Compiled by Kay Menchel November 5, 2012
The OLLI Top Ten
1. Pride And Prejudice 2. To Kill A Mockingbird 3. Crime And Punishment 4. Great Expectations 5. Anna Karenina 6. The Great Gatsby 7. Gone With The Wind 8. Catch 22 9. Emma 10. The Brothers Karamazov
Shared Pleasures (Books that were mentioned by more than one person, but didn’t make the top ten)
In no particular order….
Atonement Slaughterhouse 5 1984 Portrait Of A Lady Cold Mountain The Age Of Innocence Angle of Repose Brideshead Revisited Cutting For Stone A Passage To India East of Eden Middlemarch The Grapes of Wrath Huckleberry Finn Little Women My Antonia A Perfect Spy The Good Earth David Copperfield Persuasion Madame Bovary Jane Eyre War And Peace Les Miserables A Tale Of Two Cities I Capture The Castle
Outliers (Those books that were listed by one person only)
Again – in no particular order ….
God Bless You Mr. Rosewater Trout Fishing In America Scoop War With The Newts The Sun Also Rises English Passengers Sophie’s Choice Death Comes To The Archbishop
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Outliers Cont.
Room Wuthering Heights On The Beach The Naked And The Dead The Stand Lie Down In Darkness Shogun God Is An Englishman The Winds Of War War And Remembrance Education Of Hyman Kaplan A Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovitch The Caine Mutiny A Picture Of Dorian Gray Lonesome Dove I Claudius The Scarlet Letter The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress All Passion Spent Howard’s End In Search Of Lost Time American Tragedy The Invisible Man Pilgrim At Tinker Creek Ladies Of The Club The Secret Garden Gift From The Sea The Poisonwood Bible West With The Night The Illiad and The Odyssey Crossing To Safety The World According To Garp Tin Drum Sometimes A Great Notion The Reader Plague Of Doves Main Street Cloudstreet Edge Of Sadness The Buddha in The Attic Parnassus On Wheels Sarum Ironweed My Name Is Aram I Know A Secret The Once And Future King Lord Of The Flies A Separate Peace Pilgrims Inn The Yearling Seventeenth Summer Giants In The Earth Hawaii Destiny Of Fire September The Shell Seekers Year Of Wonders The Twelfth Transforming Tess Of The D’Urbervilles The Heart Of The Matter Moveable Feast The Spy Who Came In From The Cold Gilead Home The Crossing Sheltering Sky The Good Soldier The Sweetness At The Bottom Of The Pie Summer Lightning Rumpole And The Reign Of Terror Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand The Dead The Known World The Trees A Death In The Family A Human Comedy Valley Of Decision The Paris Wife In Cold Blood Lost In The Forest No Angel The Pilot’s Wife The Blind Assassin The Corrections
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Outliers Cont.
Rebecca Awakening The Giver Dr. Zhivago A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The Garden Of The Finzi Continis Dancing At The Rascal Fair March Some Tame Gazelle China Court Hiroshima Joe The Sword Of Honour Trilogy Rebecca The Pursuit Of Love In This House Of Brede Excellent Women Alias Grace The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer The Hobbit Kristin Lavransdatter People Of The Book The Bridge Of San Luis Rey Kingsblood Royal Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress The Aubrey – Maturin Series All Quiet On The Western Front From Here To Eternity How Green Was My Valley The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared
My Personal Top Ten
1. Anna Karenina 2. Persuasion 3. To Kill A Mockingbird 4. Pride And Prejudice 5. Madame Bovary 6. Vanity Fair 7. A Room With A View 8. Perfume – The Story Of A Murderer 9. Brideshead Revisited 10. The Harry Potter Series
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