Re: 100 Greatest Novels
^ ooooh. I was wondering about that too -- No Dickens, Austen, Bronte, Elliot! Now it makes sense.
I'm a bit surprised by Wide Sargasso Sea. I really love the novel, but I wouldn't have though to consider it as the top 100.
Of those, books I teach/have taught are:
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Native Son by Richard Wright
1984 by George Orwell
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys