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The 100 greatest novels of all time...??? (this may be debatable)

the list

i thought it's a little funny... they left out some key people and they have a big representation of boring, bad, english stuff. go figure, the list was put together by the british.

here's what i've read:
1 the count of monte cristo
2 jane eyre
3 the scarlet letter
4 the brothers karamazov
5 the picture of dorian gray
6 the call of the wild
7 the great gatsby
8 nineteen eighty-four
9 charlotte's web
10 lord of the flies
11 catch-22
12 gulliver's travel
13 robinson crusoe
14 huckleberry finn
15 dr jekyll and mr hyde

i took care to not count books that i only read some of and couldn't get through (like wuthering heights) and books that i'm still reading (the lord of the ring series).

still... i think i'm doing alright for now. :)

here are the partials:
emma
wuthering heights
moby-dick
little women
catcher in the rye (i lost this book while i was reading it, so never finished)

basically, this has ellicited much violence and resentment from the 1010golf crowd. :)