Official DAC Top 100 Book List

[Dogmeatlives]

So after completing BBC's girly little book list I've decided that we should make a manly DAC book list. I will use BBC's as a template and add books I know are staples of Dac's mental diet.

Feel free to suggest changes. If you want to add one, you have to suggest one that we remove, thanks.


1 A Canticle for Leibowitz- Walter M. Miller Jr.

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 The Road - Cormac McCarthy

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 The Forever War- Joe Haldeman

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 Earth Abides- George R. Stewart

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 Shogun- James Clavell

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Blood Meridian- Cormac McCarthy

34 Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

35 Starship Troopers- Robert Heinlein

36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 I Am Legend- Richard Matheson

40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

54 Ender's Game- Orson Scott Card

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Death of a Salesman- Arthur Miller

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Inferno - Dante

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White

88 Solaris- Stanislaw Lem

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo


Now, most of these are from the BBC's list so there are a ton of books need replacing. I added a few of the manlier books- Blood Meridian, Starship Troopers, Solaris, etc..

Those I feel are pretty obvious for a DAC list. Our list should have a post-apoc/sci-fi slant to it I fell, based upon the interests of our members.

[Jeff]

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Super System - Doyle Brunson

also needs more kafka :kafkubrick:

[Kashluk]

I don't really read fiction... but I can suggest some hard core philosophy or pol sc books

[Cimmerian Nights]

No Neuromancer or other Gibson stuff? I'd throw something from Bradbury, Vonnegut, PK Dick.

Don Q?

Some great Pullitzer Winners not there:
Norman Mailer - Executioner's Song Maybe.
Lonesome Dove
Killer Angels

22 Shogun- James Clavell

Kind of a corny, shallow adventure story.

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

Really can't think of 3 more overrated books. Oh yeah I can, Catcher in the Rye too.

I don't really read fiction

For non-fiction I'd start with The Gulag Archipeligo.

[Alister McFap II Esq.]

Your forgot to add Walter's book.

[Kashluk]

I don't really read fiction

For non-fiction I'd start with The Gulag Archipeligo.

Well, sure, but I was thinking more along the lines of...

Niccolò Macchiavelli - The Prince

John Rawls - A Theory of Justice

Carl Schmitt - The Concept of the Political

Sūnzǐ - The Art of War

John Dunn - The Cunning of Unreason

Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan

Adam Smith - An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

[Wolfman Walt]

Plato - Republic

[Frater Perdurabo]

Shit list

[Superhaze]

Plato - Republic

I'm with Kashuk on most of the books, even Adam Smith. Just pisses me off that people read it without thinking of the society HE lived in, and just use it as a bible for their own views.

[Kashluk]

Plato - Republic

Oh yes, I entirely forgot about Plato! Philosopher kings and all that.

The thing is, I need to read so many books (including classics) because of studying at the university, that I don't really have the energy or the enthusiasm to read anything else. I'm also beginning to associate 'reading' with 'working', which is quite dangerous, I know. So every time I pick up a book I get the same feeling you have when you wake up at 6.30 AM on Monday morning and hurry up to make a pot of coffee. Reading is no longer pleasure in my books (pun intended rofl-lol-doll).

But also, in some sick twisted way, I've learnt to enjoy books handling political science / economic issues. For example, Art of War by Sunzi and On War by Clausewitz are both originally meant as guides for winning wars (with spears or cannons, time/location context specific), but their 'immortal' or 'timeless' relevance has mostly to do with politics and economics. Funky, eh?

[Alister McFap II Esq.]

By which you mean boring and tedious, right friend?
I usually enjoy reading my auto biography, especially the part where I fight the space Kraken.

[Wolfman Walt]

I've never heard of his named being spelled as Sunzi until now. Then again, Chinese is a confusing language, so I see how it happens that Sun Tzu/Sun Wu/Sunzi/whatever has like 15 variations to his name.

[Kashluk]

Really? I've always thought that 'Sun Tzu' was just this anglo-saxon thing, since pronouncing [sunsi] is a lot closer to the original Chinese name than pronouncing [suntsu]?

[Alister McFap II Esq.]

If you dig around in the Chinese languages, you will realize that using modern pinyin methods have their phonetical limitations... I've read that on a cornflakes box.

[Jeff]

that's because there are a variety of romanization methods for chinese - pinyin (a'la "sunzi") is the official one used in china, and arguably the most used system today :otaku:

lawl the boss new guy beat me to it, i'm loving this piece of shit mobile internet

If you dig around in the Chinese languages, you will realize that using modern pinyin methods have their phonetical limitations... I've read that on a cornflakes box.

the phonetics of chinese are actually pretty easy to reprazent in pinyin, they just throw shit on top of syllables to show how it's pronounced phonetically, like Sūnzǐ. but then you didn't really read it from a cereal box did you

pronouncing [sunsi] is a lot closer to the original Chinese name than pronouncing [suntsu]?

that depends on who's pronouncing it pinyin sunsi resembles the IPA form much moar, working out pretty well for us finns and our pronuncation :suomi:

[Megatron]

i am reading new thomas pynchon 'inherent vice' at the moment its pretty bueno.

otherwise i would dare
atrocity exhibition - j.g ballard
zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance - robert pirsig
breakfast of champions - vonnegut
three stigmata of palmer eldritch - dick
pulp - bukowski ^-^

i also quite like specialist literature that i dont particularly understand, although they are good to pick up once in a while. i have a few medical encyclopaedias that are good for dis generally i dont have time/space to read as often as i should, although i enjoy it. bummer.

[Stalagmite]

Megatron, nobody has anything on you.
you're the light in my darkest internet hour you're the saviour when I'm gone.

[Blargh]

That so ? Then -

Megatron for Saviour.

[Superhaze]

Anything by John Stuart Mills. Yes! Old school rebel with cause.

[Username]

Plato is a good one.

Animal Planet.
Fahrenheit 451
1984

Maybe? For some dystopian shit.

For our kids or future kids I suggest Sophies World.
Great introduction into history and philosophy.


Nothing new on the western front is good to.