Top Ten Novels.... (Top 100 on page 5)

[DavePatron]

Hi, my name is Dave and I'm new here(registered 5 minutes ago). I'm 28(yesterday) and I'm a student living in Michigan. The reason for my post is that I have a project for school that I need a little help with. I won't bore you with all the details but the idea is to poll several hundred people and come up with a list of the top 100 novels ever written. My approach is to ask as many people as possible for their favorite 10 novels and to score 1-2 with 3 points, 3-5 with 2 points, and 6-10 with 1 point. Then I plan to simply add up the points of every book and put them in order. The problem I've found is that when walking around a college campus, more often than not, people can't even name 10 books. Thats why I've decided to take my quest to the internet. At least I know people here have read 10 books lol. When my study is complete I will surely post the results here if anyone is interested in seeing them. And if this post is inappropriate I apologize. Mods feel free to delete/modify/or move to a more appropriate forum if needed. Thanks everyone. Here is a sample list of my favorites thus far.

1. The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
2. Ulysses - James Joyce
3. War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy
4. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
5. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. Lord Of The Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
8. The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger
9. Watership Down - Richard Adams
10. Angels And Demons - Dan Brown

Thanks in advance for your help

-DP

[Nici76]

Hello and welcome Dave :D , I will give it some thought!!

[DavePatron]

Thx for the welcome Nici.

[lovesreading06]

welcome i let you know my top ten when i had a thought.

[angerball]

:006: Hiya, and welcome to the forum. :welcome2:

I'll have a think of what my Top Ten novels are and will post back later. :)

[Nici76]

Right, here are my current top 10. I say current as i have a lot of good books on my bookshelf waiting to be read!! :lol:

1. Jean Auel - Clan of the Cave Bear
2. Barbara Erskine - Hiding from the light
3. Nancy KcKenzie - Queen of Camelot
4. Stephen King - IT
5. Martina Cole - The Know
6. Martina Cole - Lady Killer
7. Barbara Erskine - Lady of Hay
8. Jean Auel - The Valley of Horses
9. Barbara Erskine - Child of the Pheonix
10. Virginia Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

I really must start reading books by different authors!!!

Hope this helps.

[kitty_kitty]

Right i am off to have a think.........................

[angerball]

Here are my Top Ten. It's actually a lot harder than I thought to come up with 10. I had a lot more on my list, but these are the ones I have narrowed it down to. :mrgreen:

1. The Stand - Stephen King (it will always be my number 1! :mrgreen: )
2. Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
3. Out - Natsuo Kirino
4. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
5. IT - Stephen King
6. Wizard and Glass - Stephen King
7. The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M Auel
8. Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
9. The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
10. Small Island - Andrea Levy

[Michelle]

We've tried this sort of thing ourselves, and the trouble with people who read alot, is that they often can't decide on their top 10! Godd luck, and please do let us know the results. What are you studying?

[DavePatron]

Thx for the replies so far guys(and gals).

Anger- I don't know how I left The Stand off of my list. That is the first long novel I read cover to cover. Truly a great read.

[Nici76]

Anger- I don't know how I left The Stand off of my list. That is the first long novel I read cover to cover. Truly a great read.

I have yet to read this so it might end being on my top 10!

[DavePatron]

We've tried this sort of thing ourselves, and the trouble with people who read alot, is that they often can't decide on their top 10! Godd luck, and please do let us know the results. What are you studying?

Hi Michelle. Thx for the welcome. I currently play poker for a living and am taking a few classes that sparked my interest for my own entertainment and knowledge. I don't have any major in mind and don't really plan to get a degree in anything. This particular class is a Social Trends course. The project is polling large groups of people in anything you choose. I choose non fiction literature because its something I'm interested in myself. I have a partner who is conducting a similar study and I guess the idea is to show how different the results can be by only changing the person conducting the study. Ive already polled the staff in a few departments of the university and spent hours pounding the pavement. My early observation is that I have to poll a HUGE # of people to get anything meaningful out of the project. As you can see even by the few responses here noone has repeated a title yet lol. I think part of the problem may be that people are inclined to list the books that they have most recently read. I plan to try a few other forums as well to get more data. Any recommendations?

[Janet]

My 'current' Top 10!

Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Othello - William Shakespeare (Can I have this? It’s one of my all-time favourite reads!)
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffeneger
Gentlemen and Players - Joanne Harris
Beyond This Place - A J Cronin
Rachel’s Holiday - Marian Keyes
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

You never know - you might end up enjoying it here and stick around when your project is finished - we're a friendly bunch. :)

I'd definitely like to see your results.

[Louiseog]

Here are mine for 2006:
Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
Making History - Stephen Fry
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
The Pure in Heart - Susan Hill
Sleepy Head - Mark Billingham
The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Practical Magic - Alice Hoffmann
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Firemaster's Mistress - Christa Dickason

[lovesreading06]

does it have to be top 10. There only 6 books i really enjoyed. Does it matter if there a few of the same aurthor?

[Kell]

Hello & :welcome:, Dave!

What a tough question to start off with! This is going to take some serious thinking... it's so difficult to put them in any kind of order, so I'll have to make it a mix of old and new favourites:

1. The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis (I love all the Chronicles of Narnia - with the exception of A Horse and His Boy - but this, the darkest of them, is my favourite)
2. The Stand by Stephen King (This post-apocalyptic epic is King's most completely realised and well-written to date)
3. The Princess Bride by William Goldman (This witty, swash-buckling romantic fairytale fantasy has a little bit of everything - the humour is incredibly clever)
4. The Wind ni the Willows by Kenneth Graham (An absolute classics - need I say more?)
5. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett (This more recent episode in the City Watch section of the Discworld series is superb)
6. The Eagle's Prey by Simon Scarrow (The fifth, and best to date, of the Eagles series)
7. The Prestige by Christopher Priestly (Mystery, intrigue and stage magic combined with tragic secrets)
8. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Sublime writing - the taboo plot is superbly and tactfully handled)
9. Wolf Girl by Theresa Tomlinson (Skilfully written historical fiction aimed at the YA market and set in Northumbria)
10. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon (Sympathetic and beautifully written book that crossed from the YA market to the grown up fiction shelves seamlessly)

It was SO difficult to leave out all the others! Of course, ask me in a week's time and the list will have changed - LOL!

[madcow]

Hi, welcome and I'm off to think of my top 10!

[Freewheeling Andy]

Today (it'll be different tomorrow, with one Murukami and one Ballard, at least, and maybe a different Kadare, a different Mitchell, and possibly a different Lanchester):

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
Broken April by Ismail Kadare
The Bridge Over the Drina by Ivo Andric
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
The Good Soldier Schweijk by Jaroslav Hasek
At-Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick

[madcow]

Ok had a think and here is my top 10 (for now!)

1. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
2. The Wind In The Willows - Kenneth Graham
3. The Lion the witch and The wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
4. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
5. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Nun's Story - Kathryn Hulme
7. A Town Like Alice - Neville Shute
8. The Lady Killer - Martina Cole
9. Trust Me - Lesley Pearce
10. My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult

[DavePatron]

does it have to be top 10. There only 6 books i really enjoyed. Does it matter if there a few of the same aurthor?

Top 6 will work. Same author not a problem.

[Kylie]

Hi Dave and welcome! Here's my top 10:

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
3. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
4. Tomorrow, When The War Began - John Marsden
5. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
6. 1984 - George Orwell
7. The War Of The Worlds - HG Wells
8. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
9. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
10. For The Term Of His Natural Life - Marcus Clarke

Have you tried going into bookshops and libraries and surveying the staff? I should think they'd be pretty helpful. Good luck!

[pontalba]

OK. Top Ten of All Time.....in no particular order:

1. Malevil by Robert Merle
2. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
3. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon [the whole series]
4. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart [actually all of the "Merlin Trilogy]
5. Hawaii by James Michener
6. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
7. Pillar of Iron by Taylor Caldwell
8. Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
9. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
10. The Bible

[wrathofkublakhan]

Howdy Dave,
I knew I'd be the subject of a science project eventually; I just didn't think it'd be as simple as a book poll.

Hmmmm ... as of this posting, here's my top twelve - not ranked.

* The Time Travelers Wife - Audrey Niffeneger
* Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
* The Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling
* M*A*S*H - John Hooker
* Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
* Dragonsinger - Anne McCaffrey
* Obsidian Butterfly - Laurell K. Hamilton
* My Life and Hard Times - James Thurber
* Interview with a Vampire - Anne Rice
* Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut (esp. in honor of his recent passing)
* Battlefield Earth - L. Ron Hubbard
* Manchild in the Promised Land - Claude Brown

Once upon a time, Eric Clapton said that if you didn't know who Robert Johnson was, Eric wouldn't even talk to you.
I'm of a kinder ilk, I feel if you've read one of my top books -- you are an instant good friend because we have that shared experience.

[wrathofkublakhan]

4. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart [actually all of the "Merlin Trilogy]


Gracious me, I loved those books! By golly, it's been 30 years since I've read those and I still remember them ... great choice, pontalba!

[Kell]

Once upon a time, Eric Clapton said that if you didn't know who Robert Johnson was, Eric wouldn't even talk to you.
I'm of a kinder ilk, I feel if you've read one of my top books -- you are an instant good friend because we have that shared experience.Well, I've read two of them. :friends0:

[lovesreading06]

1 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Mark Haddon
2 Book thief MarKus Zusak
3 Flatmates Chris manby
4 Girl meets ape chris manby
5 Ready or not Chris manby
6 Running away from Richard by chris manby
7 Nadia knows best Jill Mansell.

[~V~]

1. mr god this is anna - fynn
2. the time traveller's wife - audrey niffenegger
3. the eight - katherine neville
4. good omens - neil gaiman and terry pratchett
5. memoirs of a geisha - arthur golden
6. times arrow - martin amis
7. down and out in paris and london - george orwell
8. jamaica inn - daphne du maurier
9. gone with the wind - margaret mitchell
10. the mezzanine - nicholson baker

that was hard! start with a few and then as you think, you get far more than ten and then have to edit. grrr.....

doubt many of mine will end up anywhere near the top 100 :D

[~V~]

1 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Mark Haddon
2 Book thief MarKus Zusak
3 Flatmates Chris manby
4 Girl meets ape chris manby
5 Ready or not Chris manby
6 Running away from Richard by chris manby
7 Nadia knows best Jill Mansell.

not sure how i get the impression, but you love chris manby don't you? :lol:

[lovesreading06]

not sure how i get the impression, but you love chris manby don't you? :lol:

Lol yes i do love her books. Thats why i joined this site for other authors.

[Renniemist]

This is very difficult and may not even be correct. For now my favourites are

1 The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
2 Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
3 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
4 Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
5 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6 Cross Stitch (Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon
7 The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel
8 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
9 Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
10 Small Island by Andrea Levy

[wrathofkublakhan]

Well, I've read two of them. :friends0:

<gushing>Hello Kell! You are my instant good best friend! And I love you for it.</gushing>

[Tiger]

In no particular order:

1. Frankie Peaches And Me by Karen McCombie
2. Tide Knot by Helen Dunmore
3. Angels, Plays and A Furry Merry Christmas by Karen McCombie
4. Soul Eater by Michelle Paver
5. Lambs In The Lane by Lucy Daniels
6. (what I've read of it) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
7. A Christmas Carole by Charles Dickens
8. Order Of The Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
9. Goblet Of Fire
10. Chamber Of Secrets

[kitty_kitty]

Here they are in particular order and with a little bit of cheating ;)

1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Time Travellers Wife
3. The Witches Roald Dahl
4. Clan of the Cave Bear
5. Cross Stitch
6. Green Mile
7. Sushi for beginners
8. Jane Eyre
9. Harry Potter - Cheating i know but i like them all
10. Wuthering Heights

[pontalba]

Gracious me, I loved those books! By golly, it's been 30 years since I've read those and I still remember them ... great choice, pontalba!
That is about the first time I read them too. :smile2: The one that followed them up...can't recall the name, but it was about Mordred....didn't care for that so much.

The Wicked Day. Just found it on the shelf.

I should have added in Jane Eyre to my list as well, although I don't know which entry I would take out.....:roll:

[DavePatron]

Thanks to everyone who has weighed in to this point. I'm just now starting to get all of this stuff into a database. With only 200 votes entered I already have nearly 600 different books on the list. Its also become a fairly large task to sort through all the really clever answers like "The Cat In The Hat"...fun. Due to the fairly heavy work load and the fact that its tough for people to pick a single #1 book, I have decided to score all top 10 books as 1 point to make it easier on myself and others trying to rate their favorites.

Anyway if anyone is still following this thread, I hope to get a list posted later this week sometime. If anyone else wants to post a top ten it would still be appreciated.

Thx again.

[FishAndChips]

Really interesting to see everyone elses lists.

I'm currently composing mine - but it has 11 in it and im sure there'll be more added before I get it down to 10!

[scottishbookworm]

1. anyone out there marion keyes
2. the sweetest taboo carole matthews
3. pride and preduice Jane austin
4. Bridget Jones' diary helen Fielding
5. Casino royale ian fleming
6 Naming the dead Ian rankin
7. fleshmarket close Ian rankin
8. tricks of the mind Derren brown
9. the interpertation of murder Jed Rubenfield
10 the enemy lee child

[Polka Dot Rock]

1 The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
3 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
8 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
9 Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger


Ah, compatible again Rennie! :lol:

[Polka Dot Rock]

Off the very top of my head, as of right now:

* Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
* Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
* Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
* Animal Farm by George Orwell
* The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
* Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
* After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
* The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
* Wise Children by Angela Carter
* On Beauty by Zadie Smith

[JudyB]

1. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (I love everything about this - it's poetic, the descriptions are wonderful and the characters brilliant)

2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (a moving novel which teaches the reader about Afgan culture but also contains universal emotional truths)

3. The Rotter's Club by Jonathan Coe (brilliant characterisation and it captures the social and political climate so well - I think Johnathan Coe is a Dickens of our time)

4. Therese Raquin by Emile Zola (shocking and compelling tale)

5. Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens (love this as it deals with the expansion of the railways and so is a social commentary of that time and also looks at forgiveness)

6. Bleak House by Charles Dickens (wonderful mystery and brilliant set of characters)

7. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (another shocking and compelling tale)

8. What a Carve Up! by Johnathan Coe (set in Thatcher's Britain Coe combines comedy and satire with wonderful characterisation).

9. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (undoubtedly my favourite Austen - I love the character of Catharine Moreland - and the title alone conjures up wonderful gothic images)

10. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson (brilliant story)

If you asked me another time my list would probably change slightly as it's so hard to pin books down as favourites - I would say though that the top 5 would probably always stand.

[Angel]

In no particular order:-

1.Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
3.Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
4.Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
5.Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
6.My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
7.The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory
8.Mill on the Floss by George Eliott
9.An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
10.The Borgia Bride by Jeanne Kalogridis

[Polka Dot Rock]

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Oh pants :( I forgot Rebecca... Can I do a top 15? :lol:

[kitty_kitty]

Oh pants :( I forgot Rebecca... Can I do a top 15? :lol:

I did too!!!

Maybe a top 20!! ;) :lol:

[FishAndChips]

Ok here goes

The Beach - Alex garland
The Magicians Nephew - C S Lewis
The lion the witch and the wardrobe - C S Lewis
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Animal farm - George Orwell
Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clarke
Who goes here - Bob Shaw
The man who was Thursday - G K Chesterton
The end of eternity - Isaac Asimov

A fairly eclectic mix with a slight leaning towards sci fi

[DavePatron]

Thank you to everyone who helped out. My partner has posted the final list(both or our lists combined) on a website. We ended up with just over 5000 votes. That means ~500 people gave us a top 10 list. It was actually more like 600 probably since such votes as The Cat in the Hat had to be thrown out. Some people couldn't come up with 10 books either:irked:. Anyway the list can be found at http://www.best100novels.com (http://www.best100novels.com/). The site is non commercial but if the mods have a problem with linking I apologize. Feel free to delete the link if its against your rules. Thanks again for all your help and you were right Bagpuss, I think I will stick around for a bit.:mrgreen:

DP

[Janet]

Thanks again for all your help and you were right Bagpuss, I think I will stick around for a bit.:mrgreen:

DP
Great! :D I will look forward to reading some more of your thoughts.

A great top 100 there - I must count how many I've read!

[Freewheeling Andy]

I really like that list. It's interesting that it's a much more, well, "literary" list that most top 100s you see voted by the general public. Perhaps because of the places you're going to get your votes, or perhaps because it asks for a top 10, rather than top 1, you get a more "intellectual" or "literary" selection.

[DavePatron]

A great top 100 there - I must count how many I've read!
Bagpuss - I just now saw the final list myself. I don't think I've read more than 15 or so.:smile2: Guess that means it's time to get to reading.


It's interesting that it's a much more, well, "literary" list that most top 100s you see voted by the general public.
Andy - My list alone(about half) ended up being over 1000 different titles. I think the "classics" prevailed mostly because of the rather large, IMO, number of votes. I think that per haps newer books just haven't been read by everyone yet.

Anyway the guy's name is Tommy who put the list together. I know he's trying to review every book on the list. If anyone wants to review any of the books I'm sure he would be happy to have the help. I'm not sure if he has an address on the site and I don't want to give out his personal email without his permission but I know he plans to have an email address on the site soon. Drop him a line. I told him about the forum and I hope he stops by.

Anyway thanks again.

DP

[Michelle]

Dave,I'm sure we already have reviews for some of those books. I'm quite happy for him to use any of them,as long as both the review author, and the site, are acknowledged. :)

[Freewheeling Andy]

I've read 39 of them, by the way. Actually, 38 and am reading War and Peace now, so will have read 39 of them some time in 2013.

[angerball]

A great list of books! :D Good variety there. :mrgreen:

[Kell]

Well, I've read 25 and there are a further 27 I'd like to read, so it's a pretty good list by my estimation! :)

[Janet]

Having counted, I've read 13, which is more than I thought at first glance. I fancy quite a few of them on that list though.

At the moment, I'm not reading very much, because AS Level English seems to have taken over my entire life!

[Renniemist]

I have read 25 on the list and there are another 50 either on my shelves or on my wish list. :D


Actually now that I have seen the list the other 25 look quite interesting.:roll:

[Louiseog]

I've read 33. Loved the list somehow felt like it had been compiled by book lovers

[madcow]

Surprisingly I've read 22 on the list with 6 on my TBR list.

[JudyB]

I've read 15

[angerball]

I've read 25 of them. One of these days, I have got to read Pride and Prejudice. It always seems to be at the top, or towards the top of every Top 100 book list.

[JudyB]

I find with a lot of these lists that I've read the authors mentioned but just different novels to the ones that appear on the list.

[Nici76]

Iv'e only read 6 of them:blush:

[Janet]

Iv'e only read 6 of them:blush:
That's six more than some people will have read. :)

[aromaannie]

I've only read 1 and that's only because we had to read it in school for GCSE English Lit:blush:

[wrathofkublakhan]

I've read about 20. I kinda got lost and my eyes all wonky some where in the 80's on the list of 100.

And I love feeling a little smug. Anne of Green Gables in that list is spelled Ann and anyone who's read that book knows it's with an 'e', because ....

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"Oh, I'm not ashamed of it," explained Anne, "only I like Cordelia better. I've always imagined that my name was Cordelia --at least, I always have of late years. When I was young I used to imagine it was Geraldine, but I like Cordelia better now. But if you call me Anne please call me Anne spelled with an e."

What difference does that make how it's spelled?" asked Marilla with another rusty smile as she picked up the teapot.

"Oh it makes such a difference. It looks so much nicer. When you hear a name pronounced can't you always see it in your mind, just as if it was printed out? I can; and A-n-n looks dreadful, but A-n-n-e looks so much more distinguished. If you'll only call me Anne spelled with an e I shall try to reconcile myself to not being called Cordelia.

"Very well, then, Anne spelled with an e, can you tell us how this mistake came to be made? We sent word to Mrs. Spencer to bring us a boy. Were there no boys at the asylum?

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Fun book, I'm on page 101 right now.

[pontalba]

I've read 18 of them, and started and discarded 7 others without finishing.

Something else, I wonder how I, Claudius can be in the top 100 and not Claudius the God.... :?:

[~V~]

I've read about 20. I kinda got lost and my eyes all wonky some where in the 80's on the list of 100.

And I love feeling a little smug. Anne of Green Gables in that list is spelled Ann and anyone who's read that book knows it's with an 'e', because ....

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"Oh, I'm not ashamed of it," explained Anne, "only I like Cordelia better. I've always imagined that my name was Cordelia --at least, I always have of late years. When I was young I used to imagine it was Geraldine, but I like Cordelia better now. But if you call me Anne please call me Anne spelled with an e."

What difference does that make how it's spelled?" asked Marilla with another rusty smile as she picked up the teapot.

"Oh it makes such a difference. It looks so much nicer. When you hear a name pronounced can't you always see it in your mind, just as if it was printed out? I can; and A-n-n looks dreadful, but A-n-n-e looks so much more distinguished. If you'll only call me Anne spelled with an e I shall try to reconcile myself to not being called Cordelia.

"Very well, then, Anne spelled with an e, can you tell us how this mistake came to be made? We sent word to Mrs. Spencer to bring us a boy. Were there no boys at the asylum?

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Fun book, I'm on page 101 right now.

the weird thing with the ann/anne debate is that usually it's 'ann' if a first nama en 'anne' if a second (or subsequent) name

have no clue why, just something i noticed

(and i said 'usually', so i'm not inviting examples that disprove the rule) :mrgreen:

[kitty_kitty]

I have read 27 but i have quite a few of them on my TBR pile

[aromaannie]

the weird thing with the ann/anne debate is that usually it's 'ann' if a first nama en 'anne' if a second (or subsequent) name

have no clue why, just something i noticed

(and i said 'usually', so i'm not inviting examples that disprove the rule) :mrgreen:


I am the only Ann I know everyone else I have met have Anne as their first name

[Child.of.God.1989]

Anne is such a sweet character! Remember Ms. Montgomery's description of her simply sitting in a room with the sun shining through the window - just smiling at nature? I almost don't want to read the sequels and ruin the magic of seeing her grow up in the first book. Being more of a listener, I'd love to meet someone as talkative as her.

...Eleven. *drinks a glass of milk to wash down humble pie*

[Echo]

I've read 32 of the 100. That's pretty good, right? There are a lot on there that I've been meaning to read, and some that don't seem to belong. I also think that The Lord of the Rings should be #1!!!:lol:

[Kylie]

I've read 30 and I have most of the rest of them on my TBR pile. So hopefully I'll get that number up to at least 50 by the end of 2008. :mrgreen: