Are these the greatest pieces of literature ever written of the past 200 years?

The Brothers Karamazov

In Search of Lost Time

Moby Dick

Ulysses

One Hundred Years of Solitude

War and Peace

The Old Man d The Sea

The Recognitions

East of Eden

Absalom, Absalom!

If not, what are your top 10 of the last 200 years?

No offence, but Ulysses being alongside those masterpieces?

Anyways, people seriously need to read In Search of Lost Time at least once in their lifetime.

Where’s One Piece?

Where’s AoT?

Where's MCU?

Where's ASOIAF?

Where's House of M?

I've only read Moby Dick and The Old Man and The Sea. Moby deserved to be on this list, idk about TOMATS, it's probably up there as well but there might be other books better than it, it's still really good though. I never heard of the rest other than War and Peace but that book seemed boring so I never cared to touch it.

What's it about? The title got me interested in it, hopefully it's not a waste.

That's an entire book series. Storm of swords should be on here though.

Never read those books. I did some research though.

@agmine570:

Agreed. It is though.

Mb I meant "deserved" not "deserves", the S and D are just so close to each other on the keyboard that I misclicked.

I advice reading Anna Karerina instead if you want to read at least one novel from Tolstoy. It's interesting and a lot more things happen than in War and Peace, though that one can get boring too.

Turns out it has 2 movies as well. But the movies are 4 hours in total so I ain't gonna bother with them, Novel seems easier to finish so I'll give it a shot someday. It seems like a bore though, some books here like the recognition seem so much more interesting.

It's about Marcel Proust talking about his entire life in a very obsessively detailed manner.

Then I guess the storyline perfectly matches with the title because he's talking about his entire life going over the moments he wasted. Everyone's had a similar episode at least once in their lifetime.

It's more of an extremely detailed and philosophical diary than a novel tbh. It's shockingly long, I only read up to 3 of the 7 books it is consisted of, and the ending part. It's boring tbh but when you want to get into a meditative state or whatever, there is no better option than reading In Search of Lost Time. Most people of the current generation is not gonna love it though.

All books are boring when you're not in a good state of mind tbh cuz then you won't be able to properly comprehend what's happening.

and can put you to sleep anytime

So an easy way to fall asleep. Seems useful.

It's clear the OP is focusing on much more universal themes and books that had an enormous impact for the history of literatire(hence why all of the novels in the thread came out before 1950) here. Manga or fantasy or comics are medium/genres that cannot be taken as high art by the elite literary mind or whatever. I really doubt the OP read all those novels though.

True I guess. I have no idea why mangas or freaking MCU was brought here.

Missing some Solzhenitsyn. Crime and punishment is good as well. Brave new World?

Vagabond clears no diff.

@jurance: was just joking, haha (As I think the manga people were...)

You're correct. I'm in the middle of reading "Ulysses," and I've only read Volume 1 of "In Search of Lost Time," but I feel like both of these works influenced the Modernist movement among mid-20th-century writers.

I had a dilemma choosing "As I Lay Dying" over TOMATS but I strictly followed the one work per author rule when I made the list. "Absalom, Absalom!" is, in my opinion, slightly better than "As I Lay Dying," though the latter remains my all-time favorite Faulkner novel.

Some of them are.

No

What's your top 10 then?