Young Writers Society

This thread is for nominations of the YWS Top 100 Classics (the number is subject to change). You may only list books that are 50 years old or older.

Please nominate your favorite books. Since it is unlikely that a book you haven't read can be your favorite, please list ones you have. ^_^


There is a separate thread for books newer than fifty years. Have fun!

And make sure you check out this thread for the list!

http://www.youngwriterssociety.com/viewtopic.php?t=15229


Please also be sure to list the full title, author, and if the book is in a series, list it as a series. Thanks!

Oz books (ALL Oz books) by Frank L. Baum

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas

Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

Moby Dick, Herman Melville

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte's Web - EB White

Animal Farm - George Orwell

1984 - George Orwell

*slaps head for forgetting*

Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs

Frankenstein - Mary Shelly

Dracula - Bram Stoker

The Time Machine - HG Wells

The War of the Worlds - HG Wells

Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne

The Call of the Wild - Jack London

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Emma by " "
Northanger Abbey by " "
all other books J.A. wrote
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (and all other books, such as the Idiot, by him)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

When I think of more, I shall post!

Adding some nominations from the last unorganized thread:


- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Polish Officer by Alan Furst
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas

Again, as I just said in my thread, wont any nominated list be nothing more then a popularity contest and thus inaccurate, in a sense?

I think there will be a more involved process than just a simple sitewide vote. I haven't completely worked out how it will work, but certainly having a hundred members that have one or two posts voting for a crappy book won't suffice.

Nominations are the first step for now, so I would just go with that.

I have more:

The Little Mermaid - Hans Christian Anderson

The Snow Queen - Hans Christian Anderson

Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.

Homer's Odyssey and Illiad.

The Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov, I'm not sure if the last one was written in time for this, but the first few definitely are.

The Little House on the Prairie series - Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov, I'm not sure if the last one was written in time for this, but the first few definitely are.

If the series was started before the 50-year cut-off, then I'll definitely consider it for the classics list.

The Little Mermaid - Hans Christian Anderson

The Snow Queen - Hans Christian Anderson

These two aren't really books per se, but fairy tales.

I see your point. I assumed that, though they are technically fairy tales, they were written by one person (ie. usually fairy tales have many different adaptions bu different people) and published as was usual for novels. But oh well. If they don't count, they don't count. XD

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway