100 Most Popular Works of Fiction
 

PBS set out to produce a list of America’s 100 favorite works of fiction. The alphabetical list (the books aren't ranked) was released this spring, based on a poll of more than 7,000 American readers. The results of the poll were winnowed down by an advisory panel of 'literary industry professionals' using a few rules: The books had to be published (though not necessarily written) in English, with a series like 'Harry Potter' counted as one title, and there could be no more than one book per author."

Atlas Shrugged? Oh, please. :eyebrow:

It doesn't say great, it says popular. Had a roomy in college who adored that book. It validated his behavior as a selfish prick.

I've read 16 of those. All the Left Behind series, Game of Thrones, Wheel of Time...

My count is 39, though some are series. There might be a couple more, but if I don't remember whether I read them, it doesn't count.

27. Some were really good. Some I had to read in school. A couple were in both categories.

21, I think. But a couple of them I only read the first in the series, and a couple I only know I read them for school, I don't actually remember anything about them.

19 here, some forgettable, a couple permanent, like Dune.

31 if I count Atlas Shrugged which I feel is one of the stupidest books ever written. Who is John Galt? Who cares?

As you can probably tell, I have a violent dislike of Ayn Rand who has had a negative impact on people's outlook to this very day. Just another Russian troll. Mueller should investigate her.

23

I say you she dead. For what? 40 yrs?

30. and then there are about 10 that I started but decided not to continue pretty early on. like Dorian Gray and War and Peace. Can't remember why I hated them.... And some I have absolutely no intention of picking up. Like 50 shades.

38. HUH. I didn't think it would be that many.

Yeah, she's gone to that Great Gulag in the Sky.

She was originally from a very wealthy family of Jewish bankers until 1917 when the Russian Revolution turned everything up side down. Miz Rand (not-her-real-name) managed to escape to the US where she spent the rest of her life nursing her resentments and coming up with a philosophy of complete selfishness that was as extreme in its own way as communism is.

Things you never wanted to know... ;)

Ayn Rand was right. her books were oversimplified and slightly ridiculous, but the main concepts were true.