Top Ten Greatest Novels of All Time?

Question

I have compiled a list of novels from various different sources to create, arguably, the top ten list of the greatest novels of all time. Now I have two lists, one is based on the score that the novels were given, and the other is based on how many people liked that specific novel. Discuss and comment the lists, rearrange the list, add different novels, or you can rip it to shreds and create a whole new list that suits your personal preferences. Also please give your opinion on which list you think is more accurate.

PS: Remember, if you wish to rearrange the list, make sure only 'novels' are included. That is why there is no Shakespeare or Twilight in this list in case you were wondering. (I can't believe I just used Shakespeare and Twilight in the same sentence.)

Based on Quantity

1. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Ulysses - James Joyce
3. 1984 – George Orwell
4. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
5. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
6. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
7. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
8. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
9. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
10. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Based on Score

1. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
2. 1984 – George Orwell
3. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
4. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. Lord of the Rings – J.R.R Tolkein
8. Ulysses - James Joyce
9. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
10. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Answer 1

Okay, I'm definitely a hater, but Twilight IS a novel. There's nothing that says a novel must be classic literature. Twilight was a crappy novel, but it was one. Definitely not on my list of top 10...but I'm a little fuzzy-brained right now because I just got up. I'll come back with my list when I go a word without yawning :)

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Answer 2

More people liked Ulysses than Lord of the Rings? Really?

I'm startled by how similar your lists are. Why does a list of how many people liked a particular novel not include a single easy-read bestseller? Where's Dan Brown? Where's Terry Pratchett? Heck, where's Harry Potter? There's no law that says only the literary genre counts as novels.

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Answer 3

Those lists have some of the greatest classics of all time. I am currently reading Catch-22 and don't really quite understand why it is as famous as it is, other than adding the word Catch-22 to society. But a lot of those books are classics, and those are two great lists.

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Answer 4

1.desperation - stephen king
2. rose madder - stephen king
3.misery-stphen king
4. pet semetary - stephen king
5. insomnisa - stephen king
6. the green mile-stephen king
7. the dark half - stephen king
8. the storm of the centruy - stephen king
9. lord of the flies - ???????????
10. frankenstien - dean kuntz :oP

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