Top 60 novels of past 60 years - Times readers

[Maurice]

Times Online: 'The NovelList'



Times readers have voted for "the best 60 books of the past 60 years".



Top Twenty



1. TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD Harper Lee

2. THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH Ken Follett

3. CATCH-22 Joseph Heller

4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS J.R.R. Tolkein

5. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE J.D. Salinger

6. NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR George Orwell

7. THE TIME TRAVELLER'S WIFE Audrey Niffenegger

8. HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE J.K. Rowling

9. THE SECRET HISTORY Donna Tartt

10. BIRDSONG Sebastian Faulks

11. A SUITABLE BOY Vikram Seth

12. ATONEMENT Ian McEwan

13. LOLITA Vladimar Nabokov

14. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN John Fowles

15. LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA Gabriel Garcia Marquez

16. THE ROAD Cormac McCarthy

17. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE Gabriel Garcia Marquez

18. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY John Irving

19. THE LEOPARD Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

20. DR ZHIVAGO Boris Pasternak



http://entertainment.timesonline.co....cle6866488.ece

[jaycad]

i don't understand adults reading 'harry potter' books at all?? i'm surprised any irvine welsh novels don't feature!

[batman]

TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD Harper Lee

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE J.D. Salinger

NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR George Orwell

LOLITA Vladimar Nabokov

THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN John Fowles

THE LEOPARD Giuseppe Di Lampedusa



I'd agree with these ones.

[Maurice]

name='jaycad']

i'm surprised any irvine welsh novels don't feature!

TRAINSPOTTING is 48

[jaycad]

name='Maurice']TRAINSPOTTING is 48

ha ha-i didn't even realise the list shown didn't go up to 60! i put it down to friday tiredness!

[Maurice]

name='jaycad']ha ha-i didn't even realise the list shown didn't go up to 60! i put it down to friday tiredness!

Hi Jaycad,



That's what The Times is suffering from!



Your comment is ironic...one novel is missing from the newspaper list. Its total is only 59.



The online version has an extra entry: 'Lord of the Flies' at 21 - so 'Trainspotting' is 49, not 48.



It's taken several minutes to sort this out - the entries, after 20, are not numbered.



Another difference: newspaper has 'One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest' last.

Online has 'A Scanner Darkly' there.



Maurice

[will.15]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest not on the list?



I guess some would argue One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich should be on the list. (Never read it nor want to)

[Steve Crook]

name='will.15']One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest not on the list?



I guess some would argue One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich should be on the list. (Never read it nor want to)

Why not? It's a great read



Steve

[batman]

name='Steve Crook']Why not? It's a great read



Steve

I agree.

[Maurice]

21. LORD OF THE FLIES William Golding

22. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE Kurt Vonnegut

23. WATERSHIP DOWN Richard Adams

24. WORLD WITHOUT END Ken Follett

25. A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS Khaled Hosseini

26. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN Salman Rushdie

27. THE HANDMAID'S TALE Margaret Atwood

28. THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE C.S. Lewis

29. GET SHORTY Elmore Leonard

30. SMILEY'S PEOPLE John Le Carre



31. AMERICAN PSYCHO Bret Easton Ellis

32. ANGELA'S ASHES Frank McCourt

33. A FINE BALANCE Rohinton Mistry

34. ON THE ROAD Jack Kerouac

35. DISGRACE J.M. Coetzee

36. DUNE Frank Herbert

37. CLOUD ATLAS David Mitchell

38. NORTHERN LIGHTS Philip Pullman

39. MY NAME IS RED Orhan Pamuk

40. LUCKY JIM Kingsley Amis



41. THE GODFATHER Mario Puzo

42. THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK Doris Lessing

43. THE GRAPES OF WRATH John Steinbeck

44. THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS Isabel Allende

45. THE MAGUS John Fowles

46. THE MASTER AND MARGARITA Mikhail Bulgakov

47. THE NAME OF THE ROSE Umberto Eco

48. WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN Lionel Shiver

49. TRAINSPOTTING Irvine Welsh



50. POSSESSION A.S. Byatt

51. RAGTIME E.L. Doctorow

52. RESTORATION Rose Tremain

53. REVOLUTIONARY ROAD Richard Yates

54. THE SHADOW OF THE WIND Carlos Ruiz Zafon

55. IMMORTALITY Milan Kundera

56. TINKER, TAYLOR, SOLDIER, SPY John Le Carre

57. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE Anthony Burgess

58. A HOUSE FOR MR. BISWAS V.S. Naipaul

59. A SCANNER DARKLY Philip K. Dick

60. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST Ken Kesey



newspaper list, 22 - 60

last few places slightly different at Times Online.

[batman]

LORD OF THE FLIES William Golding

THE GRAPES OF WRATH John Steinbeck

THE MAGUS John Fowles

RAGTIME E.L. Doctorow

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST Ken Kesey

AMERICAN PSYCHO Bret Easton Ellis



Again, I'd agree with these ones .... I would have included ''I, The Jury'', but I expect Mickey Spillane, despite having sold over 200 million books, is a bit too low brow for such a list.