BigFooty's Top 50 Book List

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matwt73 said:
Maybe i am being pedantic, but should MAgician have just been placed in with the Riftwar Saga and all of those counted as one Magician/Riftwar getting a total of 96 Votes. I always figured that authors like Hemingway and pratchett and Orwell would split their vote, but to actually lose votes to the series that the book is in seems... tricky.
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It is tricky and while I didn't vote for Magician I have read it and quite enjoyed it, but didn't like the 2nd or 3rd book, thought they were quite average. Haven't read beyond that. So from my perspective I wouldn't want Magician lumped in with the others.
 
It seemed silly to make people vote for a whole series when they may have only really liked one book in the series, so the option was there for people to vote for either the whole series or just a single book in the series.

It is unfortunate but Feist should have just written a better book 2 and 3 to the trilogy :p

Also, he wasn't the only author to "lose" votes in this way. On the plus side it might mean he has more entries in the top 50 :)
 
fpcookie said:
It seemed silly to make people vote for a whole series when they may have only really liked one book in the series, so the option was there for people to vote for either the whole series or just a single book in the series.

It is unfortunate but Feist should have just written a better book 2 and 3 to the trilogy :p

Also, he wasn't the only author to "lose" votes in this way. On the plus side it might mean he has more entries in the top 50 :)
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Plus side for him, minus side for book in slot 51 :)
 

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Getting into the juicy end now :)

#25: East of Eden - John Steinbeck

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Genre: General Fiction
Votes received: 56
Contained in: 3 lists
Highest position: 1st


#24: The Road - Cormac McCarthy

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Genre: General Fiction
Votes received: 56
Contained in: 4 lists
Highest position: 1st

#23: Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts


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Genre: General Fiction
Votes received: 59
Contained in: 3 lists
Highest position: 1st



#22: All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy




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Genre: General Fiction
Votes received: 59
Contained in: 4 lists
Highest position: 1st

#21: Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky


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Genre: General Fiction
Votes received: 62
Contained in: 4 lists
Highest position: 1st
 
#20: The Stand - Stephen King

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Genre: Horror
Votes received: 66
Contained in: 4 lists
Highest position: 1st


#19: On the Road - Jack Kerouac

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Genre: General Fiction
Votes received: 66
Contained in: 5 lists
Highest position: 2nd


#18 The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan

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Containing Books: The Eye of the World, The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn, The Shadow Rising, The Fires of Heaven, Lord of Chaos, Crown of Swords, The Path of Daggers, Winter's Heart, Crossroads of Twilight, Knife of Dreams, The Gathering Storm, Towers of Midnight, A Memory of Light
Genre: Fantasy
Votes received: 67
Contained in: 5 lists
Highest position: 3rd



#17: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

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Genre: General Fiction
Votes received: 68
Contained in: 5 lists
Highest position: 2nd


#16: The Belgariad - David Eddings

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Containing Books: Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, Magician's Gambit, Castle of Wizardry, Enchanters' End Game
Genre: Fantasy
Votes received: 76
Contained in: 6 lists
Highest position: 1st
 
#15: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson

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Genre: General Fiction
Votes received: 80
Contained in: 6 lists
Highest position: 2nd


#14: Dune - Frank Herbert


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Genre: Science Fiction
Votes received: 83
Contained in: 6 lists
Highest position: 1st


#13: The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger


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Genre: General Fiction
Votes received: 83
Contained in: 7 lists
Highest position: 4th


#12: The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck


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Genre: General Fiction
Votes received: 84
Contained in: 6 lists
Highest position: 4th


#11: The Harry Potter series - JK Rowling


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Genre: Fantasy
Votes received: 98
Contained in: 9 lists
Highest position: 3rd
 
Time for the Top 10 folks! Going to do this as single entries over the next two days to try build some suspense... :)

So, without further ado, here are your BigFooty Top 10 books:


#10: The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

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Genre: Fantasy
Votes received: 99
Contained in: 11 lists
Highest position: 2nd
 

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Thanks for everyone's participation !! :)

Some interesting tidbits about the Top 50....

Number of entries, by genre:
27 - General Fiction
10 - Fantasy
6 - Science Fiction
2 - Horror, Thriller
1 - Memoir, Non-Fiction, Historical Fiction

Multiple entries, authors:
3 - George Orwell, Cormac McCarthy, Stephen King, John Steinbeck
2 - JRR Tolkein, Raymond E Feist, Ernest Hemingway, Leo Tolstoy

Highest average vote:
19.7 - Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts (59 total votes)
18.7 - East of Eden, John Steinbeck (56)
18.5 - A Short History of Almost Everything, Bill Bryson (37)

Lowest average vote:
8.2 - Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (41)
9.0 - The Hobbit, JRR Tolkein (99)
10.9 - Harry Potter series, JK Rowling (98)

Contained in most number of lists:
21 - Lord of the Rings
20 - Nineteen Eighty-Four
16 - To Kill a Mockingbird
13 - A Song of Ice and Fire
11 - Animal Farm, The Hobbit
10 - Catch-22, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Most number of 1st's:
8 - Lord of the Rings
2 - A Song of Ice and Fire, Shantaram
 
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Some tidbits regarding authors using all the votes that were submitted...

Authors ranked by individual entries:
9 - Stephen King
7 - Cormac McCarthy
5 - Matthew Reilly, Terry Pratchett
4 - Albert Camus, Dan Simmons, Hunter S Thompson, James Joyce, John Steinbeck, John Wyndham, Kurt Vonnegut, Roald Dahl, Tim Winton, Tom Clancy

Authors ranked by total points:
450 - JRR Tolkein
444 - George Orwell
274 - John Steinbeck
233 - Cormac McCarthy
212 - Stephen King
210 - George RR Martin
204 - Harper Lee
147 - David Eddings
137 - Douglas Adams
133 - Aldous Huxley

Authors ranked by average votes per entry:
204 - Harper Lee
150 - JRR Tolkein
148 - George Orwell
133 - Alduous Huxley
117 - Joseph Heller
83 - JD Salinger, Frank Herbert
70 - George RR Martin
68.5 - Douglas Adams
68 - Ken Kesey
67 - Robert Jordan
 
thanks for doing this fpcookie particularly like the stats and miscellany at the end.

A few surprises, actually surprised Brave New World, is top ten (even though it was on my list). Gobsmacked that the Belgariad was top 20 (It is a series I have never really rated)

Given that vote splitting, is a particualr interest of mine, i'd be interested if you could tell us who the top 5 authors (I know this is books not authors) were by total votes across all their books. Obviously Orwell and Hemmingway would likely be in there and likely Steinbeck, but I'd be interested to know how authors like Umberto Eco or Terry Pratchett, might have fared overall.

Edit- OK beat me to it :)
 
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