"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it." -- Roseanne Barr
My Top 25 Novels
This is a list of what I think are the best 25 novels, in order. The caveat here is that I have a long list of books still on my reading list, so if I haven't included something you think should be on every list like this, I might not have read it yet.
1. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
2. The Brothers Karamatzov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. Watership Down by Richard Adams
4. Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
5. The Long Afternoon of Earth by Brian Aldiss
6. Dune by Frank Herbert
7. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
8. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
9. Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
10. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
11. Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
12. Candide by Voltaire
13. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
14. Animal Farm by George Orwell
15. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Marie Remarque
16. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
17. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
18. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
19. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
20. 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
21. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
22. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
23. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
24. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
25. The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
updated as of 13 August 2006