These are the rankings of the JNG students of 2017-2019.
Top 20 2019
1. George Orwell – 1984 (27)
2. William Golding – Lord of the Flies (21)
3. Emma Donoghue – Room (15)
4. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby (14)
4. Cormac McCarthy – The Road (14)
6. Anthony Doerr – All the Light we Cannot See (12)
7. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner (11)
7. Yann Martel – Life of Pi (11)
7. Alice Walker – The Color Purple (11)
8. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (10)
8. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World (10)
10. Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (8)
10. George Orwell – Animal farm [½] (8)
10. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein (8)
10. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice (8)
13. Ira Levin – The Boys form Brazil (7)
13. Graeme Simsion – The Rosie Project (7)
13. Bram Stoker – Dracula (7)
17. Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange (6)
17. Jonathan Safran Foer – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (6)
17. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird (6)
17. J.D. Sallinger – The Catcher in the Rye (6)
Top 25 All Times
1. George Orwell – 1984 (89)
2. William Golding – Lord of the Flies (88)
3. Cormac McCarthy – The Road (66)
4. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird (50)
5. Emma Donoghue – Room (46)
5. John Fowles – The Collector (46)
6. J.D. Sallinger – The Catcher in the Rye (45)
8. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby (39)
9. Jonathan Safran Foer – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (37)
10. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner (35)
10. Yann Martel – Life of Pi (35)
12. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (33)
13. Julian Barnes – The Sense of an Ending (27)
13. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice (27)
14. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein (26)
16. Ira Levin – The Boys form Brazil (25)
16. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World (25)
18. Anthony Doerr – All the Light we Cannot See (23)
19. Alice Walker – The Color Purple (21)
20. Henry Rider Haggard – King Solomon’s Mines (19)
21. George Orwell – Animal farm [½] (18)
23. Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (17)
24. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never let me go (16)
24. Ian McEwan – Amsterdam (16)
Pre-modern Top 10 2019
1. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (10)
2. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein (8)
2. Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (4)
4. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice (7)
4. Bram Stoker – Dracula (7)
6. Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels (5)
6. Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (5)
8. Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist (4)
9. Jane Austen – Emma (3)
10. Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre (2)
10. Lewis Carroll – Alice in Wonderland [½] (2)
10. Lewis Carroll – Through the Looking Glass [½] (2)
Pre-modern Top 15 All Times
1. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (33)
2. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice (26)
2. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein (26)
4. Henry Rider Haggard – King Solomon’s Mines (19)
5. Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (17)
6. Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels (13)
7. Jane Austen – Emma (12)
7. Bram Stoker – Dracula (12)
9. Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights (11)
10. Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre (10)
10. Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist (10)
12. Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone (6)
12. Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (6)
14. Lewis Carroll – Alice in Wonderland [½] (2)
14. Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness (3)
14. Charles Dickens – Great Expectations (4)
Modern Classic Top 10 2019
1. George Orwell – 1984 (27)
2. William Golding – Lord of the Flies (21)
3. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby (14)
4. Alice Walker – The Color Purple (10)
5. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World (9)
6. George Orwell – Animal farm [½] (8)
7. Ira Levin – The Boys form Brazil (7)
8. Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange (6)
8. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird (6)
8. J.D. Sallinger – The Catcher in the Rye (6)
Modern Classic Top 15 All Times
1. George Orwell – 1984 (89)
2. William Golding – Lord of the Flies (88)
3. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird (66)
4. John Fowles – The Collector (46)
5. J.D. Sallinger – The Catcher in the Rye (45)
6. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby (39)
7. Ira Levin – The Boys form Brazil (25)
8. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World (24)
9. Alice Walker – The Color Purple (20)
10. George Orwell – Animal farm [½] (18)
11. Ian McEwan – The Cement Garden (12)
12. Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange (11)
12. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita (11)
12. Chaim Potok – The Chosen (11)
15. Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms (5)
Recent Prize Winner Top 10 2019
Novels older than ten years (2008 and below) are crossed-out and get no more additions. A new active entry is put into the “Open Option” section in the next year.
1. Emma Donoghue – Room (2010) (15)
2. Cormac McCarthy – The Road (2007) (14)
3. Anthony Doerr – All the Light we Cannot See (2015) (12)
4. Jim Crace – Harvest (2013) (6)
5. Julian Barnes – The Sense of an Ending (2011) (5)
6. Colson Whitehead – The Underground Railroad (2017) (3)
7. Paul Beatty – The Sellout (2016) (2)
Recent Prize Winner Top 15 All Times
Novels older than ten years (2008 and below) are crossed-out and get no more additions. An new active entry is put into the “Open Option” section in the next year.
1. Cormac McCarthy – The Road (2007) (66)
2. Emma Donoghue – Room (2010) (46)
3. Julian Barnes – The Sense of an Ending (2011) (27)
4. Anthony Doerr – All the Light we Cannot See (2015) (23)
5. Jim Crace – Harvest (2013) (18)
6. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never let me go (2005) (16)
7. Ali Smith – How to be Both (2014) (11)
8. Paul Beatty – The Sellout (2016) (9)
9. Nathan Filer – The Shock of the Fall (2013) (8)
9. Richard Flanagan – The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2014) (8)
11. Colson Whitehead – The Underground Railroad (2017) (6)
11. Hanya Yanagihara – A Little Life (2015) (6)
13. Kate Atkinson – A God in Ruins (2015) (4)
14. Kate Atkinson – Life after Life (2013) (2)
14. Alison Moore – The Lighthouse (2012) (2)
Open Option Top 10 2019
This list contains all the novels not being part of the previous lists (modern classic, recent prize winner and pre-modern). Outdated prize winners will be put in this category.
1. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner (11)
1. Yann Martel – Life of Pi (11)
3. George Orwell – Animal farm [½] (8)
4. Graeme Simsion – The Rosie Project (7)
5. Jonathan Safran Foer – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (6)
6. Joseph Heller – Catch-22 (4)
6. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451 (4)
6. Ian McEwan – Amsterdam (4)
9. John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men[½] (3)
9.Virginia Woolf – To the Lighthouse (3)
9. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale (3)
Open Option Top 15 All Times
1. Jonathan Safran Foer – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (37)
2. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner (35)
2. Yann Martel – Life of Pi (35)
4. George Orwell – Animal farm [½] (18)
5. Ian McEwan – Amsterdam (16)
5. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never let me go (2005) (16)
8. Khaled Hosseini – A Thousand Splendid Suns (15)
9. Graeme Simsion – The Rosie Project (14)
10. J.M. Coetzee – Waiting for the Barbarians (13)
11. Ernest Heminway – The Old Man and the Sea (10)
12. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five (9)
13. Joanne Greenberg – I never promised you a rose garden (8)
14. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451 (7)
14. Kazuo Ishiguro – The Buried Giant (7)
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