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kateee
04/04/17 3:28:38 AM
#1:


This is the second phase of this project. The first part consisted of users listing works they considered a 10/10. Participation in phase 1 is NOT NECESSARY to participate in phase 2.

For phase 2, you can list up to 150 books for consideration for a spot in the top 100. This can include works of prose fiction and nonfiction, poetry (collections), and drama. Graphic novels and other forms of sequential art may be focused on in a separate phase. All titles in a series including direct sequels and spin-offs will be consolidated to one entry. The only organization you have to do is list the title and author name (if applicable) as well as separate your list into two tiers/rankings: 5/5 and 4/5. They do not have to be ranked within the tiers (it won’t matter for the purposes of this list). If you do not tier your list, every title in your list will be assumed as 4/5. I mean, author names are not absolutely required but it would be helpful so if you want to help me out, please include them if applicable. Only last names are required but full names can be included. If you did not post in the previous phase, you may put a 10 next to entries you wish to label as such. If you listed titles as 10/10 in the first topic, you do not have to list them again in this topic but you may if you wish to.

Example list:

5/5:
Green Eggs & Ham – Seuss - 10
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Hamlet – Shakespeare

4/5:
Pride & Prejudice – Austen
Harry Potter (series) – Rowling
Goosebumps (series) – Stine

Your submissions and the list will be open to changes/edits at some point in the future.

tl;dr – list up to 150 books that you think are cool. All entries in a series = 1 spot on list. Include author and tier them under 5/5 or 4/5 (see example above).

"Easy" list form:
5/5:

4/5:
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kateee
04/04/17 3:31:15 AM
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5/5:
1984 – Orwell
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Carroll
Animal Farm – Orwell
Blood Meridian – McCarthy
Catch-22 – Heller
The Catcher in the Rye – Salinger
A Clockwork Orange – Burgess
East of Eden – Steinbeck
Fear of Flying – Jong
The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald
Hamlet – Shakespeare
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter – McCullers
Jane Eyre – Bronte
King Lear – Shakespeare
The Little Prince – Saint Exupéry
Lolita – Nabokov
Lord of the Flies – Golding
Macbeth – Shakespeare
Madame Bovary – Flaubert
Moby Dick – Melville
One Hundred Years of Solitude – García Márquez
Portnoy’s Complaint – Roth
Richard III – Shakespeare
Slaughterhouse-Five – Vonnegut
The Sound and the Fury – Faulkner
Stories of Flannery O’ Connor
The Stranger – Camus
To Kill A Mockingbird – Lee
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Smith
A Visit From the Goon Squad – Egan
Waiting for Godot – Beckett

Moneyball – Lewis

4/5:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Twain
Anna Karenina – Tolstoy
As I Lay Dying – Faulkner
Atonement – McEwan
The Bell Jar – Plath
Bless Me, Ultima – Anaya
Breakfast of Champions – Vonnegut
Bridge to Terabithia – Paterson
Candide – Voltaire
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory – Dahl
The Count of Monte Cristo – Dumas
Crime and Punishment – Dostoevsky
The Crucible – Miller
Death of a Salesman – Miller
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Dick
A Doll’s House – Ibsen
Dr. Faustus – Marlowe
Fahrenheit 451 – Bradbury
Frankenstein – Shelley
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – Fowles
The Giver – Lowry
Great Expectations – Dickens
The Handmaid’s Tale – Atwood
Harry Potter – Rowling
Henry V – Shakespeare
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Adams
The Hobbit – Tolkien
The Jungle – Sinclair
Kindred – Butler
Les Misérables – Hugo
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Lewis
Little Women – Alcott
Matilda – Dahl
Medea – Euripides
The Metamorphosis – Kafka
A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Shakespeare
Never Let Me Go – Ishiguro
Nine Stories – Salinger
Of Mice and Men – Steinbeck
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Kesey
One for the Murphys – Hunt
Othello – Shakespeare
The Outsiders – Hinton
The Phantom Tollbooth – Juster
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Spark
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Stoppard
The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
Tipping the Velvet – Waters
To The Lighthouse – Woolf
Twelfth Night – Shakespeare
Wuthering Heights – Bronte

Playing for Keeps – Halberstam
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Angelou
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Esuriat
04/04/17 10:26:48 AM
#3:


Bump

I'll get to this later.
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Gatarix
04/04/17 10:50:53 AM
#4:


tag

series consolidation actually makes things tricky for me - there are a lot of series where I'd rate at least one of the books 5/5 or 4/5, but not all of them

not sure if I should just rate by high point or what
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profDEADPOOL
04/04/17 11:02:12 AM
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Gatarix posted...
tag

series consolidation actually makes things tricky for me - there are a lot of series where I'd rate at least one of the books 5/5 or 4/5, but not all of them

not sure if I should just rate by high point or what

Yeah going to have to thnk about this
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tabiicat42
04/04/17 11:47:51 AM
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Esuriat
04/04/17 11:51:10 AM
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I consolidated 10 and 9 rated books into 5, and 8 and 7 into 4. I abbreviate the first initial of authors who earlier appear in my list.

5/5:
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Dune - Frank Herbert
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
The Stand - Stephen King
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
A Voyage to Arcturus - David Lindsay
The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Cat's Cradle - K. Vonnegut
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
The Neverending Story - Michael Ende
The Plague Dogs - R. Adams
The Road - C. McCarthy
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
The Three Musketeers - A. Dumas
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - D. Adams
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien

4/5:
Grendel - John Gardner
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
The Last Unicorn - Peter Beagle
The Green Mile - S. King
Slaughterhouse Five - K. Vonnegut
1984 - George Orwell
Whipping Star - F. Herbert
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
Child of God - C. McCarthy
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Last Man - M. Shelley
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Gateway - Frederik Pohl
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
At the Mountains of Madness - HP Lovecraft
The Shadow over Innsmouth - HP Lovecraft

I'm cutting my list here for now. Possibly more later.
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kateee
04/04/17 1:06:29 PM
#8:


Gatarix posted...
not sure if I should just rate by high point or what

you can do this or just have the first entry listed. most likely in the final list, either the first book in the series will be listed or it will be listed as a series. if enough people specify a certain singular entry as "the best" in the series, i will list it alongside in parentheses or something. but it will still take up only one spot out of the 100.

primary reasons for the consolidation is so that there's not a situation where we have 5 Harry Potter books taking up 5 spots out of the 100 or something like that. and unless you advocate only reading certain middle-entries of a series, most people will start with the first one and continue from there if they want to. if you saw the last list, you'll notice i did this last time as well.

example of what it will look like in the final list:
1. Fox in Socks - Dr. Seuss
2. Harry Potter (series) - Rowling
3. ASOIAF (series) - Martin
4. Goosebumps (series) - Stine (The Barking Ghost, Night of the Living Dummy)

as for the tiers, just go with how you feel about the overall series. would you give the overall series a very strong recommendation? then put it with the 5's. if it's just a strong rec, put it with the 4's. the tiers will make it so that it's weighted only slightly more. what will matter the most for the overall list is the number of unique mentions.

in any case if you want something to be on the list but don't quite consider it a 4/5, then either lie and say it is or reconsider submitting it for the list. The rating tiers can be taken loosely hence going to a 5 point scale rather than a 10 point.
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Gatarix
04/04/17 1:07:15 PM
#9:


I could probably mess around with this all day, but let's just go with this.

EDIT: going to list some best-in-series in brackets

5/5:
Ambergris Cycle [Finch] - Jeff VanderMeer
Vlad Taltos (series) - Steven Brust
The Broken Earth (series) - N.K. Jemisin
The Girl with All the Gifts - M.R. Carey
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Bas-Lag (series) [The Scar] - China Mieville
Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson
The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
The Drowned Cities - Paolo Bacigalupi
The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Libra - Don DeLillo

4/5:
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Among the Thorns - Veronica Schanoes
Burning Chrome - William Gibson
Challenger Deep - Neal Shusterman
Chaos Walking (series) - Patrick Ness
Deathless - Catherynne Valente
Ender's Game/Shadow - Orson Scott Card
Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan McGuire
Farseer trilogy - Robin Hobb
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Johannes Cabal (series) - Jonathan Howard
Kraken - China Mieville
Let the Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist
Liveship Traders (series) - Robin Hobb
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Matilda - Roald Dahl
Monument - Ian Graham
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert O'Brien
Old Dead Futures - Tina Connolly
One for the Morning Glory - John Barnes
Orbital Resonance - John Barnes
Othello - William Shakespeare
Ponies - Kij Johnson
Redwall (series) [Martin the Warrior, Pearls of Lutra] - Brian Jacques
Riftwar Saga (series) - Raymond Feist
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
Six of Crows (series) - Leigh Bardugo
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Song of Albion (series) - Stephen Lawhead
Tailchaser's Song - Tad Williams
The Artificial Kid - Bruce Sterling
The Brothers Lionheart - Astrid Lindgren
The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
The City Born Great - N.K. Jemisin
The Dark Tower (series) [The Drawing of the Three, Wizard and Glass] - Stephen King
The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
The Devil in America - Kai Ashante Wilson
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe - Kij Johnson
The Giver - Lois Lowry
The Great Brain (series) - John D. Fitzgerald
The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
The Witch of Duva - Leigh Bardugo
VALIS - Philip K. Dick
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
When We Were Romans - Matthew Kneale
White Noise - Don DeLillo
Winnie-the-Pooh (series) - A.A. Milne
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NFUN
04/04/17 1:42:29 PM
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-=-=-=-=-GOD TIER-=-=-=-=-
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes
Mistborn (Original) - Brandon Sanderson
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
Three Body Problem - Liu Cixin

-=-=-=-=-HIGH TIER-=-=-=-=-
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Dresden Files - Jim Butcher
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
Mistborn (Wax) - Brandon Sanderson
Ringworld - Larry Niven
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein

These are only books that I've read since like November. I'll post the rest later.

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NFUN
04/04/17 4:27:37 PM
#11:


5/5
The Stand - Stephen King
Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan (out of fanboyism)
Brave New World - Aldous Huxlex
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein
HHGTTG - Douglass Adams
Dune - Frank Herbert
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter Miller

4/5
Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
1984 - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Dark Tower - Stephen King

more later maybe
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kateee
04/04/17 7:03:32 PM
#12:


my persona came
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Drakeryn
04/04/17 10:39:08 PM
#13:


where my jemisin/vandermeer fanboys at

@iiicon @digiiiiiiiii
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digiiiiiiiii
04/04/17 11:21:09 PM
#14:


yo.

this will take some time.
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WalkingWiki
04/04/17 11:35:43 PM
#15:


5/5
The Green Mile - Stephen King (10)
The Martian - Andy Weir (10)
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
The Shining - Stephen King
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

4/5
It - Stephen King
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
True Grit - Charles Portis
Matilda - Roald Dahl

There's a lot of books I haven't read that I need to :P
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Esuriat
04/05/17 11:04:09 AM
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4/5:
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time) - Madeleine L'Engle
World War Z - Max Brooks
Rendezvous with Rama - A. Clarke
Childhood's End - A. Clarke
War of the Worlds - HG Wells
The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Shardik - R. Adams
Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

I've been in a terrible reading drought where I haven't completed more than two novels/books per year for the last six.
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NFUN
04/05/17 11:10:12 AM
#17:


Fucking 10/10 The Martian what am I doing with my life? Jeez.
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kateee
04/05/17 3:03:06 PM
#18:


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tabiicat42
04/05/17 3:16:03 PM
#19:


I'm going to work on this tonight... This is a heavy question for me!
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kateee
04/05/17 4:16:46 PM
#20:


I tried to make it as accessible as possible and tried to think of possible reasons people could have for not submitting anything other than the obvious. Did away with the ranking system, no minimum requirements. Since we're looking for overlap between lists mostly, greatly expanded the number of maximum submissions to better allow for that. Tiering system is relatively more simple imo since at the base you only need to think, "do i like this book?" or "how strongly would i recommend this to other people." I also acknowledge that there may be some books that personally fall into people's 3/5 range that still meet that above criteria which is why I say in this case to either lie and say it is 4/5 or reconsider. Had a preliminary topic allowing people to start gathering thoughts on the subject and grab some replies from people who wouldn't bother with the subsequent topic. Had a series of topics leading up to the preliminary topic so people would be more receptive to the idea or understand what was going on. As for time constraint issues, I'll keep the topic up for a while until it becomes clear there's no more interest as well as keep submissions open for the future after the initial listing.

I just want a "good" list, something that can actually be looked at as a board collaboration with a visible result.
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tabiicat42
04/05/17 4:31:34 PM
#21:


I'm just in classes all day until like 9pm EDT so around then I'll be able to get my list
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Gatarix
04/05/17 5:23:36 PM
#22:


imo you did a good job keeping it accessible, it's just a big question. I'm sure there are books I missed.
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Drakeryn
04/05/17 10:17:22 PM
#23:


speaking of which

5/5:
Schismatrix - Bruce Sterling

4/5:
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
East - Edith Pattou
Empyrion (series) - Stephen Lawhead
Fantastic Mr Fox - Roald Dahl
Faster Gun - Elizabeth Bear
I Am David - Anne Holm
Myst (series) - Rand Miller
Railsea - China Mieville
The Alchemist - Ben Jonson
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
The Chronicles of Prydain (series) - Lloyd Alexander
The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Silver Crown - Robert O'Brien
The Too-Clever Fox - Leigh Bardugo
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PumpkinCoach
04/05/17 10:45:30 PM
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Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
The Man Who Was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton
High Rise - J.G. Ballard
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Castle - Franz Kafka
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
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kateee
04/06/17 1:01:43 AM
#25:


excel just autofilled the column of author last names.

i didn't know it could do that.
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kateee
04/06/17 2:57:15 PM
#26:


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5tarscream
04/06/17 7:56:00 PM
#27:


5/5

Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Green Mile - Stephen King
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Harry Potter (Series) - J K Rowling
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

4/5
1984 - George Orwell
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Henry V - William Shakespeare
James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Othello - William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
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tabiicat42
04/06/17 8:20:30 PM
#28:


ok
LET'S DO THIS
I MIGHT MISS SOMETHING BUT WHATEVER IT HAPPENS

5/5
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Riftwar Cycle (series) – Raymond E. Feist
The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmber Bradley
Kushiel’s Universe (series) – Jacqueline Carey
The Black Jewels Trilogy – Anne Bishop
Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
Undermajordomo Minor – Patrick Dewitt
The Red Tend – Anita Diamant
The Wayfarer Redemption (series) – Sara Douglass
Darkglass Mountain (series) – Sara Douglass
The Princess Bride – William Goldman
Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
Abhorsen (series) – Garth Nix
The Dragonriders of Pern (series) – Anne McCaffrey
The Crystal Singer (series) – Anne McCaffrey
A Circle of Magic (series) – Tamora Pierce
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
The Legend of Luke – Brian Jacques
The Vampire Chronicles (series) – Anne Rice

4/5
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Harry Potter (series) – J.K. Rowling
ASOIAF (series) – George R.R. Martin
The Inheritance Cycle (series) – Christopher Paolini
The Hunger Games (series) – Suzanne Collins
Valdemar Universe (a lot of series) – Mercedes Lackey
The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Hollows (series) – Kim Harrison
The Dresden Files (series) – Jim Butcher
Lives of the Mayfair Witches (series) – Anne Rice
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kateee
04/06/17 9:11:05 PM
#29:


you're always free to add more if you remember.

and i do mean always. the plan is to keep it updating even after the initial formation of the list. most people probably won't bother but i'll keep it open.
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NFUN
04/06/17 9:36:40 PM
#30:


Ugh, I couldn't read Neuromancer. It too stylized. Snowcrash was much more palatable.
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Ligray
04/07/17 11:28:46 AM
#31:


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kateee
04/07/17 5:01:10 PM
#32:


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VeryInsane
04/07/17 6:40:19 PM
#33:


I may come up with something when I head home

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Drakeryn
04/07/17 11:53:40 PM
#34:


@VeryInsane
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VeryInsane
04/08/17 1:09:34 AM
#35:


Right.

5/5 (Or so close that it doesn't lose the star IMO)

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Dune by Frank Hebert
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Phillip K. Dick
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Flowers for Algeron by Daniel Keyes
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Second and third book belong here too)
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Stand by Stephen King
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
A MidSummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Othello by William Shakespeare
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson

The Cat and The Hat by Dr. Seuss
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss (Admittedly, these two are more for how they shaped my childhood than anything else)


4/5

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Robot Series by Isaac Asimov
The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
ASOIAF (series, mainly third book here) - George R.R. Martin
Redwall (Series) by Brian Jacques
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
The Stars, My Destination by Alfred Bester
Dark Tower by Stephen King
The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
White Fang by Jack London
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Fences by August Wilson
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WIlliams

Numerous Shakespeare plays

I'm probably gonna look at my collection, see something completely obvious I missed, and be sad. I also read quite a bit so I expect the list to be very different come next year or so if you do one of these again
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kateee
04/08/17 1:16:52 AM
#36:


VeryInsane posted...
Numerous Shakespeare plays

can you list them? doesn't do anything for the list if it's not specific.

here's the complete list. just copy/paste & leave the ones you want. everybody else is free to use it as well.

Comedies
All's Well That Ends Well – Shakespeare
As You Like It – Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors – Shakespeare
Love's Labour's Lost – Shakespeare
Measure for Measure – Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice – Shakespeare
The Merry Wives of Windsor – Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream – Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing – Shakespeare
Pericles – Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew – Shakespeare
The Tempest – Shakespeare
Twelfth Night – Shakespeare
Two Gentlemen of Verona – Shakespeare
The Two Noble Kinsmen – Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale – Shakespeare

Tragedies
Antony and Cleopatra – Shakespeare
Coriolanus – Shakespeare
Cymbeline – Shakespeare
Hamlet – Shakespeare
Julius Caesar – Shakespeare
King Lear – Shakespeare
Macbeth – Shakespeare
Othello – Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare
Timon of Athens – Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus – Shakespeare
Troilus and Cressida – Shakespeare

Histories
Henry IV, Part 1 – Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part 2 – Shakespeare
Henry V – Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 1 – Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 2 – Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 3 – Shakespeare
Henry VIII – Shakespeare
King John – Shakespeare
Richard II – Shakespeare
Richard III – Shakespeare
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kateee
04/08/17 1:27:42 AM
#37:


VeryInsane posted...

I'm probably gonna look at my collection, see something completely obvious I missed, and be sad. I also read quite a bit so I expect the list to be very different come next year or so if you do one of these again

mentioned it earlier but i mean for the list to be cumulative. i'll at least be adding to my list as i read more after the initial "deadline" and if my addition affects causes a change in the overall list, it will be reflected. i'll provide clarification on this point if needed when the list is done.

so "forgetting titles and not having them included in the list" isn't really a thing here because you'll always be allowed to add more or make other changes. unless i give up maintaining it somewhere down the line for some reason.
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VeryInsane
04/08/17 1:32:57 AM
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As You Like It - Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice – Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing – Shakespeare
The Tempest – Shakespeare
Hamlet – Shakespeare
Julius Caesar – Shakespeare
King Lear – Shakespeare
Macbeth – Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part 1 – Shakespeare
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kateee
04/08/17 1:46:26 AM
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tanks
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kateee
04/08/17 1:07:26 PM
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you
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kateee
04/08/17 10:59:04 PM
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Johnbobb
04/08/17 11:36:05 PM
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5/5:
Whale Talk - Chris Crutcher
The Green Mile - Stephen King
The Dark Half - Stephen King
The Sledding Hill - Chris Crutcher
Carrie - Stephen King
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Duma Key - Stephen King
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Crazy Horse Electric Game - Chris Crutcher

4/5:
Everything Eventual - Stephen King
The Dead Zone - Stephen King
Gerald's Game - Stephen King
Machine of Death - Ryan North
Cell - Stephen King
I Am America (and So Can You!) - Stephen Colbert
McTeague - Frank Norris
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
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digiiiiiiiii
04/09/17 12:51:11 AM
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i still want to do this but it's a massive time commitment because i want to do it seriously so as long as that's ok
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kateee
04/09/17 1:17:43 AM
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i've already included your responses from the other topic. you do not have to include these if/when you submit in this topic. i'll keep this topic open for at least two weeks. and i'll still accept submissions after the list goes up.

Abhorsen (series) – Garth Nix [Sabriel]
Ablutions by Patrick deWitt
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Ambergris Cycle [City of Saints & Madmen] - Jeff VanderMeer
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Deathless by Catherynne Valente
Dirk Gently's Hollistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
The Firm by John Grisham
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (series) by Douglas Adams
Man in the Empty Suit by Sean Farrell
The Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan
Redwall (series) [Eulalia] - Brian Jacques
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Sphere by Michael Crichton
Stormchaser by Paul Stewart
Tigerman by Nick Harkaway
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
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kateee
04/09/17 1:19:35 AM
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me

Dracula - Stoker
On the Road - Kerouac
Pride and Prejudice - Austen
The Importance of Being Earnest - Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde
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Ligray
04/09/17 12:31:15 PM
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kateee
04/09/17 10:45:20 PM
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kateee
04/10/17 6:19:08 PM
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Esuriat
04/11/17 11:47:10 AM
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kateee
04/11/17 7:37:51 PM
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