The
top ten I sent are my favorites and I did not judge them on what I thought
the English community of Literature, i.e. THE CANNON would think. They are my favorites, and I know 2 days from now I will be shooting myself, saying I forgot that one or this one. But, this is all I can think of for now. Well, here it is, Cordie’s Top Ten:
1) Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass By Lewis Carroll
2) The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawThorne
3) Leaves of Grass By Walt Whitman
4) The Brothers Karamazov By F. Dostoyevsky
5) Utopia By Sir Thomas More
6) Beneath the Wheel By Herman Hesse
7) Beloved By Toni Morrison
8) Women in Love By D. H. Lawrence
9) East of Eden By John Steinbeck
10) A Prayer for Owen Meany By John Irving
Honorable mention:
1) Mill on the Floss By George Elliot
2) Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
3) Middle March By George Elliot
4) You Can’t Go Home Again By Thomas Wolfe
5) Mist of Avalon By Marion Zimmer Bradley
6) The World According to Garp By John Irving
7) The Morgesons By Elizabeith Stoddard
8) When One Has Lived A Long Time Alone By Galway Kinnell
9) Imperfect Thirst By Galway Kinnell
10) ScrewTape Letters By C.S. Lewis
