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I've made a list of the top ten English language novels of all time, tell me what you think:

>Henry James: "The Golden Bowl" (1904)
>James Joyce: "Ulysses" (1922)
>Emily Bronte: "Wuthering Heights" (1847)
>Vladimir Nabokov: "Ada" (1969)
>Thomas Pynchon: "Gravity's Rainbow" (1973)
>William Faulkner: "Light in August" (1932)
>Virginia Woolf: "To the Lighthouse" (1927)
>William Gaddis: "The Recognitions" (1955)
>Joseph Conrad: "Nostromo" (1904)
>John Barth: "Giles Goat Boy" (1966)

>> No.3503801

>no Jane Austen

>> No.3503812

>>3503801
>Jane Austen
>good

>> No.3503819

>no dfw

>> No.3503824

>>3503819
>dfw
>good

>> No.3503823

>>3503793
>No Steinbeck

>> No.3503826

>>3503793
>No Dubliners or Finnegans Wake

>> No.3503828

>>3503823
Steinbeck didn't quite make the cut but Grapes of Wrath is in the top 50 easily. Of Mice and Men would be somewhere in the top 100 as well.

>> No.3503831

>>3503793
>no R.L. Stine

>> No.3503837

>>3503831
The Horror at Camp Jellyjam is number eleven.

>> No.3503860

>>3503824
yeah, he has no discernible talent, am i right?

>> No.3503864

>>3503860
He's better than Dan Brown or Stephen King I suppose.

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>mfw haven't even heard of 4 of these books

and the "to read" list grows...

>> No.3503957

>golden bowl>the ambassadors

>> No.3503967

Absalom, Absalom! > Everything else Faulkner wrote.

Real goddamned talk.

>> No.3503979

>no Tolkien
>Nostromo instead of The Secret Agent
>Ada instead of Lolita
>Henry James
>no Vonnegut
I respectfully disagree.

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3503982

>scaruffi
>scaruffi
>scaruffi
>scaruffi
>scaruffi

Dio confirmed for shittier tripfag. troll your own opinions next time

>>>/mu/

>> No.3503987

>>3503812

wouldn't you rate Pride and Prejudice at #14, though, scaruffi?

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>>3503982
lel

>> No.3504006

>>3503982
>http://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/bestuk.html

Wow, how faggy can a tripfag get?

>> No.3504012

>>3504006
In case you haven't realized yet, all my threads are exclusively copypasta.

It's my schtick.

>> No.3504066

The Sound and the Fury
To The Lighthouse
Absalom, Absalom!
Wise Blood
The Catcher in the Rye
V.
Ms. Dalloway
Winesburg, Ohio
The Grapes of Wrath
Moby Dick