LEDO - Live Everyday Die Once

LEDO is a journal of the "everyday of everything" in my life that is worth remembering ...... to remind me that each new day is a chance to explore new things, to enjoy life, and to thank God! I always believe that we live everyday and we die once!

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My List of Books to Read Now and Beyond

Day 2 of 2016

The books that made to My List are sorted out from the seven lists available in the Internet:

1. Amazon: 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime 
2. The Guardians: The 100 Best Novels
3. The Telegraph: 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
4. BBC: Big Read
5. Time: All-Time 100 Novels
6. Modern Library: The Board’s List
7. Modern Library: The Reader’s List

The above lists were tabulated in order to determine the occurrence of a particular book in a specific list.  I then sorted the books based on their specific number of occurrences in the lists.  And here's my new lists according to their number of occurrences in the seven lists:

The Perfect Seven 

(Mentioned in ALL the Lists)

1. 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
2. Catch-22  by Joseph Heller, Christopher Buckley
3. On The Road by Jack Kerouac
4. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Sixes

(Mentioned in Six of the Lists)

1. Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Vladimir Nabokov
2. Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salma Rushdie
3. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
4. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Fives

(Mentioned in Five of the Lists)

1. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
2. The Lord of the Rings by Brian Sibleu, J. R. R. Tolkien
3. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
4. Ulysses by James Joyce

The Fours

(Mentioned in Four of the Lists)

1. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
2. A Passage to India  by EM Forster
3. Animal Farm by George Orwell 
4. Beloved by Toni Morrison
5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
6. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
7. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
8. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
9. Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham, Jane Smiley
10. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
11. Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
12. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
13. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
14. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

The Threes

(Mentioned in Three of the Lists)

1. A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul
2. A Dance to the Music of Time (Series) by Anthony Powell
3. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
4. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
5. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
6. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland  by Lewis Carroll
7. Cold Comfort Farm  by Stella Gibbons
8. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
9. Dune by Frank Herbert
10. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
11. Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
12. Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
13. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
14. Jayne Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
15. Light in August by William Faulkner
16. Middlemarch by George Eliot
17. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Wolf
18. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
19. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Fiona Stafford
20. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
21. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
22. The Age of Innocence (Signet Classics) by Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Edith Wharton
23. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
24. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
25. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
26. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
27. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
28. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
29. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
30. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
31. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
32. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, Inga Moore
33. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
34. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Wolf
35. Trader by Charles de Lint
36. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
37. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
38. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Twos

(Mentioned in Two of the Lists)

1. A Farewell to Arms  by Ernest Hemingway
2. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man  by James Joyce
4. A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
5. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
6. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
8. Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
9. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
10. Atonement by Ian McEwan
11. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
12. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
13. Charlie and the Chocoloate Factory by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
14. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
16. Deliverance by James Dickey
17. Disgrace by JM Coetzee
18. Emma by Jane Austen 
19. Fahrenheit 451: A Novel by Ray Bradbury
20. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
21. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Read Monkey
22. Greenmantle by Charles de Lint
23. Gulliver's Travels  by Jonathan Swift
24. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
25. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
26. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
27. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
28. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
29. Loving by Henry Green
30. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
31. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
32. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
33. Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
34. Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
35. Native Son by Richard Wright
36. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
37. Rabbit Redux by John Updike
38. Ragtime by EL Doctorow
39. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
40. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
41. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
42. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
43. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
44. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
45. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
46. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
47. The Golden Bowl by Henry James
48. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
49. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
50. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
51. The House of Mirth  by Edith Wharton
52. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
53. The Maltese Falcon  by Dashiell Hammett
54. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
55. The Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
56. The Rainbow by DH Lawrence
57. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
58. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
59. The Stand by Stephen King
60. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
61. The Stranger by Albert Camus, Matthew Ward
62. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
63. Underworld by Don DeLillo
64. V.  by Thomas Pynchon
65. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon
66. Watership Down by Richard Adams
67. Zuleika Dobson by  Max Beerbohm
68. The World According to Garp by John Irving
69. The Corrections: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen