
60) Jacob Have I Loved - Katherine Paterson
61) The Giver - Lois Lowry
62) Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt
63) A Song of Ice and Fire - George R R Martin.
64) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
65) Anthem - Ayn Rand
66) The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
67) Insomnia (or) the Stand - Stephen King
68) Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy
69) V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
70) All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
71) Night - Elie Wiesel
72) Foundation - Asimov
73) SuperFreakonomics - Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
74) World War Z - Max Brooks
75) The Book Thief - Mark Zusak
76) Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
77) A Series of Unfortunete Events - Lemony Snicket
78) Nation - Terry Prachett
79) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
80) The Belgariad - David Eddings
81) The Alchemist (O Alquimista) - Paulo Coelho
82) Looking for Alaska - Josh Green
83) Youth in Revolt - CD Payne
84) Little Woman - Louise May Alcott
85) The Kane Trilogy - Rick Riordan
86) Watchmen - Alan Moore
87) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
88) Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
89) Suite Francaise - Irène Némirovsky
90) Demons Lexicon Trilogy - Sarah Rees Brennan
91) The Mortal Instruments Trilogy - Cassandra Clare
92) Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
93)Perry Mason series - Erle Stanley Gardner
94)Agatha Christie series
95)Robin Cook series
96) Little Brother - Cory Doctorow
97) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
98) Dracula - Bram Stoker
99) Le Fantome D'Opera - Gaston Leroux
100) Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
101) Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
102) Adrian Mole Series - Sue Townsend
103) Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
104) Robot Series - Isaac Asimov
105) The Demonata Series - Darren Shan

Notables:

Religious Text

Qur'an -- seventh century Arabians
Bible -- Ancient Israelis, first century Israelis, Greeks, and Romans
Bhagavad Gita -- Ancient Aryans (?)

Mythology:

Other:
Shakespeare works

Sounds like fun.

BRISINGR!!

:P

First...we shall find a better booklist in which Twilight is not number three and the Book of Mormon is not #4, and then we shall proceed with our epic literary tastes of great works such as My Pet Goat.

I can't believe twilight was number three! Why would we want our future generations to think that a book about a stalker vampire who is controlling and psychologically abusive is top three of best books ever.

Anyways. I'll just get it out of the way.
1. Ptolemy's Gate.
2. Amulet of Samarkand
3. Golem's Eye.

Ah, so people voted for their favourite books. That would make sense. *loses all faith in humanity or at least, their taste in literature* So little variety, just stuff from this century, the last, and Jane Austen...

Quite of the books did deserve to be on that list however. Princess Bride, Hitchhikers, Life of Pi, etc. Mind you, I've probably only read about a quarter of them.

While the exact placement is iffy, all the top 100 books deserved to be on it (though some could easily be replaced) save for all the Twilight Books, and the Book of Mormon, and a couple of iffy ones.

All Creatures Great and Small - James Herriot
If its biased we can has, than biased it will be.

1984, anyone?

Will short stories do? Then all of Shakespeare must be included.
Novels can be Kite Runner, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Harry Potter and a lot more.
I think it would be better if we had a proper numbering system now itself so we come to know when the book count reaches hundred. Which wouldn't take time.

Apollo wrote:1984, anyone?

Yus please, with a side of Huxley

And Animal Farm definitely.
Okay, I made a list. Just numbered everyone's choices.
1) Brisingr
2) Amulet of Samarkhand
3) Golem's Eye
4) Ptolemy's Gate
5) All Creatures Great and Small
6) 1984
7) Kite Runner
8) Hitch Hikers
9) Animal Farm

There are a few more, but I didn't mention them as I am not sure whether they ought to be added as separate books or a series. Just number the next book you mention.

8. Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
9. The Outsiders - Susan Eloise Hinton
10. Of Mice and Men - John Steinback
11. War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells

Good choices eh?

12) Lord of the Flies - William Golding

David Cat wrote:12) Lord of the Flies - William Golding

I was soo gonna list that. But I didnt want to get greedy and just list tons of books. But Very much agree!

I hope this isn't supposed to be an actually list; if so, our list is broken. Brisngr is definitely not better than 1984.

It's not in order, thank god.

Lord of the Rings; Snow Crash; His Majesty's Dragon;

13) Lord of the Rings
14) Snow Crash
15) His Majesty's Dragon
16) The Count of Monte Christo

Ender's Game, Brave New World, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

Can't you number them Apollo? It would be much easier to know when we have reached 100 and it would be simpler to put them in order too.

17) Ender's Game
18) Brave New World
19) Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

I strongly back the third choice.