These are the rankings of the JNG students of 2017-2021
Top 20 2021
1. William Golding – Lord of the Flies (21)
1. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby (21)
3. George Orwell – 1984 (18)
3. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (18)
5. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein (13)
6. J.D. Sallinger – The Catcher in the Rye (11)
6. Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights (11)
8. Julian Barnes – The Sense of an Ending (10)
8. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale (10)
9. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451 (9)
9. Yann Martel – Life of Pi (9)
9. Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (9)
10. George Orwell – Animal farm [½] (7)
10. Sally Rooney – Normal People (7)
10. Graeme Simsion – The Rosie Project (7)
17. John Lanchester – The Wall (6)
18. Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange (5)
18. Jonathan Safran Foer – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (5)
18. Chuck Palahniuk – Fight Club (5)
18. Joanne Greenberg – I never promised you a rose garden (5)
18. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never let me go (5)
18. John Fowles – The Collector (5)
18. Alice Walker – The Color Purple (5)
18. Ernest Heminway – The Old Man and the Sea [½] (5)
18. Paul Beatty – The Sellout (5)
18. Pat Barker – The Silence of the Girls (5)
18. Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (5)
18. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird (5)
Top 25 All Times
1. William Golding – Lord of the Flies (109)
2. George Orwell – 1984 (107)
3. Cormac McCarthy – The Road (69)
4. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby (60)
5. J.D. Sallinger – The Catcher in the Rye (56)
6. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird (55)
7. John Fowles – The Collector (51)
7. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (51)
9. Emma Donoghue – Room (50)
10. Yann Martel – Life of Pi (44)
11. Jonathan Safran Foer – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (42)
12. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein (39)
12. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner (39)
14. Julian Barnes – The Sense of an Ending (37)
15. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World (28)
15. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice (28)
17. Ira Levin – The Boys form Brazil (27)
18. Anthony Doerr – All the Light we Cannot See (26)
18. Alice Walker – The Color Purple (26)
18. Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (26)
19. George Orwell – Animal farm [½] (25)
21. Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights (22)
22. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never let me go (21)
22. Graeme Simsion – The Rosie Project (21)
23. Henry Rider Haggard – King Solomon’s Mines (19)
24. Ian McEwan – Amsterdam (18)
25. Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels (17)
Pre-modern Top 10 2021
1. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (18)
2. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein (13)
3. Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights (11)
4. Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (5)
5. Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels (4)
6. Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (3)
7. Louisa May Alcott – Little women (3)
Pre-modern Top 15 All Times
1. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (51)
2. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein (39)
3. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice (28)
4. Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights (22)
5. Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (20)
6. Henry Rider Haggard – King Solomon’s Mines (19)
7. Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels (17)
8. Bram Stoker – Dracula (12)
8. Jane Austen – Emma (12)
9. Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre (11)
9. Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (11)
10. Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist (10)
11. Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone (7)
12. Lewis Carroll – Alice in Wonderland [½] (5)
12. Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness (5)
13. Charles Dickens – Great Expectations (4)
Modern Classic Top 10 2021
1. William Golding – Lord of the Flies (21)
1. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby (21)
3. George Orwell – 1984 (18)
4. J.D. Sallinger – The Catcher in the Rye (11)
5. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird (5)
5. John Fowles – The Collector (5)
5. Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange (5)
5. Alice Walker – The Color Purple (5)
9. Ken Kesey – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
10. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World (3
Modern Classic Top 15 All Times
1. William Golding – Lord of the Flies (109)
2. George Orwell – 1984 (107)
3. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby (60)
4. J.D. Sallinger – The Catcher in the Rye (56)
5. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird (55)
6. John Fowles – The Collector (51)
7. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World (28)
8. Ira Levin – The Boys form Brazil (27)
9. Alice Walker – The Color Purple (26)
10. Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange (16)
11. Ian McEwan – The Cement Garden (14)
12. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita (12)
13. Chaim Potok – The Chosen (11)
14. Ken Kesey – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (8)
15. Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar (6)
15. Brian Moore – Lies of Silence (6)
15. Jack Kerouac – On the Road (6)
Recent Prize Winner Top 10 2019
Novels older than ten years are crossed-out and get no more additions. A new active entry is put into the “Open Option” section in the next year.
1. Julian Barnes – The Sense of an Ending (2011) (10)
2. Jim Crace – Harvest (2013) (6)
2. John Lanchester- The Wall (2019) (6)
4. Paul Beatty – The Sellout (2015) (5)
4. Pat Barker – The Silence of the Girls (2018) (5)
6. Emma Donoghue – Room (2010) (4)
7. Anthony Doerr – All the Light we Cannot See (2015) (3)
7. Ali Smith – How to be Both (2014) (3)
8. Jon McGregor – Reservoir 13 (2017) (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. Emma Donoghue – Room (2010) (50)
2. Julian Barnes – The Sense of an Ending (2011) (37)
3. Anthony Doerr – All the Light we Cannot See (2015) (26)
4. Jim Crace – Harvest (2013) (24)
5. Ali Smith – How to be Both (2014) (14)
5. Paul Beatty – The Sellout (2016) (14)
7. Nathan Filer – The Shock of the Fall (2013) (10)
7. Colson Whitehead – The Underground Railroad (2017) (10)
8. Richard Flanagan – The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2014) (8)
9. Hanya Yanagihara – A Little Life (2015) (7)
10. John Lanchester- The Wall (2019) (6)
11. Pat Barker – The Silence of the Girls (2018) (5)
12. Kate Atkinson – A God in Ruins (2015) (4)
13. Kate Atkinson – Life after Life (2013) (3)
Open Option Top 10 2021
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. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale (10)
2. Yann Martel – Life of Pi (9)
2. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451 (9)
4. George Orwell – Animal farm [½] (7)
4. Graeme Simsion – The Rosie Project (7)
6. Jonathan Safran Foer – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (5)
6. Chuck Palahniuk – Fight Club (5)
6. Joanne Greenberg – I never promised you a rose garden (5)
6. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never let me go (2005) (5)
6. Ernest Heminway – The Old Man and the Sea [½] (5)
Open Option Top 15 All Times
1. Cormac McCarthy – The Road (69) (former prize winner)
2. Yann Martel – Life of Pi (44)
3. Jonathan Safran Foer – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (42)
4. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner (39)
5. George Orwell – Animal farm [½] (25)
6. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never let me go (21)
6. Graeme Simsion – The Rosie Project (21)
8. Ian McEwan – Amsterdam (18)
9. Khaled Hosseini – A Thousand Splendid Suns (16)
9. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451 (16)
11. Ernest Heminway – The Old Man and the Sea (15)
12. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale (14)
13. Joanne Greenberg – I never promised you a rose garden (13)
14. J.M. Coetzee – Waiting for the Barbarians (13)
15. John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men (9)
15. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five (9)
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