[Mellark]

Sorry, There wasn't a countdown today. I will try to do one tomorrow #79-76 now.

[Skyian]

lkljlhkl;';'l' Spoke too soon!
The Stand and The Count of Monte Cristo out.

Originally posted by Skyian

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1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) [#84]
2. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (1951) [#91]
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5. The Stand by Stephen King (1978) [#82]
6. Misery by Stephen King (1987) [#97]
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9. Candide by Voltaire (1759) [#83]
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14. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1844 - 1845) [#81]

Give my heart a break ATRL.

[Mellark]

ATRL's 100 Greatest Books Of All Time
#78

Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.
Though the story is set at the turn of the 19th century, it retains a fascination for modern readers, continuing near the top of lists of 'most loved books' such as The Big Read. It has become one of the most popular novels in English literature and receives considerable attention from literary scholars. Modern interest in the book has resulted in a number of dramatic adaptations and an abundance of novels and stories imitating Austen's memorable characters or themes. To date, the book has sold some 20 million copies worldwide

[Strangergab]

[(Cole)]

[givemethatpop]

Can we vote here? Anyway. I would choose the arguably greatest novel of universal literature.

[Mellark]

Nope, we cant.
ATRL's 100 Greatest Books Of All Time
#77

The Piano Lesson is a 1990 play by American playwright August Wilson. The Piano Lesson is the fourth play in Wilson's The Pittsburgh Cycle. Wilson began writing this play by playing with the various answers regarding the possibility of "acquiring a sense of self-worth by denying ones past". The Piano Lesson received the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Inspired by a Romare Bearden painting titled The Piano Lesson, Wilson was inspired to write a play featuring a strong female character to confront African-American history, paralleling Troy in earlier Fences.
However, after finishing his play, Wilson found the ending to stray from the empowered female character as well as the question regarding one's self worth. The final question proposed by The Piano Lesson seems to ask, "what do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?"

Set in 1936 Pittsburgh during the aftermath of the Great Depression, The Piano Lesson follows the lives of the Charles family in the Doaker Charles household and an heirloom, the infamous piano. The play focuses on the arguments between a brother and a sister who have different ideas on what to do with the piano they own. The brother, Boy Willie, is a sharecropper who wants to sell the piano to buy the land (Sutter's land) that his ancestors had toiled on as slaves while the sister, Berniece, remains emphatic about keeping it. The piano shows the carved faces of their great-grandfather's wife of son during the days of their enslavement.

[(Cole)]

I like The Piano Lesson, but I enjoyed Fences more.

[Mellark]

ATRL's 100 Greatest Books Of All Time
#76:

Lord of the Flies is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results. Its stances on the already-controversial subjects of human nature and individual welfare versus the common good earned it position 68 on the American Library Association’s list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990–1999. In 2005 the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.It was awarded a place on both lists of Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching #41 on the editor's list, and #25 on the reader's list.
Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies was Golding’s first novel. Although it was not a great success at the time — selling fewer than 3,000 copies in the United States during 1955 before going out of print — it soon went on to become a best-seller, and by the early 1960s was required reading in many schools and colleges; the novel is currently renowned for being a popular choice of study for GCSE English Literature courses in the United Kingdom. It was adapted to film in 1963 by Peter Brook, and again in 1990 by Harry Hook.

[Strangergab]

Originally posted by givemethatpop

Can we vote here? Anyway. I would choose the arguably greatest novel of universal literature.

[(Cole)]

I really don't like Lord of the Flies...

It was such a boring read, and then the deus ex machina...

SHAME ON YOU FOR VOTING THIS HIGHER THAN CATCHER, ATRL.

[Auraeolux]

Piggy

And why is this so high?

[WoozyFloozy]

Lord of the Flies shouldn't be this high. Allegory is nice, but not when it overtakes the plot.

Originally posted by givemethatpop

Can we vote here? Anyway. I would choose the arguably greatest novel of universal literature.

This was very high on my list.

[Mellark]

ATRL's 100 Greatest Books Of All Time
#75

Digital Fortress is a techno-thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published in 1998 by St. Martin's Press. The book explores the theme of government surveillance of electronically stored information on the private lives of citizens, and the possible civil liberties and ethical implications using such technology.

[Mellark]

ATRL's 100 Greatest Books Of All Time
#74

Cloud Atlas is a 2004 novel, the third book by British author David Mitchell. It won the British Book Awards Literary Fiction Award and the Richard & Judy Book of the Year award, and was short-listed for the 2004 Booker Prize, Nebula Award, Arthur C. Clarke Award, and other awards.

[CloseMyEyes]

Nice list! Which I could've participated!
I will die if #1 is Ulysses or anything by James Joyce.

[Mellark]

Sorry for not updating. 73-89
ATRL's 100 Greatest Books Of All Time
#73

Beloved is a novel by the American writer Toni Morrison, published in 1987. Set during 1873 soon after the American Civil War (1861–1865), it is based on the true story of the African-American slave, Margaret Garner, who temporarily escaped slavery during 1856 in Kentucky by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. A posse arrived to retrieve her and her children by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave owners the right to pursue slaves across state borders. Margaret killed her two-year-old daughter rather than allow her to be recaptured.
Beloved's main character, Sethe, kills her daughter and tries to kill her other three children when a posse arrives in Ohio to return them to Sweet Home, the plantation in Kentucky from which Sethe had recently fled. The daughter, Beloved, returns years later to haunt the home of Sethe at 124 Bluestone Road, Cincinnati. The story opens with an introduction to the ghost: "124 was spiteful. Full of a baby's venom."
During 1998 into a movie of the same name starring Oprah Winfrey. During 2006 a New York Times survey of writers and literary critics ranked it as the best work of American fiction of the past 25 years.
The book's epigraph reads "Sixty Million and more," the number of slaves estimated to have died during the Atlantic slave trade.

[supaspaz]

YES! Cloud Atlas is genius. I'm so glad to see it here. It was on my list, but I submitted too late...

[Mellark]

ATRL's 100 Greatest Books Of All Time
#72

A Game of Thrones is the first book in A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of high fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin. It was first published on 6 August 1996. The novel won the 1997 Locus Award, and was nominated for both the 1998 Nebula Award and the 1997 World Fantasy Award. The novella Blood of the Dragon, comprising the Daenerys Targaryen chapters from the novel, won the 1997 Hugo Award for Best Novella. In January 2011 the novel became a New York Times bestseller[3] and reached #1 on the list in July 2011.
In the novel, presenting various points of view and plot-lines, Martin introduces the noble houses of Westeros, the Wall, and the Targaryen plot-line. The novel has lent its name to several spin-off items based on the novels, including a trading card game, board game, and roleplaying game. The novel is the basis for the first season of a television series of a similar name created by HBO, which premiered on April 17, 2011.

[(Cole)]

Yes!