Most Widely-Read Novels

Here is the current frequency distribution for the various "Greatest
Novels", according to the Wiki
(http://www.pdma.org/wiki/index.php/Afca):

Animal Farm (29)
Catch-22 (28)
1984 (28)
Lord of the Flies (23)
Lord of the Rings (21)
Slaughterhouse Five (21)
The Catcher in the Rye (20)
To Kill a Mockingbird (19)
The Grapes of Wrath (18)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (17)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (16)
A Clockwork Orange (15)
The Big Sleep (14)
The Grapes of Wrath (14)
****tnoy's Complaint (13)
Ragtime (12)
Snow Crash (11)
Gone With the Wind (10)
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (10)

One Hit Wonders - one reader for each (21):

The Adventures of Augie March
American Pastoral
Atonement
At Swim-Two-Birds
The Berlin Stories
The Blind Assassin
Call It Sleep
Death Comes for the Archbishop
The Death of the Heart
Falconer
The Golden Notebook
A House for Ms. Biswas
Loving
Money
Mrs. Dalloway
Possession
The Recognitions
The S****tswriter
Under the Volcano
White Noise
Wide Sargasso Sea

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We still have 7 of them listed as unread.  I know that the Kazuo
I****guro book, "Never Let Me Go", had disappeared from the list the
first time around, but I don't know who took that one off the list.
This does look like a pretty good list of books we haven't read.  So
far.  Lesmond has offered, I believe, to tackle "Infinite Jest".  

A Dance to the Music of Time 
Anthony Powell 

Housekeeping 
Marilynne Robinson 

Infinite Jest 
David Foster Wallace 

The Man Who Loved Children 
Christina Stead 

Never Let Me Go 
Kazuo I****guro 

Under the Net 
Iris Murdoch 

White Teeth 
Zadie Smith 


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