All time best Novels - Best Seller novels that one must read

Hi All,

In this post I am not giving you any review for a book, novel etc, but posting a list of my all time favorite novels that I enjoyed reading and also recommend them to other people who asked me for whick novel to read. Few of them I've also gifted sometimes.

Thus I hope these novels will serve multiple purposes for all of you .

All time best seller novels:

1. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. 1984 by George Orwell
4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
5. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
6. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
7. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
8. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
9. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
10. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
11. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
12. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
13. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
14. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
15. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
16. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
17. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
18. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
19. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
20. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
21. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Dipso Facto - Top 10 books singing the booze

Heres the collection of top ten novels in which Alchohal plays a starring role:

Devdas: 1917 by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhya
Tragic love story of a boy named Devdas. Boy meets girl, looses her then boy meets Bottle. Boy gts another girl but goes after first love. Drops down to death drunk.

Appointment in Sammara: 1931 by John O'Hara
The decline and fall of a cocktail tossing Cadillac dealer in Gibbsville, Pennesylvania

Hangover Square: 1941 by Patrick Hamilton
Borderline alchoolic with a spoilt personality fight fascism in 1930's Britain, only to bring down his own defeat.

The Lost Weekend: 1944 by Charles Jackson
Fialed writer on a 5 day bender in the streets on 1930's Manhatten, according to Amis, "The Best fictional account of alcholism I have read".

Under The Volcano: 1947 by Mlcom Lowry
The last day in the life of an alcholic ex-counsul in Mexico. Should've heeded Amis' words on mescal: "The nastiest drink I've ever drunk in my life"

The Alcoholics: 1953 by Jim Thompson
Raw thriller in which a doctor treating alcholism presides over a rouge's gallery of twisted nurses and patients.

A Fan's Notes: 1968 by Frederick Exley
Thinly disguised memoir of a promosing athelte who veers off track, changing from a drifter to DRUNKARD.

The Power And The Glory: 1969 by Grahan Greene
A 'Whisky priest' stumbles across mexico hoping for salvation, aided by some unholu sririt.

Post Office: 1971 by Charles Bukowski
Misanthropic postman with an eye for woman and horse racing stay alive so that he can stay DRUNK
Paradise: 2004 by A L Kennedy
Alcoholic woman meets alcoholic dentist. Enough to set your teeths on edge.